"Magnus Manske" magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote in message news:fab0ecb70710040141k73021480pae3b1a064ac2df30@mail.gmail.com...
On 10/4/07, Nick Jenkins nickpj@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi All,
I occasionally get enquiries from small-business people who want an extension or some custom functionality developed for their company's MediaWiki wiki. Somehow these people end up finding me (god knows how) and ask me for help, or I see people enquiring about this on IRC or very occasionally on this mailing list ... and it seems to me (as a good capitalist) that there is a bit of a missed market-opportunity here.
How about [[Category:Wikimedia developers for hire]]? A single page to send people to. You could make a subpage of your user page to show your expertise, add it to the category, and remove it once you're flooded with work.
Magnus
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Jobs for a page like this that someone started on MediaWiki.org, and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Jobs for the reaction it got.
There was a vague feeling that we shouldn't host such a page at the official site, as it might imply some kind of endorsement or recommendation, but a brief list with links to off-site details and a big and obvious disclaimer was considered acceptable.
Mind you, there weren't many people participating in the discussion, so more input would definitely be useful. Personally I would prefer that the whole thing was kept off-site, and your proposal sounds like a good way of doing that.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)