[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

[Ilya Haykinson]

On 11/10/05, Elisabeth Bauer <elian at djini.de> wrote:
> Okay, I do. The foundation as the owner of the name Wikinews is the
> ultimate instance to decide who is allowed what to do with this name. It
> can decide to delegate this decision to the community, even for outside
> relations as in the case of press credentials but it stays their
> decision. If the wikinews community wants to hand out press credentials,
> they should submit their policy to the foundation and have it approved
> by the foundation. Since the policy seems quite okay, I see no reason
> why the foundation shouldn't accept it, but there's certainly a need for
> approval as they want to use the trademark in external relations.

Ok, it is rather silly to debate this for 40+ messages.

Board members, please, read over the policy and either approve it so
that we can stop this time-wasting back-and-forth, or say that you'll
review it, or say that you don't need to review it.

-ilya haykinson