Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Wikimedia movement
The 20 closest nonprofit free knowledge alternatives to Wikimedia movement, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Wikimedia movement? The closest matches are Wikisource, MediaWiki and Wikidata. 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
- 11 ms
01 · Entity
About Wikimedia movement
Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org
Wikimedia Error
Wikidata: global social movement for free educational knowledge
Summary by Claude
Website of the Wikimedia movement and Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and sister free-knowledge projects such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wiktionary, with information on the projects, governance and donations.
- Who it’s for
- Wikipedia contributors, readers, donors
- Business model
- Donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikimedia movement’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 Wikimedia movement
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikimedia movement, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read wikimedia.org’s homepage (HTTP 429), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close cos 0.935 - 02
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close cos 0.927 - 03
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close cos 0.923 - 04
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close cos 0.921 - 05
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close cos 0.921 - 06
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close cos 0.915 - 07
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close cos 0.913 - 08
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close cos 0.911 - 09
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.906 - 10
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Very close cos 0.905 - 11
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close cos 0.907 - 12
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
Very close cos 0.897 - 13
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.
Very close cos 0.896 - 14
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close cos 0.896 - 15
Home Page
API endpoint
Close cos 0.893 - 16
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.893 - 17
GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Close cos 0.893 - 18
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Close cos 0.894 - 19
Smithsonian request verification
group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
Close cos 0.892 - 20
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Close cos 0.891
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wikimedia.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikimedia movement uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Wikimedia movement is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_cidrs.wikimedia.org include:_spf.google.com ip4:74.12…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms70322281
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=APNaeC69s87mS4z-sfYqFYONgimBx4Bw22eCIaYEd_g
- Miro TXT miro-verification=1a9ff05c8b96053eaea1f94784e1a314480c3a69
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wikimedia movement adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikimedia.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on wikimedia.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikimedia.org 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- nginx · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- Apple Business · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on wikimedia.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on wikimedia.org 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on wikimedia.org 2/20
- PHP · not on wikimedia.org 2/20
- WordPress · not on wikimedia.org 2/20