wikimedia.org
Wikimedia
Who runs Wikimedia, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest nonprofit free knowledge alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Internet Archive
Measured from Wikimedia’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wikimedia01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Wikimedia
Wikimedia wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Wikidata: global social movement for free educational knowledge
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Wikimedia 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; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Wikimedia’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Wikimedia
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikimedia, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 02
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
Close - 03
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 04
Mozilla - Internet for people, not profit (US)
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
Very close - 05
WWF - Find your local WWF office
WWF is building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Use our hub page to find your local WWF office.
Very close - 06
The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Very close - 07
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 08
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 09
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 - 10
AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
international non-profit organization promoting science
Very close - 11
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 12 National Stroke Association stroke.org
non-profit organization in the USA
Very close - 13
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 14
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close - 15
Diabetes Research, Education, Advocacy | ADA
Leading the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes for those affected by it through research funding, community services, education and advocacy.
Very close - 16
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close - 17
UNESCO : Building Peace through Education, Science and Culture, communication and information
Learn more about UNESCO's role, vision and results. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Our aim is to promote peace and security through international cooperation
Very close - 18
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 19
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 20 SCORE Association score.org
American nonprofit (1964-)
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Wikimedia’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikimedia 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 Wikimedia 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikimedia’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
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_cidrs.wikimedia.org include:_spf.google.com ip4:74.12…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms70322281
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uzfgD0YiIqSQgRdSQXlkA7NByyyOZDp-n0SZ3nozpDM
- Miro TXT miro-verification=1a9ff05c8b96053eaea1f94784e1a314480c3a69
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikimedia.org 8/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikimedia.org 7/20
- PHP · not on wikimedia.org 7/20
- jQuery · not on wikimedia.org 6/20
- Atlassian · not on wikimedia.org 5/20
- Fastly · not on wikimedia.org 5/20
- nginx · not on wikimedia.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on wikimedia.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on wikimedia.org 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on wikimedia.org 4/20
- SendGrid · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on wikimedia.org 3/20