Hoi, Odesk is the way the WMF pays people who do not live in the USA. What is expected of a contractor or employee is to register the time worked for the WMF and the contractor is paid through Odesk. This has all kinds of legal reasons.
When an employee / contractor wants to use Odesk in addition to work done for the WMF, they can as long as the contract with WMF does not require exclusivity. Typically people working through Odesk work in the area of software development. Thanks, Gerard
On 8 January 2014 09:04, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
I have not used it but would like to know more. If WMF employees/contractors are free to sell their services as paid Wikipedia editors on oDesk, I think that a how-to-sell-your-services guide would be helpful so that active unpaid volunteers who are not employees know how to go get some money from their hobby.
To date, I have never be paid for my volunteer work, neither have I been an employee of the WMF or a Chapter, but my activities as an active batch uploader and bot-writer for Commons might be fungible and if so, I would like to sell my services ethically and openly.
Fae
On 8 January 2014 07:30, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Can anyone explain the relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oDesk
As I understand it, the Wikimedia Foundation uses oDesk with contractors to track their hours. (Right?)
But it also appears to be a job board of some kind. It seems like a
hybrid
of LinkedIn and Craigslist, though I haven't looked carefully and I'm still lightly poking around. It seems like the kind of place where you
can
post Wikipedia paid editing services. If this is part of oDesk, does anyone know roughly how many people offer or buy these services?
Regarding paid editing, Jimmy reiterated his stance on his talk page saying "I very very strongly condemn such editing, and this is no exception" and expressing his "usual principled objections to such things in the strongest possible terms."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/589723131
I think the underlying issue deserves a discussion, apart from particular examples.
MZMcBride
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