Wikinews never worked; the principle of "verifiability" that Wikipedia was based on simply doesn't work for news-collection, which requires trusted first-party accounts.

The project was also already dead; the English Wikinews has had 10 "articles" posted in the last 3 weeks, two of which were trivial sports stories (a second-division Queensland football match, and the retirement of a pitcher whose last substantial year in MLB was 2019). The most recent story is that an amateur jazz group recently played at a library.

It will no longer be an attractive nuisance to the few who stumble across it. Rest in peace.