First of all, I had always thought it was a good idea that an association of accredited Wikinews editors would stay away from the Wikinews trademark, and officially be unrelated to Wikinews, as this avoids the process of being licensed to use the trademark and it allows for it to branch out in many more directions.
I probably was the first Wikinewsie to come up with the idea of a Wiki Journalism Foundation (at least I was the first to pitch it to Erik Moeller), which would exist for the sake of accrediting reporters and giving grants for reporters to, for example, travel to an area devastated by a hurricane so they can report on it. I am pretty sure grants are out of the question unless the organization receives a large grant. In any case, the Wiki Journalism Foundation -- at least per my brainstorms -- would be a member-based organization, with its members being the accredited reporters (and serial donors would be considered 'auxiliary members').
However, it appears that Wikinewsies have decided that it would be best to officially associate an accrediting body with Wikinews itself; I am fine with that. After all, if the Foundation was cool with the idea, there would be very minimal headache in establishing the organization.
Sadly I probably won't be able to become a member of such an organzation, and I'll probably lose accreditation once the accrediting body changes from the vaguely defined "Wikinews community" to a non-profit corporation established with a state's government. However I think this would greatly improve Wikinews's image as a news organization.
On 8/22/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/08/07, Wikinews Markie <newsmarkie@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Does the organisation *have* to be only centered on Wikinews? Can't it
> > be called "wiki journalists of the world"?
>
>
> how many wiki news sites are you aware of?? i'm afraid i only know of the
> one :-)
Is the wiki aspect a significant part of Wikinews? I would not have
thought so. There are many tools you could use to collaboratively
write news.
Is the "citizen journalism" part an important part? -there are many
colleagues there.
Is the free/libre part an important part? IIRC this was a strong
argument when Wikinews began, that many people offer limited
free/gratis news, but no one free/libre news.
Is the 'neutral' part an important part? I would guess so.
cheers,
Brianna
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