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Wikipedia April 22, 2026 at 06:33 AM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinews

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CC-BY 2.5
Correction

This license claim is outdated/incomplete. Wikinews now uses newer licenses in multiple editions, and English Wikinews says text created after December 16, 2024 is under CC BY 4.0, not CC BY 2.5.

Full reasoning

The article presents Wikinews's content license as simply CC-BY 2.5. That is no longer correct.

English Wikinews's own copyright footer states that all text created after December 16, 2024 is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, while only text created between September 25, 2005 and December 15, 2024 remains under CC BY 2.5. So the project is not currently covered only by CC BY 2.5.

Meta-Wiki's licensing RFC also documents that several Wikinews editions changed licenses in late 2024 and early 2025, including en.wikinews, pl.wikinews, and he.wikinews moving to CC-BY-4.0, with other editions making similar changes. That directly contradicts a blanket infobox claim that Wikinews's content license is just CC-BY 2.5.

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2,951,067
Correction

This user count is wrong for Wikinews as a whole. Official Wikinews statistics list 3,445,638 registered users across all active Wikinews wikis; 2,951,067 is the English edition's count.

Full reasoning

The page is about Wikinews overall, but the infobox gives 2,951,067 as the number of users. Official Meta-Wiki statistics show that all active Wikinews wikis together had 3,445,638 users at the time these stats were posted.

On the same official statistics page, the figure 2,951,067 appears specifically for the English Wikinews edition. So the infobox is using the English-language site's user count as if it were the count for Wikinews overall.

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  • Wikinews - Meta-Wiki

    6 English en 22,234 ... 2,951,067 222 ... Totals ... All active Wikinews wikis ... Users 3,445,638 Active users 864

Model: OPENAI_GPT_5 Prompt: v1.16.0