[WikiEN-l] RE: Re: Press badges

[Brown, Darin]

Alphax wrote:

> What? Since when are people *paying* for Wikimedia content???
> 
> Where is the comparison here?

Wikimedia accepts donations, if not for the people doing the groundwork,
then to run the servers and the administrative costs. Part of the agreement
(as I understand) with regard to the donations is that it is going to
support endeavors with a NPOV policy. Of course, people aren't paying
directly, but I think it would be disingenuous to solicit donations, even
for running costs (and these costs are growing day by day) under the guise
of NPOV and then adopt first-person reporting equivalent to other media.

But the issue of whether someone is paying or not is moot, I think.
First-person reporting (beyond photography, which BTW seems perfectly
acceptable to me) just seems incongruent with the aims of the project. If it
would be okay to introduce POV via first-person reporting into wikinews
simply because "no on is paying for it", what's the problem with allowing
POV in wikipedia? I don't see how money has any bearing on it.

Again, I did not know that the original intent was simply to get
photographs. I see no inherent problem with this.

darin