Wikipedia:Press coverage

WP:PRESS

Current press coverage listings are located at Wikipedia:Press coverage 2025.

This set of pages lists any press coverage of Wikipedia that covers or discusses Wikipedia as a project – that is, any aspect of Wikipedia overall, such as its structure, success, information, goals, history – or views on Wikipedia in general, and so on.

Press sources that reference content of a particular Wikipedia article but do not discuss the project itself should be noted on the talk page of the referenced Wikipedia article in question using the {{Press}} template. Awards and other press coverage from articles that enhance the reputation of Wikipedia should be included in the trophy shelf.

If there are factual errors in a news article, please post the matter to the talk page of Wikimedia's Communications Committee. This way, the Wikimedia Foundation can send an official letter to the editor, or request for a correction.

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If you find press coverage not previously mentioned in the page corresponding to its publication year, you are welcome to add it in!

Adding entries to a page

Due to the amount of listings they have been broken up by publication year. If the press coverage in question was published in 2025, see Wikipedia:Press coverage 2025 (the same goes for 2024, 2023, etc.).

If you add an article, cite both the title and the source. Note that if you're listing an article from a traditional press wire service that ran in your local newspaper, it may not have the same title everywhere; be cautious about duplicates.

Add your entry to the end of the page, using {{Cite news}}. You may find a blank template at the bottom of the page to copy and paste. Depending on the publication circumstances, you may want to use different parameters – for more information and a list of all parameters, see the template page.

Note that all templates varieties have the |quote= parameter: use this to include a short snippet of the press coverage.

To cite a news article with a credited author

*{{Cite news
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Additional authors may be listed using |last2= and |first2=, then |last3= and |first3=, and so on.

Do not wikilink the author to their Wikipedia article in the name fields, instead use |author-link=, |author-link2=, etc.

To cite a news article with no credited author

*{{Cite news
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In this variation, any other information about authorship may be put in under |author= (staff writers, etc.). This parameter may be omitted completely is no information exists.

To cite an online news article that has been archived

*{{Cite news
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In this variation, the original URL would go in |url=, even if it no longer displays the article.

To cite a news article written in a foreign language

*{{Cite news
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To cite a news article requiring a subscription

*{{Cite news
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Here, three access levels can be used: registration, where a free registration is needed, limited, where there are other constraints (such as a cap on daily views), and subscription, where the source is only accessible via a paid subscription.

Searching for discussion of Wikipedia online

Adding entries to a page

See also