The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

When big news breaks, you can be sure that Wikipedia will cover the hell out of it. Not so much on Wikinews, the collaborative-journalism project that has faltered since launching in December 2004.

The 31 language versions of the Wikipedia sister project "Wikinews" will be closed after more than two decades. Following a resolution by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees, the project is ...