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name: wikipedia version: 1.1.0 description: Access Wikipedia via MCP — search articles, get summaries, random facts, dinosaur facts, and today's featured article. Multi-language support (10 wikis). Great for research, content hooks, and general knowledge lookups.

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