MCP server providing Wikipedia citation-science tools for Claude — pure Python, no R required
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# wikicitation-mcp > Wikipedia citation-science tools for Claude — pure Python, no R required. An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that exposes **40 tools** to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and claude.ai. Ask Claude to fetch Wikipedia edit histories, analyse citations, score scientific quality, and annotate DOIs and ISBNs — all without leaving the chat. --- ## What you can do | Category | Examples | |---|---| | **Edit history** | Full revision history, first/latest wikitext, category-wide sweeps | | **Citation analysis** | Count DOIs/refs/ISBNs, extract CS1 templates, compute SciScore | | **DOI & ISBN annotation** | Enrich DOIs via CrossRef / EuropePMC / Altmetric; books via Google Books / Open Library | --- ## Installation ### Option A — PyPI (recommended) No clone needed. `uvx` downloads and runs the package in one step: ```bash # Requires uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) uvx wikicitation-mcp ``` Or install permanently with pip: ```bash pip install wikicitation-mcp wikicitation-mcp # starts the stdio server ``` ### Option B — From source ```bash git clone https://github.com/jsobel1/wikicitation-mcp.git cd wikicitation-mcp uv sync uv run python server.py ``` --- ## Connect to Claude ### Claude Code (CLI) — PyPI ```bash claude mcp add wikilite -- uvx wikicitation-mcp claude mcp list ``` ### Claude Code (CLI) — from source ```bash # Run from inside the cloned directory claude mcp add wikilite -- uv run python server.py ``` ### Claude Desktop — PyPI Edit `~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json` (Windows: `%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`): ```json { "mcpServers": { "wikilite": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["wikicitation-mcp"] } } } ``` ### Claude Desktop — from source ```json { "mcpServers": { "wikilite": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "run", "python", "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/wikicitation-mcp/server.py" ], "cwd": "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/wikicitation-mcp" …
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