The reward board is an informal page where users who want a specific task related to Wikipedia (such as the promotion of an article to featured article status or the editing of an image) can offer a reward to editors willing to take on the task. The execution and details of the transaction are the responsibility of the participating parties, and the reward can be monetary (including cryptocurrency), goods (books, cookies, etc.), barnstars, or tit-for-tat editing (like improving another article).
Reward board is similar to the defunct Bounty board; however, instead of a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, payment is made directly to a specific editor.
The Wikimedia Foundation is not hiring contributors and no payments are made by the Foundation. This is purely a page for editors to offer rewards to other editors. Challenges may remain open for a maximum duration of one year. After that period of time, the challenge will be moved to expired requests; however, the author of the challenge may repost the challenge with a new expiration period. The aim of this policy is to keep the board clutter-free, ensure editors are available to fulfill such challenges, and to ensure the challenges are still valid.
See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for information about monetary compensation and possible conflicts of interest.
How to offer a reward
[edit]If you would like to offer a reward such as the ones below, simply add an entry below. Add all the details that you feel are relevant to the reward, in a format similar to this pattern:
===Reward title=== *'''Offeror''': ~~~ *'''Date offered''': ~~~~~ *'''Request''': What needs to be done to claim the award. *'''Reward''': The reward you are offering. *'''Limit on rewards''': In the case of possible multiple rewards, any limit set. *'''Expires''': Date until which your offer is valid. Max expiration date is one year from offer date. *'''Sign-up''': Person interested in taking on the task. Please provide expected completion date.
In the case of a monetary offer, please specify country currency. Numerous countries use the same symbols.
Please place new entries in chronological order of expiration. See Wikipedia:Reward board fulfilled requests for past rewards.
Active article requests
[edit]FA Qin Dynasty
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 04:38, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring the article Qin Dynasty up to FA status.
- Reward: An early Ban Liang coin, dating to around the fall of the dynasty.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: (6/24/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
GA or FA Fine Wind, Clear Morning
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:52, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Date offered: 19:52, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring the article Fine Wind, Clear Morning up to FA.
- Reward: An Expo 1970 commemorative 100 yen coin based off the print.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: One year (6/23/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
GA or FA The Motherland Calls
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 19:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring the article The Motherland Calls up to GA or FA.
- Reward: A 1975 Soviet commemorative rouble featuring the statue.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: One year (6/23/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
FA Great curassow
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 19:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring the article Great curassow up to FA.
- Reward: A 1975 Belize ten dollar commemorative proof coin featuring a great curassow.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: One year (6/23/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
FA Keel-billed toucan
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 19:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring the article Keel-billed toucan up to FA.
- Reward: A 1975 Belize five dollar commemorative proof coin featuring a keel-billed toucan.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: One year (6/23/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
FA Arbutus menziesii
[edit]- Offeror: jp×g🗯️
- Date offered: 08:48, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get the article Arbutus menziesii (Pacific madrone) to FA.
- Reward: I will mail you a lathe turning made from Pacific madrone (this can be a sphere, an egg, a tricylindrical Steinmetz solid, or whatever other random nonsense you want that fits in an envelope). If you don't live in the continental United States, you will have to send me a few bucks for shipping.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: One year (2025-05-21)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
FA either George Washington Carver or Booker T. Washington
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 19:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring either George Washington Carver or Booker T. Washington up to FA.
- Reward: An uncirculated Carver-Washington half dollar.
- Limit on rewards: 1
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get an FA on a Native American or First Nations related topic
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 19:11, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a featured article on any topic related to the indigenous peoples of the US and Canada.
- Reward: One lithic (mostly arrowheads, with some scrapers or needles), unfortunately of unclear provenance - collected in the Western US in the mid-to-late 20th century.
- Limit on rewards: 20, give or take
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get an FA on an article related to the government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:44, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Featured Article on any topic relating to the government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Reward: A modern restrike Maria Theresa Thaler or a roughly AU-grade Florin from the early reign of Emperor Franz Joseph. First come, first serve. Both roughly 40$ value.
- Limit on rewards: Two
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get an FA on an article related to the Weimar Republic
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Featured Article on any topic relating to the Weimar Republic.
- Reward: A 10 million Mark banknote from the early Weimar.
- Limit on rewards: Three
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Bring Antioch to GA or FA
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Improve the article Antioch to passing GA or FA.
- Reward: For GA: A follis of Emperor Constantius II minted in Antioch. For FA: A follis minted 1108-1112 in Antioch for the regency of Tancred, Prince of Galilee.
- Limit on rewards: One per tier.
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get a Four Award on an article related to the Latin Empire
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Four Award on any topic relating to the Latin Empire or the Fourth Crusade.
- Reward: An anonymous Trachy from the Latin Empire, minted in Constantinople.
- Limit on rewards: One
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get a Four Award on an article related to the Byzantine Empire
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Four Award on any topic relating to the Byzantine Empire.
- Reward: A Byzantine Trachy from the reign of Alexios III Angelos, minted in Constantinople.
- Limit on rewards: One
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get a Four Award on an article related to 1830s/40s American Politics
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Four Award on any topic relating to United States politics in the 1830s or 40s.
- Reward: An 1830s/1840s copper "hard time" token satirizing the Jacksonian Democrats after the Panic of 1837. (Roughly 15$ value)
- Limit on rewards: Two
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get a Four Award on an article related to the Medieval/Early Modern Baltics
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Four Award on any topic relating to the Baltic region (broadly construed) during the Medieval or Early Modern period.
- Reward: A set of 16th-17th century Livonian schillings; one under Swedish rule, one under Polish-Lithuanian. (Roughly 15$ value total)
- Limit on rewards: Two
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get a Four Award on an article related to Taishō period Japan
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Four Award on any topic relating to Japan in the Taishō period.
- Reward: Ten Taishō-era 1 sen pieces (Paulownia type) and a Taishō or early Shōwa 50 sen (silver).
- Limit on rewards: One. (Also, due to shipping costs, this is limited to users in the United States)
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Get a Four Award on an article related to ancient Indonesian history
[edit]- Offeror: Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
- Date offered: 17:41, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Get a Four Award on any topic relating to ancient Indonesia (roughly applying to the pre-Islamic period)
- Reward: One Javan masa, dating to c. 800-1300 (Incuse Sandalwood flower type). I'm based in the US but okay with shipping internationally.
- Limit on rewards: Two
- Expires: One year (3/27/2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page. :3
Bring any settlement/subdivision in Turkey to GA status
[edit]- Offeror: Youprayteas talk/contribs
- Date offered: 19:12, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Improve any settlement, city, neighborhood, village, province, town, municipality, district, quarter, etc. in Turkey to Good Article status.
- Reward: Two relevant barnstars of your choice.
- Limit on rewards: No limit.
- Expires: No expiration date.
- Sign-up: Message on my talk page.
Bring Appalachia to GA and/or FA status
[edit]- Offeror: Dionysius Millertalk
- Date offered: 20:35, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Improve Appalachia to GA and/or FA status.
- Reward: The {{Appalachia Barnstar}} for both GA and FA status respectively and $100 (USD) for the attainment of FA-status.
- Limit on rewards: One for the push to GA and one for the push to FA.
- Expires: One year from offer date (February 22, 2024 - February 22, 2025)
- Sign-up: If you decide to begin this effort, let me and/or WP:Appalachia know and I can offer any support you may need. To claim the reward, send me a message via my talk page.
Improve Level 3 vital articles to Featured Article status
[edit]- Offeror: feminist🇭🇰🇺🇦 (talk)
- Date offered: 15:43, 10 February 2024 (UTC) (only nominations after this time count)
- Request: Improve one Level 3 vital article to featured article status. Level 2 and 1 articles also count. The reward may be split up to two editors.
- Reward: US$100 or the equivalent in the currency of your choice by bank transfer, or a US$105 or equivalent online donation to a charity of your choice.
- Limit on rewards: Five
- Expires: The article must be nominated as an FA candidate by 10 August 2024 (I reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time)
- Sign-up: Message me on my talk page or email me.
Improve articles on women of the Australian House of Representatives
[edit]- Offeror: GraziePrego
- Date offered: 30 January 2024
- Request: Get any article on the pages Women in the Australian House of Representatives or Women in the Australian Senate to GA status.
- Reward: The {{Systemic bias barnstar}}
- Limit on rewards: No limit on the number of articles!
- Expires: 1 year. (30th of January, 2025)
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page when completed. Many thanks and have fun!
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
[edit]- Offeror: Geardona (talk to me?)
- Date offered: 14:51, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Bring article up to GA class.
- Reward: Tireless contributor barnstar and geography barnstar
- Limit on rewards: None, all significant contributors get one of the two (their choice).
- Expires: 1 year
- Sign-up: Ping me on my talk page on start, nomination, and completion.
- Bonus: If is at FA status, all significant contributors get both barnstars and the speical barnstar.
Bring the atricle "verwurelter" to B-class or above
[edit]- Offeror: UnexpectedSmoreInquisition aka USI (talk)
- Date offered: 19:50, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Improve the article verwurelter to B-class or above.
- Reward: S'more of destiny award (custom wikilove) that you would be entitled to display!
- Limit on rewards: Limit 1, or an extra would be available in the case of multiple accounts.
- Expires: 20 April 2024 (8 pm est)
- Sign-up: Message on my talk page to enter and claim.
Selected anniversaries improvement
[edit]- Offeror: Heart (talk)
- Date offered: 04:31, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Request: Choose a date at WP:Selected anniversaries and open the Staging area. Fix the bolded article on any entry listed under ineligible.
- Reward: An appropriate bar star.
- Limit on rewards: Reasonable number of barnstars, I will not give 25 barnstars if you complete this twenty-five times within a month.
- Expires: One year - 1 August 2024
- Sign-up: Ping me upon completion and I will review the entry to see if it can be moved to eligible and potentially featured that next year!
- Hi there @HeartGlow30797, I have fixed an entry on the May 13 page, specifically the one for Alison Hargreaves. GraziePrego (talk) 06:15, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @HeartGlow30797: I've fixed the citation issue in Frederick William von Kleist, here. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:44, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Selected anniversaries creation
[edit]- Offeror: Heart (talk)
- Date offered: 04:31, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Request: Create entries on WP:Selected anniversaries that will be eligible to be featured on the “On This Day” section. The entries you submit must be different from existing ones. Example: If a day has ten 20th century events that are eligible, try having a pre-1700 entry.
- Reward: An appropriate bar star.
- Limit on rewards: Reasonable number of barnstars, I will not give 25 barnstars if you complete this twenty-five times within a month.
- Expires: One year - 1 August 2024
- Sign-up: Ping me upon completion.
- @HeartGlow30797: Just went through 4 January and requested the removal of Clara Emilia Smitt (Her birthday was both unknown specifically and was in the Spring, not Winter). I also did some required cleanup of Erwin Schrödinger to qualify his death for the day. The talk page has both requests, though neither have been addressed as of this comment. Dionysius Millertalk 16:44, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- @HeartGlow30797 and Dionysius Miller: I have addressed what Dionysius Miller did and moved Erwin Schrödinger to Eligible. Dionysius deserves the barnstar here, not me. Dionysius, for future reference, you can just make these moves yourself. QuicoleJR (talk) 12:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, admittedly my inexperience makes me hesitate where I really shouldn't Dionysius Millertalk 13:01, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Improve Atlantic Canada from Start-class to B-class or higher
[edit]- Offeror: B3251 (talk)
- Date offered: 16:32, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Request: Atlantic Canada is in need of major improvements and expanding. Improve this article so that upon review, it is rated B-class or higher.
- Reward: {{The Maple Leaf Award}} and {{The Geography Barnstar}}
- Expires: When Atlantic Canada is rated B-class or higher upon review.
- Sign-up: Please ping me here or sign up on my talk page upon starting and/or completion.
- Offeror Edward-Woodrow :) [talk]
- Date 23:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- Reward: The Geography Barnstar
- Sign-up: ping me here or on my talk page when you start and when you finish.
Bring the Antigua and Barbuda article to GA status
[edit]- Offeror: CROIXtalk
- Date offered: 21:47, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
- Request: Bring the Antigua and Barbuda article to GA status. If you go beyond that, you will also be rewarded.
- Reward: {{Good article barnstar}} and {{Systemic bias barnstar}}
- Limit on rewards: None.
- Expires: When the Antigua and Barbuda article is at GA status.
- Sign-up: Sign up on my talk page. You may also request further information.
Active programming requests
[edit]Create or complete templates for IRV, STV, and 2RS elections
[edit]- Offeror: Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 20:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Date offered: 20:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Requests: Complete the {{Infobox election runoff}} or {{Election results-STV}} templates to include:
- A way to display final-round or two-party-preference vote totals
- Calculations of exhausted ballots (for {{Election results-STV}})
- Percentage calculations from raw vote totals (for {{Infobox election runoff}})
- Reward: {{The Technical Barnstar}}, {{The Template Barnstar}}, and a bunch of "I voted" stickers (from last time I volunteered at a polling place)
- Limit on rewards: None.
- Expires: Never
- Sign-up: Sign up on my talk page. You may also request further information.
Active other requests
[edit]A good photograph of Peggy (dog)
[edit]- Offeror: Di (they-them) (talk)
- Date offered: 23:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Request: Take a good photograph of Peggy (dog) for her Wikipedia page. The photo must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I believe she lives in East Yorkshire. However, do NOT scare her family or do anything creepy or illegal to get the picture; only photograph her in public, or in private with the consent of her family.
- Reward: The Canine Barnstar as well as a little Barnstar sculpted in polymer clay, which can be attached to a pet collar (or a keychain if you don't have a dog or cat)
- Limit on rewards: If a Commons-compatible image becomes available from another source before anyone can take the photo, the offer will expire.
- Expires: One year from today (27 March 2025) or when a Commons-compatible photo becomes available
- Sign-up: Please ping me if you get the photo!
See also
[edit]- Wikipedia:Awards
- Wikipedia:Task center
- Wikipedia:WikiMoney (historical)