Wikipedia

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

Tool	Description
search	Search Wikipedia for articles
summary	Get article summary + image by title
random	Random Wikipedia article
did_you_know	Random "Did You Know" fact
dino_fact	Dinosaur/prehistory fact (specific species or random)
featured_article	Today's Wikipedia Featured Article

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

Installation

1. Install dependencies

bash

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.

bash

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

3. Add to mcporter

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

json

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

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

4. Test

bash

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

Usage Examples

text

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