https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-31/News_and_notes
On March 30, Board of Trustees member Victoria Doronina confirmed in a mailing list post that the Foundation has decided to permanently shut down the Wikinews project, one of Wikimedia’s oldest projects. Starting on May 4, editing and new content creation will no longer be possible with all of the pages on the site locked in read-only mode.
Not April Fool’s. An analysis of Wikinews’ inactivity was made in 2024, which explains the situation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sister_Projects_Taskforce_Wikinews_review_2024.pdf The first criticisms and proposals for closure of the project are from over a decade ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-10/Op-ed
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Always been perplexing to me why this didn’t do better. News As Facts is a decent replacement for repackaging current events info from Wikipedia as a convenient feed
That’s sad. I contributed to it a few years back. It’s a nice idea but didn’t gain enough momentum I suppose.
