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=== [[Gay Nigger Association of America]] ===
; Amount: $15 for featured
; Bounty offerer: [[User:Princess Derpy|Princess Derpy]] ([[User talk:Princess Derpy|talk]])
; Expiration: December 15, 2012
; Notes: None


== Bounties on groups of articles ==
== Bounties on groups of articles ==

Revision as of 23:50, 24 January 2012

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 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 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
  1. Add your request to the list below. Please include your username and the name of the page you want to place a bounty on.
  2. If you like, add the {{bounty}} template to the talk page and {{bountywp}} to related wikiprojects.
  3. Wait for the article to improve.
  4. 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.

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

Bounties on individual pages

Unless otherwise stated, these bounties are for promoting the article to featured article status before the bounty's expiration date.

Amount
$50 for Good Article status and an additional $100 Featured Article Status
Bounty offerer
User:Åkebråke
Expiration
November 3, 2012
Amount
$15.00 USD for at least good article status, if not featured status
Bounty Offerer
User: Zzaffuto118
Expiration
December 31st, 2012
    • Based on how fast and well the article turns out, I will consider giving a bonus


Amount
$5.00 USD for Good Article status and an additional $10.00 USD for Featured Article Status
Bounty offerer
User:KlappCK
Expiration
October 3, 2012
Notes
This important topic deserves expansion.
Amount
$5.00 USD for Good Article status and an additional $10.00 USD for Featured Article Status
Bounty offerer
User:KlappCK
Expiration
October 3, 2012
Notes
This important topic deserves expansion.
Amount
$5.00 USD for Good Article status and an additional $10.00 USD for Featured Article Status
Bounty offerer
User:KlappCK
Expiration
October 3, 2012
Notes
This important topic deserves expansion.
Amount
$5.00 USD (for Featured Article Status)
Bounty offerer
User:KlappCK
Expiration
October 3, 2012
Notes
This important topic deserves expansion.
Amount
(in USD) $100 for FA, $75 for A, $50 for GA, $35 for B, $20 for C, $10 for Start.
Bounty offerer
Achowat (talk)
Expiration
11 April 2012
Amount
US$24
Offerer
User:Ganeshbhakt
Expiration
After the TED 2012 conference (March 2, 2012)
Amount
$1.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Silence
Expiration
December 1, 2055
Notes
This important topic deserves to be featured.

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)[reply]
Terrible, horrible joke. -Utopianfiat 15:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

The Time Travel Fund might be useful here — see website (though more for amusement). Jackiespeel (talk) 15:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Amount
US$50 for GA, US$100 for FA
Bounty offerer
User:Dodoïste
Expiration
N/A
Notes
I probably won't notice changes on this page. When the article reach GA or FA status, please notify me at my talk page so that I make the donation. Have fun!
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.
Question
what do you mean by "one award"? I'd love to do it, but I don't know much about Kentucky.cdmajava There are always possibilities... 00:22, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Amount
US$20
Offerer
A little insignificant
Expiration
When it becomes GA status.
Notes
Completely POV, certain editors allowing the bare minimum of information involving denial of the "atrocities". Peoples, if you're looking for a challenge, this article is for you. I foresee a nice long edit war. just a little insignificant 23:25, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Amount
US$1000
Bounty offerer
Twilight Bounty (talk)
Expiration
N/A
Notes
This is a legitimate offer despite my lack of contributions (in the form of edits or donations, actually) to Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the past. Please see my user page for details if you're curious and/or suspicious. At any rate, I was trying to decide on an article and was horrified at the references, or rather lack thereof, here. To see this article on Wikipedia's main page some day would be wonderful; show the man proper respect with page numbers from actual books and the like and I'll be happy though.
Amount
US$50 for GA, US$100 for FA
Bounty offerer
User:Dodoïste
Expiration
N/A
Notes
I probably won't notice changes on this page. When the article reach GA or FA status, please notify me at my talk page so that I make the donation. Have fun!
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.
Amount
£1.00 GBP
Bounty offerer
Wagner
Expiration
May 6 2012
Notes
I really want this to become featured, unsure why, but I just do. When it's featured please contact me at my user talk so I can donate.
Amount
$20.00 USD
Bounty offerer
Mythpage88 (talk)
Expiration
Feb 24 2012
Notes
None
Amount
$1 for good article, additional $1 for featured.
Bounty offerer
Wagner
Expiration
December 31 2012
Notes
An article with potential to be a much better article.
Amount
$15 for featured
Bounty offerer
Princess Derpy (talk)
Expiration
December 15, 2012
Notes
None

Bounties on groups of articles

Opium Wars

Amount
Improve the Opium Wars, First Opium War and Second Opium War articles to GA. $10 for the first article, $20 for the second, and $30 for the third.
Bounty offerer
Åkebråke
Expiration
December 31, 2011

Indian Members of Parliament

Amount
For each MP promoted to GA status - US$15 (bonus US$20, if promoted to featured article status) (initially valid for 20 7 MPs)
Bounty offerer
Ganeshbhakt
Expiration date
January 1, 2012

UK Members of Parliament

Amount
Improve any currently serving MP, any MP from the previous session or any member of the House of Lords to good article status for £5 £10 each (about $16) to a maximum of 10 people.
Bounty offerer
h2g2bob (talk) 18:12, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Expiration date
When parliament is dissolved for the next election (probably 2015)
Comments
Doubled to £10. --h2g2bob (talk) 22:50, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bounties for other tasks

A working WebCiteBOT

  • Amount: $535 USD.
  • Bounty offerers (and amounts and expiration dates):
  1. user:Agradman 00:13, 11 November 2010 (UTC) ($35) (Until complete.)[reply]
  2. --Eysen (talk) 17:42, 9 February 2011 (UTC) ($500) Conditions: 1) WebCiteBot gets approved and 2) is continuously running for at least 1 month, 3) archives all new wikipedia references (except perhaps spam links which are removed immediately), 4) if possible, hands over Dublin Core metadata of the cited reference [from the reference information at Wikipedia] if available to webcitation.org when making the archiving request, 5) adds a link to the WebCite snapshot to the reference at wikipedia (possibly with the archiving date), and 6) has archived at least 5000 references[reply]
  • Notes:
This request is open for others to join. Under "bounty offerers," add your name & amount & expiration date. Then, update the "amount" field to reflect the latest sum.
  • If you have reached a point where you believe in good faith that it is time for me to pay my bounty, please leave a note on my talk page. AGradman / how the subject page at 06:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
    I'm doing this finally. Done with all the backend stuff (requesting backups, monitoring feed). All I need to do is work on the bit that puts the link in the article and I'll be good to go.Tim1357 talk 07:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: I have just returned to Wikipedia and hope to have the original WebCiteBOT back up and running within the next few days unless people object to me doing so here --ThaddeusB (talk) 23:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]


    Translation of an interview with Yuji Horii

    Amount
    $2
    Bounty Offer
    Jinnai
    Expires
    February 2, 2012
    Notes
    Site: Japan's Media Arts Festival - Japanese -> English (Quality translation. I can go too google and get a subpar one myself). This is the last major source in Japanese I need to get before I bring Dragon Warrior to FAC again.

    Expired and claimed bounties

    See Wikipedia:Bounty board/Expired and claimed bounties