Connects Claude directly to Wikipedia's MediaWiki REST and Action APIs across all language editions. Exposes full-text search, article summaries with Wikidata QIDs, targeted section reads, geospatial article lookup, and language edition enumeration. Built on cyanheads' mcp-ts-core framework, so you get declarative tool definitions, structured error handling with recovery hints, and dual transport support (stdio and streamable HTTP). The wikitext stripping pipeline uses wtf_wikipedia to deliver clean plain text while preserving section structure. Reach for this when you need encyclopedic lookups without API keys, want to cross-reference Wikidata entities, or need to work across non-English Wikipedia editions in a single session.
claude mcp add --transport stdio cyanheads-wikipedia-mcp-server uvx wikipedia-mcp-server