 | Would you like to improve articles without having to write them? Or have you ever wanted to make money for Wikimedia without paying it yourself? Now you can do both! | 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 article. 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. [edit] Recently added [edit] Bounties on individual pages | Bounty Hunters | | If you would like to be a Bounty Hunter, just sign up here and get to work on one of the bounties! | Unless otherwise stated, these bounties are for promoting the article to featured article status before the bounty's expiration date. - Amount
- US$25
- Bounty offerer
- User:Åkebråke
- Expiration
- December 31, 2010
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- Amount
- US$25
- Bounty offerer
- User:Åkebråke
- Expiration
- December 31, 2010
- Notes
- I would like to see some physicists contributing to the article, not only physicians.
- Amount
- US$100
- Bounty offerer
- User:Åkebråke
- Expiration
- December 31, 2010
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- Amount
- US$10 (or max 100 SEK)
- Bounty offerer
- MrStalker
- Expiration
- March 28, 2010
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- Amount
- US$250
- Bounty offerer
- Ian Pitchford
- Expiration
- 31 May 2010
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- Amount
- US$250
- Bounty offerer
- Roger Davies
- Expiration
- 31 Mar 2010
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- Amount
- US$250
- Bounty offerer
- Roger Davies
- Expiration
- 31 Dec 2009
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- Amount
- US$250
- Bounty offerer
- Roger Davies
- Expiration
- 31 Dec 2009
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
- 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.
- Amount
- $20 USD
- Bounty Offerer
- Endlessdan
- Expiration
- --
- Notes
- I tell ya honey it's a crying shame... this article should have been an FA a long time ago.
- Amount
- $40 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Jun-Dai
- 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.
- Amount
- $1.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Silence
- Expiration
- December 1, 2055
- Notes
- This important topic deserves to be featured.
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) - 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)
- 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)
- Amount
- US$25
- Offerer
- User:Jarhed
- Expiration
- When it becomes GA status or gets deleted, I don't care which
- Amount
- For "GA" status, $10; for "FA" status, $50
- Offerer
- User:Agradman
- Expiration
- Howzabouts October 30, 2009.
- Notes: The discussion page is replete with online sources, so it's just a matter of paraphrasing & citing.
[edit] Bounties on groups of articles [edit] UK Members of Parliament - Amount
- Improve any currently serving MP or 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 2009)
- Comments
- Doubled to £10. --h2g2bob (talk) 22:50, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lisp articles - Amount
- $10 USD an article, to a max of 2
- Bounty offerer
- maru dubshinki
- Expiration date
- One day before the Trumps of Doom sound.
- Notes
- This is intended for articles like Lisp programming language, cons, Lisp machine, John McCarthy (computer scientist), Richard P. Gabriel, Richard Stallman, Emacs etc. Note that if you claim the bounty on RMS, for example, this can stack with my GNU/FSF/EFF bounty. If you have questions, contact me- if it is in the Lisp category, or is written in a Lisp dialect, it's a pretty good bet.
[edit] GNU/FSF/EFF articles - Amount
- $10 USD an article, to a max of 2
- Bounty offerer
- maru dubshinki
- Expiration date
- One day before the Trumps of Doom sound.
- Notes
- Any article relating to the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Project Gutenberg is acceptable as well. Note that if you choose your articles right, this can stack with my previous Lisp bounty- a Emacs/GNU Emacs FA would be able to claim both bounties. Acceptable articles include the foundation articles, their software, important personages, legislation or court cases they were involved in or (in the case of the EFF) defended &etc. If you have question about a specific article, contact me.
[edit] Medieval Japanese poets - Amount
- $5 USD an article, to a max of 1
- Bounty offerer
- maru dubshinki
- Expiration date
- One day before the Trumps of Doom sound.
- Notes
- This bounty applies to any article on a Japanese poet who was born before 1500 CE. This can include their biographical article, or articles on anthologies they worked on or had work included in, or their own works. Examples would include Shotetsu, Fujiwara no Teika, the Kokin Wakashū etc. No restrictions on genre.
[edit] Star Wars articles - Amount
- $10 USD an article, to a max of 2 (first one claimed for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
- Bounty offerer
- maru dubshinki
- Expiration date
- One day before the Trumps of Doom sound.
- Notes
- If it involves any aspect of Star Wars, it's good. However, Palpatine is specifically dis-allowed- please see the bounty specifically for Palpatine. Examples would include Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda, Prophets of the Dark Side &etc. If it's in Category:Star Wars, it counts.
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[edit] Bounties for other tasks [edit] Transwiki watchlist tool - Amount:$50 USD
- Bounty offerer MrZaiustalk 11:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC) (Anyone else want in? Surely I'm not the only one who'd want this.)
- Expiration date Projected retirement date, ~2038 - Maximum of a single payout.
- Notes: Develop an open-source, web-based tool or mediawiki extension allowing for aggregating watchlists from multiple sites accessible from the tool's host (ie, a corporate intranet). Preexisting stand-alone client side tools and/or browser extensions are unacceptable solutions to this problem due to security reasons and lack of portability. While it would be acceptable for the watchlist tool to be limited in scope to Wikimedia projects, it would be much preferred if it were able to also parse Wikia and unaffiliated hosts's watchlists.
Bonus! $15 extra for a tool that mimicks popups with tools in a host-neutral manner. Y Done Introducing Watchlistr - a transwiki watchlist tool. It can parse any mediawiki-based wiki, but currently only includes the Wikimedia projects (because I'm not sure what other wikis would be good to include). Does not currently mimic Popups, but it's only in Beta (so that might be a future addition). I'm still doing some testing on it, so you might encounter some error messages here and there - tell me if you come across any. Also, let me know if there's anything else you would like added to it. Cat1205123 (talk) 17:14, 22 July 2009 (UTC) - Does this require an editor to enter their Wikipedia username and password? I'd be somewhat concerned about sharing the password with an outside site; this was an issue in the past with various studies and other software. Risker (talk) 18:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
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- Yes, it does. Q T C 19:40, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
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- It does, I'm afraid. As there is no way to see other users' watchlists, we have to log in as you to download it. I've detailed how we store the passwords (securely) here. I'd also be willing to release the source code if someone would like to do a code audit (which might not be a bad thing). Cat1205123 (talk) 05:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
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- Update: Pending code audit, I have disabled registrations and removed all users from the database. MrZaius - you may end up having to keep your $50. I tried the most secure way of producing a transwiki watchlist tool, but even then received a rather massive backlash from the community. It would appear that there is, currently, no way to do this securely enough for everyone. Cat1205123 (talk) 06:37, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Great to see some progress here. While security concerns from automated attacks may be relevant here, it is nice to see the tool's sourced released and available for private hosting. Wouldn't use this as a service myself for precisely the same reasons described above, but intend to test this on personally controlled hosting account in mid-August after a brief wikibreak. Thanks, MrZaiustalk 09:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC) -
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- Update (again): So, it turns out that the devs added functionality to MediaWiki (and my extension, Wikipedia, et. al.) for pulling watchlists without requiring a password some time ago. Now, instead of requiring a password, it uses a token that can be found under My Preferences -> Watchlist. I am updating/have updated Watchlistr to incorporate these changes. It's currently usable now, but I'm still making some transitions, pulling some old code, etc. - and it should be 100% ready in a few days! Cat1205123 (talk) 23:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
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