[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials
Ilya Haykinson
haykinson at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 23:18:14 UTC 2005
On 11/9/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> 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).
The accreditation policy does contain a provision for credential
revokation. It also contains a provision about it being done by
request from the board.
-ilya haykinson
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