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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

Measured from Wikimedia’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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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.

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

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Wikimedia match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 4 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 35 ms

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.