Who are Wikinews's co-founders?

Wikinews was co-founded by Daniel Alston and Jimmy Wales.

Company

Wikinews

Q: What happened to Wikinews's founders?

2 people who founded or worked at Wikinews went on to start 18 other companies, including Daniel Alston (Wiktionary and Wikiquote) and Jimmy Wales (Bomis, Wikipedia and 14 more).

Wikinews was founded in 2004 by Daniel Alston and Jimmy Wales.

Wikinews is a discontinued free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that gathered and reported news collaboratively through user-created content.

Private Founded 2004

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Wikinews founders & co-founders

Where its founders came from

The companies and labs that produced Wikinews’s founders.

Bomis Wikipedia

What happened to Wikinews’s founders and alumni

18 companies

People who worked at or founded Wikinews and went on to start their own companies.

Daniel Alston

2 founded

Wiktionary 2002 Wikiquote 2003

Jimmy Wales

16 founded

Bomis 1996 Wikipedia 2001 Wiktionary 2002 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee 2003 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2003 Wikibooks 2003 Wikiquote 2003 Wikia 2004 Fandom, Inc. 2004 Wikimedia Commons 2004 Community Central 2004 Wikispecies 2004 Wikia Search 2008 Jimmy Wales Foundation 2015 WikiTribune 2017 Trustcafé 2023