First reaction to this was "ugh, what's wrong now with Wikipedia that we need an alternative front-end?", but the issue is actually with Wikipedia being a sensitive target for NSA surveillance which makes it more likely to be compromised. Also nice list of NSA facts, bookmarked
this post was submitted on 07 May 2021
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One of the documents revealed by Snowden shows that both Wikipedia and Wikimedia has been listed as a so-called "Appid" in the XKeyscore – a program that covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet" – to identify web traffic, meaning that wiki related web traffic is something that NSA finds valuable.
Sigh.. I even registered a Wikimedia account for a photo contest years ago.
That's interesting, never thought about Wikipedia being a privacy problem.
but isn't wikimedia open source?
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia
does this make it more resource hungry