Wikipedia:Bounty board
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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.
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
- 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
- United States invasion of Panama to FA (info)
- Seton Hall University to FA (info)
- David Irving to FA (info)
- John Tams to FA (info)
- Lee Ingleby to FA (info)
[edit] Bounties on individual pages
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If you would like to be a Bounty Hunter, just sign up here and get to work on one of the bounties!
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Unless otherwise stated, these bounties are for promoting the article to featured article status before the bounty's expiration date.
[edit] Raw Power
- Amount
- $20 USD
- Bounty Offerer
- Endlessdan
- Expiration
- 7-1-08.
- Notes
- I tell ya honey it's a crying shame... this article should have been an FA a long time ago.
[edit] Daily Jolt
- Amount
- $20 USD
- Bounty Offerer
- Fishyfred
- Expiration
- When the new design goes live.
- Notes
- A fairly easy one. First order of business is restoring the NPOV. From there, a historical look at DJ might be appropriate as the Jolt continues to lose relevance to Facebook. It still fulfills a function as an anonymous college bulletin board.
[edit] United States invasion of Panama
- Amount
- $40 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Jun-Dai
[edit] Seton Hall University
- Amount
- 25 IMF SDRs, (approx $40)
- Bounty Offerer
- User: Mystache
- Expiration
- 1 August 2008
- Notes
- FA or bust. Will double the bounty if the article reaches FA before Rutgers University.
[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] Peter the Great
- Amount
- $15.50 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Stilgar135
- Expiration
- May 1, 2008
- Notes
- One of the most important individuals in world history. Not a bad article by any means, but should be so much more.
[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] 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.
- I did some work on this one. Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 12:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
[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] 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)
- Half bounty paid for Honored Teacher of the Republic of Belarus, non-stub form. Three cheers for Zscout370! :) Xoloz 04:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan
- Amount
- $11.00
- Bounty offerer
- deeptrivia
- Expiration
- June 16, 2008
- Notes
- Exciting aspect of the Afghanistan history that needs to be featured to educate people about the rich heritage of the troubled region.
[edit] Eric E. Schmidt
- Amount
- $1000.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- User:Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
- Expiration
- April 9, 2008
- Notes
- So far, applies to:
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 04:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] John Tams
- Amount
- $50.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Katemonster
- Expiration
- February 16, 2009
- Notes
- Regarded as one of the most important figures in British folk music. Let's get this featured by the man's 60th birthday.
[edit] Cheetah
- Amount
- US$50
- Bounty offerer
- User:Bloodzombie
- Expiration
- 30 November 2008
- Notes
- Improve to FA status
[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 each (about $10) to a maximum of 10 people.
- Bounty offerer
- h2g2bob (talk) 18:12, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- Expiration date
- When parliament is dissolved (immediately before the next general election)
[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] Wikipedia Meta-Subjects
Daniel Brandt- Sinbad (actor)
- This list is open to expansion. Any other suggestions, questions, or comments should be directed to my talk page. Up to two prizes will be given. Abeg92contribs 20:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
