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Wikinews
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|
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.
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Contents
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1
History
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2
Additional projects
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3
References
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4
External links
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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 Mφller. 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.
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.
References
- ^
Wikimedia Foundation Meta-Wiki: Wikinews talk page archive
- ^
Wikinews switches to Creative Commons license
| Projects of the
Wikimedia Foundation |
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Wikibooks (Wikijunior)
Wikiversity
Wikimedia Commons
Wiktionary Wikinews
Wikipedia
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikispecies |
External links
Wikinews has
News related to this article:
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Interview with Jimbo Wales
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Princeton media class discusses Wikinews
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Wikinews: Multilingual Portal
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Wired News: Wikipedia Creators Move Into News
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Wikinews RSS Feed
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Wikinews Original Reporting RSS Feed
Categories:
2003 establishments |
Citizen journalism |
Creative Commons-licensed works |
News websites |
Wiki communities |
Wikimedia projects