Wikipedia MCP

Access Wikipedia via Model Context Protocol (MCP). No API key required.

Tools

All tools accept an optional lang parameter (default en; supported: en, de, es, fr, ja, zh, pt, it, ru, nl).

Installation

1. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

(Requires Python 3.10+ and requests>=2.28.0)

2. Find your install path

The MCP server lives at <install-dir>/src/server.py.

ls ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/wikipedia/src/server.py

3. Add to mcporter

Add to ~/.openclaw/workspace/config/mcporter.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["<path-to>/src/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Replace <path-to> with the actual install location from step 2.

4. Test

mcporter call wikipedia search --args '{"query": "velociraptor", "limit": 5}'

Usage Examples

mcporter call wikipedia search --args '{"query": "velociraptor", "limit": 5}'
mcporter call wikipedia summary --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia dino_fact --args '{"species": "Spinosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia dino_fact
mcporter call wikipedia did_you_know
mcporter call wikipedia featured_article
mcporter call wikipedia summary --args '{"title": "Berlin", "lang": "de"}'

Data Source

Uses Wikipedia's free public REST API — no API key required.

• Search: MediaWiki Action API
• Summary / Random / Featured: REST API v1 (/api/rest_v1/...)

Notes

• User-Agent is wikipedia-mcp/1.1.0 per Wikipedia API etiquette
• All responses include links back to the source article
• dino_fact falls back to a random species if the requested one isn't found (instead of erroring)
• featured_article returns today's curated Featured Article — great for daily content hooks
• Multi-language: pass lang to any tool to query de/es/fr/ja/zh/pt/it/ru/nl Wikipedia