Wikipedia:Bounty board: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Latest revision as of 11:39, 25 March 2024

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.
Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump.

Shortcut

WP:BOUNTY

The Wikipedia Bounty Board was created in October 2005 and marked historical in November 2013. It was nominated for deletion alongside its sister Wikipedia:Reward board amid general concerns over paid editing and that its aims were contrary to the spirit of a NPOV encyclopedia, and a monetary reward page should not be part of Wikipedia's structure.

The board allowed any user to post monetary bounties for completing Wikipedia-related tasks. If the Bounty Hunters completed 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 was to improve an article to either good article or featured article status.

Expired and claimed bounties

When this board was marked as historical, all open bounties expired.

See Wikipedia:Bounty board/Expired and claimed bounties

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{historical|WP:BOUNTY}}
-[[Category:Wikipedia community]]
+The '''Wikipedia Bounty Board''' was created in October 2005 and marked historical in November 2013. It was [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Bounty board (2nd nomination)|nominated for deletion]] alongside its sister [[Wikipedia:Reward board]] amid general concerns over paid editing and that its aims were contrary to the spirit of a [[WP:NPOV|NPOV]] encyclopedia, and a monetary reward page should not be part of Wikipedia's structure.
-{| style="margin:4px 50px; background:rgb(255,255,235); padding: 10px; border: solid rgb(100,40,60) 2px;"
-|-
-|Would you like to donate money to the Wikimedia Foundation without having to pay for it? Or have you ever wanted to get paid for writing for Wikipedia? Well now you can do both! (Well, sort of - you just don't get to keep the money.)
-|}
-The '''Wikipedia Bounty Board''' is where ''Bounty Keepers'' post monetary bounties for articles they would like to see elevated to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured Status]]. ''Bounty Hunters'' then go to work on those articles, trying to get them up to featured quality. If the article [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|becomes a featured article]] before the bounty's expiration date, the Bounty Keeper [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising donates] the bounty money to the [[Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]], a non-profit organization, in the name of the Bounty Hunters who worked so hard on the article.
+The board allowed any user to post monetary bounties for completing Wikipedia-related tasks. If the ''Bounty Hunters'' completed the task, the person offering the bounty&nbsp;– known as the ''Bounty Keeper''&nbsp;– [[wmf:donate|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 was to improve an article to either [[WP:GA|good article]] or [[WP:FA|featured article]] status.
-{| {{prettytable}} align=right width=240
-|-
-!Bounty Hunters
-|-
-|
-If you would like to be a Bounty Hunter, just sign up here and get to work on one of the bounties!
-* Name 1
-* Name 2
-* ...
-|}
+== Expired and claimed bounties ==
-:''Please note that no one actually gets paid to write articles, as that is considered contrary to the wiki philosophy. The money all goes to the foundation.''
+When this board was marked as historical, all open bounties expired.
-If you have questions about how this system works, check out the talk page.
+See [[Wikipedia:Bounty board/Expired and claimed bounties]]
-==Active bounties==
-===[[Akbar]]===
-;Amount: $15.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: One of the greatest emporers of all time. Definitely deserves a featured article.
+[[Category:Wikipedia awards|*]]
-===[[History of Cincinnati, Ohio]]===
+[[Category:Wikipedia culture|Bounty board]]
-;Amount: $25.00 USD
+[[Category:Wikipedia awards|Bounty board]]
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
+[[Category:Wikipedia defunct noticeboards]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: There's a section on this at [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] that could get you started.
+[[de:Wikipedia:Auftragsarbeiten]]
-===[[Iran-Contra Affair]]===
-;Amount: $15.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: Nearly there. Just needs a little extra. Needs thorough NPOV-check.
-===[[Kent State shootings|Kent State Massacre]]===
-;Amount: $15.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: Nearly featured quality already. Needs thorough NPOV-check.
-===[[Médecins Sans Frontières]]===
-;Amount: $20.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: Disorganized. Needs help.
-===[[Military-industrial complex]]===
-;Amount: $20.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: A good start, but it has a ways to go before it's featured.
-===[[Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934]]===
-;Amount: $15.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: 3/4 of the way there already.
-===[[Mohammed Mossadegh]]===
-;Amount: $15.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: A relatively important 20th century figure. Needs thorough NPOV-check.
-===[[Nonviolent resistance]]===
-;Amount: $20.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: There's a lot of content there, but it's disorganized and needs some serious editing.
-===[[Religious Society of Friends]]===
-;Amount: $15.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: It's nearly there already. Just needs a little organization and fleshing out.
-===[[Water resources]]===
-;Amount: $20.00 USD
-;Bounty Keepor: [[User:Quadell|Quadell]]
-;Expiration: [[October 24]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: A seriously-important global issue.
-===Any article with free images===
-;Amount: $5.00 USD per article.  Total so far: $15.00
-;Bounty Keeper: [[User:Carnildo|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 {{tl|Attribution}}, {{tl|CopyrightedFreeUse}}, or {{tl|NoRightsReserved}}.
-;Articles so far: [[Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works]] · [[Sverre of Norway]] · [[Felice Beato]]
-===Forgotten biographies===
-;Amount: $10.00 USD per article.  Total so far: $0.00
-;Bounty Keeper: [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] -see '''[[User:Pharos/George Psalmanazar Prize in Forgotten Biography|George Psalmanazar Prize in Forgotten Biography]]'''
-;Expiration: [[October 29]] [[2006]]
-;Notes: For every featured article on an individual about whom there has been no biography in English written since 1950.  This is meant both for forgotten figures from history, and figures generally unknown to the Anglophone world. Questions and answers about this bounty can be found at [[Wikipedia talk:Bounty board#Forgotten biographies]].
-==Claimed bounties==
-None yet.
-==Expired bounties==
-None yet.