Wikinews - Meta-Wiki Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Wikimedia News Translations Recent changes Special pages Random page Help Babel Community Wikimedia Forum Mailing lists Requests Babylon Reports Research Planet Wikimedia Beyond the Web Meet Wikimedians Events Movement affiliates Search Search English Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide Beginning 1 Multilingual portal 2 Languages that use Russian Wikinews site to serve their Wikinews 3 Languages that use Wikipedia to serve their Wikinews 4 History 5 Purpose 6 Internationality 7 Article stages 8 Original reporting 9 Ensuring accuracy and legality 10 Ensuring neutrality 11 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 12 Wikinews initiatives (historical) 13 See also Toggle the table of contents Wikinews 94 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 English 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 Content page Discussion English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Abstract Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons Wikibooks Wikinews Wikipedia Wikiversity Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki Other languages: English · Ænglisc · brezhoneg · čeština · Deutsch · English · español · français · italiano · polski · português · română · Türkçe · Ελληνικά · български · молдовеняскэ · հայերեն · हिन्दी · বাংলা · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · ไทย · 日本語 · 中文 · 中文（臺灣） · 中文（中国大陆） · 粵語 · 粵語 · العربية · فارسی Wikimedia projects MediaWiki Meta-Wiki Wikibooks Wikidata Wikifunctions Wikimedia Commons Wikinews Wikiquote Wikipedia Wikisource Wikispecies Wiktionary Wikiversity Wikivoyage Complete list of Wikimedia projects — List of Wikimedia projects by size This page is kept for historical interest. Any policies mentioned may be obsolete. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved closure of all editions of Wikinews, effective 2026-05-04. Logo, result of Wikinews logo contest voting Wikinews was a project which aimed to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view. This page describes the project goals, and outlines basic requirements for the project. There were Wikinews communities in many languages (see Wikinews statistics). The precise implementation of the Wikinews requirements is left up to these individual communities. Wikinews Policy Local policies Accreditation Coordination Forum IRC Appearance Wikinews.org template Wikinews on Commons Launching Language proposal policy Requests for new languages changes - modify Media coverage of Wikinews itself can be listed at Wikinews/Press coverage. Multilingual portal [edit] https://www.wikinews.org/ points to a multilingual portal. Updates to portals are now managed via Phabricator and Gerrit. Languages that use Russian Wikinews site to serve their Wikinews [edit] Some languages use Russian Wikinews site to serve their Wikinews (see project: n:ru:Викиновости:Многоязычность – Wikinews:Multilingual). Language code Language Main page Published news ba Bashkir n:ru:Баш бит n:ru:Категория:Баҫтырылған eve Even n:ru:Нонап страница n:ru:Категория:Дукуттан evn Evenki n:ru:Нонопты страница n:ru:Категория:Новости на эвенкийском языке lez Lezgian n:ru:Категория:Акъудун mdf Moksha n:ru:Категория:Published-mdf mhr Meadow Mari n:ru:Категория:Published-mhr myv Erzya n:ru:Прявт лопа n:ru:Категория:Нолдазь olo Livvi-Karelian n:ru:Категория:Новости на ливвиковском наречии sah Sakha (Yakut) n:ru:Сүрүн сирэй n:ru:Категория:Бэчээттэммит tt Tatar n:ru:Алгы бит n:ru:Категория:Бастырылган udm Udmurt n:ru:Кутскон бам n:ru:Категория:Поттэмын kk Kazakh n:ru:Басты бет n:ru:Категория:Новости на казахском языке For some historical reasons, the Tatar and Yakut Wikinews test projects co-exist on Incubator. A nomination for deletion of these two test projects was not successful; there are also Finnish and English sections. Languages that use Wikipedia to serve their Wikinews [edit] The Alemannic Wikinews has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Nochricht:Dialäkt-Neuigkeite. The Bavarian Wikinews has been created as separate namespace within Bavarian Wikipedia: Nochricht:Start. The Literary Chinese Wikinews has been created as subpages in the project namespace of the Literary Chinese Wikipedia: 維基大典:世事. The Low German Wikinews has been created as subpages in the portal namespace of the Low German Wikipedia: Portal:Wikinews. The Rhine Franconian Wikinews has been created as separate namespace within Rhine Franconian Wikipedia: Nochricht:Hauptseite. History [edit] This page was originally a proposal for the new project. It was first envisaged as Wikews by an anonymous contributor, with Kwekubo coining the name. It was voted on at Wikinews/Vote. Then a demo site was set up at demo.wikinews.org, which was made live after a month of discussion and content seeding. See also the history about all Wikimedia projects. October 26, 2004: A non-binding straw poll is started over which content license to use -- ::Wikinews/License straw poll. October 27, 2004: A discussion session today, 20:00 UTC, on irc.freenode.net, #wikinews. ::Log : /IRC meeting Oct 27 December 2, 2004: demo.wikinews.org moved to en.wikinews.org. December 3, 2004: German edition was created. January 28, 29, 2005: Dutch, French, Swedish and Spanish editions were created. February 6, 2005: Bulgarian edition was launched. February 12, 2005: A new logo is chosen, see Wikinews logo contest voting. February 19, 2005: Polish, Romanian and Portuguese were launched. March 13, 2005: The English edition reached 1,000 news articles. March 19, 2005: Ukrainian edition was launched. March 24, 2005: The German edition reached 1,000 news articles. March 31, 2005: Italian edition was launched. May 23, 2005: Serbian edition was launched. July 14, 2005: Japanese edition was launched. July 31, 2005:The Polish edition reached 1,000 news articles. November 1, 3, 2005: Russian and Hebrew editions were created. November 28, 2005: The Portuguese edition reached 1,000 news articles. December 5, 2005: The Italian edition reached 1,000 news articles. December 12, 2005: Thai and Arabic editions were created. December 27, 2005: The Spanish edition reached 1,000 news articles. January 11, 2006: Norwegian edition was created. January 18, 2006: The Swedish edition reached 1,000 news articles. March 13, 2006: Chinese edition was created. April 30, 2006: The English edition reached 5,000 news articles. May 26, 2006: Catalan edition was launched. November 1, 2006: The French edition reached 1,000 news articles. July 13, 2007: The Low Saxon edition was launched. August 21, 2007: The Polish edition has reached 5,000 news articles. November 25, 2007: The Finnish edition was launched. January 29, 2008: The Italian edition has reached 5,000 news articles. May 26, 2008: Czech and Hungarian editions were launched. August 10, 2008: The Serbian edition reached 3,000 news articles. January 8th, 2009: The Dutch edition reached 1,000 news articles. January 20, 2009: The Portuguese edition reached 4,000 news articles. February 20, 2009: The Bavarian edition was launched. April 1, 2009: The French edition reached 5,000 news articles. May 2, 2009: The Serbian edition reached 5,000 news articles. May 19, 2009: The Portuguese edition reached 4,500 news articles. May 26, 2009: The Italian edition has reached 7,000 news articles. June 3, 2009: The French edition has reached 5,500 news articles. June 9, 2009: The Serbian edition has reached 6,000 news articles. June 26, 2009: The Serbian edition has reached 7,000 news articles. June 26, 2009: The Polish edition has reached 10,000 news articles. July 14, 2009: The Portuguese edition has reached 5,000 news articles. September 3, 2009: The Alemannic edition was launched. December 3, 2009: The Spanish edition has reached 5,000 news articles. February 23, 2010: The Romanian edition has reached 500 articles. February 24, 2010: The Dutch edition has been locked due to inactivity. March 1, 2010: The Hungarian Wikinews has reached 500 news articles. March 5, 2010: The Serbian edition has reached 30,000 news articles. August 19, 2010: The Korean edition was launched. October 17, 2010: The Persian edition was launched. November 9, 2010: The Czech edition has reached 1,000 news articles. November 13, 2010: The Esperanto edition was launched. December 28, 2010: The Romanian edition has reached 1,000 news articles. February 27, 2011: The Persian edition has reached 500 news articles. March 15, 2011: The Esperanto edition has reached 100 articles. March 18, 2011: The Shqip (Albanian) edition is launched. April 8, 2011: The Greek edition has been created. May 15, 2011: The Hungarian and Thai editions have been locked following a discussion. May 21, 2011: The Arabic edition has reached 1000 news articles. June 20, 2011: The Greek edition has reached 500 news articles. July 14, 2011: The Persian edition has reached 1000 news articles. October 18, 2011: The Greek edition has reached 1000 news articles. August 15, 2012: The Greek edition has reached 2000 news articles. September 7, 2012: The Russian edition has reached 4000 news articles. August 22, 2013: The Palatinate German edition was launched. November 24, 2013: The Portuguese edition has reached 8000 news articles. [1] March 12, 2014: The Russian edition has reached 7000 news articles. [2] April 9, 2014: The German edition has reached 12000 news articles. [3] August 2, 2014: The Russian edition has reached 8000 news articles. [4] September 15, 2014: The Spanish edition has reached 9000 news articles. [5] December 3, 2014: The Portuguese edition exceeds the Spanish edition. [6] December 9, 2014: The Portuguese edition has reached 9000 news articles. [7] December 11, 2014: The Portuguese edition exceeds the Italian edition. [8] December 31, 2014: The Portuguese edition has reached 10000 news articles. August 20, 2015: The Chinese edition has reached 5000 news…