What is mcp-server-wikipedia?

An MCP server that lets AI agents search Wikipedia and retrieve summaries or complete articles as Markdown. Wikipedia is a public online encyclopedia.

It is for research, including searching topics and retrieving concise or full Wikipedia content.

It gives an agent a structured way to look up background information without manually browsing article pages.

mcp-server-wikipedia — Plugin for Gemini CLI by surendranb

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server

Made for: Gemini CLI.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server/gemini-extension/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server/gemini-extension)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server/gemini-extension"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server/gemini-extension/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server/gemini-extension"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server/gemini-extension.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-server-wikipedia scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

The scan reads gemini-extension.json. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/benchmark_token_efficiency.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

gemini-extension.json · 16 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "mcp-server-wikipedia",
  "version": "0.5.6",
  "description": "Surgical, token-efficient Wikipedia knowledge retrieval MCP server for AI agents with summary, search, and full-article markdown.",
  "author": "Surendran B",
  "homepage": "https://wikipedia.builditwithai.xyz",
  "repository": "https://github.com/surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server",
  "license": "MIT",
  "mcp": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "mcp-server-wikipedia"
    ]
  },
  "settings": []
}

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside gemini-extension.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

scripts/benchmark_token_efficiency.py 12 KB runs code

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

6d ago Changed 476c8b276861
1mo ago First seen · 16 lines scan A b58718f72842

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-server-wikipedia is a plugin published in the GitHub repository surendranb/wikipedia-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-21.

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