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Wikimedia Foundation

Who runs Wikimedia Foundation, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest nonprofit foundation alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of wikimedia.org
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 Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, supporting the people and technology that make them possible.

Wikidata: American charitable organization

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
wikimedia.org Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Wikimedia Foundation 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.

tracker that follows visitors

9 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

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  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Wikimedia Foundation

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikimedia Foundation, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than Wikimedia FoundationNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  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

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  3. 03
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

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  4. 04
    Miraheze miraheze.org English 1 tracker

    Free Wiki Hosting, No Ads - Miraheze

    Seamlessly create and manage a wiki for free, no ads, no strings attached. See why dozens trust our expert hosting. Join Miraheze today!

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  5. 05
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

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

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  6. 06
    fsf.org English 1 tracker

    Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software

    organization supporting the free software movement

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  7. 07

    website

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  8. 08

    American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.

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  9. 09
    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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  10. 10
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

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  11. 11
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

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  12. 12

    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc

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  13. 13
    Linux Foundation linuxfoundation.org 2 trackers

    Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust

    Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.

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  14. 14
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  15. 15
    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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  16. 16
    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

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  17. 17
    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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  18. 18
    Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

    Home | Grants.gov

    USA federal website

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  19. 19
    Human Rights Foundation hrf.org English 3 trackers

    Homepage - Human Rights Foundation

    More than half of the world lives under tyranny.Tyranny is the root of poverty, war, and torture.We’re uniting the world to stand against tyranny.

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  20. 20
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wikimedia Foundation 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 · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,193
Vector
384-d
Query
62 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikimedia Foundation’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.

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