# wikicitation-mcp

> MCP server providing Wikipedia citation-science tools for Claude — pure Python, no R required

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/wikicitation-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/jsobel1/wikicitation-mcp#readme
- repository: https://github.com/jsobel1/wikicitation-mcp/issues
- version: 0.3.1
- license: MIT License  Copyright (c) 2026 Jonathan Sobel  Permission is h…
- protocols: mcp
- tags: bibliometrics, citations, claude, doi, llm, mcp, wikipedia, wikitext
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:wikicitation-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 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 |

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## 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
```

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## 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"
…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, declared)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/wikicitation-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:24:45.650Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/wikicitation-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/wikicitation-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:wikicitation-mcp