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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_search): float limit bypasses validation, triggers spurious no_results",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 25.1.0\n\n### Description\n\n`wikipedia_search` accepts a `limit: number` parameter that passes Zod validation for float values (e.g., `5.7`). The float is then passed as `\"5.7\"` to the Wikipedia Action API's `srlimit` parameter, which rejects non-integers with `badinteger`. The server handles this by receiving an empty results array and t",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-25T00:57:08.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(all tools): not_found error contract declares reason but notFound() factory omits data.reason",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 25.1.0\n\n### Description\n\nAll six tools declare a `not_found` entry in their `errors[]` contract, but when the error fires, `result.structuredContent.error.data.reason` is absent. Agents and tooling that check `data.reason === \"not_found\"` to distinguish this error from others will never match.\n\nThe root cause: the service layer (`w",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-25T00:56:42.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(all tools): non-existent Wikipedia language editions expose full API URL in network error",
      "Excerpt": "Valid BCP 47 language codes that don't correspond to an existing Wikipedia edition (e.g. `\"xx\"`, `\"zz\"`) pass the regex validation in `buildBaseUrl()` but produce a network error after 4 retry attempts. The error message leaks the full internal API URL and exposes implementation details.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call `wikipedia_search` with `language: \"xx\"` (valid format, no Wikipedia edition).\n2. Observe network error after ~10s (4 retries × timeout).\n\n### Actual behavior\n\n```json\n{\n  \"code\"",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-24T12:19:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_article): side-box template text renders as prose — Library resources, sister projects, and spoken-article boxes",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.14\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #28, #32\n\n`htmlSectionToPlainText` renders the text of `{{Side box}}`-family templates — `{{Library resources box}}`, `{{Sister project links}}`, `{{Spoken Wikipedia}}` — as article prose. They are `<div class=\"side-box metadata …\">`, and only `<table>` is checked against MediaWiki's `metadata` class, so the `<div>` form is walked into an",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T03:08:15.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_article): text of display:none elements leaks into plain text — MathML duplicates every formula, gadgets emit UI labels",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.14\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #28\n\nTag stripping keeps the text of elements MediaWiki hides with an inline `style=\"display:none\"`. Nothing in the pipeline reads inline styles, so hidden markup reaches the caller as prose. Two shapes account for it:\n\n- **Math.** The [Math extension](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math) emits `<span class=\"mwe-math-element\">` c",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/33",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T02:40:15.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_article): layout tables are dropped with the data tables, emptying Discography/Filmography-style sections",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.14\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #28\n\n`htmlSectionToPlainText` drops every `<table>` element so a section read renders the same shape the full-article extract path does. MediaWiki also emits `<table>` for pure *layout* — `{{col-begin}}`, `{{columns-list}}` and friends wrap ordinary `<ul>`/`<p>` content in `<table class=\"col-begin\" role=\"presentation\">` to lay it out in co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/32",
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      "Title": "bug(all tools): language validator rejects \"simple\", making simple.wikipedia.org unreachable",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.13\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\nEvery tool pre-validates `language` against `/^[a-z]{2,3}(-[a-z0-9]+)*$/i` before any edition lookup. The first subtag is bounded at 2–3 characters, so `simple` (6 letters, no hyphen) fails the shape check and `simple.wikipedia.org` — the Simple English edition — is unreachable through this server on every tool.\n\nThe code is present in the edition ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T01:29:10.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_search_nearby): radius_meters accepts values below the upstream 10 m floor",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.13\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\n`wikipedia_search_nearby`'s `radius_meters` validator is `.min(1)`, but [MediaWiki's geosearch module](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#list=geosearch) reports `gsradius` `min: 10`. A radius of 1–9 passes the tool's schema, reaches the API, and comes back as a raw `outofrange` error rather than the tool's typed contract.\n\n`searchNea",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T01:08:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(wikipedia_search_nearby): truncated results are unreachable — raise the limit cap to the upstream 500 and fix the cap notice",
      "Excerpt": "`wikipedia_search_nearby` caps `limit` at 50 and discloses truncation via `ctx.enrich.truncated`, but nothing lets a caller reach the results past the cap. [MediaWiki's geosearch module](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#list=geosearch) has no `offset` or `continue` parameter, so there is no pagination to fall back on — the server's own cap is the entire ceiling.\n\nThat cap is 10× stricter than upstream. `action=paraminfo&modules=query%2Bgeosearch` reports `gslimit` `max: 500` (`hi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T00:15:13.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_article): section reads hoist headings into a fake TOC and drop inline template text",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.13\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\nSection-targeted reads (`wikipedia_get_article` with `section_index`) fetch raw wikitext via `action=parse&prop=wikitext` and strip it through `stripWikitext` / [wtf_wikipedia](https://github.com/spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia). Full-article reads take a different route — `action=query&prop=extracts&explaintext` — and the two produce materially dif",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T00:14:56.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_languages): redirect titles are not resolved — alias returns no_other_languages",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.13\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\n`wikipedia_get_languages` is the one read path that does not pass `redirects: 'true'` to the Action API. `getSummary` (REST, implicit), `getArticleFull`, `getArticleSection`, and `getSections` all resolve redirects; the `langlinks` query in `getLanguages` does not. A redirect page carries no interwiki links of its own, so the tool reports the arti",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/27",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T00:14:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(invalid_language): hardcoded edition allowlist rejects ~49 real Wikipedia editions and contains a phantom entry",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.13\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\n`KNOWN_WIKIPEDIA_EDITIONS` in `src/services/wikipedia/wikipedia-service.ts` is a hand-maintained set of 227 codes gating every tool's `language` parameter. [Wikipedia currently runs ~340 language editions](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias), so the list is materially incomplete, and a hardcoded list cannot track editions as they a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T00:14:07.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_sections): getSections relies on the deprecated MediaWiki prop=sections parameter",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.11\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nN/A — reproduces on the upstream MediaWiki Action API directly, independent of transport.\n\n### Description\n\n`WikipediaService.getSections()` (`src/services/wikipedia/wikipedia-service.ts`) calls the MediaWiki Action API with `action=parse&prop=sections`. MediaWiki now flags this parameter as deprecated in favor of `prop=tocdata` on every response. The call still succeed",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T01:19:55.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_languages): missing-url fallback composes wrong host for langcode≠subdomain editions",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.11\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.x\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\n`wikipedia_get_languages` derives each interwiki entry's `url` from the MediaWiki `langlinks` API (`llprop=url`). When the API omits `url` for an entry, the service falls back to composing `https://<language_code>.wikipedia.org/...` from the language code. For editions whose language code differs from their URL subdomain — e.g. `gsw` → `als.wikiped",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T01:04:28.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(wikipedia_get_article): add overflow handling for full-article responses",
      "Excerpt": "`wikipedia_get_article` can return very large full-article payloads in a single response. A live call for `{ \"title\": \"Python (programming language)\" }` returned `content.length === 40428`, and larger articles will be more expensive for clients to ingest blindly.\n\n## Proposal\n\nAdd explicit overflow handling for full-article reads while preserving targeted section reads as the precise path.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nWhen a full article exceeds a configured/default threshold, return a compact outlin",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-28T05:50:19.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(wikipedia_search): add pagination beyond the first capped result page",
      "Excerpt": "`wikipedia_search` exposes `totalCount` and caps each call at 50 results, but it has no `offset`/continuation input for fetching later pages. That makes broad searches discover there are many matches without giving agents a way to page through them.\n\n## Proposal\n\nAdd a pagination input for the Action API search offset, and return enough pagination metadata for follow-up calls.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nExample shape:\n\n```ts\ninput: {\n  query: string;\n  limit?: number;      // existing, capped at 50",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-28T05:50:07.000Z",
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      "Title": "docs(tool descriptions): pageid fields claim IDs can be passed to tools that only accept titles",
      "Excerpt": "`wikipedia_search` and `wikipedia_search_nearby` advertise `pageid` values as follow-up tool inputs, but the current public tools accept article titles, not page IDs. This can steer agents into using page IDs as search strings or looking for nonexistent pageid parameters.\n\n## Evidence\n\n- `wikipedia_search` description: `Returned pageid values can be passed to other tools.`\n- `wikipedia_search` output field: `Wikipedia page ID — use as input to other tools.`\n- `wikipedia_search_nearby` output fie",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/21",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-28T05:49:56.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(title validation): blank titles leak generic upstream errors in sections and languages",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.10\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nStreamable HTTP\n\n### Description\n\nBlank or whitespace-only titles are not validated consistently before hitting Wikipedia. Some paths map empty input to the declared `not_found` contract, while others leak generic upstream/service errors without `data.reason` or useful recovery.\n\nRelated: #8\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call `wikipedia_get_languages` with `{ \"title\": \"\" }",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-28T05:49:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(wikipedia_get_article,wikipedia_get_sections): redirect titles are not resolved like summaries",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.10\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nStreamable HTTP\n\n### Description\n\n`wikipedia_get_summary` follows redirects, but `wikipedia_get_article` and `wikipedia_get_sections` can fail on the same redirected title. This makes the natural summary → sections/article workflow brittle when the summary resolves an alias.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call `wikipedia_get_summary` with `{ \"title\": \"NYC\" }`.\n2. Observe a ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/issues/19",
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