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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: –
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.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Wikipedia

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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

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Wikipedia 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 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 and search numbers · 2 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 34 ms

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.