Proposal: Paid volunteers should take care to identify themselves on
Wikimedia Projects and discussions related to Wikimedia Projects.
Sue Gardner's initial report by the WMF into the Belfer case makes a key
decision that there must be effective processes for escalation of employee
activities
Perhaps I'm just being obtuse, but I'm a little unclear on the definition
of a paid volunteer. Could you possibly try rephrasing it so that I'm more
clear?
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A bit of unsolicited advice from a chapter staff member and long-time
volunteer coming up. It doesn't represent my view on this proposal, but is,
as I said, simply unsolicited advice! Feel free to ignore it if you want.
Here we go...
It seems to me that the term 'paid volunteer' is an oxymoron.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, at 22:14, Fæ wrote:
*Definition of paid volunteer:*
Paid volunteers are employees, contractors or part time contractors of
Wikimedia organizations or other organizations having agreements or
partnerships with Wikimedia. The paid volunteer contributes to Wikimedia
projects
Hoi,
I can understand the sentiment and, it makes some sense. However, I do not
like weasel words ... paid employees.. Bah
They are not volunteering. They are on a job, have a mission. I think that
employees of any organisations may work for the benefit of bringing the sum
of all knowledge
On 4 April 2014 14:05, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
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It seems to me that the term 'paid volunteer' is an oxymoron.
...
Yes, it is oxymoronic, many common terms are, though I am open to an
alternative form of words. I understand that volunteers who are also
employees
On 4 April 2014 14:33, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, at 22:14, Fæ wrote:
*Definition of paid volunteer:*
Paid volunteers are employees, contractors or part time contractors of
Wikimedia organizations or other organizations having agreements or
partnerships with
Just a quick correction, you say that Even a paid researcher on a
university project would not meet this definition, unless the project were
part funded or in partnership with Wikimedia.
This is not quite accurate: even a student on a university project would
meet this definition if his
On 04/04/2014, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Just a quick correction, you say that Even a paid researcher on a
university project would not meet this definition, unless the project were
part funded or in partnership with Wikimedia.
This is not quite accurate: even a
Yann, the nuclear industry controversy was more the issue of
control/ownership of content (which can happen on Commons, for example
the news today about attempts to restrict reuse of Barack Obama's
image). It is a tangent to this proposal. If you have other examples
and think current project
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