Template:Wikinews: Difference between revisions

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'''[[:Category:Wikinews|Wikinews]]''' is a collection of [[wiki]] websites which present up-to-date, relevant, newsworthy and entertaining content; [[:Category:NPOV|without bias]], with content that is written by the volunteer [[Meta-Wiki:Wikinews|Wikinews]] editors.  A project of the {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}}, all content is released under the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution|Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License]], which makes the Wikinews content perpetually available for free redistribution and use.
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'''[[:Category:Wikinews|Wikinews]]''' is a collection of [[wiki]] websites which present up-to-date, relevant, [[:Category:News|newsworthy]] and entertaining content; [[:Category:NPOV|without bias]], with content that is written by the volunteer [[Meta-Wiki:Wikinews|Wikinews]] editors.  A project of the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF), all content is released under the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution|Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License]], which makes the Wikinews content perpetually available for free redistribution and use.


As of October 2012, [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] indicates that there are [[Meta-Wiki:Wikinews#Wikinews Statistics|33 Wikinews versions]] in different [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]], with new languages added when there is significant support for the language.  Meta-Wiki historical article [[Meta-Wiki:New language pre-launch|new language pre-launch]] documents the evolution of some of the various language versions of Wikinews, and Meta-Wiki [[Meta-Wiki:Requests for new languages|requests for new languages]] illustrates the process for all Wikimedia Foundation projects.  Each language version is a sub-domain under the wikinews.org domain.  The [[English Wikinews]], for example, is at http://en.wikinews.org
As of March 2013, [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] indicates that there are [[Meta-Wiki:Wikinews#Wikinews Statistics|33 Wikinews versions]] in different [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]], with the [[Serbian Wikinews|Serbian]] version being the largest with over 70,000 articles, followed by the [[English Wikinews|English]] version just shy of 20,000 articles.  New languages added when there is significant support for the language.  Meta-Wiki historical article [[Meta-Wiki:New language pre-launch|new language pre-launch]] documents the evolution of some of the various language versions of Wikinews, and Meta-Wiki [[Meta-Wiki:Requests for new languages|requests for new languages]] illustrates the process for all Wikimedia Foundation projects.  Just like the convention of other WMF projects such as [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], each Wikinews language version is a sub-domain under the wikinews.org domain.  The [[Japanese Wikinews]], for example, is at http://ja.wikinews.org
*[http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikinews Statistics], from Wikimedia.org
*[http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikinews Statistics], from Wikimedia.org
*[http://www.wikistatistics.net/wikimedia#Wikinews Wikinews Interactive Statistics], from Wikistatistics.net
*[http://www.wikistatistics.net/wikimedia#Wikinews Wikinews Interactive Statistics], from Wikistatistics.net
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[[العربية Wikinews|العربية / Arabic]] (ar),
[[العربية Wikinews|العربية / Arabic]] (ar),
[[Catalan Wikinews|Catalan]] (ca),
[[Catalan Wikinews|Catalan]] (ca),
[[Chinese Wikinews|Chinese]] (zh),
[[Czech Wikinews|Czech]] (cs),
[[Czech Wikinews|Czech]] (cs),
[[Greek Wikinews|Greek]] (el)
[[Greek Wikinews|Greek]] (el)
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[[Svenska Wikinews|Swedish / Svenska]] (sv),
[[Svenska Wikinews|Swedish / Svenska]] (sv),
[[Tamil Wikinews|Tamil]] (ta),
[[Tamil Wikinews|Tamil]] (ta),
[[Chinese Wikinews|Chinese]] (zh)
[[Turkish Wikinews|Turkish]] (tr)
<br>
<br>
<small>'''100+''':  
<small>'''100+''':  
[[Albanian Wikinews|Albanian]]&nbsp;(sq),
[[Български Wikinews|Български&nbsp;/&nbsp;Bulgarian]]&nbsp;(bg),
[[Български Wikinews|Български&nbsp;/&nbsp;Bulgarian]]&nbsp;(bg),
[[Bosnian Wikinews|Bosnian]]&nbsp;(bs),
[[Bosnian Wikinews|Bosnian]]&nbsp;(bs),
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[[Norsk Wikinews|Norsk]]&nbsp;(no),
[[Norsk Wikinews|Norsk]]&nbsp;(no),
[[Sindhi Wikinews|Sindhi]]&nbsp;(sd),
[[Sindhi Wikinews|Sindhi]]&nbsp;(sd),
[[Albanian Wikinews|Albanian]]&nbsp;(sq),
[[ไทย Wikinews|ไทย&nbsp;/&nbsp;Thai]]&nbsp;(th),
[[ไทย Wikinews|ไทย&nbsp;/&nbsp;Thai]]&nbsp;(th),
[[Turkish Wikinews|Turkish]]&nbsp;(tr),
[[Вікіновини|Ukrainian]]&nbsp;(uk)
[[Вікіновини|Ukrainian]]&nbsp;(uk)
:''The red-links here need their Wikinews URLs, the {{template|add}} template tag and the {{template|Wikinews}} template tag added.''</small><includeonly>[[Category:Wikimedia Foundation]]{{#switch:{{{cat}}}
:''The red-links here need their Wikinews URLs, the {{template|add}} template tag and the {{template|Wikinews}} template tag added.''</small><includeonly>[[Category:Wikimedia Foundation]]{{#switch:{{{cat}}}
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| | [[Category:Wikinews]] |#default=[[Category:Wikinews]]
}}
}}
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