Wikinews is a news website run by volunteers under the Wikimedia Foundation, which also hosts Wikipedia. The English edition was launched in November 2004, and it later spread into other languages. Its aim was to produce news articles written from a neutral point of view that anyone could edit, and it encouraged original reporting as well as summaries of other sources. Compared with Wikipedia it attracted far fewer contributors and readers, and its output was small. It remains an example of the attempt to apply collaborative editing to journalism.
Before and after
- 28 October 2004The 'hobbit' Homo floresiensis is announced
- 29 October 2004Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
- November 2004Release of Google Scholar
- 2 November 20042004 United States presidential election
- from 8 November 2004 to 4 May 2026Launch of Wikinews
- 11 November 2004Death of Yasser Arafat
- 16 November 2004Release of Half-Life 2
- from 16 November 2004 to 21 May 2012Premiere of House M.D.
- from 22 November 2004 to 23 January 2005Orange Revolution
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.