Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down

Kim_Bruning

Oh that's too bad, it was an interesting concept while it was running. I did notie that it takes a lot more effort to do real world journalism than it is to write an encyclopedia. And accreditation is a tricky thing in a pseudonymous community.

snvzz

Good call. Hopefully they can now focus on making Wikipedia itself neutral.

LunaSea

In other unrelated news, the C-suite is expecting a raise this year.

powera

Wikinews never worked; the principle of "verifiability" that Wikipedia was based on simply doesn't work for news-collection, which requires trusted first-party accounts. The project was also already dead; the English Wikinews has had 10 "articles" posted in the last 3 weeks, two of which were trivial sports stories (a second-division Queensland football match, and the retirement of a pitcher whose last substantial year in MLB was 2019). The most recent story is that an amateur jazz group recently played at a library. It will no longer be an attractive nuisance to the few who stumble across it. Rest in peace.

xacky

Will this change AFD discussions over the commonly cited WP:NOTNEWS? Also Wikimedia has too many small wiki sister projects that are mostly being overrun with vandalism as there are not enough editors to monitor it, especially with AI bots making it trivial to make thousands of edits.