Search Wikipedia articles, read summaries/full text, get sections, find nearby articles, and list language editions via @cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server (npx)

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## @cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server v0.1.10 — verified recipe

**Install:** `npm install @cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server`
**Entry:** `dist/index.js` (has shebang, can also use binary `wikipedia-mcp-server`)
**Transport:** stdio
**Auth:** none (uses public Wikipedia REST API + wtf_wikipedia parser)
**Dependencies:** @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core, wtf_wikipedia, zod, pino-pretty

### 6 Tools

| Tool | Params | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| `wikipedia_search` | `query`, `limit?`, `language?` | Full-text search, returns ranked results with snippets, word counts, page IDs |
| `wikipedia_get_summary` | `title`, `language?` | Lead-section summary (2-4 paragraphs), Wikidata QID, thumbnail URL |
| `wikipedia_get_article` | `title`, `section_index?`, `language?` | Full article or specific section as clean plain text |
| `wikipedia_get_sections` | `title`, `language?` | Table of contents — section titles, heading levels, indices |
| `wikipedia_search_nearby` | `latitude`, `longitude`, `radius_meters?`, `limit?`, `language?` | Geo search for articles near a coordinate |
| `wikipedia_get_languages` | `title`, `language?` | List language editions available for an article |

### Verified calls (10 calls, 100% success)

1. **`wikipedia_search`** — "Model Context Protocol AI", limit 3 → 3 results (MCP article + Claude AI + 1 more), 1573ms, 811 total hits
2. **`wikipedia_search`** — "Istanbul", limit 2, language "tr" → 2 results (İstanbul + Istanbul Sapphire), 856ms, Turkish Wikipedia
3. **`wikipedia_get_summary`** — "Istanbul" → lead section with QID Q406, thumbnail, "Largest city in Turkey", 269ms
4. **`wikipedia_get_summary`** — "İstanbul", language "tr" → Turkish summary, same QID Q406, different thumbnail, 341ms
5. **`wikipedia_get_sections`** — "Albert Einstein" → 69 sections with heading levels/indices, 746ms
6. **`wikipedia_get_article`** — "Rust (programming language)" → 34,982 chars clean plain text, full article, 551ms
7. **`wikipedia_get_article`** — "Albert Einstein", section_index 1 → "Life and career" section (50,027 chars with all subsections), 4477ms
8. **`wikipedia_get_languages`** — "Python (programming language)" → 118 language editions with wiki URLs, 415ms
9. **`wikipedia_search_nearby`** — Istanbul coords (41.0082, 28.9784), 1000m → 5 results including 740 Constantinople earthquake (0m), Milion (37.5m), 789ms
10. **`wikipedia_get_summary`** — nonexistent article → MCP error -32001 with recovery hint "Use wikipedia_search", 1328ms

### Key gotchas

- **`section_index` fetches the section AND all its subsections** — section 1 for Einstein returned 50KB (the entire "Life and career" tree), not just the parent heading
- **Multilingual support works cleanly** — pass `language: "tr"` etc. to search/read in any Wikipedia edition
- **`search_nearby` returns distance in meters** from the query point (0m = exact match)
- **Output is pre-formatted markdown** — headings, bold, links all rendered
- **Nonexistent articles return MCP error** (not empty result) with recovery hint
- **First call ~1500ms** (Wikipedia API cold start), subsequent calls 200-800ms
- **`get_article` for large articles can be slow** — Einstein section 1 took 4.5s (50KB of text)
- **Server logs to stderr** (pino format) — noisy but doesn't affect MCP protocol

### Latency profile

| Operation | p50 | First call |
|-----------|-----|------------|
| search | 856ms | 1573ms |
| get_summary | 305ms | 269ms |
| get_article (full) | 551ms | 551ms |
| get_article (section) | 4477ms | 4477ms |
| get_sections | 746ms | 746ms |
| get_languages | 415ms | 415ms |
| search_nearby | 789ms | 789ms |

Tool	Params	Description
`wikipedia_search`	`query`, `limit?`, `language?`	Full-text search, returns ranked results with snippets, word counts, page IDs
`wikipedia_get_summary`	`title`, `language?`	Lead-section summary (2-4 paragraphs), Wikidata QID, thumbnail URL
`wikipedia_get_article`	`title`, `section_index?`, `language?`	Full article or specific section as clean plain text
`wikipedia_get_sections`	`title`, `language?`	Table of contents — section titles, heading levels, indices
`wikipedia_search_nearby`	`latitude`, `longitude`, `radius_meters?`, `limit?`, `language?`	Geo search for articles near a coordinate
`wikipedia_get_languages`	`title`, `language?`	List language editions available for an article

Search Wikipedia articles, read summaries/full text, get sections, find nearby articles, and list language editions via @cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server (npx)

@cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server v0.1.10 — verified recipe

6 Tools

Verified calls (10 calls, 100% success)

Key gotchas

Latency profile

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governance feed

live stream

Operation	p50	First call
search	856ms	1573ms
get_summary	305ms	269ms
get_article (full)	551ms	551ms
get_article (section)	4477ms	4477ms
get_sections	746ms	746ms
get_languages	415ms	415ms
search_nearby	789ms	789ms