[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

Wed Nov 9 22:00:44 UTC 2005

> 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?

Is it any different to someone going to a conference to talk about
Wikipedia? It will be generally be assumed they're representing the
Foundation, even though there was no community or Board approval for
them to go there and do that. Why couldn't the people making the
apology be the same people giving out the credentials - that is the
community itself.

Angela.