Wikinews
Free-content news wiki; project of the Wikimedia Foundation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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."[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]
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 | 2873351 |
Launched | November 8, 2004; 19 years ago (2004-11-08) |
Content license | CC-BY 2.5[1] |
As of May 2024, Wikinews sites are active in 30 languages,[5] with a total of 1,751,192 articles and 614 recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days).[6]