Which Wikipedia sister project offers free news content?

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The Wikipedia sister project that offers free news content is Wikinews.

Wikinews is a Wikimedia Foundation project built for collaboratively reporting current events in news-story form. It differs from Wikipedia because its articles are written as news reports, while Wikipedia articles are intended to provide an encyclopedia-style summary of established knowledge.

The project began in beta in December 2004 after earlier proposals for a Wikimedia news site. Contributors could report events, add sources, and—in contrast with most Wikimedia projects—produce original reporting and interviews. Its approach emphasized a neutral point of view and collaborative editing rather than conventional newspaper ownership.

WikiLeaks is unrelated to Wikimedia and is not a sister project. NewsWiki and Wikijournal are also not the canonical names of Wikimedia projects. Readers may also confuse Wikinews with Wikipedia’s current-events coverage, but the two projects have different formats and editorial aims. Wikinews was historically active in multiple language editions, including English.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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