The last we heard about it Jimbo was going to ask Mike to look at it. If Mike says the WMF can do it, Jimbo says we could "fundraise on wikinews itself to get the money for the Foundation to hire a "Wikinews community liason"" (a job I would be very much interested in :) ). If the WMF can not do it then we need a separate org. Wikinews needs proper press accreditation. One recentish example of this need is we had a reporter covering a protest whose WN press badge saved him from getting arrested and worse. The fact that it worked may very well due to the fact that the police were rushed and had no idea what Wikipedia is. If they had taken the time to really read the card and saw the big disclaimer that says the person is not really affiliated with anything or if they knew about Wikipedia only from one of the anti-Wikipedia articles, there is no telling what could have happened, we could have had our first reporter in jail.
Until we hear back from Mike, there is nothing we can really do, but the need is still very much present.
At the present there is fairly mixed support from the Wikimedia community, but very strong support from the Wikinews community.
-Craig Spurrier [[n:Craig Spurrier]]
Ray Saintonge wrote:
My impression is that widespread support for these measures does not exist. That may also explain why the thread has fallen silent.
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