Wikipedia:News

15 January 2025
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There are various sources of news about Wikipedia, The Wikimedia Foundation that supports the project, and other related Wikimedia projects.

• The Signpost (Shortcut: WP:POST, RSS). The Wikipedia community newspaper that is written by volunteers and published biweekly.
• Wikipedia:Goings-on (Shortcut: WP:GO). Weekly news and updates about existing or new projects or initiatives of Wikipedians.
• Wikipedia:Press coverage (Shortcut: WP:PRESS). What news media say about Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter (Shortcut: WP:ANEWS). Monthly newsletter containing topics of interest to Wikipedia administrators.
• Wikinews:Category:Wikipedia, archives of news about Wikipedia
• News aggregators: Google News · Techmeme
• WP:WikiProject Newspapers for the WikiProject on improving articles about newspaper

Other irregular newsletters exist. This list is limited to those which have updated at least once in the last year.

• The Bugle, the Military history WikiProject's newsletter (monthly)
• Books & Bytes, The Wikipedia Library's newsletter
• Guild of Copy Editors
• VisualEditor
• WikiProject Yorkshire
• WikiProject Christianity
• WikiProject Tree of Life

Several Wikiproject-specific newsletters exist; however, most are inactive. As of April 2019, out of 128 WikiProject newsletters, 9 could be considered active.

• Global message delivery/Targets (21 items) -- List of a number of individual newsletters that provide global message delivery
• Tech News, news about software changes, published weekly
• This Month in Education, written by Wikimedia users; contains international reports regarding Education collaborations of the past month related to Wikimedia, Wikipedia and sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
• Wikimedia goings-on. More cross-project news.
  • Wikidata News
  • MediaWiki News

• Wikimedia Foundation press releases
• Wikimedia Foundation blog

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

• 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
• m:Press clippings, daily updates of Wikimedia projects in the news.