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Wikiless

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Wikiless is a free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Security-focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Encyclopedia

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Wikiless information

  • Developed by

    orenom, Metastem

  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Italian
    • Polish
    • Russian
    • French
    • Dutch
    • Arabic
    • Japanese
    • Danish
    • Portuguese
    • Turkish
    • Chinese

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Education & Reference

GitHub repository

  •  197 Stars
  •  20 Forks
  •  2 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 10, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Wikiless, and it has gotten 12 likes

Wikiless was added to AlternativeTo by Ja H on May 9, 2021 and this page was last updated Aug 21, 2023.

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Top positive comment •Jul 5, 2023

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.

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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

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