Wikipedia
About
Provides direct access to Wikipedia content through five tools for searching, retrieving summaries, accessing full articles, getting random pages, and changing languages.
Details
- Author
- algonacci
- Repository
- algonacci/mcp-wikipedia
- GitHub stars
- 3
- Downloads
- 531
- License
- MIT License
- Categories
- Productivity, Developer Tools, Design, AI, Search, Infrastructure, Knowledge Base, Project Management, Other
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
WikipediaCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)uvArguments-
Argument 1
--directory -
Argument 2
%USERPROFILE%/Documents/GitHub/mcp-wikipedia -
Argument 3
run -
Argument 4
python -
Argument 5
main.py
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
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Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Configure the server in your MCP client’s settings using the uv command with the path to the server’s directory and the main.py script. The example configuration shows the server being launched with uv run python main.py.
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"cwd": null,
"env": {},
"args": [
"--directory",
"%USERPROFILE%/Documents/GitHub/mcp-wikipedia",
"run",
"python",
"main.py"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uv"
}
}
}Linux
{
"cwd": null,
"env": [],
"args": [
"--directory",
"%USERPROFILE%/Documents/GitHub/mcp-wikipedia",
"run",
"python",
"main.py"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uv"
}Macos
{
"cwd": null,
"env": [],
"args": [
"--directory",
"%USERPROFILE%/Documents/GitHub/mcp-wikipedia",
"run",
"python",
"main.py"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uv"
}Windows
{
"cwd": null,
"env": [],
"args": [
"--directory",
"%USERPROFILE%/Documents/GitHub/mcp-wikipedia",
"run",
"python",
"main.py"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uv"
}mcp-wikipedia
MCP server to give client the ability to access Wikipedia pages
Usage
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"%USERPROFILE%/Documents/GitHub/mcp-wikipedia",
"run",
"python",
"main.py"
]
}
}
}
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