On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 10:42, Todd Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well then, why aren't you listening?
You appear to be addressing an individual. Your top-posting does not make the addressee clear. > We've been begging WMF for years to come up with a solution for paid > editing. If you actually put something in the ToU against it, What, like this? https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities it was added in June 2014. > we can get paid edit requests removed from sites like Upwork, How's that going, since June 2014? > In the meantime, we get a WMF "working group" wanting to not only allow > paid editing, but have WMF do the paying. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Resource_Allocation/Recommendations/C That page says: "The solutions we are exploring (tentative recommendations) are: "Payment for ‘necessary services’ to ensure equity in who is able to spend their time being a Wikimedian. We’re thinking about Boards, and other 'functionary' roles (Fund committees, etc.) that require special privilege access to data/tools, and have a 'term' for their role in which they are considered to be on duty (e.g. 2 years), and for which they are personally responsible. We are currently not sure about ‘paid editing’, and leaning towards not supporting that. Perhaps this will be decided at a local level, e.g. via the Regional Hubs." -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
