Wikipedia:News

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Shortcut: WP:NEWS

There are various sources of news about Wikipedia and related areas: Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that supports it and the other Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Signpost (Shortcut: WP:POST, RSS). The Wikipedia community newspaper that is written by volunteers and published weekly.
• Wikipedia:Announcements (Shortcut: WP:ANN, RSS). Important announcements related to Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia in the media. Mentions of Wikipedia as a topic unto itself and as a reference resource.
• Criticism of Wikipedia - often updated entries related to public criticism of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia or news resource.

Wikimedia

• Wikizine.org, news bulletin about the Wikimedia community sent by e-mail to the announce-l mailing list (formerly weekly, now published at irregular intervals)
• Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
• Wikimedia goings-on. More cross-project news.
• http://techblog.wikimedia.org/, Wikimedia's technical blog
• 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.

Wikipedia news content

• Portal:Current events
• In the news

Wikimedia news content

• Wikinews

See also

• Planet Wikimedia, weblog aggregator, information about it at meta:Planet Wikimedia
• Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly, irregular podcast providing an informative dose of audio information regarding Wikipedia and our fellow projects
• Wikipedia:NotTheWikipediaWeekly, a grassroots and utterly "unofficial" podcast
• Wikipedia:Radio Wikipedia, irregular podcast
• Wikipedia:WikiUpdate, irregular podcast