Not only that, but the "success story", Olsson aka User:abbedabb, has never posted to Wikinews as far as I can tell. On May 25, 2015 2:18 PM, "Dennis Bratland" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Accreditation_requests/Dennis_Bratland > > Can anyone help me out here? I understand that they say I lack Wikinews > history, but I thought this is the route we take to get press access. Is > there going to be some *other* application for Wikipedia > editor-photographers like me? > > Dennis > > On Friday, May 22, 2015, Dennis Bratland <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I added my name to the Press Corps draft and submitted an Accreditation >> Request at Wikinews. >> >> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Accreditation_requests/Dennis_Bratland >> >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Raymond Leonard < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Here are some relevant pages: >>> >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_Corps >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Press_Corps >>> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Accreditation_policy >>> >>> Yours, >>> Peaceray >>> >>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Jason Moore < >>> [email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > I love the idea of getting press passes to special events, conferences, >>> > performances, etc. I wonder if there exists a press pass request form >>> that >>> > has been used successfully by other affiliates. I don't know if >>> acquiring a >>> > press pass is difficult because it requires certain credentials, if it >>> is >>> > as simple as sending an email to the event organizer, or if it just >>> depends >>> > on the event and staff... Worth a try! >>> > >>> > Jason >>> > >>> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Some of us discussed at WMCON that a local Wikimedia affiliate can >>> > > sometimes get press-level access. This is a blog entry about just >>> such an >>> > > occurrence at Eurovision 2014. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/no-interviews-except-wikipedia-documenting-eurovision-song-contest-commons/ >>> > > >>> > > Pine >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >>> > > [email protected] >>> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
