mediawiki.org
MediaWiki
Who runs MediaWiki, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest wiki software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- DokuWiki
Measured from MediaWiki’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MediaWiki01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MediaWiki
MediaWiki mediawiki.org
Wikidata: free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MediaWiki tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on MediaWiki’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MediaWiki
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MediaWiki, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to MediaWiki match.
- 01
Next Generation Open Source Wiki — Wiki.js
A wiki that scales from a weekend side project to thousands of contributors. Self-hosted, incredibly fast, and entirely yours to shape.
Very close - 02
BookStack
BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
Very close - 03
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 04
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 05
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 06
CakePHP - Build fast, grow solid | PHP Framework | Home
CakePHP is an open-source web, rapid development framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code. It follows the model–view–controller (MVC) . Manual for beginners now available and links towards the last version.
Very close - 07
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 08
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 09
Wikiversity
online multilingual collaborative project for learning materials
Very close - 10
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 11
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close - 12
MyBB - Free and Open Source Forum Software
The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.
Very close - 13
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 14
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 15
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close - 16
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 17
Suhosin PHP hardening project
Open source patch for PHP
Very close - 18
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 19
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 20
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MediaWiki’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MediaWiki uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MediaWiki adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 58 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MediaWiki’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=SB70h2VwbTUOmrd3YTPxnT4gjjX5u_g8MAxkIaCW03c
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Cloudflare · not on mediawiki.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mediawiki.org 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on mediawiki.org 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on mediawiki.org 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on mediawiki.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on mediawiki.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on mediawiki.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on mediawiki.org 3/20
- nginx · not on mediawiki.org 2/20
- PHP · not on mediawiki.org 2/20