On 11/11/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/11/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote: In short, you're saying that this (from meta): "This accreditation process is overseen by the Wikinews community, though the **Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation have overall responsibility for the system**. In order to use the term "Wikinews" (a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation) on **press badges**, approval of the process by the Board must be sought. This is done by submitting a summary of the Accreditation policy of the Wikinews edition seeking approval in English to the board@wikimedia.org address.
The criteria for accreditation will be documented on the relevant editions on Wikinews. **The Board may at any time revoke the accreditation of any Wikinews user, or even revoke approval of the project's accreditation process**."
...does not make the Foundation liable (my **tagging**)?
That is a very good point. The policy needs to be rewritten to say that the foundation is not accrediting the individuals, it is just giving those individuals who have gone through a community-run and board-approved process permission to use the Wikinews name and logo on press badges.
But you don't need permission to use the Wikinews name and logo on press badges.
To be even more clear those badges should have a disclaimer on them saying that the foundation is *not* vouching for that person's credentials and accepts no responsibility for anything that person does.
Wikimedia and indeed the reporter emself rarely have any control over what is printed on a press badge in the first place.
In fact, it may be safer (at least clearer) to drop all mention of accreditation or credentials. Just use a different word for it like "community approved Wikinews reporter" or something like that.
-- mav
And your position is that someone needs the permission of the board in order to call themselves a "community approved Wikinews reporter"? That's completely out of touch with reality.
Anthony