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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) can offer a reward to editors willing to take on the task, similar to the German edition's de:Wikipedia:Auftragsarbeiten. The execution and details of the transaction are the responsibility of the participating parties, and the reward can be monetary, goods (books, cookies, etc.) or tit-for-tat editing (like improving another article). Please do not post offers of barnstars or other trivial rewards. (Use the Award Center for barnstar offers.)

Reward board is similar to the bounty board, where a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation is awarded for an article's promotion to featured status instead of payment to a specific editor.

The Wikimedia Foundation is not hiring and no payments are made by the Foundation. This is purely a page for editors to offer rewards to other editors.

See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for information about monetary compensation and possible conflicts of interest.

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[edit] How to offer a reward

If you would like to offer a reward such as the ones below, simply add an entry to appropriate category 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 to be considered valid.

In the case of a monetary offer, please specify country currency. Numerous countries use the same symbols.

Please place new entries towards the top of the category.

[edit] Active requests

[edit] Tit for tat requests

[edit] Saskatchewan Highways

I should be able to see improvement of some kind. See WP SK Roads for style.

  • Reward: I'll work on an article of your choice for a minimum of one hour. If there is change in status points are earned to also collect award/s.
  • Limit on rewards: Please let me know of original status, your improvements and editing work for the additional awards.
  • Expires: When they are all FAs.

[edit] Jainism

  • Offeror: Quesoman
  • Date offered: 30 April 2007
  • Request: Edit an article about Jainism for one hour. I should be able to see improvement of some kind. This can be split up between various articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Jainism. No need to contact me beforehand.
  • Reward: I'll do the same on a topic of your choice.
  • Limit on rewards: None
  • Expires: When I remove this notice.

[edit] Enzo Ferrari based cars

[edit] Bulgaria-related FA or GA

  • Offeror: Todor→Bozhinov
  • Date offered: 13:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Request: bring an article directly related to Bulgaria to FA or GA status, regardless of its current shape. If you're not sure what's directly related, ask me :)
  • Reward: I'll do the same.
  • Limit on rewards: No limit.
  • Expires: Whenever I remove this advert.

[edit] Biographies of Chinese people

  • Offeror: Miborovsky
  • Date offered: 07:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Write new articles or improve stub articles on a Chinese person. Expect to see decent level of quality/improvement.
  • Reward: I will respond in kind. Double if biography is on a Chinese soldier or general. Something extra if involved in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • Limit on rewards: Inform me before undertaking the task (but no need to wait for "approval"). I may take a while to reciprocate.
  • Expires: Until withdrawn.

[edit] Central Asia cities or transportation

  • Offeror: FrancisTyers ·
  • Date offered: 19:30, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Spend an hour writing about a city or transportation in Central Asia (Common modern definition) — note this includes interwiki translations.
  • Reward: I'll do the same
  • Limit on rewards: One hour per day.
  • Expires: Until the offer is withdrawn.

[edit] Pokémon FA

  • Offeror: Highway Rainbow Sneakers
  • Date offered: 23:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Promote any Pokémon creature of character article to Good Article or Featured Article status.
  • Reward: For every GA/FA nom promoted, I will promote another article to the same standard (by GA/FA standards)/I will reveal my name.
  • Limit on rewards: Only 3 FAs, but limitless GAs.
  • Expires: The day I start caring about football (never), or when 3 FAs have been promoted.
  • Notes: Articles exempt -

[edit] Apple Macintosh photographs

  • Offeror: grm_wnr
  • Date offered: 11:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Upload one of the missing photographs in List of Apple Macintosh models by case type to Commons (with an appropriate license, of course).
  • Reward: I'll translate an article of the uploader's choice from German to English (or vice versa).
  • Limit on rewards: As many as there are missing images - four at the moment.
  • Expires: When the article is complete or I remove this.
  • Notes:
    • Article length should be related to image quality - a featured-length article translation needs a featured-quality image - when in doubt, ask in advance.
    • Uploader must contact me and claim the reward.
    • For rewards given (one so far) see below.

[edit] Pictures of World War II military equipment

  • Offerer: Carnildo
  • Date offered: 02:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Color photos of World War II military equipment for which Wikipedia has an article but not a free-license color image. Images should have a person in the picture to give a sense of scale: carrying or wearing the equipment for personal gear and weapons, or standing next to it for vehicles and larger weapons. Images should be in the public domain or under an appropriate Creative Commons license.
  • Reward: One photograph of anything the reward-claimer wants per photo provided, provided that I can legally and reasonably create that photo in the Inland Northwest.
  • Photos so far: Image:UofIdaho Arboretum Entrance20060624.jpg in exchange for Image:Bb-38.jpg
  • Expiry: Whenever I remove this listing.

[edit] Translation from German good/featured article and vice versa

  • User: Achim Raschka (de) (please contact there)
  • Date offered: 08:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: The translation of a good article or featured article from the German Wikipedia ...
  • Reward: ... will be rewarded with the translation of an English good or featured article to the German Wikipedia.
  • Limitations: I will try to translate one article/week
  • Completed so far:
  • Expiry: Whenever I remove this advert.

[edit] Roman art FA

  • Offeror: Ferkelparade π
  • Date offered: 00:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Bring Roman art to FA status
  • Reward: Tit for tat - every editor who makes a non-minor contribution to the article on its way to FA may request the creation of one Ancient Rome-related article, or the expansion of a Rome-related stub.
  • Limits on rewards No limit
  • Limit on topics No limit
  • Expiration: When I feel like it - I'll probably not take hundreds of requests if it takes three years for the article to become featured, but I'm willing to be patient :P

[edit] Latin literature FA

  • Offeror: Ferkelparade π
  • Date offered: 00:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Bring Latin literature to FA status
  • Reward: Tit for tat - every editor who makes a non-minor contribution to the article on its way to FA may request the creation of one Ancient Rome-related article, or the expansion of a Rome-related stub.
  • Limits on rewards No limit
  • Limit on topics No limit
  • Expiration: See above

[edit] African countries and cities

I'll match this. - FrancisTyers ·
  • Date offered: 00:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Someone puts in an hour of work on an African country or city article.
  • Reward: I'll respond in kind on another African country or city article; suggestions welcome. Drop me a note on User talk:Matt Crypto.
  • Limitations: Max one hour per day (unless I'm feeling very overburdened with free time)
  • Completed so far: Winneba [1] (me) vs Navrongo [2] (Xed).
  • Expiry: Whenever I remove this advert.

[edit] Club Penguin FA

  • Offeror:  Barkjon 
  • Date offered: 23:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Request: Get Club Penguin to Good Article or Featured Article status
  • Reward: GA Status: An original barnstar and a Editor's Barnstar. FA Status: An original barnstar, a Editor's barnstar, and a Tireless Contributor barnstar.
  • Expires: Whenever I remove this reward.

[edit] Money

[edit] Pablo Neruda FA

[edit] Federico García Lorca FA

  • Offeror: Spanish Club
  • Date offered: 12 December 2007
  • Request: Bring Federico García Lorca to featured article status
  • Reward: US$50 ($50 Roger Davies)
  • Limit on rewards: One reward - can be split
  • Expires: Until removed
  • Notes: Please alert Awadewit when the article has achieved FA status and explain your editing work; award will not be given for simply nominating the article for FAC, but rather for improving and nominating the article

[edit] Miguel de Cervantes FA

[edit] Furry articles

[edit] Dean Smith

  • Offeror: User:Remember
  • Date offered: July 18, 2007
  • Request: Bring Dean Smith to featured article status
  • Reward: $70
  • Limits on reward: In order to get the reward, a person needs to both: (1) be the first to claim the month on User:Remember/Contributions/Reward Board in which the article is promoted to FA status and (2) have contributed during that month to the promotion of the article to FA status. Thus, if user:Joe Smith was the first to put his name under July 2007 on the User:Remember/Contributions/Reward Board wikipedia page, and Joe Smith helped get the article to FA status during that month, then he would receive $70. A editor can only claim a month once.
  • Expires: Dec 2008


[edit] Pictures for Body Mass Index

  • Offeror: Creidieki
  • Date offered: 01:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Pictures wanted to help illustrate a wide variety of body types for the Body mass index article. Take pictures of yourself (or someone else, with consent) from the front and the side, against a neutral background, wearing approximately boxers or sweatshorts (or the female equivalent). You can obscure the face or other identifying features. Include accurate height and weight for the subject, so BMI can be calculated. Pictures must be freely-licensed.
  • Reward: USD$2 each will be paid via Paypal, personal check, or charitable donation. Pictures may be uploaded here or at Wikimedia commons. Please leave message on User talk:Creidieki.
  • Limitations: 9 remaining.

[edit] Any topic related to Belarus, Russia or Ukraine

  • Offeror: wants to be anonymous
  • Date offered: 06:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: create from scratch or raise from pity shape any article related the history, politics, economy, anything of any of these three countries to WP:Featured status.
  • Additional requirement: the editor has to live in any of these three or other former-USSR countries (Baltic States are also eligible).
  • Reward: Reimbursement of three months worth of the costs of your Internet service provider (DSL or other high speed services are also eligible within reason)
  • Notes: please contact the awarding party by email here if you have any questions, to claim an award or if you are interested in cosponsoring. The donor is an established editor (maybe a group of editors) willing to make this offer anonymously. The moneys will be paid in cash in your local currency in an informal manner. If several editors co-edited the article together, the reward will not be divided. Rather all main contributors will receive a full award.
  • Limitations: None. The offer may be terminated at any time while there are no specific plans to do so.

[edit] 35 core topic and systemic bias countering articles

  • Offeror: naerii - talk and Kaldari (talk) 22:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Date offered: 18:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Request: Improve various important articles listed here to GA or FA.
  • Reward: $50 USD for a GA, $100 USD for an FA, or equivalents in your currency. See here for more information.
  • Limit on rewards: Indefinetely.
  • Expires: Date until which your offer is to be considered valid.

[edit] Other

[edit] Shakespeare articles

  • List of articles: Stephano(Shakespeare) and Gonzalo (Shakespeare)
  • Offerer: Dendodge (Talk))
  • Date offered: 21:27, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Request: Take the articles to Start (Gonzalo (Shakespeare) only), B, GA or FA class
  • Reward: A barnstar per stage, I might throw in an extra surprise if you help enough
  • Limit on rewards: Only 2 articles
  • Expires: When both articles are FA
  • Notes: please alert me on my talk page.

[edit] Ismail Faruqi FA

  • Offeror: User:Menj
  • Date offered: 17:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Bring Dr Ismail Al -Faruqi to FA status and contact me once it is done.
  • Notes: I would appreciate if anyone can tell me what's wrong with the article I've been working on for the past two years and have yet to reach FA status.
  • Reward: How about a pat on the back for a job well-done? Just kidding. I will send you a copy of the book Islam by Dr Al-Faruqi. Only 3 copies are available.
  • Expires: Until it is achieved.

[edit] Any FA

  • Offeror: User:Philwelch
  • Date offered: 23:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Bring any article to FA status and contact me once it is done.
  • Reward: I will compose a (potentially violent or lecherous) limerick in your honor. Upon request, I could compose the limerick in honor of the article subject instead. The completed limerick will be posted to your talk page. Limit two per person.
  • Expires: When I say it does.



[edit] Archive of past requests

[edit] Fulfilled requests

[edit] Emma Goldman FA

  • Offeror: Kaldari
  • Date offered: 22:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Bring Emma Goldman to FA status and contact me once it is done.
  • Reward: $30 USD, payable via PayPal. I can donate this to the charity of your choice if you prefer.
  • Limit on rewards: 1 reward available, can be split if requested
  • Expires: January 31, 2008
  • Recipient: Scartol
  • Date awarded: January 2008
  • Paid: $30 to charity per editor's request

[edit] Free-license photo of Anne Frank Tree

  • Reward: $20 for a GFDL, CC-by, or public domain photo of the Anne Frank Tree
  • Offerers: Kaldari ($10) and SEWilco ($10)
  • Date offered: November 22, 2007
  • Expires: When the tree is no longer standing
  • Notes: Photo must be decent resolution and quality (not at night) and feature the tree as the main subject of the photo.
  • Recipient: Miranda
  • Date awarded: December 2007
  • Paid: $20

[edit] Uranus

  • Offeror: User:Remember
  • Date offered: August 3, 2007
  • Request: Bring Uranus to featured article status
  • Reward: $20
  • Limits on reward: In order to get the reward, a person needs to both: (1) be the first to claim the month on User:Remember/Contributions/Reward Board in which the article is promoted to FA status and (2) have contributed during that month to the promotion of the article to FA status. Thus, if user:Joe Smith was the first to put his name under August 2007 on the User:Remember/Contributions/Reward Board wikipedia page, and Joe Smith helped get the article to FA status during that month, then he would receive $20. A editor can only claim a month once.
  • Expires: Already awarded. So expired

[edit] New barnstar design

  • Offeror: User:Clarityfiend
  • Date offered: Sunday, May 27, 2007
  • Request: I would like a futuristic-looking barnstar with a cherry stuck on top, so I can properly recognize some hard-working, deserving devotees of a certain science-fiction writer.
  • Reward: I will copyedit an article of your choice (not too esoteric, please) to a fare-thee-well. It will gleam with polished excellence by the time I get through with it.
  • Expires: When it gets done or I get swallowed by a passing black hole.
  • Update: Ling.Nut has exceeded my expectations in fulfilling this request.

[edit] User:Quatreryukami

  • Offeror: above stated user
  • Date offered: Sunday, May 6 2007
  • Request: Clean up my Main Page (organize userboxes and put them in a Show/Hide box, etc.), and clean up my talk page so there is a directory for my Archived talk, and any messages I want to put there for posters*

Reward: An appropriate barnstar and credit on my pages

  • Expires:When request is complete.
  • lets out breath* done... wanting barnstar... *falls over* ;) --Pupster21 Talk To Me 16:32, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Update: Main page is clean, and barnstar is awarded to Pupster21; I am still looking for someone to organize my talk! Barnstar will be awarded for this as well. Quatreryukami 02:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
User:Quatreryukami did not mention this, but I completed this and I was awarded. Greeves (talk • contribs) 21:34, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Almost any Lithuania-related article

  • Offeror: Renata3
  • Date offered: 21:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Make almost any Lithuania-related article a Featured Article
  • Reward: $50
  • Recipient: Zscout370
  • Article: Flag of Lithuania
  • Date awarded: 04:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: one more reward is waiting for its owner... (see above)

[edit] Tennessee State Museum

  • Offeror: Kaldari
  • Date offered: 21:28, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Write a decent-quality non-stub article about the Tennessee State Museum
  • Reward: $10 or $20 USD (see notes below)
  • Limit on rewards: 1 reward available, can be split if requested.
  • Notes: For the $10 reward, the article must be of acceptable writing quality, at least 400 words (not counting lists, templates, refereces, or external links), and include at least two references. For the $20 reward, the article must be well written, at least 800 words (not counting lists, templates, refereces, or external links), and include at least three references. Reward payable via PayPal only. Can be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation if requested.
  • Recipient: Snailwalker
  • Date awarded: 16:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Paid: $10 to foundation (at user request).

[edit] BMI Images

[edit] Pre-War Blues, Gospel, and Jug Band: Will Shade

  • Offeror: Catherineyronwode
  • Date offered: 22:43, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Create from scratch a biographical article longer than a stub about any individual "red link" pre-war African American rural acoustic blues, jug band, gospel, or songster musician -- or any collective "red link" pre-war African American acoustic hokum, jug band, string band, or gospel group -- and contact me once it is done. Extra rewards paid for articles with photos (but not for photos alone), and extra rewards paid for articles with valid external links to discographies and caches of lyrics (see sliding scale).
  • Reward: Text: $15.00 (US currency) per text article (base rate). Image: Add $5.00 (US currency) if a photo is included (only one photo per page will be paid for, and it must feature the artist -- album covers with generic photos or painted artwork do not count). External Links: Add $1.00 (US currency) per external link to a discography, add $1.00 (US currency) per external link to a lyrics cache. No bonus paid for external links to other biographies, although they may, of course, be cited. Total possible reward per page: $22.00 (US currency).
  • Recipient: → J@red 
  • Date awarded: 19:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Paid: $20 to user.

[edit] Apple Macintosh photographs (partial)

[edit] Interdental plate article creation

  • Offeror: Spawn Man
  • Date offered: 05:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Request: Create an article (whether it be a stub or more) on the Interdental plate that is of a good quality writing & is factually correct.
  • Reward: Just the plain old Image:Barnstar.png - never can have too many, but it always feels good to recieve one for a job well done.
  • Limit on rewards: May take some expert knowledge, but other than that, go wild. Not literally, we can't have any Wikipedia editors outside running around eating out of garbage cans can we now?
  • Other notes: After you have completed article, say you've created it on my talk page & i'll inspect it. If it's okay, you shall recieve your reward in abundance!
  • Recipient: Johntex
  • Date awarded: 06:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Rewarded: 1X Barnstar to user.

[edit] Antikythera mechanism footnote fixes

  • Offeror: Spawn Man
  • Date offered: 10:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Request: The footnotes of the article Antikythera mechanism are all stuffed up. Someone needs to go through & place in the right footnote formatting throughout the article. If you can, there'll be a barnstar waiting for you at the end...
  • Reward: The Image:Barnstar-minor.png (Minor barnstar). You don't see these very often (who really wants a small wee barnstar really apart from you, the bounty hunter?) & like I said, it will be well worth it at the end...
  • Limit on rewards: Must be the correct formatting.
  • Other notes: After you have completed the task, say you've completed it on my talk page & I'll inspect it. If it's okay, you shall recieve your reward in abundance!
  • Recipient: SteveBaker
  • Date awarded: 07:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Rewarded: 1X Minor Barnstar to user.

[edit] Expired Requests

[edit] Nazanin

  • Offeror: --Kickstart70-T-C
  • Date offered: 18:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Link to Nazanin from all appropriate and applicable Wikipedia pages, and deliver me a list of all of those pages to my Talk page
  • Reward: $5 CAD, paid via Paypal
  • Limit on rewards: Flat 5 bucks to the person who does the most and most appropriate links.
  • Expires: May 10, 2006.
  • Notes: This should be a quickie, hence the low pay. Would prefer someone who has knowledge of the Wikipedia human rights related pages to judge appropriateness (I don't want this spammed inappropriately). Bonus points (but no bonus money) if you help improve Nazanin as well.

[edit] Harsco

  • Offeror: MyWikiBiz
  • Date offered: 22:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Create an article in NPOV style, with citations and logo, about this Fortune 640 company, located in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Must be at least as passable as the article about Arch Coal.
  • Reward: $13.65 USD
  • Limit on rewards: 1 reward available, can be split if requested.
  • Expires: 1 December 2006

[edit] MadnessCombat

  • Offeror: User:simonkoldyk
  • Date offered: 23:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: Bring MadnessCombat to FA status and contact me once it is done.
  • Reward: $20US
  • Notes: Payable via PayPal to person who completes or to foundation, whichever the person chooses, should more than one person put substantial work to getting article to FA status then money will be split between them.
  • Expires: January 1, 2007

[edit] Personal Page Improvment

  • Offeror: User:Tktech I would like a list of every programming language, as well as popular IDE's on each platform as a sub list, to be listed under my talk page.
  • Date offered: 18:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Request: List of all programming languages
  • Reward: $20 USD Through paypal.
  • Limit on rewards: I want 1 list. No two trying at the same time. If you work as a team on one list, and each have over 30 entries, you will each recieve $10
  • Expires: Febuary 2007.
  • Notes: This should be a basicly copy-paste job. If it requires a substantial ammount more of time (because of extra details) I will give you a bonus.

[edit] Articles relating to Aquinas College, Perth see list below

  • List of articles: Aquinas College, Perth, Christian Brothers College, Perth and Public Schools Association
  • Offeror: Twenty Years 14:22, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Date offered: 14:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Request: Take the article to FA
  • Reward: I will be offering $20 AUD paid via paypal PER ARTICLE
  • Limit on rewards: No Limits
  • Expires: December 1st 2007
  • Notes: please contact the awarding party by email here if you have any questions, to claim an award.



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