From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Brown, Darin Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:23 To: 'wikien-l@Wikipedia.org' Subject: [WikiEN-l] RE: Re: Press badges
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:27:07 +1100 From: "Peter Mackay" peter.mackay@bigpond.com Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Re: Press badges To: "'English Wikipedia'" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 20051104232712.YGYT1358.omta03sl.mx.bigpond.com@skyringstudy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Just throwing this out there: I dont see how any
anti-credentialist
organization can be in the business of giving out credentials.
In the same wiki-way that everything else works here. The community decides who, based on their contributions, is able to present a professional face to the real world and a useful contribution to Wikipedia/WikiNews. I use "professional" here in the sense of "adhering to industry standards", rather than "being paid for".
In what other situations do we actually "present a professional face to the real world"?
Dunno. I'm talking about the method of community consensus we use for decisions.
But, whatever you think of them, tabloids are in a sense, original research. And so they are not only subject to legal issues which are avoided by avoiding original research, but if we were to emulate them in this regard, we would be subjecting ourselves to the same type of NPOV issues we subject other news sources to. This is one caveat I have about press passes -- maybe just for photographs they might be okay, but assigning press badges on a par that journalists use, seems to be stretching the limits of what the project is all about.
I cannot say I really care for original research or original reporting. We can use existing sources, summarise, paraphrase, whatever, so long as we have sourced facts. But I think press passes could be very useful for wikiphotographers. A look through Featured Images shows a range of talent available, and it would be great to get these people better access to photographic subjects so that we may use the images without too much restriction.
Peter (Skyring)