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Wikinews
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The current Wikinews logo
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Screenshot of wikinews.org
Type of site
News wiki
Available in Multilingual
Headquarters Miami, Florida
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Created by Wikimedia community
Alexa rank 70,235 (January 2018)
Commercial No
Registration Optional
Launched November 8, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-11-08)
Content licence
CC-BY

Wikinews is a special kind of news source that lets anyone help write the news! It's a project from the Wikimedia Foundation, the same group that runs Wikipedia.

Imagine a newspaper where everyone can be a reporter. That's Wikinews! People from all over the world work together to write news articles. Once an article is finished and checked, it's saved so it can't be changed anymore. This makes sure the news stays accurate.

Every news story on Wikinews also has a "talk page." This is where people can discuss the news and share their thoughts about the article.

Wikinews uses a special rule called the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. This means you can use and share the news from Wikinews, as long as you say where it came from. This license is a bit different from what other Wikimedia projects use.

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See also

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