What does wikidata.org track?
Before any consent, wikidata.org loaded 0 tracking companies and set 12 advertising or analytics cookies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 12
- Third-party hosts
- 3
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Wikimedia22 requestsFunctional
thumb.wikimedia.org, upload.wikimedia.org, auth.wikimedia.org
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was WMF-Uniq, from Wikimedia, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeoIP | Analytics | wikidata.org | Session |
| NetworkProbeLimit | Analytics | wikidata.org | Under a day |
| NetworkProbeLimit | Analytics | www.wikidata.org | Under a day |
| NetworkProbeLimit | Analytics | thumb.wikimedia.org (third party) | Under a day |
| NetworkProbeLimit | Analytics | auth.wikimedia.org (third party) | Under a day |
| WMF-Last-Access | Analytics | wikidata.org | 32 days |
| WMF-Last-Access | Analytics | www.wikidata.org | 32 days |
| WMF-Last-Access-Global | Analytics | wikidata.org | 32 days |
| WMF-Uniq | Analytics | wikidata.org | 12 months |
| WMF-Uniq | Analytics | upload.wikimedia.org (third party) | 12 months |
| WMF-Uniq | Analytics | thumb.wikimedia.org (third party) | 12 months |
| WMF-Uniq | Analytics | auth.wikimedia.org (third party) | 12 months |
| wikidatawikimwuser-sessionId | Unclassified | www.wikidata.org | Session |
The page also wrote 4 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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