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The Wikipedia Bounty Board allows Bounty Keepers to post monetary bounties for articles or other tasks. Bounty Hunters then go to work on these tasks. If the task is completed before the bounty's expiration date, the Bounty Keeper donates the bounty money to the Wikimedia Foundation according to the terms of the bounty.

Bounty Hunters

If you would like to be a Bounty Hunter, just sign up here and get to work on one of the bounties!

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] Specific featured article bounties

If these articles become featured articles before the bounty's expiration date, the Bounty Keeper will donate the bounty money to the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, in the name of the Bounty Hunters who worked so hard on the article.

[edit] Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Amount
$50.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Jun-Dai
Expiration
December 31, 2007
Notes
If this comes close to being a featured article, I'll still pay.

[edit] Zheng He

Amount
$50.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Danny
Expiration
December 31, 2008
Notes
This is easy. Make it a Featured Article. It is already in good shape. Thanks to Mocko13 for picking this.

[edit] Dawson's Field hijackings

Amount
$10.00
Bounty offerer
Sherurcij
Expiration
January, 2008
Notes
Very little non-Wiki internet information on the internet about this simultaneous hijacking of 4 passenger jets in 1970. WP has related articles at Leila Khaled and Patrick Arguello.

[edit] Red Army Faction

Amount
$10.00
Bounty offerer
Sherurcij
Expiration
January, 2008
Notes
While there is a wealth of information on the RAF, very little of it seems to have been adequately brought into Wikipedia's article on the group - meaning we are far from a "definitive artive on the RAF".

[edit] Neon Genesis Evangelion

Amount
$10.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Erisie
Expiration
October 4, 2007
Notes
Featured Article by the 12th Anniversary of the series and the Foundation gets 10 bucks.


[edit] 1985 Beirut Car Bombing

Amount
$40.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Jun-Dai
Expiration
December 31, 2007
Notes
This will be tough, since it's a controversial subject with lots of contradictory sources, so I'll pay the bounty even if it fails the FA process, so long as it comes pretty close. (I'm researching this --RWilliamKing 18:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Albertville

Amount
$20.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Hektor
Expiration
June 30, 2007
Notes
The city of the 1992 Winter Olympics. Deserves a featured article.

[edit] Al-Nahda

Amount
$25.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
February 23, 2007
Notes
The "Arab Renaissance", centered around Egypt 100 years ago. Very important part of World history, but few know about it in the West.

[edit] Anekantavada

Amount
$15.00 USD
Bounty offerer
deeptrivia (talk • contribs)
Expiration
October 9, 2007
Notes
A hallmark of Indian philosophy, quite relevant in today's world. Would be great to see it as an FA.

[edit] Anton Bruckner

Amount
$40 USD (or Euro equivalent)
Expiration
July 2007
Notes
Good article that needs some finishing touches.

[edit] Aquinas College, Perth

Amount
$40 AUD - Offered by Smbarnzy 14:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Expiration
December 2008
Notes
Current GA that needs some finishing touches. Has a good selection of images and is previous FAC.

[edit] David Irving

Amount
$20.00 AUD
Bounty offerer
Daveydweeb
Expiration
January 01, 2008
Notes
David Irving is a very important figure in the study of history, providing a powerful example of unacceptable historical method and its demonstration in court.

[edit] Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Amount
$10 USD each
Bounty offerer
Kicking222
Expiration
October 16, 2007, the US release of Grand Theft Auto IV
Notes
Respectively, the game that changed my life and the single greatest game ever made. I would love to see both featured, and I'd love to see one on the Main Page (but please, let the one-paragraph write-up be about how great the game is and how popular it's become, not about idiotic controversy).

[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)

[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.

[edit] Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Amount
$25.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
February 23, 2007
Notes
Afghan politician, spiritual leader, and pacifist. A sort of "Muslim Gandhi", and a real hero.

[edit] Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Amount
$25.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
February 23, 2007
Notes
Arguably the most important Muslim figure in the Indian independence movement. A great scholar and a great politician.

[edit] Nyaya

Amount
$10.00 USD
Bounty offerer
deeptrivia (talk • contribs)
Expiration
March 24, 2007
Notes
Important branch of philosophy (logic).

[edit] Panini/Ashtadhyayi

Amount
$10 USD
Bounty offerer
deeptrivia (talk • contribs)
Expiration date
January 26, 2007
Notes
A truly remarkable grammarian, ahead of his time by millenia. Deserves an FA.

[edit] Teacher of the Year

Amount
$50.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Xoloz
Expiration
February 1, 2008
Notes
Article does not yet even exist. (A good person has taken care of the first bit!) Annual award is bestowed in the United States to secondary school teachers, to which the bounty refers. However, a like additional bounty will be paid for articles on similar programs in other nations, up to a maximum of $400.00 USD total bounty. Half-bounty will be paid if, by the expiration, article(s) exists in non-stub form, even if not FA. Offerer has soft spot for teachers everywhere.
  • Full bounty extended for an additional year -- half bounty paid for US article's non-stub form as of February, 2007! Xoloz 15:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] United States invasion of Panama

Amount
$40.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Jun-Dai
Expiration
December 31, 2007
Notes
(renewing and bumping to $40)

[edit] Virtual community

Amount
$20.00 CAD
Bounty offerer
Kickstart70
Expiration
June 23, 2007
Notes
I will be using this article as an example in a forthcoming book. The due date may be updated to another date one month before or after what is initially listed, to coincide with my soon-to-be child's first birthday (my personal deadline for having this book completed). The date at this initial posting (June 23) is the expected due date.

[edit] Ikey Solomon

Amount
€20.00
Bounty offerer
Irishpunktom\talk
Expiration
February 27, 2007
Notes
Vast amounts of information on an amazing character with an amazing story, and alas I have no time to do the work.

[edit] Hinduism

Amount
£20.00
Bounty offerer
AMbroodEY
Expiration
January 16, 2008
Notes
An ex-FA article that deserves to be featured again.
Amount
$50.00
Bounty offerer
Indianstar
Expiration
August 3, 2007
Notes
Unable to digest that this is not a featured article.
Amount
$11.00
Bounty offerer
Blacksun
Expiration
August 3, 2007
Notes
As mentioned above.


[edit] Wikipedia Meta-Subjects

Amount
$5.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Abeg92
Expiration
April 9, 2008
Notes
So far, applies to:
This list is open to expansion. Any other suggestions, questions, or comments should be directed at my talk page. Up to two prizes will be given. Abeg92contribs 20:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Types of featured article bounties

[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.

[edit] U.S. State Supreme Courts

Amount
$10 USD per article (max bounty is $500 USD if all of them are completed.)
Bounty offerer
Xoloz
Expiration Date
March 1, 2007
Notes
I suggest we try and get New Hampshire Supreme Court, or possibly Maryland Court of Appeals. --LV (Dark Mark) 00:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Animals and plants

Amount
US$10.00 per article, to a maximum of US$100 per calendar year.
Bounty offerer
Kelly Martin
Expiration
Open (annual limit applies)
Notes
For raising any article on a plant or animal to featured status. Withdrawn 1/16/2007 per request of offerer. Bastiq▼e demandez

[edit] Copyediting bounties

None at the moment

[edit] Claimed bounties

[edit] Any country

Amount
$25.00 USD per article, maximum two (for now).
Bounty offerer
Soo
I will match this. Dalf | Talk 23:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Expiration
February 17, 2007
Notes
Any country of any continent, I'm flexible. I'm also willing to take a fairly lenient definition of 'country', so microstates etc. are fair game. Ask me if you're unsure. Soo 01:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Looks like Turkey and Germany, made it. Is there going to be another matching period during the fund drive? I'll sign up for two more with the same deadline. Going to change the paramaters a bit and put this back up. Dalf | Talk 22:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to wait and see if there was another matchign day in the fun drive but I guess not so I just paied this today. Dalf | Talk 23:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Any article with free images

Amount
$5.00 USD per article. Final bounty: $80.00
Bounty offerer
Carnildo
Expiration
January 1, 2006
Notes
For each article that reaches "featured" status between now and the end of the year that uses only images that are licensed with any public domain tag, or any of the Wikipedia-acceptable Creative Commons licenses, or one of {{Attribution}} or {{NoRightsReserved}}. Note that this does not include images licensed under the GFDL.
Final list
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works · Sverre of Norway · Felice Beato · Mandan · War of the League of Cambrai · Music of Maryland · Canon T90 · Pneumonia · Imperial Japanese Navy · Ido · Game theory · Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. · White's tree frog · Prostate cancer · Gettysburg Address · Hurricane Dennis
Paid
January 2.
I'd particularly like to thank Morven, who turned Canon T90 from an article illustrated with "fair use" images to one illustrated with Creative Commons images.

[edit] Médecins Sans Frontières

Amount
$20.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Claimant
CDN99
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Paid
January 27.

[edit] Everyday objects (shoe polish)

Amount
$10.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Creidieki
Link
[1] (see "Selected donor comments", at the top).
Primary author
User:Proto
Date
December 29, 2005

[edit] Expired bounties

[edit] Saitama, Saitama

Amount
$15.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Jun-Dai
Expiration
February 1, 2007
Notes

[edit] George W. Bush

Amount
$100.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Hall Monitor
Expiration
March 31, 2006
Notes
One Benjamin Franklin in exchange for bringing this article up to a certified featured status. If said status can be attained for the likes of Tony Blair and Hugo Chávez, there is no reason the current U.S. president should not be able to as well, and I'm willing to put up $100 for the cause.

[edit] Bob Mizer

Amount
raised from $10.00 USD to $20.00 USD (Asarkees 20:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC))
Bounty offerer
asarkees
Expiration
July 1, 2006
Notes
Extremely influencial American photographer and filmmaker, who arguably defined the male standard of beauty through his work. Founder of the Athletic Model Guild. Recently the subject of a film, Beefcake. The bounty is for a reasonably well-written, well-documented biographical article. It doesn't have to be too long, just complete and relevant.

[edit] Buddhism

Amount
$10.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
June 7, 2006
Notes
This was a featured article, and was recently removed for relatively minor reasons. It looks like just moving some main content to subpages and tidying up the text would bring it back to featured status.


[edit] Diggers (True Levellers)

Amount
$10.00
Bounty offerer
Sherurcij
Expiration
April 2006
Notes
One of the aspects of centuries-old history that seems likely to be lost completely in 100 years, if there aren't continuing efforts to document it - as the internet is becoming the medium of choice for much research and documentation, and WP leads that, seems like a valid idea.

[edit] An African country

Amount
UK £15.00 (currently about USD $25).
Offered by
Matt Crypto
Expiration
1 May 2006 (if anyone wants this deadline extended because they plan to work, or have started work, on an article, then I'm very happy to do so).
You know, it's criminal that there are so few articles on African subjects. I'll do what I can, though my expertise is limited to some specific cases... I'll see what I can do (guinea-bissau, for example...). Pinkville 01:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Notes
One bounty offered for a featured article on an African country article; that is, any of Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia or Zimbabwe. (I can only commit to a bounty for one such article for the present; whichever is featured first.)

[edit] Political parties from least developed countries

Amount
£25 UK (about $40) an article, to a max of 2 articles
Bounty offerer
OpenToppedBus
Expiration date
June 1, 2006 (can almost certainly be extended for anything you're working on at that date).
Notes
This bounty applies to any article on a political party from one of the least developed countries. I'm happy to apply a reasonably broad definition of "political party" - electoral alliances and coalitions qualify, though I would probably exclude something like the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo which was more of a military alliance, unless it could be shown to have had candidates standing in an election. Ask me if you're not sure.

[edit] Rapid transit systems

Amount
£5 UK (about $8) an article, to a max of 5 articles
Bounty offerer
OpenToppedBus
Expiration date
June 1, 2006
Notes
Any article on a rapid transit system. Excludes, of course, London Underground, Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) and MTR, which are already featured. An additional discretionary bonus may be paid if the article is on a system outside the industrialised west. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 12:49, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bank of Credit and Commerce International

Amount
$25.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
November 2006
Notes
A very important scandal. Ties into Binladen and where some of his money may have come from.

[edit] Battle of Blair Mountain

Amount
£25.00 UK (about $40 US)
Bounty offerer
OpenToppedBus
Expiration
July 2006
Notes
I'd never heard of this until I stumbled upon it, but now I want to hear more. A major event in US labor history, similar in importance to the Peterloo massacre in the UK. I've expanded it a lot from a single paragraph, but there's a long way to go.

[edit] Cosmetics

Amount
$10.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Guanaco
Expiration
December 25, 2006

[edit] Iran-Contra Affair

Amount
$15.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
Nearly there. Just needs a little extra. Needs thorough NPOV-check.

[edit] Military-industrial complex

Amount
$20.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
Has a way to go.

[edit] Military-industrial complex II

Amount
$5.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Steve Latinner
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
Adding 5 dollars to Quadell's bounty for this important subject. Possibly focus more on Eisenhower's related speech, economic reasons for war (conspiracy based), and PNAC.

[edit] Nonviolent resistance

Amount
$20.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
There's a lot of content there, but it's disorganized and needs some serious editing.

[edit] Religious Society of Friends

Amount
$15.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
It's nearly there already. Just needs a little organization and fleshing out.

[edit] Complexity classes

Amount
$25.00 USD per article, maximum two (for now).
Bounty offerer
Creidieki
Expiration
December 1, 2006
Notes
Available for any article on a single complexity class or complexity measure, such as NL (complexity), BQP, NP-complete, or DSPACE. Not applicable for general articles, such as complexity class or complexity classes P and NP.

[edit] Everyday items

Amount
$10.00 USD per article, one remaining.
Bounty offerer
Creidieki
Expiration
December 1, 2006
Notes
Available for any of the following articles on everyday items, or possibly for others if I'm asked first: sock, shoe, pants, shirt, hairbrush, toothbrush, table (furniture), door, stapler, food, window, toothpaste, staple (fastener), comb, house, hammer, screwdriver, ruler, cooking pot, bag, gate.

[edit] Cro-Magnon man

Amount
$100 CAD
Bounty offerer
Pathoschild
Expiration
January 01, 2007
Notes
For such a fascinating and studied subject, this article is lacking direly.

[edit] Kashmiri Pandit

Amount
$10 USD
Bounty offerer
deeptrivia (talk • contribs)
Expiration
December 2006
Notes

[edit] Kent State Massacre

Amount
$15.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
Nearly featured quality already. Needs thorough NPOV-check.

[edit] Megatokyo

Amount
$50.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Pegasus1138
Expiration
January 1, 2007
Notes
Already listed as a good article just needs a little bit more work to get featured, well within the range of doing.
  • This bounty has been completed, but (as far as I know) not paid. The bounty offerer appears to have been blocked as a sockpuppet. --L33tminion (talk) 18:36, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mohammed Mossadegh

Amount
$15.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Quadell
Expiration
October 24, 2006
Notes
A relatively important 20th century figure. Needs thorough NPOV-check.

[edit] Velvet Elvis

Amount
$10.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Alkivar
Expiration
January 1, 2007
Notes
Americana

[edit] Jimmy Wales

[edit] Xoloz's bounty

Amount
$20.00
Bounty offerer
Xoloz
Expiration
December 31, 2006
Note
Article is very good already, but offerer strongly believes article on founder should be of highest quality. Bounty is void if Wales himself edits the article at any time between bounty's posting and bounty's claim.

[edit] Bottesini's bounty

Amount
$15.00
Bounty offerer
Bottesini
Expiration
December 23, 2006
Note
I'd like to see it FA. Just putting more money in the pot. Also void if Jimbo edits it.
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