Wikipedia monitoring, done as one honest job.

Why we built this

Three problems kept showing up:

• Free tools expose raw activity. The Wikipedia watchlist and public edit histories give you unfiltered data — every edit, no judgment, no explanation — and they require a Wikipedia account most subjects of an article should never create.
• Generic page monitors miss Wikipedia-specific context. A page that is moved, deleted, or nominated for deletion is not a “content change.” Scheduled polling misses fast vandalism entirely, and a diff dump tells you nothing about severity.
• Agencies bundle simple detection into expensive retainers. Watching a page is a solved engineering problem. Charging retainers for it hides that.

WikiMonitor is the honest version: continuous detection, exact before-and-after context, a plain-English summary, and a severity you can triage at a glance — from $99 a year.

How alerts are generated

At a high level: we listen to Wikipedia’s public edit stream continuously; when a page you monitor changes, we fetch the public revision data and diff; deterministic rules classify unambiguous events (deletions, moves, blanking); everything else is analyzed for what the text change actually means, producing the severity, summary, and semantic impact you see. The only inputs are public Wikipedia data — your identity is never part of any analysis.

Our neutrality boundary

WikiMonitor watches and explains. It does not edit or revert pages, contact editors, prove the real-world identity of an editor, remove content, or offer reputation-management or legal advice. And we promise no particular outcome on Wikipedia — only that you will know what changed, fast, with the context to act on it.

This boundary is not modesty; it is what keeps the product clean. Wikipedia’s conflict-of-interest rules are strict, and a monitoring service that also edited pages would put its customers at risk. We give you the facts fast. What you do with them — including hiring qualified Wikipedia-policy professionals — is up to you.

Privacy posture

We collect the minimum: your email, the pages you monitor, and billing handled by our payment processor. We do not sell data, we do not run advertising trackers, and monitored page titles are never tied to your identity in any analytics. Full privacy policy.

Limitations we will tell you about

• English Wikipedia only at launch.
• We explain changes; we cannot verify whether a claim in an edit is true.
• Editor identity is shown exactly as Wikipedia shows it — no real-world identification.
• Extreme edit volume on a page is handled under fair use, with human review rather than silent throttling.

Editorial policy for our guides

Our guides always show the free, manual path before mentioning our product. Commercial claims are measurable or qualified. Comparison pages carry a checked date, a stated methodology, and a correction channel (team@wikimonitor.com). We do not publish thin pages to fill a content calendar.

Who owns WikiMonitor

WikiMonitor is owned and operated by The Discoverability Company, 224 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102.