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Wikipedia MCP

Wikipedia MCP is an MCP server that retrieves information from Wikipedia to provide context to LLMs. It has 302 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx wikipedia-mcp. It works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code.

github.com/Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp (opens in a new tab)

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Install Wikipedia MCP

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "wikipedia-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio wikipedia-mcp -- uvx wikipedia-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "wikipedia-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "wikipedia-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Wikipedia MCP

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.

  • anthropic
  • llm
  • mcp-server
  • open-source
  • wikipedia
  • wikipedia-api
  • wikipedia-mcp-server
  • wikipedia-mcp

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How do I install the Wikipedia MCP MCP server?

Add the command uvx wikipedia-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Wikipedia MCP free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Wikipedia MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on May 1, 2026. The latest release is v2.0.1, published May 1, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.