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{{Short description|Free-content news wiki}}{{About|the free news wiki that is a [[Wikimedia Foundation]] project|Wikipedia newspaper|Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|a list of other Wikipedia newspapers|Wikipedia:News}}
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{{Use American English|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Wikinews
| logo = [[File:WikiNews-Logo-en.svg|120px|The current Wikinews logo]]
| screenshot = [[File:Wikinews screenshot.png|border|240px|Detail of the Wikinews multilingual portal main page]]
| caption = Screenshot of the home page
| collapsible = yes
| url = {{URL|wikinews.org}}
| commercial = No
| type = News wiki
| registration = Optional
| language_count = 30
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = [[Wikimedia community]]
| location = [[Miami]], Florida
| users = {{NUMBEROF|users|en.wikinews}}
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2004|11|8}}
| content_license = [[Creative Commons license#Six regularly used licenses|CC-BY 2.5]]<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-September/000329.html |title=[Wikinews-l] The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed
 |date=2005-09-20 |access-date=2023-02-05 |mailing-list=Wikinews-l |last=Siedlecki |first=Dariusz }}</ref>
| logocaption = Logo
}}

'''Wikinews''' is a [[free-content]] news [[wiki]] and a [[Wikimedia project|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."<ref>{{cite news |author=Glasner |first=Joanna |date=November 29, 2004 |title=Wikipedia Creators Move Into News |work=[[Wired (website)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/11/65819 |url-status=live |access-date=April 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607071611/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/11/65819 |archive-date=June 7, 2007}}</ref> According to a Wikinews contributor cited by ''[[The New York Times]]'', Wikinews's [[Objectivity (journalism)|neutral point of view]] policy aims to distinguish it from other [[citizen journalism]] efforts such as [[Indymedia]] and [[OhmyNews]].<ref name="newyorktimes1">{{cite news |last=Weiss |first=Aaron |date=February 10, 2005 |title=The Unassociated Press |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/the-unassociated-press.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415232051/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10wiki.html?ex=1177300800&en=024e251d2c696137&ei=5070 |archive-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref> 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-ed]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Wikinews:Original reporting |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223194409/https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting |archive-date=2022-12-23 |access-date=2023-02-05 |newspaper=Wikinews |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2025}}

As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, Wikinews sites are active in {{NUMBEROF|active|wikinews}} languages,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Wikipedia_statistics/meta.tab |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=[[Wikimedia Commons]] |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref> with a total of {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikinews|N}} articles and {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikinews|N}} recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days).<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab – Wikimedia Commons |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Wikipedia_statistics/data.tab |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=[[Wikimedia Commons]] |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref>

On June 28, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation's Sister Projects Task Force has submitted a proposal for closing Wikinews.<ref>"[[m:Public consultation about Wikinews|Public consultation about Wikinews]]", ''Wikimedia Meta-Wiki'', [[Wikimedia Foundation]].</ref>

== Early years==
[[File:Wikinews logo.svg|thumb|left|200px|The beta version logo, used until February 13, 2005]]

The first recorded proposal of a Wikimedia news site was a two-line [[anonymous post]] on January 5, 2003, on the [[Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia community]]'s [[Meta-Wiki]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Eloquence |title=User:Eloquence/History - The history of Wikinews and my role in it |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/History |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015221058/http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/History |archive-date=2012-10-15 |access-date=2023-02-05 |newspaper=Wikinews |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Talk:Wikinews/Archive |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikinews/Archive |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715185923/https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikinews/Archive&oldid=4306 |archive-date=2022-07-15 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref> Daniel Alston, who edited Wikipedia as Fonzy,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-08-01 |title=User:Fonzy - Revision as of 08:16, August 1, 2003 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fonzy&diff=prev&oldid=1315899 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805061807/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fonzy&diff=prev&oldid=1315899 |archive-date=2022-08-05 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref> claimed to have been the one who posted it.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-11-09 |title=Wikinews: Difference between revisions - Revision as of 18:39, November 9, 2005 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews&diff=prev&oldid=27867383 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915061155/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews&diff=prev&oldid=27867383 |archive-date=2022-09-15 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |quote=Yes, I did make that anonymous post, I am not glory seeking, just getting the facts straight. Wikews was a terrible name I admit :p}}</ref> The proposal was then further developed by German freelance journalist, software developer, and author [[Erik Möller]].<ref name=":1" /> Early opposition from long-time Wikipedia contributors, many of them pointing out the existence of Wikipedia's own news summaries, gave way to detailed discussions and proposals about how it could be implemented as a new project of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Wikinews/Vote |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127203426/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote |archive-date=2023-01-27 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref>

The domain name wikinews.org was registered on April 2, 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |title=wikinews.org whois lookup |url=https://who.is/whois/wikinews.org |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=who.is}}</ref> In November 2004, a [[technology demo|demonstration]] wiki was established to show how such a [[collaborative]] [[news site]] might work.<ref name=":2" /> A month later, in December 2004, the site was moved out of the "demo" stage and into the [[beta version|beta]] stage under [[public domain]] [[copyleft]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> A [[German language]] edition was launched at the same time. Soon, editions in [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Thai language|Thai]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Esperanto]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Albanian language|Albanian]], and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] (in that chronological order) were set up.<ref name=":0" />

In September 2005, the project moved to the [[Creative Commons]] Attribution 2.5 license.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=September 25, 2005 |title=Wikinews switches to Creative Commons license |newspaper=Wikinews |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_switches_to_Creative_Commons_license |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512065124/http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_switches_to_Creative_Commons_license |archive-date=May 12, 2013}}</ref> On September 7, 2007, the English Wikinews published its 10,000th article.<ref>{{Cite news |title=English Wikinews publishes 10000th article |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/English_Wikinews_publishes_10000th_article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805061807/https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/English_Wikinews_publishes_10000th_article |archive-date=2022-08-05 |access-date=2023-02-05 |newspaper=Wikinews |date=September 7, 2007 |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref>

== Interviews ==
[[File:David Shankbone and Shimon Peres.jpg|right|thumb|Wikinews reporter [[David Shankbone]] with Israeli president [[Shimon Peres]] in 2007]]

Wikinews reporters have conducted interviews with several [[Notability in the English Wikipedia|notable]] people, including an interview in December 2007 with [[Israeli President]] [[Shimon Peres]] by Wikinews reporter [[David Shankbone]]. Shankbone had been invited to conduct the interview by the [[America-Israel Friendship League]] and the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli foreign ministry]].<ref name="biginterview">{{cite news |author=Jones |first=K.C. |date=January 14, 2008 |title=Wikinews Gets Big Interview: Israeli President Shimon Peres |newspaper=[[Information Week]] |url=http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205604529 |url-status=live |access-date=2023-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022011913/https://www.informationweek.com/it-life/wikinews-gets-big-interview-israeli-president-shimon-peres |archive-date=2021-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rose |first=Adam |date=January–February 2009 |title=The Wikinews Ace: Why Shimon Peres sat down with David Shankbone |url=https://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509193458/https://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php |archive-date=2012-05-09 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]}}</ref>

Other notable interviews have included writers, actors, and politicians, such as [[Augusten Burroughs]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Asper |first=Colleen |date=April 2008 |title=David Shankbone with Colleen Asper |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/04/books/david-shankbone-with-colleen-asper |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423072155/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/04/books/david-shankbone-with-colleen-asper |archive-date=April 23, 2008 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=[[The Brooklyn Rail]]}}</ref> several [[2008 Republican Party presidential primaries|2008 U.S. Republican Party presidential primaries candidates]] like [[Sam Brownback]] and [[Duncan L. Hunter|Duncan Hunter]],<ref name="biginterview" /> and others like British politician [[Tony Benn]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-08-12 |title=Wikinews interviews: Tony Benn on U.K. politics |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews:_Tony_Benn_on_U.K._politics |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref> writer [[Eric Bogosian]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-04-17 |title=Eric Bogosian on writing and the creative urge |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Eric_Bogosian_on_writing_and_the_creative_urge |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref> [[New Zealand]] politician [[Nick Smith (New Zealand politician)|Nick Smith]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-01-08 |title=Nick Smith responds to claims he is New Zealand's worst behaved politician |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Nick_Smith_responds_to_claims_he_is_New_Zealand%27s_worst_behaved_politician |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref> former New Zealand [[prime minister]] [[John Key]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-05-23 |title=Exclusive video interview with New Zealand Opposition leader, John Key |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Exclusive_video_interview_with_New_Zealand_Opposition_leader,_John_Key |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref> World Wide Web co-inventor [[Robert Cailliau]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-08-16 |title=Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_World_Wide_Web_co-inventor_Robert_Cailliau |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref> [[drag queen]] [[RuPaul]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-10-06 |title=RuPaul speaks about society and the state of drag as performance art |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/RuPaul_speaks_about_society_and_the_state_of_drag_as_performance_art |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref> and former Wikimedia Foundation executive [[Sue Gardner]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-10-24 |title=Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation |newspaper=Wikinews |url=https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Interview_with_Sue_Gardner_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref>

== Criticism ==
Wikinews has been criticized for its alleged inability to remain neutral in perspective and provide verifiable, reliable sources. In 2005, [[Robert McHenry]], former editor-in-chief of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', criticized the credibility of the project:

{{blockquote|Above all, the central question about the Wikinews effort is its credibility. Making a newspaper is hard...Someone who wants to do it but doesn't really know how hasn't solved the problem by gathering a lot of other people who don't know, either.<ref name="newyorktimes1"/>}}

McHenry was skeptical about Wikinews' ability to provide a neutral point of view and its claim to be evenhanded, saying that "[t]he naïveté is stunning."<ref name="newyorktimes1" />

In a 2007 interview given to Wikinews, [[Sue Gardner]], at that time a special adviser to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation and former head of the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s Internet division, [[CBC.ca]], dismissed McHenry's comment, stating:

{{blockquote|Journalism is not a profession ... at its heart, it's just a craft. And that means that it can be practiced by anyone who is sensible and intelligent and thoughtful and curious ... I go back to the morning of [[Virginia Tech massacre|Virginia Tech]]&nbsp;– the morning I decided I wanted to work [at the Wikimedia Foundation]. The conversation on the talk page that day was extremely thoughtful. I remember thinking to myself that if my own newsroom had been having a conversation that intelligent (I was offsite that day) I would have been delighted. So yes, [in my opinion] you absolutely have proved Robert McHenry wrong. And you will continue to.<ref>"[[n:Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation|Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation]]", Wikinews; October 24, 2007.</ref>}}

Wikinews has also had issues with maintaining a separate identity from Wikipedia, which also covers major news events in real-time.  Columnist [[Jonathan Dee]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said in 2007 that "So indistinct has the line between past and present become that Wikipedia has inadvertently all but strangled one of its sister projects, the three-year-old Wikinews... [Wikinews] has sunk into a kind of torpor; lately it generates just 8 to 10 articles a day... On bigger stories there's just no point in competing with the ruthless purview of the encyclopedia."<ref>{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Dee |title=All the News That's Fit to Print Out |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 1, 2007 |access-date=December 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322092520/http://www.nytimes.com//2007//07//01//magazine//01WIKIPEDIA-t.html |archive-date=March 22, 2011 }}</ref>  [[Andrew Lih]] and Zachary M. Seward commented on the continuing issue in a 2010 piece in the [[Nieman Foundation for Journalism|Nieman Journalism Lab]] called "Why Wikipedia beats Wikinews as a collaborative journalism project." Lih wrote "it's not clear that the [[wiki]] process really gears itself towards deadlines and group narrative writing" and that "if you're trying to write something approaching a feature piece, it's much harder to get more than two or three people to stay consistent with the style."<ref name="lih">{{cite web |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/why-wikipedia-beats-wikinews-as-a-collaborative-journalism-project/ |title=Why Wikipedia beats Wikinews as a collaborative journalism project |last=Seward |first=Zachary M. |date=February 8, 2010 |work=[[Nieman Journalism Lab]] |publisher=[[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]] |access-date=January 22, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107121240/http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/why-wikipedia-beats-wikinews-as-a-collaborative-journalism-project/ |archive-date=January 7, 2015 }}</ref>  Lih considers Wikipedia's stricter "formula" for article composition an advantage in a large wiki with many editors.<ref name="lih" />  Brian Keegan wrote in 2019 that the Wikinews model of requiring approval before publication ultimately limited its ability to grow, especially compared to the more open nature of Wikipedia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keegan |first=Brian |url=https://assets.pubpub.org/g3zssedi/af715247-2f6a-4a0e-8d62-fc25172fa4cf.pdf |title=Wikipedia @ 20 : stories of an incomplete revolution |publisher=MIT Press |others=Joseph M., Jr. Reagle, Jackie L. Koerner |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-262-36059-3 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |chapter=An Encyclopedia with Breaking News |oclc=1187209148}}</ref>

Thomas Roessing wrote in ''The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies'' in 2019 about journalism on Wikipedia and Wikinews: "Many people turn to Wikipedia for more information after they received news from the [[mass media]] ... There is a substantial danger of havoc resulting from hasty handling of information about an unfolding situation."<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Roessing |first=Thomas |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118841570 |title=The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies |date=2019-05-14 |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |isbn=978-1-118-84167-9 |editor-last=Vos |editor-first=Tim P. |edition=1 |doi=10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0183 |s2cid=186898987 |editor-last2=Hanusch |editor-first2=Folker |editor-last3=Dimitrakopoulou |editor-first3=Dimitra |editor-last4=Geertsema-Sligh |editor-first4=Margaretha |editor-last5=Sehl |editor-first5=Annika}}</ref> Roessing presents the issue of a "citation cycle", where professional [[journalist]]s turn to Wikipedia for research, but the Wikipedia community goes to mass media sources for breaking news articles. Roessing writes about the problem of differentiating Wikipedia and Wikinews: "The quality and the speed in which Wikipedia responds to news is one of the challenges to Wikinews."<ref name=":5" /> Additionally, Roessing refers to an analogy made by author Matthew Yeomans: "Usually, Wikinews retells stories that were first published by Internet outlets of the traditional mass media (which also serve as sources for Wikinews' articles). This tends to result in "dull regurgitation of facts" as Yeomans (2005) put it."<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeomans |first=Matthew |date=2005-04-28 |title=The Birth of Wikinews |url=http://citizenskane.blogspot.com/ |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Citizens Kane |publisher=[[Blogspot]]}}</ref>

== Language editions ==
As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikinews sites for {{NUMBEROF|languages|wikinews}} languages of which {{NUMBEROF|active|wikinews}} are active and {{NUMBEROF|closed|wikinews}} are closed.<ref name=":0" /> The active sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikinews|N}} articles and the closed sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalclosed.wikinews|N}} articles.<ref name=":4" /> There are {{NUMBEROF|users|totalactive.wikinews|N}} registered users of which {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikinews|N}} are recently active.<ref name=":4" />

The top ten Wikinews language projects by mainspace article count:<ref name="Siteinfo">[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]]  [[mw:API:Siteinfo|API:Siteinfo]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} from [[c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab|Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab]]</ref>
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| {{NUMBEROF|articles|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikinews}}.wikinews|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|pages|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikinews}}.wikinews|N}}
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| {{NUMBEROF|admins|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikinews}}.wikinews|N}}
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| {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikinews}}.wikinews|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|files|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikinews}}.wikinews|N}}</nowiki>|count=10 }} 
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==See also==
* [[WikiTribune]]
* [[Wikitorial]]

== References ==
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