Daniel Mayer wrote:
Nowhere does it
say that we are credentialed by the board of the WMF.
Nor should it ever. But the implication is that Wikinews itself credentialed
these people. Wikinews is not an organization in any legal sense and thus can't
grant anything. The Wikinews community, however, can be - if the board agrees -
to be its agent in the selection of trusted users for accreditation.
Well, Wikinews is a community, and communities can grant whatever
invented titles they want to grant. The term "credential" has no legal
meaning in general.
I much dislike these constant gratuitous attempts to grab power from the
community, especially through baseless legal threats.
-Mark