Wikinews is an online news service established in 2004 that anyone can edit. It was founded as a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, which gives the financial and technical backings to other projects including Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The primary goal of Wikinews has been to provide extensive coverage of current events with a neutral point of view, making it unique among other news services which have been criticized for biased reporting.
Unlike Wikipedia or many other Wikimedia projects, Wikinews has a policy allowing original reporting, with an accompanying accreditation policy to go along with it. Acting as independent reporters writing for Wikinews, people are capable of using Wikinews press credentials to gain access to events.
As the number of Wikinews reporters has grown, a real need has emerged for some sort of collaboration space and something tangible to which Wikinews reporters, or Wikinewsies, can be linked. Hence Brian McNeil, a Wikinews bureaucray and reporter, obtained hosting space and collaboration tools for the Wikinews reporter community.
This website is operated by volunteers who publish their material on Wikinews and is independent from the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikinews and its logo are registered trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. The reporters listed here are independent volunteer editors of Wikinews.
