WikiTribune

WikiTribune
The WikiTribune logo: The letter W and 'tribune' are capitalised
The Wikitribune homepage in March 2019
Type of site
News
Available inEnglish and Spanish
HeadquartersLondon
OwnerJimmy Wales
URLwikitribune.com (Redirect to new site: WT.Social)
CommercialYes[1]
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedOctober 30, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-10-30)
Content licence
Creative Commons Attribution[2]

WikiTribune (stylized as WikiTRIBUNE) was a news wiki where volunteers wrote and curated articles about widely publicised news by proof-reading, fact-checking, suggesting possible changes, and adding sources from other, usually long established outlets. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced the site in April 2017 as a for-profit site, not affiliated with Wikipedia or its support organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation.[3][4][5] Until October 2018, WikiTribune employed journalists with established backgrounds in the profession who researched, syndicated, and reported news.[6] Its website is now a redirect to WT Social.

  1. ^ Jimmy Wales, on Wikipedia
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hern was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference CNet was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference WT2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Ingram, Mathew (19 November 2018). "Wikipedia's co-founder wanted to let readers edit the news. What went wrong?". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.