On 4/23/07, Delphine Ménard notafishz@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