olgasafonova/mediawiki-mcp-server/wiki-publish

wiki-publish

Publishes a markdown file to a MediaWiki wiki by shelling out to the wiki CLI. The plugin never re-implements wiki logic; the CLI is the contract.

Prerequisites

The wiki CLI must be on PATH and configured.

wiki version
wiki config

If wiki is not installed, install from the latest release at https://github.com/olgasafonova/mediawiki-mcp-server/releases or build from source:

go install github.com/olgasafonova/mediawiki-mcp-server/cmd/wiki@latest

If wiki config reports missing MEDIAWIKI_URL, stop and ask the user to set it (plus MEDIAWIKI_USERNAME + MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD for write access). Do not attempt to publish.

Workflow

1. Resolve the file path. If the user gave one, use it. If not, ask.
2. Resolve the page title. If the user gave one, use it. Otherwise propose one from the markdown's first H1 heading; confirm before proceeding.
3. Preview by default for unfamiliar files. Run wiki publish <file> "<title>" --preview --json and show the user the wikitext. Skip the preview only if the user said "publish without preview" or "just push it."
4. Publish. Run wiki publish <file> "<title>" --json with optional flags:

• --summary "<text>" if the user supplied one
• --minor if the user flagged the change as minor
• --theme tieto|neutral|dark if the user specified a theme
• --css to include the CSS styling block

1. Report the result. Parse the JSON response and surface the revision ID and (if a new page was created) the new_page flag.

CLI contract

wiki publish <file.md> <page-title> [flags]
  --summary string   Edit summary (default: "Published from <basename>")
  --minor            Mark as minor edit
  --theme string     Conversion theme: neutral|tieto|dark (default: neutral)
  --css              Include CSS styling block
  --preview          Convert and print wikitext without publishing
  --json             Machine-readable output

JSON response on successful publish:

{
  "success": true,
  "title": "Page Title",
  "page_id": 12345,
  "revision_id": 67890,
  "new_page": false,
  "message": "..."
}

Error handling

• File not found. Surface the file path and ask the user to correct it.
• `wiki` CLI not on PATH. Show the install instructions above; do not proceed.
• `wiki publish` exits non-zero. Show stderr verbatim. Common cases: missing credentials (CLI says "authentication failed"), page-protection conflict, network failure.
• Page title collision with an unrelated page. If the user did not confirm the page title, stop and confirm before re-running.

Do not

• Do not call MCP tools directly. The plugin's contract is to use the CLI.
• Do not chain a write after a failed preview. If preview fails, fix the source markdown first.
• Do not retry the publish more than once on a transient error. Report it and let the user decide.