On 4/23/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The answer is very simple: For those countries where
accreditation is
a legal matter (France is one of them), the Foundation, or the
chapters, cannot and will not give this accreditation.
For those countries where the whole accreditation process is more
open, then it could be imagined that the Wikinews community recognize
some people as "wiki journalists" or something.
Please remember that as soon as the organisation "endorses" any person
to contribute content to the projects, it puts itself in a "publisher"
kind of position, which we need to avoid at all costs, since the
organisation is *not* a publisher.
Would it be possible for the WMF to make a deal with an actual
publisher? They could, say, give us a press pass in return for us
giving them a free license to use the photographs. The St. Petersburg
Times is run by a non-profit and is right down the street. Maybe
they'd be willing to hook up the WMF with a press pass to use for
events they weren't sending anyone to anyway?
Just a thought. I don't know much about how these things work.
Anthony