[Wikimedia-l] Relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk

[Gryllida]

Thought paid editing is prohibited. It could be nice to find ways to enforce that.

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, at 21:50, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> 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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