NEWBIE QUESTION: Sorry for coming into the discussion a bit late, but I've been following this for the last couple of days and must have missed and am still failing to understand the legalities/conflicts of interest that would prevent WMF from being the issuer of press passes. What's up with that? Why the need for a separate organization? Chris
On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, wikinews-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:29:53 -0400 From: Craig Spurrier craig@craigweb.net Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Proposal for the creation of a Wikinews foundation To: Wikinews mailing list wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 46CC80A1.6000800@craigweb.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Wikinews Markie wrote:
the accreditation process atm is mostly for english speakers although passes have been issued to others. the main reason its only eng atm is because its the only process to have acheived approval from the foundation.
It was never actually approved by the foundation, nor can they ever safely approve it, hence the need for a separate organization. -Craig Spurrier [[n:Craig Spurrier]]