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Wikipedia
Who runs Wikipedia, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online encyclopedia alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Measured from Wikipedia’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wikipedia01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Wikipedia
Wikipedia wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikidata: free multilingual online encyclopedia
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Wikipedia 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 14 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Wikipedia’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Wikipedia
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikipedia, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 02
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 03
Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Very close - 04
Paraguay-based Korean wiki website
Very close - 05 Libre Wiki librewiki.net
Korean wiki site
Very close - 06
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close - 07
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close - 08
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 09 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
Very close - 10
Wikiversity
online multilingual collaborative project for learning materials
Very close - 11
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close - 12
free online platform for language lovers and an online community
Very close - 13
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Very close - 14
Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place
Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!
Very close - 15
Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!
Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.
Very close - 16
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 17
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries
Very close - 18
All The Tropes
online wiki hosted on Miraheze/WikiTide listing conventions found in fictional works, fork of TV Tropes
Very close - 19
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 20
online dictionary
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Wikipedia’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikipedia’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
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=AMHkgs-4ViEvIJf5znZle-BSE2EPNFqM1nDJGRyn2qk
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 35c08d23099dc863
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikipedia.org 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on wikipedia.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikipedia.org 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on wikipedia.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wikipedia.org 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wikipedia.org 2/20
- Amazon SES · not on wikipedia.org 2/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on wikipedia.org 2/20