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.). Wikipedia:Wikipedia in blogs and Wikipedia:Wikipedia on TV and radio are also kept seperatly. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:13, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Coverage with a credited author

*{{Cite news
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  |first       =
  |date        =
  |title       =
  |url         =
  |newspaper   =
  |location    =
  |access-date = 2025-06-10
  |quote       =
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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.

Coverage without a credited author

*{{Cite news
  |author      =
  |date        =
  |title       =
  |url         =
  |newspaper   =
  |location    =
  |access-date = 2025-06-10
  |quote       =
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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 if no such information exists.

Online coverage with archive link

*{{Cite news
  |last         =
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  |date         =
  |title        =
  |url          =
  |url-status   =
  |newspaper    =
  |location     =
  |archive-url  =
  |archive-date =
  |access-date  = 2025-06-10
  |quote        =
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In this variation, the original URL would go in |url=, even if it no longer displays the article. |url-status= can be used to show if a link no longer displays an article ("dead") or if it preemptively archived (still visible under the original URL ("live"). For a list of avaliable web archives, see List of Web archiving initiatives.

Foreign-language coverage

*{{Cite news
  |last         =
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  |date         =
  |title        =
  |trans-title  =
  |script-title =
  |url          =
  |language     =
  |newspaper    =
  |location     =
  |access-date  = 2025-06-10
  |quote        =
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To cite international coverage, use |trans-title= to hold an English-language translation to the original title. If the title can be simplified with romanization, use |script-title= to hold the original title (prefixed with a language code) and |title= to hold the roman variation. Use |language= to hold the displayed language. See the template page for further explanation.

Coverage requiring registration or subscription to view

*{{Cite news
  |last        =
  |first       =
  |date        =
  |title       =
  |url         =
  |url-access  =
  |newspaper   =
  |location    =
  |access-date = 2025-06-10
  |quote       =
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In |url-access=, 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.

Examples & Help

To view examples of this template in use, take a look at the active page for 2025. For further assistance, use {{helpme}} on a talk page and one of our editors will be happy to assist you.

Searching for discussion of Wikipedia online

Adding entries to a page

Examples & Help

See also