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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

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01 · 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.

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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.

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  1. 01
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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  2. 02
    Creative Commons creativecommons.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons

    family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

    Compare Creative Commons with Wikimedia →
  3. 03
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare TYPO3 with Wikimedia →
  4. 04
    Mozilla mozilla.org Top 100 English No trackers

    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.

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  5. 05
    WWF wwf.org 1 tracker

    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.

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  6. 06
    Perl perl.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  7. 07
    GNU gnu.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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  8. 08
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

    Compare ICANN with Wikimedia →
  9. 09
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  10. 10
    AAAS aaas.org English 2 trackers

    AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

    international non-profit organization promoting science

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  11. 11
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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  12. 12

    non-profit organization in the USA

    Compare National Stroke Association with Wikimedia →
  13. 13
    Python python.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Welcome to Python.org

    The official home of the Python Programming Language

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  14. 14
    Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English No trackers

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

    Compare Wikipedia with Wikimedia →
  15. 15
    American Diabetes Association diabetes.org English 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare American Diabetes Association with Wikimedia →
  16. 16
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

    Compare Apache Software Foundation with Wikimedia →
  17. 17
    Unesco unesco.org Top 1K English 2 trackers

    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

    Compare Unesco with Wikimedia →
  18. 18
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

    Compare MediaWiki with Wikimedia →
  19. 19
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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  20. 20

    American nonprofit (1964-)

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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

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

MariaDBAAASJoomlaICANNGNUPerlWWFMozillaTYPO3Internet Archive