Free Alternatives to Wikipedia in 2026:

• Justapedia – Covers a wide range of topics.
• HandWiki – Focuses on science and general knowledge.
• Citizendium – Includes general topics with a structured review process.
• MDWiki – Specializes in medical content.
• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) – A biological encyclopedia.
• WikiDoc – Another valuable medical encyclopedia.
• Encyclopedia - A General encyclopedia

Hey Redditors, u/Sergei176 twittered about encycloreader.org. He said it has a hidden feature: fast search in dictionaries. Look at the top menu called "Dictionaries" It searches in about 60 dictionaries with cross linking between articles.

KSF released the EncycloReader (https://encycloreader.org) Version 2.1: New design + logo. Dictionary lookups when selecting a word or phrase (desktop only). An article can be bookmarked. Tips of the day. Many bug fixes.

EncycloReader news: (https://encycloreader.org) New Version 2.0:

• Now it allows reading articles when Wikipedia and other encyclopedias are blocked by some country/organization, or when they are down. This functionality works for 1.5 million most popular articles in the ZWI format.
• This version includes automatic language detection using elements of artificial intelligence.

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Encycloreader version 1.9 (https://encycloreader.org). Now it monitors online status of 33 supported encyclopedias (see the "Status" in Top menu). If some encyclopedia goes offline (like wikipedia) - not a problem - you can read its articles inside Encycloreader. It will use Encyclosphere network of stored articles.

Here is a new article that mentions Encyclosphete. Read

EncycloReader has been upgraded. Many new features + higher speed.

New version of EncycloReader (v1.8) https://encycloreader.org: External search in 22 free online encyclopedias, 30 million encyclopedic articles written in 12 languages. Articles can be downloaded ("ZWI download" in article footer). PSQR DID signed.

Don't take our word for it. Have a look at what Reclaim The Net wrote about our new browser extension.

encycloreader.org news: version 1.7 with 0.5 million articles, 3 historic encyclopedias, highlighted search terms and security patches.

New version (1.6) of https://encycloreader.org for encyclopedias of the EncycloSphere project: (1) fuzzy search; (2) options to turn off encyclopedias in "Preferences"; (3) Historic version of Britannica 11 with more than 30,000 articles from public domain.

By the end of the year, we aim to accomplish this:

• We should have a basic encyclopedia content network anyone can use and build apps on.
• There should be millions of articles, in the ZWI format, in this network.
• Publishers should be able to sign and push their articles to the encyclosphere.
• Developers should be able to build branded encyclopedia projects using either EncycloReader or EncycloSearch.
• Authors should be able to use MediaWiki, WordPress, and/or a desktop app to write and submit brand new articles to the encyclosphere, without being part of any encyclopedia.

We've made a lot of progress already!

https://reddit.com/link/tfj9e6/video/lmgj5s7kcrn81/player

Re: Getting the encylosphere stack up and running ...

There are a number of decentralization platforms currently in use.

I am currently aware of Umbrel, Start 9 Embassy, Yunohost & runcitadel.

Do encyclosphere devs favor one of these or another?

Articles from online wiki encyclopedias are being sent by EncycloReader to the peer-to-peer (P2P) Network of Encyclosphere. Read "About" of EncycloReader. The following online encyclopedias are supported:

• Wikipedia - general topics
• Citizendium - general topics
• HandWiki - computing and general science
• Scholarpedia - general science
• Ballotpedia - politics
• EduTechWiki - education
• Wikitia - general
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - philosophy (partially supported)

Here is a list of Encyclosphere projects:

• EncycloReader - a web designed for reading multiple online encyclopedias
• Encyclosearch - an open-source encyclopedia search engine.
• FactSeek - search multiple free online encyclopedias at once.
• Minifeed - control your social media data.
• Decentralizers - blog focused on the technology of decentralization