MediaWiki MCP Server

What the code does

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What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

        return path.join(appData, 'mediawiki-mcp', filename);

                const child = execFile(

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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 mcp add mediawiki-mcp-server -- npx -y @professional-wiki/mediawiki-mcp-server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mediawiki-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@professional-wiki/mediawiki-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mediawiki-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@professional-wiki/mediawiki-mcp-server"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mediawiki-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@professional-wiki/mediawiki-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "mediawiki-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@professional-wiki/mediawiki-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: CONFIG (Path to your configuration file), MCP_ALLOW_STATIC_FALLBACK (Set to 'true' to allow HTTP startup when config.json has static credentials. Otherwise the server refuses to start, preventing silent shared-identity fallback for unauthenticated requests), MCP_CONTENT_MAX_BYTES (Byte cap for the content bodies and result blocks tools return (wikitext, rendered HTML, diffs, statement and row listings). An oversized response is truncated with a trailing marker describing what was left out), MCP_FILE_DATA_MAX_BYTES (Hard cap on the base64-encoded size of a get-file-data response. A transport/safety backstop; callers tune actual size with the tool's width parameter. Over-cap responses error rather than truncate), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Minimum severity for logger output (stderr telemetry and sendLoggingMessage broadcast). Invalid values fail loudly on first log call), MCP_MAX_REQUEST_BODY (Maximum HTTP request body size on the StreamableHTTP transport. Accepts size strings like 1mb or 512kb), MCP_METRICS (Set to 'true' to expose Prometheus metrics at GET /metrics on the HTTP transport. Has no effect on the stdio transport), MCP_OAUTH_ALLOWED_REDIRECTS (Additional allowed redirect URIs for hosted-proxy client registration: comma-separated exact URIs (which must include a host) and https prefix patterns ending in /*. Loopback, claude.ai, and verified first-party clients (ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code) are always allowed; unset means no additional clients), MCP_OAUTH_CIMD_ALLOWED_HOSTS (Comma-separated additional client_id document hosts trusted for CIMD (bare host or host:port). Verified first-party hosts are always trusted), MCP_OAUTH_CREDENTIALS_FILE (Override the default OAuth credentials store path. Default: ~/.config/mediawiki-mcp/credentials.json on Linux/macOS, %APPDATA%\mediawiki-mcp\credentials.json on Windows), MCP_OAUTH_NO_BROWSER (Set to '1' to skip launching a browser during the OAuth dance and log the auth URL to stderr instead. Useful in headless environments and CI), MCP_OAUTH_PROXY_STORE_FILE (Path to the hosted OAuth proxy's encrypted state file, which lets sign-ins survive restarts. Default: proxy-store.enc under the mediawiki-mcp config dir; /app/data/proxy-store.enc in the Docker image), MCP_PUBLIC_URL (Override the request-derived public URL used in the protected-resource discovery doc and WWW-Authenticate header. Set this when running behind a proxy that rewrites the request Host), MCP_SHUTDOWN_GRACE_MS (Maximum milliseconds to wait for in-flight /mcp calls to drain on SIGTERM/SIGINT before exiting. Capped at 600000), MCP_TRANSPORT (Type of MCP server transport), MCP_UPLOAD_MAX_BYTES (Memory cap on the server-side fetch used by upload-file-from-url and update-file-from-url. Files larger than this are routed to the wiki's own copy-upload instead of being buffered by the server. Guards this server's memory, not the wiki's $wgMaxUploadSize), MCP_USER_AGENT (Replaces the User-Agent header of every outbound request, which defaults to mediawiki-mcp-server/<version> (https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/MediaWiki-MCP-Server). If you set it, give a name and an email or URL, e.g. 'ExampleBot/1.0 ([email protected])'), PORT (Port used for StreamableHTTP transport).