How do I connect Claude to Wikipedia in 5 minutes?
Execute the following steps to connect Claude to Wikipedia. You only need knowledge of Claude, your own business and the Wikipedia administration.
Wikipedia is online software for encyclopedical knowledge. Wikipedia handles both the collection, sharing and maintenance of large volumes of encyclopedical knowledge across a wide range of languages.
No technical knowledge is needed nor knowledge on the Wikipedia APIs to connect Wikipedia to Claude. This step-by-step plan will tell you exactly which steps you need to go through on Invantive Cloud to create your own Azure data warehouse with data from Wikipedia.
The steps to connect Claude to Wikipedia are:
- Register an Invantive Cloud account.
- Create a Wikipedia database.
- Grant connection from Claude access to Wikipedia
- Connect Claude to Wikipedia through the connector.
- Ask Claude a question about Wikipedia
Invantive Cloud offers a Wikipedia connector to download data from Wikipedia into Claude, but there are over 110 other connectors available also for SQL, Power BI, Power Query, Qlik, Tableau i Azure Data Factory.
With the Wikipedia connector for Claude you will by default fetch the data from all connected Wikipedia companies in your dashboard. You can limit the number of Wikipedia companies that are retrieved in Claude through the Database settings. For example, you can also limit the connector for Claude to the data from exactly one Wikipedia company. Of course, you can also filter the data by a specific Wikipedia company using a filter step in Claude. The Wikipedia connector for Claude has advanced optimizations for great real-time performance with both a single Wikipedia company as well as with hundreds of Wikipedia companies.
When you are having questions, please check the forums for Wikipedia.
Register Account on Invantive Cloud
Skip this step when you already have an account on Invantive Cloud. Otherwise execute the following steps one time to register an account on Invantive Cloud:
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Go to Invantive Cloud start page.
Select the Log on-button.
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Select the Next-button.
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Select the Next-button.
Enter your password and repeat the provided password.
You will receive a six-digit verification code by email within 2 minutes.
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Select the Sign Up-button.
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Make sure you have an authentication app installed on your phone. Select the Next-button.
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Add the displayed QR code to the authentication app, enter the current verification code, and choose "Finish".
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The Invantive Cloud dashboard will be shown.
You now have a login code on Invantive Cloud with which you can set up the connection with Wikipedia and numerous other platforms. You will use the same Invantive login code and workflow for all other platforms.
Create Wikipedia database
In this step, we set up a database with data from Wikipedia. The database is "virtual" because it is not a traditional database, but is fed real-time from Wikipedia. Invantive Cloud provides Claude with a real-time link to Wikipedia. The database will be used for all your Wikipedia reporting with Claude. So you only need to perform these steps once.
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Click the Add Database button.
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Please fill out the form with login information for Wikipedia.
Select the OK-button.
Congratulations! You can now process data from Wikipedia within the Invantive Cloud website. You can do this for example with the interactive SQL editor.
Grant connection from Claude access to Wikipedia
To retrieve the data from Claude we create a link via Invantive Bridge Online. This creates a "bridge" between the cloud of Invantive and the standard OData connector that is available in every version of Claude. You do not need to install anything locally: no connector, no ado.NET provider and no Claude add-on neither.
Execute the following steps to safely use the data from Wikipedia outside of Invantive Cloud:
Next to the database you will find an orange text requesting you to allow access from your current location (IP address). Select the nearby orange button.
You can completely disable IP address checking by entering an asterisk ("*").
You are now ready to import the Wikipedia data into Claude.
Configure the MCP connector in Claude for Wikipedia
In Claude the address of the MCP server is added once as a custom connector, after which the data of Wikipedia is available in every conversation.
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In Claude: open Settings and then Connectors, and choose to add a custom connector.
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Paste the URL address of the MCP server copied in the previous step and confirm.
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Log on with your Invantive Cloud account and approve the request.
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Ask a question only your own Wikipedia data can answer. The connector first reads the data model and then the records the question needs.
What Claude Can and Cannot Do
The connector offers tools such as to describe the data model and read records. There is no tool that writes, posts, deletes or executes SQL, so no instruction in a conversation can change anything in Wikipedia.
Reading is bounded by the database: platforms not in it and Wikipedia companies not selected are not reachable.