Edit 2018/Pay bounties to developers at-large: Submissions:2019/“Wikipedians are born, not made” – applying the learnings from a 10-year-old research paper after all

Title

Pay bounties to developers at-large

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Relationship Building & Technical

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

Unconference

Author

Inowen

E-mail address

inowencegmail.com

Wikimedia username

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Abstract

The Wikimedia Foundation collects donation monies which should be used for technical workers from the large body of developers world-wide, who are not on staff, but would be receptive to payment in the form of offered bounties. The technical staff on salary should be regarded as a part of overall development. Developers at large require bounties, just as developers on staff require salaries. Volunteers form a third category, and though volunteers would still be vital to the community, offering bounties provides incentive for delivering high-skilled work.

Before the Wikimedia Foundation, most development was done on a volunteer basis. With the collection of monies, the idea of exclusively volunteer type developers should be regarded as passe. Allocation of Wikimedia Foundation monies should include:

• solicitations and even bounties for imagining and planning new technical capabilities
• bounties for individuated tasks working toward creating new technical capabilities

Suf.

Length of presentation

Special requests

Preferred room size

100

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?

No.

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Yes.

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

Yes.

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3. Bawolff (talk) 16:59, 1 September 2018 (UTC)