OKA/Onboarding quick start & resources list
Welcome to OKA! This guide provides you with all the instructions required for a smooth start. It also lists the key resources that you may need in your work – feel free to bookmark it.
Internal tools
[edit]Communicating with other freelancers
[edit]- We try to avoid email communication and use chat instead. Feel free to reach out to your peers if you need help (email, chat, video conference, etc.), or even if you just want to talk to get to know them!
- Make sure to also join the group spaces (only available to OKA members):
- Wiki questions and best practices, where you can ask questions related to Wikipedia and share tips
- General, where you can chat about anything else
Tracking time
[edit]- Keep track of your hours in app.clockify.me.
- On average, you should bill no more than 40h per week, but you have full flexibility on when you work (time of the day, day of the week).
- You can, for example, work 6h one day, and 10h the next day.
- You can take days off whenever you want, but these are not paid.
- When entering hours, select the project and add the name of the article on which you worked (in English) as description.
- Minor edits that took less than an hour can be bundled together in one line with a generic description.
Processes & guidelines
[edit]General instructions about our values and how to translate pages:
- Main instructions (translating into EN WP)
- Other instructions (translating into non-English Wikipedia)
Optional checklist to guide you through the various stages of translation:
Working lists
[edit]Tracking your work: please also keep the list of articles you are working on or completed daily up to date this file:
Ways of working
[edit]Responding to messages outside of working hours
[edit]OKA has freelancers, managers and admins based in many different countries around the world, with various time zones and working preferences. As a result, you will often receive messages (e.g., emails, chat messages) outside of your working hours.
However, you are not expected to read nor reply to these messages right after you received them! For example, if an admin messages you during a Sunday but you only work on Wednesdays to Fridays, it is completely ok to wait until Wednesday to reply to the message.
Contact a Team Manager
[edit]Use the following links to schedule time with a Team Manager (only by prior arrangement via chat or email):