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This tool tracked real-time statistics during Wikipedia's 2011 blackout protest against SOPA legislation. It monitored and displayed live data about which Wikipedia language versions were participating in the shutdown.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA Protest Live Stats launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia. Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a redesigned look, new features and customization.

    2021 · modernwiki.app · its alternatives →

  2. 2WB
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    StatHat▲153

    Track custom stats and view them in real-time.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Statpedia▲125

    Simple chart creation tool, create one in seconds.

    2016 · statpedia.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Wikiwho is a tool that scans Wikipedia edits and extracts those coming from specific IP ranges associated to known organizations. I've made this as a for-fun side project two years ago. If you want to read more on how it works I've written a short blog article about it here: https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-ma... I had already posted it here at the time (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907200) but I've now decided to release the code openly, hence the repost. If you're insterested, you…

    2022 · wikiwho.ailef.tech · its alternatives →

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    Compiled data of the Worlds busiest public site

    2016 · analytics.wikimedia.org · its alternatives →

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    I built a system that monitors ~200,000 news RSS feeds in near real-time and clusters related articles to show how stories spread across the web. It uses Snowflake’s Arctic model for embeddings and HNSW for fast similarity search. Each “story cluster” shows who published first, how fast it propagated, and how the narrative evolved as more outlets picked it up. Would love feedback on the architecture, scaling approach, and any ways to make the clusters more accurate or useful. Live demo: https://yandori.io/news-flow/

    Nov 2025 · yandori.io · its alternatives →

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    Govbase tracks every bill, executive order, and federal regulation from official sources (Congress.gov, Federal Register, White House). An AI pipeline breaks each one down into plain-language summaries and shows who it impacts by demographic group. It also ties each policy directly to bias-rated news coverage and politician social posts on X, Bluesky, and Truth Social. You can follow a single bill from the official text to how media frames it to what your representatives are saying about it. Free on web, iOS, and Android. https://govbase.com I'd love feedback from the community,…

    Mar 2026 · govbase.com · its alternatives →

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    Wiki Journey tracks your daily Wikipedia rabbit holes in a tree format. Available on Firefox and Chrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiki-journey/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wiki-journey/lehenb... It's open source, feel free to contribute! https://github.com/demegire/wiki-journey

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.

    Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →

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    View real-time stats for any website in your brower tabs

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Woopra▲76

    Event tracking, funnels and cohort analysis in real time

    2014 · woopra.com · its alternatives →

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    CheckStat▲111

    counter statistics, website traffic analyzer

    2024 · checkstat.net · its alternatives →

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    2013 · document.ly · its alternatives →

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    Cwiki▲130

    A Command line interface for searching Wikipedia!

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The most-visited English Wikipedia articles, updated daily.

    2015 · top.hatnote.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Wanted to share a project I made over the weekend - a real-time fascism tracker. The site fetches recent news from trusted sources, filters it for keywords related to fascism and the current US administration, and then sends it to GPT-4o for classification according to the 14 characteristics of fascism described by Dr. Lawrence Britt. With the rapid pace of news in the US, especially post-election, it’s hard to keep up. I built this site so you can quickly see important topics and draw parallels with similar historical events. Would love to hear your thoughts. - Ryan

    2025 · realtimefascism.com · its alternatives →

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    Guess censored Wikipedia articles by the first paragraph.

    2021 · wikiwhat.simonrahm.pro · its alternatives →

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    Qikipedia▲107

    Instant Wikipedia summary cards on any web page

    2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22WB

    We built this free little notification bar so you could add it to your site and show your opposition to PIPA/SOPA without having to black out. The text never changes, there's no account needed or anything like that, and you can take it down whenever.

    2012 · hellobar.com · its alternatives →

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    Search and explore events, in space-time

    2020 · whataday.info · its alternatives →

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    News aggregator powered by Wikipedia. Contribute to WikiNewsFeed/wikinewsfeed development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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