[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Wed Nov 9 21:55:00 UTC 2005
Lars Aronsson wrote:
>The interesting question is what happens when one Wikinews
>reporter abuses her credentials? Say for example that you are let
>into a press conference, and there you start to throw eggs and
>tomatoes on the politician. Who apologizes to the organizers?
>Who revokes the credentials for the reporter who misbehaved? Who
>promises that this won't happen again?
>
>
The Wikinewsies revoke their credentials, of course. We have a process
on Wikipedia (at least on en:) for removing Administrator access when
admins abuse it, so I see no reason why Wikinewsies can't remove
credentials from those who abuse them through a similar process. If
it's some sort of dire emergency it can be temporarily done by fiat to
speed things up, of course (the way developers can de-admin someone
without waiting if it's a major problem).
-Mark
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