# Wikipedia MCP Server Muse connector

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## Wikipedia MCP Server

Search Wikipedia articles, read summaries and full text, find nearby places, and explore multiple languages.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/wikipedia-mcp-server
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: cyanheads
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 641ms, checked 2026-09-28T09:31:18Z
- Endpoint: https://wikipedia.caseyjhand.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-25T06:36:07Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.cyanheads%2Fwikipedia-mcp-server

Connects to Wikipedia to search articles, fetch summaries and full text, browse sections, find notable places nearby using coordinates, and discover which language editions cover a topic. Useful for research, fact-checking, and learning.

Example request: "Tell me what the Panama Canal is and what notable places are near it."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use Wikipedia MCP Server to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://wikipedia.caseyjhand.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- wikipedia_search_articles: Search Wikipedia articles by full-text query. Returns ranked results with plain-text titles, short descriptions, Wikidata QIDs, snippets (HTML stripped), page IDs, and word counts — the description is usually enough to tell same-named articles apart without a summary call per res
- wikipedia_get_summary: Fetch the short article summary that answers "what is X?". The extract is a truncated fragment from the start of the lead section — usually a sentence or two, and as little as a tenth of the lead — alongside the Wikidata QID (wikibase_item) for cross-referencing with wikidata-mcp
- wikipedia_get_article: Fetch article content as clean plain text. Without section_index: returns the full article with == Section == markers preserved for structure — or, when the article exceeds the size budget, a compact section outline (truncated: true) that points to wikipedia_get_sections plus a s
- wikipedia_get_sections: Fetch the table of contents for a Wikipedia article. Returns section titles, heading levels, section numbering (e.g. "2.1"), and section_index values. The first entry is the lead section, index 0, titled Introduction — the text above the first heading, which Wikipedia's own table
- wikipedia_search_nearby: Find Wikipedia articles about places near a geographic coordinate. Returns articles sorted by distance from the query point, with titles, short descriptions, Wikidata QIDs, page IDs, coordinates, and distance in meters. Useful for "what is notable near X?" research workflows. Onl
- wikipedia_get_languages: List the language editions available for a Wikipedia article. Returns language codes, article titles in each language, and full URLs. Useful for cross-language research and for discovering the correct article title in a target language before fetching it. A popular article exists

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 341ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (wikipedia.caseyjhand.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: pass (No malicious-package advisories)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (6 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 2659 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)