On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 10:42, Todd Allen wrote:
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> 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
Payment "in kind" is still a form of payment. Now, if it's just talking
about expense reimbursement, I'm okay with that (so long as such
reimbursement is done uniformly rather than just for certain people), but
as far as I know that's already been done for a long time.
But it's still bothersome th
Hi Dariusz
in recent years WMF has emphasized the concepts of diversity and equity
that are excellent and desirable but should not forget that Wikipedia
today is what it is thanks to a community that for over 18 years has
supported these projects and that cannot be forgotten from today to
tom
There is merit in discussing that recommendation for what it is about
(perhaps in a separate thread or on the Meta talk page), but it was not
about paid editing.
Best regards,
Bence
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, 13:16 Ilario valdelli, wrote:
> Hi Bence,
>
> I think that this recommendation is ambigous.
You are right and this is what it should be.
Anyways we must consider that the selection of the working groups
followed more the parameters to select the "representatives" of
Wikimedia than the "representatives" of Wikipedia's communities.
Basically the experience in Wikimedia projects has be
Hi Bence,
I think that this recommendation is ambigous. There is a specific sentence:
"We need to pay or otherwise compensate people to participate"
which can be opened to any interpretation.
I think that this recommendation is quite complicated to be accepted by
the community because it asso
The recommendation you link to was about ensuring diversity on decision
making committees, and has this part “We are currently not sure about ‘paid
editing’, and leaning towards not supporting that. ”.
I think it would help the discussion if we did not distort the content of
the recommendations, e
Well then, why aren't you listening?
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, we can get
paid edit requests removed from sites like Upwork, since they will not
allow requests that violate another site's term
