Wikinews

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**Wikinews**

URL	http://www.wikinews.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	News wiki
Registration	Optional
Available language(s):	multilingual
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community

Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

1 History
2 Additional projects
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

In January 2003, a two-line proposal under the title Wikews was created on the Wikipedia community's Meta-Wiki via an anonymous post by Daniel Alston. He was not involved in the development of the project, and the proposal was redeveloped by Erik Möller. The proposal suggested the creation of a sister project covering "news on a wide variety of subjects, unbiased and in detail."^[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.

The beta version logo, used until February 13, 2005.

In November 2004, a demonstration wiki was established to show how such a collaborative news site might work. In December 2004, the site was moved out of the "demo" stage and into the beta stage. A German language edition was launched at the same time. Soon editions in Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian, Italian, Serbian, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Norwegian, and Chinese (in that chronological order) were set up.

On March 13, 2005, the English edition of Wikinews reached 1,000 news articles.

In September 2005, the project moved to Creative Commons licenses.^[2]

On April 29, 2006, the English edition of Wikinews reached 5,000 news articles.

[edit] Additional projects

While Wikinews focuses primarily on text articles, members are expanding the philosophy into other media. These projects include Audio Wikinews, which delivers Ogg Vorbis audio files, and Wikinews Print edition, which is a daily edition intended to be printed.

[edit] References

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikibooks (Wikijunior) • Wikiversity • Wikimedia Commons • Wiktionary • Wikinews • Wikipedia • Wikiquote • Wikisource • Wikispecies