On 11/10/05, Elisabeth Bauer elian@djini.de wrote:
Okay, I do. The foundation as the owner of the name Wikinews is the ultimate instance to decide who is allowed what to do with this name. It can decide to delegate this decision to the community, even for outside relations as in the case of press credentials but it stays their decision. If the wikinews community wants to hand out press credentials, they should submit their policy to the foundation and have it approved by the foundation. Since the policy seems quite okay, I see no reason why the foundation shouldn't accept it, but there's certainly a need for approval as they want to use the trademark in external relations.
Ok, it is rather silly to debate this for 40+ messages.
Board members, please, read over the policy and either approve it so that we can stop this time-wasting back-and-forth, or say that you'll review it, or say that you don't need to review it.
-ilya haykinson