wikipedia.org

Scanned 14 Oct 2026Fresh925 checks

In its own wordsWikipediaWikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

wikipedia.org is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 2001. It is built with Apache Traffic Server; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #31 · Chrome UX Report: Top 50,000 · Majestic Million: #11

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#31	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 50,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#11	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Apache Traffic Server.

Apache Traffic ServerWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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server: ATS/9.2.15
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Everything else it uses (2)

Around it: SEO.

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Evidence · DNS record
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wikipedia.org TXT google-site-verification=AMHkgs-4ViEvIJf5znZle-BSE2EPNFqM1nDJGRyn2qk
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Evidence · DNS record
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wikipedia.org TXT yandex-verification: 35c08d23099dc863
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

2 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

Domain registered13 Jan 2001, 25 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
TermsLinked from the home pageFound
Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted

Every signal we looked at

On the site

Contact pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
TermsLinked from the home pageFound
Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

Behind the site

Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
Domain registered13 Jan 2001, 25 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings1 of 6 in placePartly
Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

It calls itself “Wikipedia”.

In its own wordsWikipediaWikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).

Who is behind it

WikidataWikipedia

Wikidata: Based in San Francisco, United States; founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q52: Wikipedia

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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

Wikipedia: free multilingual online encyclopedia · Wikimedia content project · since 2001
Wikipedia community: community of contributors that create and maintain Wikipedia · community, virtual community, workforce

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of these items. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

AI use

AI training: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name: Not given
Language: English (en)
What it tells search engines: None

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

79 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

TransparencyContact, policies and about page14 / 30

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page14 / 30no contact page link · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 25 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · no protective settings

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · doesn’t tell search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 2001; first archived in 2001.

13 Jan 2001Domain registeredRDAP
27 Jul 2001First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
18 Jul 2011First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
10 Oct 2026First scanned by usCheckAnySite
14 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 26 of 26 years · see the first capture

2001: captured
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Changes, earlier scans and alerts

Since our previous scan: No changes since 10 Oct 2026.

Scanned	Score	AI traces	Popularity
14 Oct 2026shown above	79	None found	Top 1K
10 Oct 2026	79	None found	Top 1K

Findings can change when a site changes or when we update our signatures; each scan keeps the version it used.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.

This scan, in numbers

925 checks on 14 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

More sites near it in popularity

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you

Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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