[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

Wed Nov 9 21:55:00 UTC 2005

Lars Aronsson wrote:

>The interesting question is what happens when one Wikinews 
>reporter abuses her credentials?  Say for example that you are let 
>into a press conference, and there you start to throw eggs and 
>tomatoes on the politician.  Who apologizes to the organizers?  
>Who revokes the credentials for the reporter who misbehaved?  Who 
>promises that this won't happen again?
>  
>
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).

-Mark