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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 |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 2883951 |
| 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 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 February 2025, Wikinews sites are active in 31 languages,[5] with a total of 1,761,246 articles and 761 recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days).[6]
- ^ 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.
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