MCP Mediawiki

mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

Secure MCP server for MediaWiki wikis. Search, read, create, edit, and manage wiki pages, categories, files, and more. Works with any MediaWiki instance — public or private.

Installation

uvx (recommended)

uvx mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

pip

pip install mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools
mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

Container

podman run -e MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ \
  quay.io/crunchtools/mcp-mediawiki

Usage with Claude Code

Read-only (public wiki, no auth needed)

claude mcp add mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ \
  -- uvx mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

With authentication (for write operations)

claude mcp add mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://your-wiki.com/w/ \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_USERNAME=BotUser \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD=BotPassword \
  -- uvx mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

HTTP transport (systemd / container)

podman run -d --name mcp-mediawiki \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8016:8016 \
  -e MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://your-wiki.com/w/ \
  quay.io/crunchtools/mcp-mediawiki \
  --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0

Claude Code config:

{"type": "http", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8016/mcp"}

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description
MEDIAWIKI_URL	Yes	Wiki base URL (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/w/)
MEDIAWIKI_USERNAME	No	Bot/user account for write operations
MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD	No	Bot/user password
MEDIAWIKI_HTTP_USER	No	HTTP Basic Auth username (.htaccess)
MEDIAWIKI_HTTP_PASS	No	HTTP Basic Auth password

Tools (19)

Category	Tool	Description
Pages	search	Full-text search across wiki
Pages	get_page	Get page wikitext content
Pages	get_page_html	Parse page to HTML
Pages	list_pages	List pages with prefix filter
Pages	create_page	Create a new page
Pages	edit_page	Edit an existing page
Pages	delete_page	Delete a page
Pages	move_page	Move/rename a page
Categories	list_categories	List all categories
Categories	get_category_members	Get pages in a category
Categories	get_page_categories	Get categories for a page
Recent Changes	list_recent_changes	List recent edits
Parsing	parse_wikitext	Parse raw wikitext to HTML
Site Info	get_site_info	Get wiki config and version
Site Info	list_namespaces	List wiki namespaces
Users	get_user_info	Get user details
Users	list_user_contributions	List user edits
Files	get_file_info	Get file/image metadata
Files	list_files	List files on the wiki

Development

# Install dev dependencies
uv sync --all-extras

# Quality gates
uv run ruff check src tests
uv run mypy src
uv run pytest -v
gourmand --full .
podman build -f Containerfile .

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later