Wikinews

Wikinews
	Logo
	Screenshot Screenshot of the home page
Website type	News wiki
Available in	31 languages
	List of languages Albanian; Arabic; Bosnian; Catalan; Chinese; Czech; Dutch; English; Esperanto; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Gun; Hebrew; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Limburgish; Norwegian; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serbian; Shan; Spanish; Swedish; Tamil; Ukrainian;
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Creator	Wikimedia community
Website	wikinews.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Users	2,953,817
Launched	November 8, 2004
Current status	Read-only since May 4, 2026
Content license	CC-BY 2.5

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Wikinews is a discontinued free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that gathered and reported news collaboratively through user-created content. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying, "On Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an encyclopedia article."

On June 28, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation's Sister Projects Task Force submitted a proposal for closing Wikinews. In March 2026, the WMF announced that Wikinews would be closed and made read-only on May 4 of that year.