Wikipedia:Bounty board

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 Featured Status. Bounty Hunters then go to work on those articles, trying to get them up to featured quality. If the article becomes a featured article before the bounty's expiration date, the Bounty Keeper donates 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.

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 ...

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.

If you have questions about how this system works, check out the talk page.

Active bounties

Akbar

Amount

$15.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

One of the greatest emporers of all time. Definitely deserves a featured article.

History of Cincinnati, Ohio

Amount

$25.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

There's a section on this at Cincinnati, Ohio that could get you started.

Iran-Contra Affair

Amount

$15.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

Nearly there. Just needs a little extra. Needs thorough NPOV-check.

Kent State Massacre

Amount

$15.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

Nearly featured quality already. Needs thorough NPOV-check.

Médecins Sans Frontières

Amount

$20.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

Disorganized. Needs help.

Military-industrial complex

Amount

$20.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

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

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

3/4 of the way there already.

Mohammed Mossadegh

Amount

$15.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

Quadell

Expiration

October 24 2006

Notes

A relatively important 20th century figure. Needs thorough NPOV-check.

Nonviolent resistance

Amount

$20.00 USD

Bounty Keepor

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

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

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

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}}, {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}, or {{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

Pharos -see 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.

• Question: Who determines what articles qualify? There may be disputes about whether a bio has been written if, for instance, it's a 2-page magazine article bio or something. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 13:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I determine which articles qualify, of course. I'm only counting book biographies.--Pharos 13:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• If a book was first printed prior to 1950 but reprinted with little or no changes to the actual text, are they still eligible?
  • Yes. The idea is that it's been ignored by modern scholarship.--Pharos 15:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Question: It seems to me that to write a FA-able article on a fellow who has been utterly ignored for ~55 years, one would need original research (since if there was a sufficient literature that one could write an FA-able, it is extremely unlikely that they would have been completely ignored in that long a time period.) For clarity's sake, who would qualify vis-a-vis the time limits, and would be FA-able without original research? --Maru (talk) Contribs 05:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Many, many people would qualify. A couple may have qualified already: Sverre of Norway seems a likely candidate. The only requirement is that there hasn't been an English-language biography written about them recently. There are many older sources available and many non-English sources, and there are many lives chronicled in bits and pieces in contemporary literature that haven't had a biography written on them in many decades, if at all. Here's a suggestion: find interesting people mentioned in old books and newspapers that you've never heard of before. Has anyone recently written a biography of Mordecai Manuel Noah, who had a plan to found a Jewish utopia in Upstate New York? Probably not, but there's plenty of available research material. The idea is to drive more people back to primary and secondary sources to find lives that have fallen out of our historic consciousness.--Pharos 05:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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Expired bounties

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