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:

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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
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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]]