Wikipedia MCP

Access Wikipedia via MCP — search articles, get summaries, random facts, dinosaur facts, today's featured article, today's historical events, article categories, outgoing links, view counts, current news, and most-read articles. Multi-language support (10 wikis). Great for research, content hooks, and general knowledge lookups.

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
picture_of_the_day	Wikimedia Commons' Picture of the Day — curated daily image (default today UTC, optional YYYYMMDD date)
article_extract	Full plain-text article extract by title (longer than summary)
article_sections	Table of contents (section headings) for an article — navigate before reading the full body
on_this_day	Historical events that happened on today's date
deaths_on_this_day	Notable deaths that happened on today's date — companion to on_this_day (events)
categories	List Wikipedia categories an article belongs to
links	List outgoing Wikipedia links from an article (graph-style discovery)
backlinks	List incoming Wikipedia links to an article — what links here (inverse of links)
external_links	List external (off-wiki) links from an article — citations, references, primary sources
nearby	Articles geographically near a location — anchor by article title or lat/lon, distances included
translations	All language versions of an article (langlinks) — discover what languages it exists in
revisions	Recent edit history of an article — who edited it, when, edit summaries, byte-size deltas, diff links
pageviews	Daily view counts for an article (popularity research, trending topics)
news	Current events from Wikipedia's Main Page "In the news" section
top_reads	Most-read articles on Wikipedia for a given date (trending discovery)
image	Lead image for an article — thumbnail + original URLs, no summary text
media_list	All media (images, videos, audio) in an article — full inventory with type, caption, and thumbnail
media_search	Search Wikimedia Commons for freely-licensed media by keyword — topic-based discovery (filetype: image/video/audio/all)
quote	Random notable quote from a curated list of famous authors
recent_changes	Most recent changes to Wikipedia articles (live feed) — filter by 'all', 'edit', 'new', 'categorize', or 'log'
category_members	Articles filed under a category (reverse of categories) — taxonomy-based discovery, each entry with a 1–2 sentence extract + thumbnail
infobox	An article's structured fact box as a field/value table — dates, people, places, statistics; the fastest path to a concrete fact

All tools accept an optional lang parameter (default en; supported: en, de, es, fr, ja, zh, pt, it, ru, nl), except media_search — Wikimedia Commons is language-independent, so it takes no lang. Note: quote accepts the parameter for API consistency but is currently English-only (curated list).

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 picture_of_the_day
mcporter call wikipedia picture_of_the_day --args '{"date": "20260901"}'
mcporter call wikipedia article_extract --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia article_sections --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia on_this_day
mcporter call wikipedia on_this_day --args '{"count": 8}'
mcporter call wikipedia deaths_on_this_day
mcporter call wikipedia deaths_on_this_day --args '{"count": 6}'
mcporter call wikipedia categories --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia categories --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus", "limit": 10}'
mcporter call wikipedia links --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia links --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus", "limit": 30}'
mcporter call wikipedia backlinks --args '{"title": "Velociraptor"}'
mcporter call wikipedia backlinks --args '{"title": "Velociraptor", "limit": 30}'
mcporter call wikipedia nearby --args '{"title": "Eiffel Tower"}'
mcporter call wikipedia nearby --args '{"lat": 40.7484, "lon": -73.9857, "radius": 2000}'
mcporter call wikipedia translations --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia translations --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus", "limit": 10}'
mcporter call wikipedia revisions --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia revisions --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus", "limit": 20}'
mcporter call wikipedia pageviews --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia pageviews --args '{"title": "Python_(programming_language)", "start": "20250101", "end": "20250107"}'
mcporter call wikipedia news
mcporter call wikipedia news --args '{"limit": 8}'
mcporter call wikipedia top_reads
mcporter call wikipedia top_reads --args '{"date": "20260101", "limit": 15}'
mcporter call wikipedia image --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia media_list --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia media_list --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus", "limit": 50}'
mcporter call wikipedia media_search --args '{"query": "aurora borealis"}'
mcporter call wikipedia media_search --args '{"query": "volcano eruption", "filetype": "video", "limit": 5}'
mcporter call wikipedia quote
mcporter call wikipedia infobox --args '{"title": "Albert Einstein"}'
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
• External links: MediaWiki Action API (prop=extlinks)
• Infobox: MediaWiki Action API (action=parse + prop=wikitext), with local wikitext parsing (no new dependencies)
• Summary / Random / Featured / Picture of the Day: REST API v1 (/api/rest_v1/...)

Notes

• User-Agent is wikipedia-mcp/1.1.17 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
• picture_of_the_day returns Wikimedia Commons' Picture of the Day from Wikipedia's featured feed — the visual counterpart to featured_article. Accepts an optional date (YYYYMMDD, default today UTC) to browse past pictures. Returns the embedded thumbnail preview, file name, photographer/artist, license, description, and links to the full-size image + Commons file page. image/media_list cover article-specific media; this covers the editorially curated daily pick.
• article_extract returns the full plain-text article (vs summary's short extract + thumbnail) — use when you need more than a summary
• article_sections returns the article's table of contents — section number, heading text, and nesting level — so callers can navigate long articles (50KB+ body) by picking the section they want before committing to article_extract. Pairs with summary (lead), article_sections (structure), article_extract (full body).
• on_this_day returns historical events for today's UTC date from Wikipedia's "On This Day" feed — pairs with featured_article for daily "today in history" content hooks
• deaths_on_this_day returns notable deaths for today's UTC date — the deaths-only companion to on_this_day. Pairs with on_this_day (events) and featured_article (today's long-form) for a full "today in Wikipedia" daily digest. Useful for "in memoriam" content hooks and obituary-style social posts.
• categories returns Wikipedia categories for an article (hidden/maintenance categories filtered) — useful for taxonomy-based discovery beyond text search
• links returns the article's outgoing Wikipedia links (main namespace only) — graph-style discovery showing which genera, people, and concepts an article references
• backlinks returns the article's incoming Wikipedia links (what links here) — the inverse of links. Shows which other articles reference this one (cultural mentions, scientific citations, comparative anatomy pages, etc.). Same main-namespace filtering.
• nearby returns Wikipedia articles geographically near a location, with distances — location-based discovery. Anchor by article title (e.g. 'Eiffel Tower', uses that article's coordinates so no geocoding service is needed) or by explicit lat/lon. Radius in meters (default 1000, max 10000), main-namespace only. Useful for travel research and "what's notable around here" questions.
• translations returns all language editions of an article (langlinks) — the other-language titles that Wikipedia knows about. Complements the one-way lang parameter used by other tools: every tool can query a single language, but only translations reveals the article's full language coverage so callers can pick a target language to fetch next. Useful for translation research (full coverage vs. stub languages), cross-language content sourcing, and language-coverage analysis.
• pageviews returns daily view counts for an article over a date range (default last 7 days) — popularity research, trending topics, historical interest spikes. Uses Wikimedia's pageviews REST API.
• news returns today's editorially-curated current events from Wikipedia's Main Page "In the news" block — pairs with featured_article (today's long-form) and on_this_day (historical) for a full "today in Wikipedia" content hook
• top_reads returns the most-viewed articles on Wikipedia for a given date (default yesterday UTC) — answers "what is everyone reading right now" while pageviews answers "how is this specific article trending". Filters out Main_Page, Special:Search, Portal:Current_events, etc. so the result is real articles only.
• image returns the article's lead image as URLs (300px thumbnail + full-size original) without summary prose — useful for embedding the image elsewhere (cards, slide decks, Telegram hero images). summary embeds the thumbnail inline; image exposes both URLs separately.
• media_list returns every media item (images, videos, audio) the article uses — not just the lead thumbnail. Each entry has file title, type, caption, and thumbnail URL; lead media is marked with 🏆 so callers can skip it when they already have it via image. Uses Wikipedia's REST /page/media-list endpoint (structured JSON, no HTML parsing). Pairs with image (lead only) — use image for the headline thumbnail, media_list for the full inventory (gallery generation, fact-checking, slide decks, audits).
• media_search is the topic-based counterpart to image/media_list: full-text search across Wikimedia Commons' File: namespace by keyword, so you can find freely-licensed media for a topic with no article yet (blog posts, slide decks, README hero images). Each result has file title, media type + dimensions, 320px thumbnail and full-size URLs, license short name, artist, description snippet, and a Commons file-page link. filetype filters to image (default: photos + diagrams/SVGs), video, audio, or all; limit clamps to 50. Uses the read-only Commons action API (generator=search) — GET-only, no new dependencies. Language-independent, so no lang parameter.
• infobox returns the article's structured fact box as a markdown field/value table — the fastest path to a concrete fact ("who founded X?", "population of Y?") without reading prose. Parses raw wikitext from the read-only parse API locally (balanced-brace template extraction, no new dependencies): wikilinks flatten to plain text, citations/HTML are stripped, nested templates collapse to their values, birth/death-date templates render as YYYY-M-D. Fields capped at 50, values at 400 chars. Reports clearly when an article has no infobox. Pairs with summary (prose gist) and article_extract (full text) — use infobox for facts, the others for narrative.
• Multi-language: pass lang to any tool to query de/es/fr/ja/zh/pt/it/ru/nl Wikipedia

ClawHub

This skill is published on ClawHub as Wikipedia under the canonical slug wikipedia (1.6k+ downloads, 40 installs as of Aug 20 2026).

Do NOT publish to slug wikipedia-mcp — that is the abandoned duplicate skill (140 DL, 0 installs, lowercase "wikipedia" display name).

GitHub source: https://github.com/evanfoglia/wikipedia-mcp