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HISTORY In January 2003, a two-line proposal under the title ''Wikews'' was created on the . In November 2004, a Demonstration wiki was established to show how such a Collaborative News Site might work. In December 2004 , the site was moved out of the "demo" stage and into the Beta stage. A German Language edition was launched at the same time. Soon editions in Dutch , French , Spanish , Swedish , Bulgarian , Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Ukrainian , Italian , Serbian , Japanese , Russian , Hebrew , Arabic , Thai , Norwegian , and Chinese (in that chronological order) were set up. On March 13 , 2005 , the English edition of Wikinews reached 1,000 news articles. In September 2005, the project moved to the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Wikinews switches to Creative Commons license On April 29 , 2006 , the English edition of Wikinews reached 5,000 news articles. On September 5 , 2007 , the English edition of Wikinews reached 10,000 news articles. ADDITIONAL PROJECTS While Wikinews focuses primarily on text articles, members are expanding the philosophy into other media. These projects include , which is a daily edition intended to be printed. CRITICISM Like Wikipedia, (see Criticism Of Wikipedia ), Wikinews is also criticized for its perceived inability to be neutral or include only verified and true information. Robert McHenry , former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica criticized the credibility of the project {Link without Title} : McHenry was skeptical about Wikinews' ability to provide a neutral point of view and its claim to be evenhanded. "The naivete is stunning," he said. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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