Wikinews MCP Server

by mrfentmen Your server? Claim it

local only

Wikinews MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.

News articles from Wikinews. No key required.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

—

Installs / week

npm · wikinews-mcp

—

Stars

on GitHub

—

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

—

License

language unknown

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add wikinews-mcp -- npx -y wikinews-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikinews-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wikinews-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.wikinews-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "wikinews-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikinews-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wikinews-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikinews-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wikinews-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

Alternatives to Wikinews MCP

same job, measured the same way

Wikispecies MCP

by mrfentmen

Species taxonomy from Wikispecies. No key required.

local only

Wikivoyage MCP

by mrfentmen

Travel guides from Wikivoyage. No key required.

local only

Wikiquote MCP

by mrfentmen

Search famous quotes from Wikiquote. No key required.

local only

Wikibooks MCP

by mrfentmen

Open textbooks and manuals from Wikibooks. No key required.

local only

Wikitrending MCP

by mrfentmen

Wikipedia featured content for a day. No key required.

local only

Wikipedia Pageviews MCP

by mrfentmen

Wikipedia page view statistics. No key required.

local only

On This Day MCP

by mrfentmen

Historic births, deaths, and events for any date from Wikipedia. No key required.

local only

Wikipedia MCP

by mrfentmen

Search Wikipedia, fetch article summaries, and get random articles from the Wikimedia REST API....

local only

Wikinews MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Wikinews MCP?

Wikinews MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package wikinews-mcp.

Is Wikinews MCP still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Wikinews MCP?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls wikinews-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.