Wikipedia:News

12 June 2013
Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal Traffic report: Who holds the throne? In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history" Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing
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For current news in the world, see Portal:Current events and Wikipedia:News sources. For the what Wikipedia is not concept, see WP:NOT#NEWS

There are various sources of news about Wikipedia, The Wikimedia Foundation that supports the project, and other related Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia

• The Signpost (Shortcut: WP:POST, RSS). The Wikipedia community newspaper that is written by volunteers and published weekly.
• Wikipedia:Milestones (Shortcut: WP:ANN, RSS). Important Wikipedia milestones.
• Wikipedia:Goings-on (Shortcut: WP:GO). Weekly news and updates about existing or new projects or initiatives of Wikipedians.
• Wikinews:Category:Wikipedia, archives of news about Wikipedia
• News agregators: Google News · Techmeme

Topic-specific newsletters

• The Bugle (Shortcut: WP:BUGLE), the Military history WikiProject's newsletter (monthly)
• The Help Project Newsletter, the Help Project's newsletter (monthly)
• U.S. Roads (Shortcut: WP:USRD/N), the U.S. Roads WikiProject's newsletter (quarterly)
• Video Games, the Video games WikiProject's newsletter (quarterly)
• The Wikifier, (Shortcut: WP:WWFNEWS) the WikiProject Wikify newsletter

Wikimedia

• Tech News, news about software changes, published weekly
• Wikimedia Highlights, published monthly
• Wikimedia Foundation reports
• Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
• Wikimedia goings-on. More cross-project news.
  • Wiktionary:News for editors
  • Wikidata:News
  • Wikisource:News
  • MediaWiki News
  • Wikinews:The Wikinews Chronicle
  • Wikiquote:Latest news
  • Wikiversity:News
  • Simple:Simple News
• Wikimedia's technical blog
• Wikimedia Fellowships News
• Wikizine (now published monthly as a special Signpost section)
• Server admin log. Technical software/hardware news.

Wikimedia Foundation

• Wikimedia Foundation news, news about the Wikimedia Foundation, the international non-profit organisation dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of various Wikimedia Projects.
• Wikimedia blog

Other news sources

There are also places in Wikipedia and its sister projects that publish articles on current events and the latest world news using Wikimedia software.

• Wikinews, sister project dedicated to news
• Portal:Current events
• Template:In the news

See also

• Planet Wikimedia, weblog aggregator, information about it at meta:Planet Wikimedia
• Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly, irregular podcast of audio information regarding Wikipedia and our fellow projects
• Wikipedia in the media. Mentions of Wikipedia as a topic unto itself and as a reference resource
• Wikipedia:Wikivoices
• Wikipedia:WikiUpdate
• Wikipedia:Radio Wikipedia