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Wikipedia MCP

Access Wikipedia via MCP — search articles, get summaries, random facts, dinosaur facts, today's featured article, today's historical events, article categories, outgoing links, view counts, current news, and most-read articles. Multi-language support (10 wikis). Great for research, content hooks, and general knowledge lookups.

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Downloads

3.9k

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Version

1.6.27

Source

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About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 3.9K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/9/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

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Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 9, 2026
Adoption signal: 3.9K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 9, 2026
Latest release: 1.6.27release · observed Oct 6, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17emxwh24jkfk9arqkjnzn1jx83fzy2:wikipedia

Install using `clawhub skill install s17emxwh24jkfk9arqkjnzn1jx83fzy2:wikipedia` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/evanfoglia/wikipedia before using production credentials.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-evanfoglia-wikipedia/snapshot"

Documentation

CLAWHUB

155,211 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.

Extracted files

5 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
name: wikipedia
version: 1.1.14
description: Access Wikipedia via MCP — search articles, get summaries, random facts, dinosaur facts, today's featured article, today's historical events, article categories, outgoing links, view counts, current news, and most-read articles. Multi-language support (10 wikis). Great for research, content hooks, and general knowledge lookups.
---

# Wikipedia MCP

Access Wikipedia via Model Context Protocol (MCP). No API key required.

## Tools

| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `search` | Search Wikipedia for articles |
| `summary` | Get article summary + image by title |
| `random` | Random Wikipedia article |
| `simple_summary` | Simple English Wikipedia version of a topic — plain-language explanation |
| `did_you_know` | Random "Did You Know" fact |
| `dino_fact` | Dinosaur/prehistory fact (specific species or random) |
| `featured_article` | Today's Wikipedia Featured Article |
| `picture_of_the_day` | Wikimedia Commons' Picture of the Day — curated daily image (default today UTC, optional YYYYMMDD date) |
| `media_of_the_day` | Wikimedia Commons' Media of the Day — curated daily video/audio clip (default today UTC, optional YYYYMMDD date) |
| `article_extract` | Full plain-text article extract by title (longer than `summary`) |
| `article_sections` | Table of contents (section headings) for an article — navigate before reading the full body |
| `section_text` | Read one section of an article as plain text — by number, hierarchical number (e.g. `2.1`), or heading name (0 = lead/intro) |
| `on_this_day` | Historical events that happened on today's date |
| `deaths_on_this_day` | Notable deaths that happened on today's date — companion to `on_this_day` (events) |
| `births_on_this_day` | Notable births that happened on today's date — companion to `on_this_day` (events) and `deaths_on_this_day` (deaths) |
| `categories` | List Wikipedia categories an article belongs to |
| `links` | List outgoing Wikipedia links from an article (graph-style discovery) |
| `backlinks` | List incoming Wikipedia links to an article — what links here (inverse of `links`) |
| `external_links` | List external (off-wiki) links from an article — citations, references, primary sources |
| `nearby` | Articles geographically near a location — anchor by article title or lat/lon, distances included |
| `translations` | All language versions of an article (langlinks) — discover what languages it exists in |
| `revisions` | Recent edit history of an article — who edited it, when, edit summaries, byte-size deltas, diff links |
| `pageviews` | Daily view counts for an article (popularity research, trending topics) |
| `news` | Current events from Wikipedia's Main Page "In the news" section |
| `top_reads` | Most-read articles on Wikipedia for a given date (trending discovery) |
| `image` | Lead image for an article — thumbnail + original URLs, no summary text |
| `media_list` | All media (images, videos, audio) in an article — ful

README.md

# Wikipedia MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to Wikipedia via the free REST API. No API key required.

⭐ If you find this useful, please star the repo — it helps others discover it.

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome — new tools especially. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the how-to: one file, one tool per PR, smoke tests included.

## Tools

| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `search` | Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query |
| `summary` | Get a Wikipedia article summary + thumbnail by title |
| `random` | Get a random Wikipedia article summary |
| `simple_summary` | Get the Simple English Wikipedia version of a topic — plain-language explanation |
| `did_you_know` | Get a random "Did You Know" style fact |
| `dino_fact` | Get a dino/prehistory-specific fact (specific species or random) |
| `featured_article` | Get today's Wikipedia Featured Article |
| `picture_of_the_day` | Get Wikimedia Commons' Picture of the Day (today, or a YYYYMMDD date) |
| `media_of_the_day` | Get Wikimedia Commons' Media of the Day — the curated daily video/audio clip (today, or a YYYYMMDD date) |
| `article_extract` | Get a full plain-text extract of an article (longer than `summary`) |
| `article_sections` | Get the table of contents (section headings) for an article — useful for navigating long articles before reading the full body |
| `section_text` | Read one section of an article as plain text — by number, hierarchical number (e.g. `2.1`), or heading name — without pulling the whole article |
| `on_this_day` | Get historical events that happened on today's date |
| `deaths_on_this_day` | Get notable deaths that happened on today's date (companion to `on_this_day`) |
| `births_on_this_day` | Get notable births that happened on today's date (companion to `on_this_day` / `deaths_on_this_day`) |
| `categories` | List Wikipedia categories an article belongs to |
| `links` | List outgoing Wikipedia links from an article (the article's reference network) |
| `backlinks` | List incoming Wikipedia links to an article (what links here / referrer pages — inverse of `links`) |
| `external_links` | List external (off-wiki) links from an article — citations, references, and primary sources the article points to (outbound complement to `links` + `backlinks`) |
| `nearby` | List Wikipedia articles geographically near a location — anchor by article title (e.g. 'Eiffel Tower') or lat/lon, with distances |
| `translations` | List all language versions of an article (langlinks) — discover what languages it exists in |
| `revisions` | Show an article's recent edit history (who edited it, when, edit summaries, size deltas) with diff links |
| `pageviews` | Get daily view counts for an article (popularity, trending, historical interest) |
| `news` | Get current events from Wikipedia's Main Page "In the news" section |
| `top_reads` | Get the most-read articles on Wikipedia for a given date |
| `image` | Get just t

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CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing to Wikipedia MCP

Contributions are welcome — new tools especially. The codebase is deliberately
small: one server file (`src/server.py`), one smoke-test file
(`tests/test_server.py`), stdlib + `requests` only.

## Adding a tool

**One tool per PR.** Each tool is three small pieces in `src/server.py`:

1. **Definition** — append an entry to the `TOOLS` list:
   - `name`: snake_case, e.g. `article_extract`
   - `description`: what it does *and when to use it*. This text is what LLMs
     see when choosing between tools — write it for an agent, not a human.
   - `inputSchema`: a JSON Schema object describing the arguments.
     **Every tool must declare one** — directory checks (e.g. Glama's) fail
     listings where it's missing.
2. **Implementation** — a plain function, e.g.
   `search_wikipedia(query, limit=5, lang="en")`, that returns a Markdown string.
3. **Dispatch** — one branch in `_call_tool`:
   `if name == "my_tool": return my_tool(**args)`.

Rules for new tools:

- **Read-only.** Only `GET` requests, only to `*.wikipedia.org` /
  `wikimedia.org`. Use the `_get()` helper — it sets Wikipedia's required
  User-Agent and a sane timeout.
- **No new dependencies.** `requests` + stdlib is the entire stack.
- **Fail gracefully.** Return a helpful message (`No results found`) instead of
  raising on empty or missing data. Clamp numeric arguments to sane ranges
  (see how `limit` is clamped in `search_wikipedia`).
- **Markdown output.** Tools return text; format it as Markdown for readability.
- **Don't bump `SERVER_VERSION`.** Versioning happens at release time.

## Tests

Add a smoke test to `tests/test_server.py` that calls your function directly
(no stdio plumbing needed — see the existing sections for the pattern), then run:

```bash
python3 tests/test_server.py
```

## Docs

Add one row to the tools table at the top of `README.md`:

```markdown
| `my_tool` | One-line description of what it does |
```

## PR process

Fork → branch → PR against `master`. There's no CI: green smoke tests and a
clear PR description are the whole review bar. One tool per PR keeps review fast.

skill-card.md

## Description:

Connects agents to Wikipedia and Wikimedia for multilingual article search, summaries, historical facts, citations, media, and article research.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[evanfoglia](https://clawhub.ai/user/evanfoglia)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

Researchers, writers, and developers use this skill to look up Wikipedia articles, explore related topics and media, check citations and edit history, and discover missing articles across supported languages.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: Lookup terms, article titles, usernames or IPs, coordinates, and dates are sent to Wikipedia/Wikimedia services.

Mitigation: Avoid entering sensitive information in queries; install only if this data sharing is acceptable.

Risk: The requests dependency is not pinned to an exact version, reducing reproducibility.

Mitigation: Pin and audit the requests dependency before deployment when reproducible installs are required.

## Reference(s):

- [Wikipedia MCP on ClawHub](https://clawhub.ai/evanfoglia/skills/wikipedia)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [Text, Research guidance]

**Output Format:** [Plain text with article links and metadata]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [Results vary by tool and selected Wikipedia language.]

## Skill Version(s):

1.6.27 (source: server-resolved ClawHub release)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

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