Self-hosted / open sourceProject ManagementHeadquarters: US

MediaWiki: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

MediaWiki is a collaboration and documentation platform brought to you by a large community. It is the software that powers Wikipedia and helps you collect and organise knowledge and make it available to others. It is multilingual and can be extended with extensions. You download, install and configure MediaWiki yourself on your own server, including a database; stable, legacy and long-term support (LTS) releases are available. If you do not have a server, the project site lists hosting services, and there are parties offering professional development and consulting.

The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation headquartered in San Francisco, runs the Wikimedia projects and the MediaWiki software. The software is released under the GNU General Public License. Because you can install MediaWiki yourself, you decide where the data resides; there is no mandatory cloud run by the developer. If you choose an external hosting service, the location of your data depends on that provider, and MediaWiki itself is not involved.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	mediawiki.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to MediaWiki

The European alternatives to MediaWiki come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with MediaWiki

MediaWiki is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

MediaWiki hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

MediaWiki is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs MediaWiki together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to MediaWiki?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to MediaWiki include Aikku PROJECTS (Camino), Arinto and awork. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to MediaWiki?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to MediaWiki include Aikku PROJECTS (Camino) and DokuWiki. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is MediaWiki GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

MediaWiki is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 14, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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In the changelog

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235 open-source packages from government catalogues (October 14, 2026)

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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