Is Wikipedia Mcp safe to use?

Wikipedia Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Wikipedia Mcp?

Wikipedia Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Wikipedia Mcp?

Wikipedia Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Wikipedia Mcp actively maintained?

Wikipedia Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 28 days ago. It has 254 GitHub stars.

Wikipedia Mcp

Name: Wikipedia Mcp
Author: Rudra-ravi

@Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp · by Rudra-ravi

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that retrieves information from Wikipedia to provide context to LLMs.

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No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 28d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "command": "wikipedia-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What Wikipedia Mcp does

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that retrieves information from Wikipedia to provide context to Large Language Models (LLMs). This tool helps AI assistants access factual information from Wikipedia to ground their responses in reliable sources.

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Is Wikipedia Mcp safe to use?: Wikipedia Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Wikipedia Mcp?: Wikipedia Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Wikipedia Mcp?: Wikipedia Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Wikipedia Mcp actively maintained?: Wikipedia Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 28 days ago. It has 254 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "command": "wikipedia-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What Wikipedia Mcp does

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Wikipedia MCP Server

Overview

The Wikipedia MCP server provides real-time access to Wikipedia information through a standardized Model Context Protocol interface. This allows LLMs to retrieve accurate and up-to-date information directly from Wikipedia to enhance their responses.

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Features

Search Wikipedia: Find articles matching specific queries with enhanced diagnostics
Retrieve Article Content: Get full article text with all information
Article Summaries: Get concise summaries of articles
Section Extraction: Retrieve specific sections from articles
Link Discovery: Find links within articles to related topics
Related Topics: Discover topics related to a specific article
Multi-language Support: Access Wikipedia in different languages by specifying the --language or -l argument when running the server (e.g., wikipedia-mcp --language ta for Tamil).
Country/Locale Support: Use intuitive country codes like --country US, --country China, or --country TW instead of language codes. Automatically maps to appropriate Wikipedia language variants.
Language Variant Support: Support for language variants such as Chinese traditional/simplified (e.g., zh-hans for Simplified Chinese, zh-tw for Traditional Chinese), Serbian scripts (sr-latn, sr-cyrl), and other regional variants.
Optional caching: Cache API responses for improved performance using --enable-cache
Modern MCP Transport Support: Supports stdio, http, and streamable-http (with legacy sse compatibility).
Optional MCP Transport Auth: Secure network transports with --auth-mode static or --auth-mode jwt.
Google ADK Compatibility: Fully compatible with Google ADK agents and other AI frameworks that use strict function calling schemas

Installation

Using pipx (Recommended for Claude Desktop)

The best way to install for Claude Desktop usage is with pipx, which installs the command globally:

# Install pipx if you don't have it
pip install pipx
pipx ensurepath

# Install the Wikipedia MCP server
pipx install wikipedia-mcp

This ensures the wikipedia-mcp command is available in Claude Desktop's PATH.

Installing via Smithery

To install wikipedia-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp --client claude

From PyPI (Alternative)

You can also install directly from PyPI:

pip install wikipedia-mcp

Note: If you use this method and encounter connection issues with Claude Desktop, you may need to use the full path to the command in your configuration. See the Configuration section for details.

Using a virtual environment

# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv

# Activate the virtu

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp#readme)

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

60/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−40

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked @Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp against OSV.dev.

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Wikipedia Mcp safe to use?: Wikipedia Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Wikipedia Mcp?: Wikipedia Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Wikipedia Mcp?: Wikipedia Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Wikipedia Mcp actively maintained?: Wikipedia Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 28 days ago. It has 254 GitHub stars.