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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
