English Wikinews

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Status:	Active
Language:	English
Edit mode:	OpenEdit
Wiki engine:	MediaWiki
Wiki license:	Creative Commons Attribution
Main topic:	News
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English-language Wikinews, the free-content news source you can write!

Wiki size:

21,897 article pages see stats

(As of: 2023-05-22)

Pages of note

• 2006-07-05: Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis
• 2006-01-30: Congressional staff actions prompt Wikipedia investigation

External links

• Wikinews (en) — at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites
• Pageviews Analysis – English Wikinews - topviews — from Pageviews.WMCloud.org at Wikimedia Toolforge, data available under CC0 1.0
• Pageviews Analysis – English Wikinews - siteviews — from Pageviews.WMCloud.org at Wikimedia Toolforge, data available under CC0 1.0
• Wikistats v1 – summary – English Wikinews at a glance December 2018 — published 2019-02-01 (public domain) by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v1 – tables – English Wikinews statistics — final report from 2019-01-31 (public domain) by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v1 – charts – English Wikinews statistics — final report from 2019-01-31 (public domain) by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v2 – English Wikinews – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics

• English Wikinews – Admin Stats – XTools — show statistics of admin actions, active Administrator statistics in the last ≈30 days; at XTools.WMCloud.org, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud VPS (WMCVPS)

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Wikinews early draft logo

Wikinews current base skeleton logo

Wikinews is a collection of wiki sites which present up-to-date, relevant, newsworthy and entertaining content; without bias, with content that is written by the volunteer Wikinews editors. A linguistic 'project' of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), all textual content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license (CC-BY 2.5), which makes the Wikinews content perpetually available for free redistribution and use.

Wikinews was first suggested as a new wiki site in October 2004 by an anonymous contributor. A demonstration site was created at demo.Wikinews.org, and on 2 December 2004, this demo was moved to en.Wikinews.org. A day later, the German Wikinews was created, and late January 2005, four more language versions were created. Throughout 2005 and beyond, further language versions were created. The last language version created was the Limburgish version on November 2018.

As of May 2023, Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are 30 Wikinews versions (down from 33 in March 2013) in different languages, with the Russian version being the largest with nearly 1.5 million articles, followed by the Serbian at more than 50,000 articles, with Portuguese, French, and English versions all exceeding 20,000 articles. New language versions are added when there is significant support for said language. Meta-Wiki historical article new language pre-launch documents the evolution of some of the various language versions of Wikinews, and Meta-Wiki requests for new languages illustrates the process for all Wikimedia Foundation projects. Just like the convention of other WMF projects such as Wikipedia, each Wikinews language version is a sub-domain under the Wikinews.org domain. The Japanese Wikinews, for example, is at https://Ja.Wikinews.org.[1]

See also

• Kiwix

External links

• www.Wikinews.org — Wikinews portal to all language versions
• Wikinews — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikinews — En.Wikipedia.org at the English Wikipedia
• Wikinews Statistics – site map — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikinews Statistics – all languages at a glance (October 2018) — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikinews Statistics – tables – overview — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikinews Statistics – all languages – tables — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikinews Statistics – all languages – charts — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v2 – All Wikinews – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• WikiStats v2.2 – List of Wikinews — sortable list table of Wikinews wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
• Wikiscan Wikinews statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikiscan.org
• Wikinews Interactive Statistics — from Martin Poljak at Wikistatistics.net (public domain), via Archive.org from 2015
• WikiStats by S23 – List of Wikinews — sortable list table of Wikisource wiki sites, created by mutante at S23.org, archived snapshot on 2019-05-24, via Archive.org
• Wikinews database list — NOC.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia NOC
• Wikinews-l — mailing list for Wikinews, from Lists.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Lists
• Twitter feed for Wikinews
• Wikinews — Everything2.com at Everything2 – a personal commentary by Tempestas on Wikinews policies and issues
• Wikinews.org site info — from Alexa.com, archived snapshot on 2022-04-23, via Archive.org

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All Wikinews wiki sites in these languages: ^{(view • edit • talk)}

1,000,000+: Russian (ru)

10,000+: Deutsch (de) • English (en) • Español (es) • Français (fr) • Italiano (it) • Polski (pl) • Português (pt) • Serbian (sr) • Chinese (zh)

1,000+: العربية / Arabic (ar) • Catalan (ca) • Czech (cs) • Greek (el) • Persian (fa) • Finnish (fi) • עברית / Hebrew (he) • Japanese (ja) • Limburgish (li) • Nederlands (nl) • Română (ro) • Swedish / Svenska (sv) • Tamil (ta) • Turkish (tr) • Ukrainian (uk)

100+: Български / Bulgarian (bg) • Bosnian (bs) • Esperanto (eo) • Gun (guw) • Hungarian (hu) • Korean (ko) • Norwegian (no) • Sindhi (sd) • Albanian (sq) • ไทย / Thai (th)

Any red links above need the {{Wiki}} infobox template, their Wikinews URLs, the {{Wikimedia-stub}} template (if appropriate), and the {{Wikinews}} navigation template added.