Free-content news wiki; project of the Wikimedia Foundation
Not to be confused with The Signpost.
Wikinews
The current Wikinews logo
Screenshot
Screenshot of the home page of Wikinews
Type of site
News wiki
Available in
30 languages
Headquarters
Miami, Florida
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
Created by
Wikimedia community
URL
wikinews.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional
Users
2873868
Launched
November 8, 2004; 19 years ago (2004-11-08)
Content license
CC-BY 2.5[1]
Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying, "On Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an encyclopedia article."[2] Wikinews's neutral point of view policy aims to distinguish it from other citizen journalism efforts such as Indymedia and OhmyNews.[3] In contrast to most Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wikinews allows original work in the form of original reporting and interviews. In contrast to newspapers, Wikinews does not permit op-ed.[4]
As of May 2024, Wikinews sites are active in 30 languages,[5] with a total of 1,751,522 articles and 621 recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days).[6]
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^Glasner, Joanna (November 29, 2004). "Wikipedia Creators Move Into News". Wired. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007. Retrieved April 21, 2007.
^Weiss, Aaron (February 10, 2005). "The Unassociated Press". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 15, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
^"Wikinews:Original reporting". Wikinews. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
^"Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab". Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
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