Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Wikidata
The 20 closest open knowledge graph alternatives to Wikidata, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Wikidata? The closest matches are Wikisource, Wikibooks and Wikimedia movement. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 15 ms
01 · Entity
About Wikidata
Wikidata wikidata.org
Wikidata
Wikidata: free multilingual online knowledge graph
Summary by Claude
A free, collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge base of structured data that humans and machines can read and edit, serving as central data storage for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and available under a CC0 license.
- Who it’s for
- Wikimedia editors, researchers, developers and data users
- Business model
- Donations (nonprofit)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikidata’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.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Wikidata
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikidata, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close cos 0.928 - 02
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close cos 0.927 - 03
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.923 - 04
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close cos 0.916 - 05
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close cos 0.908 - 06
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close cos 0.903 - 07
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Very close cos 0.901 - 08
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close cos 0.902 - 09
Paraguay-based Korean wiki website
Very close cos 0.897 - 10
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.895 - 11
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Close cos 0.893 - 12
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Close cos 0.891 - 13
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Close cos 0.890 - 14
Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
Close cos 0.889 - 15
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Close cos 0.889 - 16
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.888 - 17
Schema.org - Schema.org
Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.
Close cos 0.882 - 19
World of Warcraft News and Guides
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
Close cos 0.884 - 20
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.885
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wikidata.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikidata uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Wikidata is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nOKTUn6gWZ44XDh-0H0euRlNJtxCyTP5K8Mb66ty7Bs
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wikidata adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on wikidata.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikidata.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wikidata.org 4/20
- nginx · not on wikidata.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wikidata.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on wikidata.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikidata.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on wikidata.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on wikidata.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on wikidata.org 3/20
- Miro · not on wikidata.org 2/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wikidata.org 2/20
- Amazon SES · not on wikidata.org 2/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on wikidata.org 2/20
- SendGrid · not on wikidata.org 2/20