About MediaWiki MCP Server π
MediaWiki MCP Server is an MCP server that searches and retrieves page content from wikis built on MediaWiki, such as Wikipedia, Fandom and wiki.gg. The README marks this project as outdated and recommends the ProfessionalWiki version instead.
Key features
- 01Search pages on configurable MediaWiki sites
- 02Retrieve detailed page content
- 03Supports stdio, streamable-http and SSE transports
Use cases
- 01Letting an LLM look up Wikipedia article content
- 02Searching reference material on Fandom wikis
MCP support
The project is an MCP server that provides search and page retrieval tools to MCP clients, with the target site set through the --base-url option.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your clientβs MCP config file.
Tools
2Saved tool list Β· updated 3w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | No | |
| query | string | Yes |
Details
From the project READMEOutdated. Please use https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/MediaWiki-MCP-Server instead!
MediaWiki MCP Server π
A MCP server that provides seamless interaction with Wikipedia's API. This tool allows you to search and retrieve Wikipedia content with LLMs π€!
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Features β¨
- π Search wiki pages with customizable wiki site. e.g. wikipedia.org, fandom.com, wiki.gg and more!
- π Retrieve detailed page content
Usage π»
- Ensure that uv is installed on your device.
- Configure in your client:
The server defaults to using https://en.wikipedia.org/. Also, you can make the server search other wiki sites!
To see if a wiki site works with this server, check if it uses MediaWiki software (usually shown by an icon at the bottom of the site).
To check further and find the endpoint (usually the website's domain, like https://mediawiki.org/), check by going to base-url/rest.php/v1/page in a browser (like https://noita.wiki.gg/rest.php/v1/page) and see if the output looks right. If not, add '/w' to the base URL and try again.
Then, set this endpoint as --base-url:

Available transports: stdio (default), streamable-http (http://localhost/mcp), and SSE (http://localhost/sse). See -h for all options.
uvx mediawiki-mcp-server --h
usage: main.py [-h] [--base-url BASE_URL] [--http] [--sse] [--port PORT]
MediaWiki MCP Server
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--base-url BASE_URL Base URL for the MediaWiki API (default: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/``)
--http Run server as streamable-http (instead of stdio)
--sse Run server as sse-http (instead of stdio)
--port PORT Default port for http transport (default: 8000)
Example JSON configurations:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mediawiki-mcp-server": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mediawiki-mcp-server",
"--base-url", "https://example.com/"
],
"env": {
"HTTP_PROXY": "http://example.com:port"
}
}
}
}
Or, if you want to run this server from source:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mediawiki-mcp-server": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--directory",
"mediawiki-mcp-server",
"path/to/project/src/mediawiki_mcp_server",
"--base-url", "https://example.com/"
],
"env": {
"HTTP_PROXY": "http://example.com:port"
}
}
}
}
Supported Tools π
Search
query: Search term (preferably short and focused)limit: Maximum number of results to return (default: 5)
Get Page
title: The exact title of the Wikipedia page to retrieve
Development π¨βπ»
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run mediawiki-mcp-server
Here are some documents that might help:
Contributing π€
This server is under development. Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues and pull requests.
Related Projects β₯οΈ
- Cherry Studio: A desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. MCP is supported.
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