Wikipedia:Bounty board
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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.
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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! |
- 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 bounty offers
- Amount
- $15.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- One of the greatest emporers of all time. Definitely deserves a featured article.
- Amount
- $25.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- There's a section on this at Cincinnati, Ohio that could get you started.
- Amount
- $15.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- Nearly there. Just needs a little extra. Needs thorough NPOV-check.
- Amount
- $15.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- Nearly featured quality already. Needs thorough NPOV-check.
- Amount
- $20.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- Disorganized. Needs help.
- Amount
- $20.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- A good start, but it has a ways to go before it's featured.
- Amount
- $15.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- 3/4 of the way there already.
- Amount
- $15.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- A relatively important 20th century figure. Needs thorough NPOV-check.
- Amount
- $20.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- There's a lot of content there, but it's disorganized and needs some serious editing.
- Amount
- $15.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- Quadell
- Expiration
- October 24 2006
- Notes
- It's nearly there already. Just needs a little organization and fleshing out.
- Amount
- $20.00 USD
- Bounty offerer
- 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: $25.00
- Bounty offerer
- 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 · Mandan · War of the League of Cambrai
Forgotten biographies
- Amount
- $10.00 USD per article. Total so far: $20.00
- Bounty offerer
- 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. Questions and answers about this bounty can be found at Wikipedia talk:Bounty board#Forgotten biographies.
- Articles so far
- Felice Beato · Mário de Andrade
Complexity classes
- Amount
- $25.00 USD per article, maximum two (for now). Will pay directly to the author of the article, via Paypal, personal check, or money order; or will donate to Wikimedia foundation or other charity upon request.
- Bounty offerer
- Creidieki
- Expiration
- December 1 2006
- Notes
- Available for any article on a single complexity class or complexity measure, such as NL (complexity), BQP, NP-complete, or DSPACE. Not applicable for general articles, such as complexity class or complexity classes P and NP.
Allow "+" characters in article titles
- Amount
- $25.00 USD. Will pay directly to the developer via Paypal, personal check, or money order; or will donate to Wikimedia foundation or other charity upon request. Paid upon deployment at en.wikipedia.org.
- Bounty offerer
- Creidieki
- Expiration
- December 1 2006
- Notes
- Will be paid to the primary author of a patch to Mediawiki allowing article titles to freely contain the "+" character. The "Search" box needs to work completely, so that when a clueless user types "C++" into the main page box he gets the correct article, and interarticle links to C++ should work.
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Expired bounties
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