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• Thanks for the excellent write-up. When I have a little more time, I will try this with some events in the US. – ukexpat (talk) 13:54, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
• Bloody brilliant! It never occurred to me that Wikipedians could get press access to games. My hat goes off to the people who thought this up, and to those who took all those excellent photos. Keep up the good work. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:02, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
• Doesn't Wikinews give out some sort of press cards? See wikinews:WN:Accreditation policy, maybe Commons photographers can get accredited there. -- œ^™ 07:42, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
• This is the best Wikipedia idea I've heard in a long time! I would love to get involved in this! Will have to read more. Jason Quinn (talk) 23:11, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
• It would've been nice if Wikinews had had some credit. I mean, Wikinews has been doing this for quite a while. It's by no means a new idea – if we'd been notified, perhaps we could've given some tips. — μ 13:13, February 20 2011 (UTC)

The story by no means said that it was a new idea. It mentioned that they themselves have been doing it since 2008, and linked to a Signpost article from last year about other Wikimedians getting accredited at a very high profile event via Wikimedia Sweden, and of course there are other examples (see e.g. this page on the German Wikipedia). I am not sure if Wikinews can claim credit to have done this first, although it is of course possible, and the experiences of Wikinewsies might be interesting to hear too. In any case the purpose of this story was not to award credits, but to give interesting information and solid advice.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 22:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)