Wikiless
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Wikiless is a free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Security-focused
Features
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Encyclopedia
Tags
- wikipedia-client
- wikipedia
- self-hostable
- frontend
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Wikiless information
Developed by
orenom, MetastemLicensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
59 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Polish
- Russian
- French
- Dutch
- Arabic
- Japanese
- Danish
- Portuguese
- Turkish
- Chinese
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Education & ReferenceGitHub repository
- 241 Stars
- 24 Forks
- 4 Open Issues
- Updated
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What is Wikiless?
Wikiless is a free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.
- No JavaScript or ads.
- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia.
- Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.
- Self-hostable. Anyone can setup a private or public instance.
Why the new website? The original developer, "Orenom" has gotten DMCAed' and "Metastem" has forked it. Previous Source Code: https://web.archive.org/web/20220929180821if_/https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless
Comments and Reviews
A great tool that allows you to access Wikipedia articles without having your article-viewing tracked by cooperations. Also restores articles back to the old Wikipedia layout albeit broken in some cases. Shame that the source code is currently gone right now.