Wikinews

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Wikinews
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de.wikinews.org (German version)

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motto The free news source you can join too.
description Wiki project to create a free news medium in which anyone can write and edit news articles
Registration optional
languages English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, ...
owner Wikimedia Foundation
Originator The "Wikimedia Community"
Published English version: 15.11. 2004

German version: 3.12. 2004

Members 12 024
items 13 500+ (as of March 2019, German-language edition)

Wikinews is an international Wikimedia project for the collaborative creation of a free and neutral news source . Wikinews enables every internet user to publish news on a wide range of topics. Like its sister projects Wikipedia , Wiktionary , Wikibooks , Wikiquote , Wikispecies and Wikisource , it uses the wiki software MediaWiki for this purpose.

The project aims to spread the idea of citizen journalists (also known as grassroots journalism ).

development

After the project had been presented and a clear majority of those who voted in favor of the project, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees decided on November 15, 2004 to start a demo version. When the English language demo version developed well for two weeks, it was "promoted" to the beta version on December 2, 2004. A beta version in German followed on December 3, 2004. From January to March 2005, a Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Ukrainian Wikinews edition followed (in that order). On March 13, 2005, the English version of Wikinews passed the 1,000 article mark. On March 14, 2006, the Chinese version of Wikinews went online. On March 31, 2005, the Italian version of Wikinews, Wikinotizie, was launched, for which 9,000 articles had been written by March 2013. Since October 24, 2006, it has been possible in the German-language Wikinews, modeled on the English-language version, for an anonymous user to publish information at first hand (so-called original reporting). The prerequisite for applying the “English principle” is a detailed explanation of the source on the discussion page.

Immediately after its start, the project received a lot of international media attention. Analytical comments have been published in numerous blogs , but also in books. In March 2013, Wikinews were available in 31 languages, with the English version still the most active. The published articles are sorted into categories similar to Wikipedia. In addition, there are corresponding portals on many topics in which the articles appear in chronological order.

public perception

Spiegel Online rated Wikinews in December 2004 as follows: "The way Wikinews is set up, it will at best result in competition for automated collection sites such as Yahoo-News, only less legally protected."

The FAZ wrote in August 2005 that Wikinews could "contribute to breaking down strict hierarchies and the state information monopoly in countries like China".

The journalist Stefan Bosshart wrote in March 2014 about the results of a comparative study of Wikinews and relevant daily newspapers: “The study shows that Wikinews does not compete with professional journalism. At best, the platform performs a complementary function. "

literature

Web links

 Wikinews: German Wikinews main page  - message
 Wikinews: Wikinews press review  - message
Wiktionary: Wikinews  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Wikinews  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wikinews.org/
  2. ↑ http://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Impressum
  3. ↑ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews
  4. ↑ https://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Spezial:Statistik
  5. ↑ Open Journalism, tante ricette per un obiettivo: coinvolgere il lettore Corriere della Serra , March 7, 2013
  6. ↑ Frank Patalong: Wiki News: And another blog ... In: Spiegel Online . December 6, 2004 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  7. ↑ We are explosives! Released August 8, 2005
  8. ↑ Wikinews: Complementarity instead of competition . In: European Journalism Observatory (EJO) . March 19, 2014 ( ejo-online.eu [accessed October 3, 2017]).
  9. ^ Christian Nuernbergk: Review of Bosshart, Stefan: Bürgerjournalismus im Web. Collaborative news production using the example of "Wikinews" . In: Journalism . tape 62 , no. 3 , June 10, 2017, ISSN  0033-4006 , p. 353-355 , doi : 10.1007 / s11616-017-0344-6 .