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

[Craig Spurrier]

Calling it a union have a few problems. A union (at least in US usage) 
refers to a collection of employees who unite for collective bargaining 
and to provide its members with benefits such as unemployment 
insurance.  The other problem with this is that it is not really what we 
are trying to accomplish. We need something that provide us with an 
organization who users can claim membership with, who will confirm the 
claim as well as provide support services for the users.  Unions are 
also for the most part thought of poorly in the US.
-Craig Spurrier
[[n:Craig Spurrier]]
Thunderhead wrote:
> Perhaps "Wikinews Community Union", or perhaps on a wider scale, we could have a "Wikimedia Volunteer Union". Both of these emphasize that the community is involved with the accredidation, while showing that there is a level of authority that oversees the accredidations, and can write letters (in a sense of authority) for the reporters if nessesary (like previously mentioned with Sean at G8). 
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> Of course, we could always go with "Wikinewsie Editors' Service Association", which implies that we only help Wikinewsies, and that we don't really control the Wikinews domain (or have corporate authority over Wikinews). Plus we've already got the domain ;-)
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