[Wikimedia-l] Relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk

[Gerard Meijssen]

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 at 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 at 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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