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Faceabot Wikipedia MCP Server

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Faceabot Wikipedia is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Search and read Wikipedia in any language: summaries and full articles. Free, no key.

Uptime history 5 days of history
5 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
440 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Faceabot Wikipedia every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add wikipedia --transport http https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/wikipedia
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/wikipedia
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.wikipedia]
url = "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/wikipedia"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/wikipedia"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/wikipedia"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

wiki
wiki_article
Full text of one Wikipedia article as plain text, in pages of up to 20,000 characters (use start to read further). Use when: you need details beyond the summary. Example: {"title":"Marie Curie","lang":"en","max_chars":8000}
wiki_search
Searches Wikipedia in any language and returns matching page titles with a one-line description and an excerpt. Use when: you need to find the right Wikipedia page for a topic, person, place or concept. Example: {"query":"Marie Curie","lang":"en"}
wiki_summary
Short summary (lead paragraph) of one Wikipedia page, with its description, last edit time and link. Use when: you need a quick, sourced overview of a topic. Example: {"title":"Marie Curie","lang":"en"}

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/wikipedia streamable-http answering 229 ms 15 min ago

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Faceabot Wikipedia — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faceabot Wikipedia do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: wiki_article, wiki_search, wiki_summary. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Faceabot Wikipedia working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 440 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Faceabot Wikipedia?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Faceabot Wikipedia need an API key?
No. Faceabot Wikipedia completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Faceabot Wikipedia?
It answers our handshake in 440 ms on average, which is faster than 31% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.