Wikipedia:News

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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, the Military history WikiProject's newsletter (monthly)
• The Help Project Newsletter, the Help Project's newsletter (quarterly)
• The Centerline, the U.S. Roads WikiProject's newsletter (quarterly)
• Video Games, the Video games WikiProject's newsletter (quarterly)

Other irregular newsletters. This list is limited to those which have updated at least once in 2013. (There are dozens of inactive newsletter sub-projects, some of which are listed in Category:Wikipedia news and Category:Wikipedia sign-up lists for subscription delivery.)

• WikiCup
• Teahouse/The Tea Leaf
• The Wikipedia Library (Books and Bytes)
• Page Curation
• Guild of Copy Editors
• Good articles
• Eurovision
• NASCAR
• Tropical cyclones
• Yorkshire
• Microsoft
• Amusement Parks
• Australian Roads
• Food and drink
• U2
• Christianity
• Transport
• Animation

Software projects (some overlap with "Global message delivery/Targets"):

• Notifications
• VisualEditor
• Flow

Wikimedia

• Global message delivery/Targets (21 items)
• 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
• m:Communications committee/Press clippings, daily updates of Wikimedia projects in the news.