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Wikipedia July 26, 2026 at 08:42 AM

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Claim
Wiki标记语言
Correction

Wiki markup is not the programming language of Wikinews. Official MediaWiki documentation says MediaWiki is written in PHP, while wikitext/wiki markup is the markup language used to format pages.

Full reasoning

This is incorrect because it confuses the site's programming language with the page-formatting syntax used by editors.

MediaWiki's own installation documentation says “PHP is the programming language in which MediaWiki is written.” Wikinews runs on MediaWiki, so the platform's programming language is PHP, not wiki markup.

Separately, MediaWiki's Wikitext documentation explains that wikitext (wiki markup) is the markup language used to format page content. In other words, wiki markup is what contributors type into pages; it is not the language the software itself is programmed in.

2 sources
  • Manual:Installation requirements - MediaWiki

    PHP is the programming language in which MediaWiki is written, and is required in order to run the software.

  • Wikitext - MediaWiki

    Wikitext, also known as wiki markup or wikicode, is the markup language that consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page.

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Claim
目前在各語言維基新聞新聞稿數排名中列第9名
Correction

This ranking is out of date. Current Wikimedia statistics place Chinese Wikinews around 7th by article count, not 9th.

Full reasoning

The statement uses present tense (“目前”) but does not match current Wikimedia statistics.

Recent Meta-Wiki statistics pages for Wikinews show Chinese Wikinews in 7th place, with roughly 18.5–18.6k articles. In the same tables, Italian Wikinews is in 9th place with about 12.6k articles. That directly contradicts the claim that Chinese Wikinews is currently ranked 9th by article count.

This appears to be an outdated ranking that was not revised after later growth in Chinese Wikinews.

2 sources
  • Wikinews/cs - Meta-Wiki

    7 | Chinese | zh | 18,584 | 47,422 | 273,374 | 8 | 38,359 | 33 | 1 ... 9 | Italian | it | 12,607 | 44,384 | 996,252 | 4 | 29,587 | 36 | 114

  • Wikinews/ar - Meta-Wiki

    7 | Chinese | zh | 18,629 | 47,543 | 274,075 | 8 | 38,481 | 26 | 1 ... 9 | Italian | it | 12,614 | 44,555 | 997,114 | 4 | 29,685 | 45 | 114

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