[WikiEN-l] Re: Press badges

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Timwi
 
> I still maintain that press-badge-generating bureaucracy will 
> be easier to penetrate with Wikinews as an excews - er, 
> excuse :-) - than Wikipedia.

You are correct, but who will issue the Wikicredentials to show p-b-g
bureaucrats? If it is automatic ("This is to introduce HindBrain, a
certified Wikireporter since [[2 November]] [[2005]]") then anyone with
access to the web can get credentialled and hang out in the press pavillion
noshing on the caviar that is customarily served to reptiles of the press.
It will turn into a rort.

Peter (Skyring)