[Foundation-l] getting hired to work on Wikipedia? Make that a"website processing specialist"

[Phil Nash]

phoebe ayers wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 2008/9/29 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
>>>> http://consumerreportingusa.org/wikipedia.htm
>>>> Who knew that "Wikipedia was hiring website processing
>>>> specialists"? Not me, that's for sure! Easy money, here we come!
>>>
>>> It's nonsense.
>>
>> I know that :) The implication I read into it was that they were
>> hiring people to write or post Wikipedia articles, and *that* would
>> be interesting, if true. I may be overreaching, though, and it's
>> just a
>> form letter like Pharos says.
>>
>> -- phoebe

Shame. Having had to give up work through ill-health, the idea of being paid 
for what I already do seems attractive, but my experience is that there are 
"work from home" scams out there where one pays up front for "training" on 
the promise of work, which either never arrives or when you return it is 
found to be "not up to standard" and you don't get paid for it.

Since this type of work is not considered "employment" within UK laws, it is 
largely unregulated and has a poor reputation, and your legal remedies are 
effectively extinguished by the contract you sign, not that most people 
would be able to afford to litigate in any event.