Wikipedia Recent Changes MCP Server

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Wikipedia Recent Changes is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 11 Jun 2026.

Live Wikipedia edit feed, page summaries, trending pages, and Wikidata search.

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 3%

48 days agonow

3.3%

Uptime 24h

3 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

278 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 11 Jun 2026

Wikipedia Recent Changes does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 3.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp --transport http https://wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp": {
      "url": "https://wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp]
url = "https://wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp": {
      "url": "https://wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp": {
      "url": "https://wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

wiki

wiki_page_summary

Get a clean summary of a Wikipedia article: extract, thumbnail, description, last modified. Use this to verify an entity exists or pull a one-line description.

wiki_recent_changes

Live feed of recent edits to English Wikipedia. Returns title, editor, timestamp, comment, size delta. Optional `topic` filter (substring match against title + edit comment) and `exclude_bots`. Useful for trend-monitoring or news-monitoring agents — every breaking news event lands in Wikipedia edits within minutes.

wiki_trending

Top 50 most-viewed English Wikipedia pages for a given date (default yesterday). Useful for 'what's the world reading about?' signal.

wikidata

wikidata_search

Search Wikidata entities by name. Returns up to 10 matches with Q-id, label, description. Use this for entity disambiguation / canonicalization.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://wikipedia-recent-changes-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	169 ms	8 min ago

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Wikipedia Recent Changes — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Wikipedia Recent Changes do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: wikidata_search, wiki_page_summary, wiki_recent_changes, wiki_trending. 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 Wikipedia Recent Changes working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 3 of 91 checks got a reply (3.3%), average response time 278 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Wikipedia Recent Changes as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Wikipedia Recent Changes?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Wikipedia Recent Changes need an API key?

No. Wikipedia Recent Changes completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Wikipedia Recent Changes?

It answers our handshake in 278 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Wikipedia Recent Changes open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.