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How to add Wikipedia MCP to Windsurf

Give your LLM live Wikipedia access: search, full articles, summaries, sections, links and key facts in any language. Paste the config into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json and restart Windsurf.

Last updated June 14, 2026 · 270★ · stdio · no auth

Windsurf config for Wikipedia MCP

pipx install wikipedia-mcp
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia-mcp": {
      "command": "wikipedia-mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Setup steps

  1. 1Open Windsurf → Cascade → the hammer/MCP icon → Configure (or edit ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json).
  2. 2Paste the Wikipedia MCP config below.
  3. 3Fill in placeholder secrets, then save.
  4. 4Click Refresh in the MCP panel.
  5. 5Wikipedia MCP's tools become available to Cascade.

Before you start

  • Python 3 with pipx (recommended) or pip
  • No API key required; optional free Wikipedia access token to avoid rate limits
  • An MCP client such as Claude Desktop

What Wikipedia MCP can do in Windsurf

search_wikipedia

Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query, with result metadata and status.

get_article

Get full article content: text, summary, sections, links and categories.

get_summary

Get a concise summary of an article.

get_sections

Get a structured list of an article's sections with content.

get_links

Get the links contained within an article.

get_coordinates

Get latitude/longitude coordinate data for an article.

get_related_topics

Get related topics based on an article's links and categories.

summarize_article_for_query

Summarize an article focused on a specific query.

Security

Read-only against Wikipedia's public API — no account, no key, no private data, and it writes nothing to your system beyond optional caching. If you expose the http/streamable-http transport beyond localhost, enable --auth-mode static or jwt so the endpoint is not open to everyone.

Wikipedia MCP + Windsurf FAQ

Where is the Windsurf config file?

Windsurf reads MCP servers from ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. Paste the Wikipedia MCP config there under the "mcpServers" key and restart the client.

Is Wikipedia MCP safe to use with Windsurf?

Read-only against Wikipedia's public API — no account, no key, no private data, and it writes nothing to your system beyond optional caching. If you expose the http/streamable-http transport beyond localhost, enable --auth-mode static or jwt so the endpoint is not open to everyone.

Is the Wikipedia MCP free to use?

Yes. It is MIT-licensed, needs no API key, and talks to Wikipedia's free public API. Heavy usage can hit rate limits (403 errors); a free Wikipedia personal access token passed via --access-token removes that throttle.

Claude Desktop says spawn wikipedia-mcp ENOENT — what is wrong?

The command is not on Claude Desktop's PATH. Either install with pipx (which puts it in a global location) or set the config command to the absolute path printed by which wikipedia-mcp.

Can I use it with non-English Wikipedia?

Yes — pass --language (ja, zh-hans, zh-tw, sr-latn, ...) or the friendlier --country flag (Taiwan, Japan, Germany, ...). It maps 140+ countries and regions to the right language edition, including Chinese simplified/traditional variants, and you can run several language-specific server entries at once.

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