Wikinews

Not to be confused with The Signpost.

Wikinews
The current Wikinews logo
The current Wikinews logo
Screenshot
Detail of the Wikinews multilingual portal main page
Screenshot of the home page of Wikinews
Type of site
News wiki
Available in30 languages
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byWikimedia community
URLwikinews.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users2881052
LaunchedNovember 8, 2004; 20 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 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] 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 November 2024, Wikinews sites are active in 31 languages,[5] with a total of 1,759,160 articles and 669 recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days).[6]

  1. ^ Siedlecki, Dariusz (September 20, 2005). "[Wikinews-l] The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed". Wikinews-l (Mailing list). Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  2. ^ Glasner, Joanna (November 29, 2004). "Wikipedia Creators Move Into News". Wired. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007. Retrieved April 21, 2007.
  3. ^ Weiss, Aaron (February 10, 2005). "The Unassociated Press". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 15, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "Wikinews:Original reporting". Wikinews. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  5. ^ "Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab". Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  6. ^ "Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab – Wikimedia Commons". Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved February 5, 2023.