Wikinews
Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that works through collaborative journalism. 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." 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, Wikinews does not permit op-ed.
The current Wikinews logo | |
Screenshot Screenshot of the home page of Wikinews | |
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 | 2870005 |
Launched | November 8, 2004 |
Content licence | CC-BY 2.5 |
As of February 2024, Wikinews sites are active in 30 languages, with a total of 1,749,448 articles and 616 recently active editors, which means users which did an action in the last 30 days.