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

You can always download the offline version of Wikipedia as well.

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.

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but isn’t wikimedia open source?

All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia

does this make it more resource hungry