wikimediafoundation.org
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
Measured from Wikimedia Foundation’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wikimedia Foundation01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Wikimedia Foundation match.
- 01
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Close - 02
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close - 03
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 04
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Close - 05
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.
Close - 06
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 07
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 […]
Close - 08
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.
Close - 09
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Close - 10
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close - 11
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines | Django
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Close - 12
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close - 13
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close - 14
Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Close - 15
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Close - 16
Jehovah’s Witnesses—Official Website: jw.org | English
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Our official website provides online access to the Bible, Bible-based publications, and current news. It describes our beliefs and organization.
Close - 17
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close - 18
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 19
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Close - 20
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Wikimedia Foundation’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikimedia Foundation 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 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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 99 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Maps
- Mapbox page source: api.mapbox.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=m7jEgoI4DOUy0u6cebxtp7oJT7s3nnNyPWgmPQmNEjc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=orjhfudqyeumf4uber3bpwan5pisu0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on wikimediafoundation.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikimediafoundation.org 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wikimediafoundation.org 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikimediafoundation.org 6/20
- nginx 4/20
- PHP 4/20
- SendGrid · not on wikimediafoundation.org 4/20
- WordPress 4/20
- jQuery · not on wikimediafoundation.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on wikimediafoundation.org 3/20
- Salesforce · not on wikimediafoundation.org 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on wikimediafoundation.org 3/20
- Apple Business · not on wikimediafoundation.org 3/20
- Mailgun · not on wikimediafoundation.org 3/20
- Meta Business Suite 3/20