Wikinews facts for kids
The current Wikinews logo
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Screenshot of wikinews.org
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Type of site
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News wiki |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Wikimedia community |
| Alexa rank | ▲ 70,235 (January 2018[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | November 8, 2004 |
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Content licence
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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.
Images for kids
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Wikinews reporter David Shankbone with Israeli president Shimon Peres in 2007
See also
- In Spanish: Wikinoticias para niños
