Wikipedia MCP Server

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

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

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

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Installs / week

npm · @mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp

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on GitHub

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Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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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 wikipedia-mcp -- npx -y @mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.wikipedia-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Wikipedia MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Wikipedia MCP?

Wikipedia 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 @mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp.

Is Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 @mrfentmen/wikipedia-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.