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Wikipedia Simple English MCP Server

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Other

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stdio

Author

bhubbb

Submitted by

Brendan Hubble

About Wikipedia Simple English MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to Wikipedia content, prioritizing Simple English Wikipedia with intelligent fallback to regular English Wikipedia when content is unavailable or of poor quality.

Wikipedia Simple English MCP Server config

Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-se": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "git+https://github.com/bhubbb/mcp-se-wikipedia"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Overview

What is Wikipedia Simple English?

Wikipedia Simple English is an MCP server that provides access to Wikipedia content, prioritizing Simple English Wikipedia with intelligent fallback to regular English Wikipedia. It is designed for AI assistants needing clear and accessible Wikipedia information.

How to use Wikipedia Simple English?

Install and configure the server as an MCP tool in your AI assistant. It exposes three main tools: Search (for article discovery), Summary (for quick excerpts), and Content (for full article text).

Key features of Wikipedia Simple English

  • Prioritizes Simple English Wikipedia for clearer content
  • Automatically falls back to regular English Wikipedia
  • Detects stub articles and switches to English for quality
  • Search tool with configurable result limits
  • Summary tool with fast excerpts and disambiguation handling
  • Content tool for complete article text with structured metadata

Use cases of Wikipedia Simple English

  • Search for articles with Simple English priority and automatic fallback
  • Retrieve concise article summaries with language and length indicators
  • Obtain full Wikipedia page content for detailed research tasks

FAQ from Wikipedia Simple English

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