[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

Fri Nov 11 16:03:31 UTC 2005

--- Jean-Baptiste Soufron <jbsoufron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 

> And this leads to my third and more important point. Accreditating 
> people will transform the Foundation from being a publisher to becoming 
> an editor... which means that we will now be liable for any content 
> written on the website by anyone else.
> 
> Are you sure that the Foundation is ready to become liable for anything 
> written on Wikinews ?
> 
> If yes, I think this would be a major change of the Foundation policy.

Let me be clear. The foundation *would not* be accrediting anybody. Period. All
the foundation would do is give permission for those people who have gone
through a *community run* and accreditation process to use the Wikinews name
and logo on press badges. 

-- mav

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