Last updated: November 2026
LonelyWiki is a small website that shows one lightly-read Wikipedia article a day. It has a home page, an archive, a page for each article, a contact page, and this one. We take your privacy seriously and keep data collection to a minimum.
We use Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how people find and use LonelyWiki, and some pages load it through Google Tag Manager. This collects usage data such as pages visited, time on site, general geographic region (country or city level), browser type, and device type. Google Analytics uses cookies and may process your IP address. We use this data only to improve the site and see which articles are read.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or by using a browser with tracking protection enabled (such as Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection, or Brave).
When you open an article, we increase an anonymous counter for that article in our database (Supabase). We do not store your IP address, name, or any personally identifiable information in that counter. It records that someone visited, not who.
If you use the contact form, the name, email address, subject, and message you enter are sent through Web3Forms and delivered to us by email. We use them only to read and reply to your message.
The weekly newsletter signup opens a page run by Beehiiv. If you subscribe, your email address is collected and stored by Beehiiv and used to send you the newsletter. Every email includes an unsubscribe link. We do not collect email addresses anywhere else on the site except the contact form.
Article text and page-view statistics come from Wikipedia's and Wikimedia's public APIs. Some of these requests, such as when you use "Find another article," go directly from your browser to Wikimedia's servers, and their privacy policy applies: foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
The site is hosted on Netlify and delivered through Cloudflare, which also runs the service that serves article pages, the RSS feed, and the sitemap. These services process your requests, including your IP address, to deliver the site, and may keep standard server logs under their own policies. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser contacts Google when a page loads.
We do not set any cookies ourselves. Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager may set cookies to tell visitors apart. No advertising cookies are used. If you switch between light and dark mode, we save that choice in your browser's local storage on your device, and it is not sent to us.
We do not sell your data. We share data only with the services described above (Google, Supabase, Web3Forms, Beehiiv, Netlify, Cloudflare, and Wikimedia) and only as needed for them to do their job.
LonelyWiki is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, you can reach us through the contact page.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page.