[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

Wed Nov 9 23:18:14 UTC 2005

On 11/9/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> 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).

The accreditation policy does contain a provision for credential
revokation. It also contains a provision about it being done by
request from the board.

-ilya haykinson