The Wikipedia Bounty Board allows any user to post monetary bounties for completing Wikipedia-related tasks. If the Bounty Hunters complete the task, the person offering the bounty – known as the Bounty Keeper – donates the bounty money to the Wikimedia Foundation in the name of the Bounty Hunters who worked so hard on the task. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which runs Wikipedia. (Donating money in the name of someone else is called alternative giving.)
Normally the task is to improve an article to either good article or featured article status. (Good articles are well-sourced articles covering all major aspects of a topic, and have no major problems. Featured articles are the best articles Wikipedia has to offer and are formally peer-reviewed by Wikipedians.)
- How to make an offer
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- Add your request to the list below. Please include your username and the name of the page you want to place a bounty on.
- If you like, add the {{bounty}} template to the talk page and {{bountywp}} to related wikiprojects.
- Wait for the article to improve.
- Make your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation.
If you have questions about how this system works, check out the talk page. If you would like to post or seek a reward in which the gift is made to the editors rather than the Foundation, please see the Wikipedia:Reward board instead.
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[edit] Bounties on individual pages
Unless otherwise stated, these bounties are for promoting the article to featured article status before the bounty's expiration date.
[edit] Special forces
- Amount
- $A50 for good article status, $A75 for Military History Wikiproject A-class status, and A$100 for FA status
- Bounty offerer
- User:Nick-D
- Expiration
- 1 January 2013
[edit] Behavioural Genetics
- Amount
- $15.00 USD for at least good article status, if not featured status
- Bounty Offerer
- User: Zzaffuto118
- Expiration
- December 31st, 2012
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- Based on how fast and well the article turns out, I will consider giving a bonus
[edit] Stroke
- Amount
- $50 for Good Article status and an additional $100 Featured Article Status
- Bounty offerer
- User:Åkebråke
- Expiration
- November 3, 2012
[edit] Absolute value
- Amount
- $5.00 USD for Good Article status and an additional $10.00 USD for Featured Article Status
- Bounty offerer
- User:KlappCK
- Expiration
- October 3, 2012
- Notes
- This important topic deserves expansion.
[edit] Heaviside Step Function
- Amount
- $5.00 USD for Good Article status and an additional $10.00 USD for Featured Article Status
- Bounty offerer
- User:KlappCK
- Expiration
- October 3, 2012
- Notes
- This important topic deserves expansion.
[edit] Sign Function
- Amount
- $5.00 USD for Good Article status and an additional $10.00 USD for Featured Article Status
- Bounty offerer
- User:KlappCK
- Expiration
- October 3, 2012
- Notes
- This important topic deserves expansion.
[edit] Dirac Delta Function
- Amount
- $5.00 USD (for Featured Article Status)
- Bounty offerer
- User:KlappCK
- Expiration
- October 3, 2012
- Notes
- This important topic deserves expansion.
[edit] Inflation
- Amount
- $1.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Silence
- Expiration
- December 1, 2055
- Notes
- This important topic deserves to be featured.
[edit] Question from Ta bu shi da yu
Will this account for inflation?
- Hehe, I had the same thought. -Fsotrain09 22:21, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- Terrible, horrible joke. -Utopianfiat 15:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- Given the expiry date tho, I can't help wondering if this occured to the offerer as well. If it didn't sorry I hope I didn't offend you 203.109.240.93 17:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
The Time Travel Fund might be useful here — see website (though more for amusement). Jackiespeel (talk) 15:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Accessibility
- Amount
- US$50 for GA, US$100 for FA
- Bounty offerer
- User:Dodoïste
- Expiration
- N/A
- Notes
- I probably won't notice changes on this page. When the article reach GA or FA status, please notify me at my talk page so that I make the donation. Have fun!
[edit] Kentucky
- Amount
- One award
- Offeror
- General Eisenhower
- Expiration
- Until it becomes FA
- Notes
- Pretty good sized already. Want it to become featured becuase I was born in state.
- Question
- what do you mean by "one award"? I'd love to do it, but I don't know much about Kentucky.cdmajava There are always possibilities... 00:22, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nanking Massacre
- Amount
- US$20
- Offerer
- A little insignificant
- Expiration
- When it becomes GA status.
- Notes
- Completely POV, certain editors allowing the bare minimum of information involving denial of the "atrocities". Peoples, if you're looking for a challenge, this article is for you. I foresee a nice long edit war. just a little insignificant 23:25, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Rod Serling
- Amount
- US$1000
- Bounty offerer
- Twilight Bounty (talk)
- Expiration
- N/A
- Notes
- This is a legitimate offer despite my lack of contributions (in the form of edits or donations, actually) to Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the past. Please see my user page for details if you're curious and/or suspicious. At any rate, I was trying to decide on an article and was horrified at the references, or rather lack thereof, here. To see this article on Wikipedia's main page some day would be wonderful; show the man proper respect with page numbers from actual books and the like and I'll be happy though.
[edit] Usability
- Amount
- US$50 for GA, US$100 for FA
- Bounty offerer
- User:Dodoïste
- Expiration
- N/A
- Notes
- I probably won't notice changes on this page. When the article reach GA or FA status, please notify me at my talk page so that I make the donation. Have fun!
[edit] Wario
- Amount
- $50.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- DocSigma
- Expiration
- Never
- Notes
- I really want this to become one of the (very few) articles to regain FA status after losing it.
[edit] Gay Nigger Association of America
- Amount
- $100 for Featured Article Status.
- Bounty offerer
- User:TehBrandon
- Expiration
- December 1, 2012
- Notes
- Would be great to see this article better sourced so that it may be featured.
[edit] Qutb Minar
- Amount
- USD $35 for Featured Article status.
- Bounty offerer
- Fireblazex3
- Expiration
- N/A
- Notes
- Would love to see it featured. It's pretty important and for me, close to heart.
[edit] A Canterlot Wedding
- Amount
- USD $5 for GA, $7 for FA
- Bounty offerer
- Ciaran
- Expiration
- 2013
- Notes
- I'd love to see a featured MLPFiM article. IMO this has been the best episode, so I chose this one for the bounty board.
[edit] Bounties on groups of articles
[edit] UK Members of Parliament
- Amount
- Improve any currently serving MP, any MP from the previous session or any member of the House of Lords to good article status for
£5£10 each (about $16) to a maximum of 10 people. - Bounty offerer
- h2g2bob (talk) 18:12, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- Expiration date
- When parliament is dissolved for the next election (probably 2015)
- Comments
- Doubled to £10. --h2g2bob (talk) 22:50, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
- "The next United Kingdom general election is due to take place on or before 3 June 2010, barring exceptional circumstances." - Dravecky (talk) 19:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
- The UK Parliament dissolved on 12 April 2010. Has this request therefore expired or could it be changed to focusing on MPs from that Parliament? Cloudbound (talk) 16:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Bounties for other tasks
[edit] A working WebCiteBOT
- Amount: $535 USD.
- Bounty offerers (and amounts and expiration dates):
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- user:Agradman 00:13, 11 November 2010 (UTC) ($35) (Until complete.)
- --Eysen (talk) 17:42, 9 February 2011 (UTC) ($500) Conditions: 1) WebCiteBot gets approved and 2) is continuously running for at least 1 month, 3) archives all new wikipedia references (except perhaps spam links which are removed immediately), 4) if possible, hands over Dublin Core metadata of the cited reference [from the reference information at Wikipedia] if available to webcitation.org when making the archiving request, 5) adds a link to the WebCite snapshot to the reference at wikipedia (possibly with the archiving date), and 6) has archived at least 5000 references
- Notes:
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- This request is open for others to join. Under "bounty offerers," add your name & amount & expiration date. Then, update the "amount" field to reflect the latest sum.
- If anyone has a couple of test cases, I think I can add this into one of my existing tools. ΔT The only constant 16:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
- one example. ΔT The only constant 17:15, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
- tools:~betacommand/webcite.html ΔT The only constant 16:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_External_links/Webcitebot2
- http://www.webcitation.org/faq
Note: I have just returned to Wikipedia and hope to have the original WebCiteBOT back up and running within the next few days unless people object to me doing so here --ThaddeusB (talk) 23:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
After a very long absence, I am back and have restarted the bot. Initial tests are now underway. I will post another update when the bot is running full time. --ThaddeusB (talk) 01:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)