Wikinews
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Type of site | News wiki |
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| Available in | 30 languages |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Wikimedia community |
| URL | wikinews |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 2893624 |
| Launched | November 8, 2004 |
Content license | CC-BY 2.5[1] |
Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that gathers and reports news collaboratively through user-created content. 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] According to a Wikinews contributor cited by The New York Times, 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, the English edition of Wikinews does not permit op-eds.[4]
As of September 2025, Wikinews sites are active in 31 languages,[5] with a total of 1,766,222 articles and 651 recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days).[6]
On June 28, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation's Sister Projects Task Force has submitted a proposal for closing Wikinews.[7]
- ^ Siedlecki, Dariusz (September 20, 2005). "[Wikinews-l] The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed". Wikinews-l (Mailing list). Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab – Wikimedia Commons". Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ "Public consultation about Wikinews", Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, Wikimedia Foundation.