MediaWiki MCP Server connects LLM clients to any MediaWiki-powered wiki (including Wikipedia, Fandom, and private instances) for comprehensive content management. Key capabilities: - Create, edit, move, and delete wiki pages with proper permission handling - Search page titles and content, including prefix-based searches - Retrieve page history, revisions, and file metadata - Upload files from local disk or URLs - Manage multiple wikis as MCP resources with dynamic addition/removal - Secure OAuth 2.0 authentication for authorized operations - Browse category members and access file objects - Support for restoring deleted pages

MediaWiki MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables Large Language Model (LLM) clients to interact with any MediaWiki wiki.

Feature

Tools

| Name | Description | Permissions | |---|---|---| | add-wiki | Adds a new wiki as an MCP resource from a URL. | - | | create-page 🔐 | Create a new wiki page. | Create, edit, and move pages | | delete-page 🔐 | Delete a wiki page. | Delete pages, revisions, and log entries | | get-category-members | Gets all members in the category | - | | get-file | Returns the standard file object for a file page. | - | | get-page | Returns the standard page object for a wiki page. | - | | get-page-history | Returns information about the latest revisions to a wiki page. | - | | get-revision | Returns the standard revision object for a page. | - | | remove-wiki | Removes a wiki resource. | - | | search-page | Search wiki page titles and contents for the provided search terms. | - | | search-page-by-prefix | Perform a prefix search for page titles. | - | | set-wiki | Sets the wiki resource to use for the current session. | - | | undelete-page 🔐 | Undelete a wiki page. | Delete pages, revisions, and log entries | | update-page 🔐 | Update an existing wiki page. | Edit existing pages | | upload-file 🔐 | Uploads a file to the wiki from the local disk. | Upload new files | | upload-file-from-url 🔐 | Uploads a file to the wiki from a web URL. | Upload, replace, and move files |

Resources

mcp://wikis/{wikiKey}

Example list result

{
  "resources": [
    {
      "uri": "mcp://wikis/en.wikipedia.org",
      "name": "wikis/en.wikipedia.org",
      "title": "Wikipedia",
      "description": "Wiki \"Wikipedia\" hosted at https://en.wikipedia.org"
    }
  ]
}

Example read result

{
  "contents": [
    {
      "uri": "mcp://wikis/en.wikipedia.org",
      "mimeType": "application/json",
      "text": "{ \"sitename\":\"Wikipedia\",\"server\":\"https://en.wikipedia.org\",\"articlepath\":\"/wiki\",\"scriptpath\":\"/w\",\"private\":false }"
    }
  ]
}

Environment variables

Configuration

> Note: Config is only required when interacting with a private wiki or using authenticated tools.

Create a config.json file to configure wiki connections. Use the config.example.json as a starting point.

Basic structure

{
  "defaultWiki": "en.wikipedia.org",
  "wikis": {
    "en.wikipedia.org": {
      "sitename": "Wikipedia",
      "server": "https://en.wikipedia.org",
      "articlepath": "/wiki",
      "scriptpath": "/w",
      "token": null,
      "username": null,
      "password": null,
      "private": false
    }
  }
}

Configuration fields

| Field | Description | |---|---| | defaultWiki | The default wiki identifier to use (matches a key in wikis) | | wikis | Object containing wiki configurations, keyed by domain/identifier |

Wiki configuration fields

| Field | Required | Description | |---|---|---| | sitename | Yes | Display name for the wiki | | server | Yes | Base URL of the wiki (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org) | | articlepath | Yes | Path pattern for articles (typically /wiki) | | scriptpath | Yes | Path to MediaWiki scripts (typically /w) | | token | No | OAuth2 access token for authenticated operations (preferred) | | username | No | Bot username (fallback when OAuth2 is not available) | | password | No | Bot password (fallback when OAuth2 is not available) | | private | No | Whether the wiki requires authentication to read (default: false) |

Authentication setup

For tools marked with 🔐, authentication is required.

Preferred method: OAuth2 Token

1. Navigate to Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose/oauth2 on your wiki 2. Select "This consumer is for use only by [YourUsername]" 3. Grant the necessary permissions 4. After approval, you'll receive: - Client ID - Client Secret - Access Token 5. Add the token to your wiki configuration in config.json

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