Sites like MediaWiki

01 · Entity

About MediaWiki

MediaWiki mediawiki.org

MediaWiki

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

Top 10K · #3,242 English 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit MediaWiki

Summary by Claude

Official site of MediaWiki, the free open-source PHP wiki software that powers Wikipedia, offering downloads, installation and configuration guides, extensions, user and developer documentation, and community support.

Who it’s for

Wiki administrators, developers, and editors

Business model

Nonprofit, donation-funded (Wikimedia Foundation)

• wiki software
• wiki software download
• MediaWiki extensions
• self-hosted wiki
• knowledge base software
• developer documentation
• wiki installation guide
• open-source PHP wiki

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MediaWiki’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

1. 01
   Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

   Wikimedia Error

   global social movement for free educational knowledge

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Miro

   0 say Wikimedia movement is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikimedia movement isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.927
2. 02
   phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

   phpMyAdmin

   database administration tool

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Analytics

   0 say phpMyAdmin is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say phpMyAdmin isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.912
3. 03
   Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

   Client Challenge

   free and open-source web content management system

   • Google Search Console
   • Amazon SES
   • Atlassian
   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Mailchimp

   0 say Drupal is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Drupal isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.913
4. 04
   wiki.gg Top 10K English

   Welcome to wiki.gg!

   wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!

   • Google Search Console
   • Amazon SES
   • Atlassian
   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Cloudflare Web Analytics

   0 say wiki.gg is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say wiki.gg isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.911
5. 05
   WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

   Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

   Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Fonts
   • Google Tag Manager
   • nginx
   • PHP
   • WordPress

   0 say WordPress is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say WordPress isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.911
6. 06
   PHP php.net Top 1K English

   PHP

   PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

   • Google Search Console
   • bunny.net
   • Font Awesome
   • jQuery
   • Matomo

   0 say PHP is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say PHP isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.910
7. 07
   Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

   Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

   Polish wiki hosting corporation

   • Google Search Console
   • Bootstrap
   • Font Awesome
   • Google Workspace
   • Amazon Route 53
   • SendGrid

   0 say Wikidot is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikidot isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.907
8. 08
   Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English

   Wikipedia

   Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

   • Google Search Console
   • Yandex Webmaster

   0 say Wikipedia is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikipedia isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.908
9. 09
   Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

   Wikibooks

   free multilingual online collection of textbooks

   • Google Search Console

   0 say Wikibooks is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikibooks isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.905
10. 10
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

    • Google Search Console

    0 say Wikidata is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikidata isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.903
11. 11
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

    • Google Search Console

    0 say Wikisource is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikisource isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.904
12. 12
    VideoLAN videolan.org Top 10K English

    VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN

    VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!

    • Google Search Console
    • Bootstrap
    • Google Workspace
    • jQuery
    • Microsoft 365
    • nginx

    0 say VideoLAN is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say VideoLAN isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.896
13. 13
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS

    0 say phpBB is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say phpBB isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.896
14. 14
    Wiktionary wiktionary.org Top 10K English

    Wiktionary

    free online multilingual dictionary

    • Google Search Console

    0 say Wiktionary is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wiktionary isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.899
15. 15
    Wikiquote wikiquote.org Top 10K English

    Wikiquote

    free multilingual online collection of quotes

    • Google Search Console

    0 say Wikiquote is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Wikiquote isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.896
16. 16
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

    • Akamai
    • Akamai Edge DNS
    • Proofpoint

    0 say MySQL is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say MySQL isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Close cos 0.891
17. 17
    Namuwiki namu.wiki Top 10K English

    Paraguay-based Korean wiki website

    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon SES
    • Cloudflare
    • Freshworks
    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon Route 53

    0 say Namuwiki is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Namuwiki isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Close cos 0.892
18. 18
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

    • Bootstrap
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google AdSense

    0 say doxygen.org is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say doxygen.org isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Close cos 0.889
19. 19
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Font Awesome
    • Google Fonts

    0 say Joomla is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say Joomla isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Close cos 0.887
20. 20
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

    • Google Search Console
    • Brevo
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Workspace
    • jQuery

    0 say MariaDB is a good alternative to MediaWiki 0 say MariaDB isn’t a real alternative to MediaWiki

    Comment
    Close cos 0.885

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to mediawiki.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones MediaWiki uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What MediaWiki is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.