Projects
This page was last updated 25 Dec 2013.
Crowd worker tools
Worker tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Worker-made user scripts from the HITsWorthTurkingFor scripts index:
- Block requesters
- Pending earnings
- Today’s projected earnings
- Expanded header info
- Requester ID & auto approval time
- Amazon Payments mTurk details
- MTurk HIT database (local database of HITs completed by the local browser user)
- MTurk dashboard change notifier (screenshot)
- MTurk worst case scenario calculator
- MTurk best case scenario calculator
- MTurk status page chart
- MTurk dashboard HIT status links
- MTurk block individual requests (i.e., hide HITs)
- Show my worker ID (for use in external surveys)
- MTurk time tracker
- HIT timer
- Turkopticon user script with block requester feature added
- Tweaks for Google search engine rankings HITs
- MTurk great HITs export updated (for standardizing HIT postings on HITsWorthTurkingFor)
- MTurk Tracker. Searchable database of task groups on Mechanical Turk, with visualizations. Open source codebase, with database API. Design by Panos Ipeirotis; implementation by 10clouds.
- Microtask Liberation Front. Worker-friendly task recommendation system, under development (github repo) by Jonathan Bragg, Lydia Chilton, Daniel Haas, Rafael Leano, Adam Marcus, and Jeff Rzeszotarski.
- Turkopticon. Employer review system. Maintained by Lilly Irani, Six Silberman, Taintturk, and Anne M. Problems discussed here and here. Cache maintained by Mikuchan here; userscript version by Mikuchan here; documentation fo these versions here.
Crowd worker forums
General crowd work forums
Mechanical Turk-specific
Potentially relevant organizations
- Freelancers Union (wikipedia entry; New York Times article [by Steven Greenhouse, 23 Mar 2013], “Tackling concerns of independent workers”)