[Foundation-l] [Wikinews-l] Proposal for the creation of aWikinews foundation

[Craig Spurrier]

The last we heard about it Jimbo was going to ask Mike to look at it. If 
Mike says the WMF can do it, Jimbo says we could "fundraise on wikinews 
itself to get the money for the Foundation to hire a "Wikinews community 
liason"" (a job I would be very much interested in :) ). If the WMF can 
not do it then we need a separate org. Wikinews needs proper press 
accreditation. One recentish example of this need is we had a reporter 
covering a protest whose WN press badge saved him from getting arrested 
and worse. The fact that it worked may very well due to the fact that 
the police were rushed and had no idea what Wikipedia is. If they had 
taken the time to really read the card and saw the big disclaimer that 
says the person is not really affiliated with anything or if they knew 
about Wikipedia only from one of the anti-Wikipedia articles, there is 
no telling what could have happened, we could have had our first 
reporter in jail.

Until we hear back from Mike, there is nothing we can really do, but the 
need is still very much present.

At the present there is fairly mixed support from the Wikimedia 
community, but very strong support from the Wikinews community.

-Craig Spurrier
[[n:Craig Spurrier]]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> My impression is that widespread support for these measures does not 
> exist.  That may also explain why the thread has fallen silent.
>
> Ec
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