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Wikinews - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 History Toggle History subsection 1.1 Closure 2 Interviews 3 List Toggle List subsection 3.1 Notes 3.2 Edition details 3.2.1 Statistics totals 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Toggle the table of contents Wikinews 93 languages Afrikaans Alemannisch العربية الدارجة অসমীয়া Asturianu Azərbaycanca Boarisch Žemaitėška Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Беларуская Български বাংলা Bosanski Català 閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ کوردی Čeština Чӑвашла Dansk Deutsch Kadazandusun Ελληνικά Esperanto Español فارسی Suomi Français Hausa 客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî עברית हिन्दी Magyar Հայերեն Bahasa Indonesia Medžuslovjansky Italiano 日本語 Jawa ქართული ಕನ್ನಡ 한국어 Kurdî Latina Ladino Lietuvių Latviešu Madhurâ മലയാളം Bahasa Melayu Malti नेपाली Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Norsk bokmål Occitan ଓଡ଼ିଆ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Polski Português Română Русский Русиньскый Саха тыла Sicilianu Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Shqip Српски / srpski Svenska ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ தமிழ் ᥖᥭᥰ ᥖᥬᥲ ᥑᥨᥒᥰ తెలుగు Тоҷикӣ ไทย Tagalog Türkçe Татарча / tatarça Українська اردو Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Tiếng Việt Winaray 吴语 ייִדיש Yorùbá Vahcuengh 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gí 粵語中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Abstract Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons Meta-Wiki Wikibooks Wikinews Wikiversity Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Defunct free-content news wiki This article is about the project of the Wikimedia Foundation; it is not to be confused with the general concept of Wiki journalism. {{cite mailing list |url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-September/000329.html |title=[Wikinews-l] The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed\n |date=September 20, 2005 |access-date=February 5, 2023 |mailing-list=Wikinews-l |last=Siedlecki |first=Dariusz }}</ref>"},"logocaption":{"wt":"Logo"}},"i":0}}]}'>WikinewsLogo Screenshot Screenshot of the home page Type of site News wiki Available in 31 languages List of languages 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 Headquarters Miami, Florida Owner Wikimedia Foundation Created by Wikimedia community URL wikinews.org Commercial No Registration Optional Users 2,953,817 Launched November 8, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-11-08) Current status Read-only since May 4, 2026; 3 months ago (2026-05-04) Content license CC-BY 2.5[1] Wikinews is a discontinued free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that gathered and reported 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."[2] On June 28, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation's Sister Projects Task Force submitted a proposal for closing Wikinews. In March 2026, the WMF announced that Wikinews would be closed and made read-only on May 4 of that year. History [edit] 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 community's Meta-Wiki.[3][4] Daniel Alston, who edited Wikipedia as Fonzy,[5] claimed to have been the one who posted it.[3][6] The proposal was then further developed by German freelance journalist, software developer, and author Erik Möller.[3] 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.[7] The domain name wikinews.org was registered on April 2, 2004.[8] In November 2004, a demonstration wiki was established to show how such a collaborative news site might work.[7] A month later, in December 2004, the site was moved out of the "demo" stage and into the beta stage under public domain copyleft.[9][10] A German language edition was launched at the same time. Soon, editions in Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Norwegian, Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Hungarian, Greek, Esperanto, Czech, Albanian, and Tamil (in that chronological order) were set up.[9] In September 2005, the project moved to the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.[10] On September 7, 2007, the English Wikinews published its 10,000th article.[11] Closure [edit] On June 28, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation's Sister Projects Task Force reviewed a proposal for closing Wikinews, followed by a three-month public consultation.[12][13][14] On March 30, 2026, it was announced by the WMF that Wikinews would be closed and made read-only on May 4 that year.[15] In an interview on the Fifth Court podcast, Jimmy Wales speculated that the main cause of Wikinews's lack of success was that the wiki community was unable to gain first-hand knowledge of events or communicate with relevant people. According to Wales, these factors limited the wiki's ability to report news independently.[16] Interviews [edit] Wikinews reporter David Shankbone with Israeli president Shimon Peres in 2007 Wikinews reporters have conducted interviews with several 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 Israeli foreign ministry.[17][18] Other notable interviews have included writers, actors, and politicians, such as Augusten Burroughs,[19] several 2008 U.S. Republican Party presidential primaries candidates like Sam Brownback and Duncan Hunter,[17] and others like British politician Tony Benn,[20] writer Eric Bogosian,[21] New Zealand politician Nick Smith,[22] former New Zealand prime minister John Key,[23] World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau,[24] drag queen RuPaul,[25] and former Wikimedia Foundation executive Sue Gardner.[26] List [edit] As of May 2026[update], Wikinews content pages have been created in 36 editions, all of which were made read-only on the week of May 4 of that year.[9] The Wikinews sites had a total of 1,742,748 articles.[27] Notes [edit] The "total pages" column refers to the number of pages in all namespaces, including both content pages and non-content pages (user pages, files, talk pages, "project" pages, categories, redirects, and templates). "Users" refers to the number of user accounts, regardless of current activity – not the number of people or devices using (accessing) Wikinews. "Active users" are registered users who have made at least one edit in the last thirty days[when?]. "Files" is the number of locally uploaded files. The statistics are derived from API:Siteinfo on MediaWiki and updated at Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab on Commons every six hours, and are displayed with {{NUMBEROF}} via {{Wikinews stats}}. 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