On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 10:42, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Well then, why aren't you listening?
You appear to be addressing an individual. Your top-posting does not make the addressee clear.
We've been begging WMF for years to come up with a solution for paid editing. If you actually put something in the ToU against it,
What, like this?
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en#4._Refraining_from_Cer...
it was added in June 2014.
we can get paid edit requests removed from sites like Upwork,
How's that going, since June 2014?
In the meantime, we get a WMF "working group" wanting to not only allow paid editing, but have WMF do the paying.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
That page says:
"The solutions we are exploring (tentative recommendations) are:
"Payment for ‘necessary services’ to ensure equity in who is able to spend their time being a Wikimedian. We’re thinking about Boards, and other 'functionary' roles (Fund committees, etc.) that require special privilege access to data/tools, and have a 'term' for their role in which they are considered to be on duty (e.g. 2 years), and for which they are personally responsible. We are currently not sure about ‘paid editing’, and leaning towards not supporting that. Perhaps this will be decided at a local level, e.g. via the Regional Hubs."