Wikinews

Also known as WN, Wikinews.org

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."

AI overview

Wikinews is a free website run by the Wikimedia Foundation where volunteers collaborate to write and publish news stories, similar to how Wikipedia crowdsources encyclopedia articles. It differs from Wikipedia by presenting information in news story format rather than encyclopedia style, allowing anyone to contribute to reporting current events.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Key facts

Website.name: Wikinews
Website.logo: 120px|The current Wikinews logo
Website.screenshot: border|240px|Detail of the Wikinews multilingual portal main page
Website.caption: Screenshot of the home page
Website.collapsible: yes
Website.commercial: No
Website.type: News wiki
Website.registration: Optional
Website.language: Albanian Arabic Bosnian Catalan Chinese Czech Dutch English Esperanto Finnish French German Greek Gun Hebrew Italian Japanese Korean Limburgish Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Shan Spanish Swedish Tamil Ukrainian
Website.language_count: 30
Website.owner: Wikimedia Foundation
Website.author: Wikimedia community
Website.location: Miami, Florida
Website.current_status: Active
Website.content_license: CC-BY 2.5
Website.logocaption: Logo

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official website: wikinews.org
Image: Wikinews screenshot.png

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Commons category: Wikinews
inception: 2004-11-08
Commons gallery: Wikinews
native label: Wikinews
Alexa rank: 60273
hashtag: ウィキニュース
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2026-05-04

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Contents

History
Closure
Interviews
Criticism
Language editions
See also
References
External links

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. 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.