Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that works through collaborative journalism through user-created content.

"[2] Wikinews's neutral point of view policy aims to distinguish it from other citizen journalism efforts such as Indymedia and OhmyNews.

Soon, editions in Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Norwegian, Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Hungarian, Greek, Esperanto, Czech, Albanian, and Tamil (in that chronological order) were set up.

[15][16] Other notable interviews have included writers, actors, and politicians, such as Augusten Burroughs,[17] several 2008 U.S. Republican Party presidential primaries candidates like Sam Brownback and Duncan Hunter,[15] and others like British politician Tony Benn,[18] writer Eric Bogosian,[19] New Zealand politician Nick Smith,[20] former New Zealand prime minister John Key,[21] World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau,[22] drag queen RuPaul,[23] and former Wikimedia Foundation executive Sue Gardner.

[3]McHenry was skeptical about Wikinews' ability to provide a neutral point of view and its claim to be evenhanded, saying that "[t]he naïveté is stunning.

"[3] In a 2007 interview given to Wikinews, Sue Gardner, at that time a special adviser to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation and former head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Internet division, CBC.ca, dismissed McHenry's comment, stating: Journalism is not a profession ... at its heart, it's just a craft.

[25]Wikinews has also had issues with maintaining a separate identity from Wikipedia, which also covers major news events in real-time.

Columnist Jonathan Dee of The New York Times said in 2007 that "So indistinct has the line between past and present become that Wikipedia has inadvertently all but strangled one of its sister projects, the three-year-old Wikinews... [Wikinews] has sunk into a kind of torpor; lately it generates just 8 to 10 articles a day... On bigger stories there's just no point in competing with the ruthless purview of the encyclopedia.

[27] Brian Keegan wrote in 2019 that the Wikinews model of requiring approval before publication ultimately limited its ability to grow, especially compared to the more open nature of Wikipedia.