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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.

Battle of Blair Mountain

Amount
GB£15 for any relevant Wikiproject assessing as B-class under their own quality scale; GB£40 for GA; GB£100 for FA
Bounty offerer
OpenToppedBus
Expiration
None
Notes
Bounty was previously offered in 2006. B-class bounty is only payable once, rather than once per wikiproject. Others are cumulative, so £155 total for FA. I may not notice changes on this page - please inform me via my talk page if/when bounty is due.


Inflation

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]

Qutb Minar

Amount
USD $35 for Featured Article status.
Bounty offerer
Fireblazex3
Expiration
N/A
Notes
Would love to see it featured. It's pretty important and for me, close to heart.

Accessibility

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!

Kentucky

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]

Nanking Massacre

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]

Usability

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!

Wario

Amount
$250.00 USD for FA status
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.
What would you offer other than cash if I were to elevate the article, if I did not want to accept it? Jeremy112233 (talk) 20:40, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You don't get the money. The Wikimedia Foundation does. GamerPro64 20:41, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Linvoy Primus

Amount
£20 for FA
Bounty offerer
User:Spiderone
Expiration
April 2014
Notes
A solid GA already and he has retired so the article is unlikely to have stability issues. Please notify me when this goes to WP:FAC and I can make the donation if it passes. Spiderone 09:13, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bounties on groups of articles

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

Suburban Express

Amount
US$250 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation
Bounty Offerer
User:Suburban_Express
Expiration
2013-11 at 00:00 UTC
Note
I apologize if I am misunderstanding any element of this process or of Wikipedia rules in general. If so, please advise. The company I own, Suburban Express, has recently received negative "press", mostly in the form of blog postings criticizing our company for a tangled mess of issues. They can more or less distilled down to: 1) Criticism for pursuing cheaters. Some feel that using lawsuits to pursue debtors is somehow unfair to innocent little college students. But collection agencies want nothing to do with the small debts customers create for themselves. 2) Criticism for the manner in which a particular driver handled a foreign student. 3) Company reaction to false and defamatory information posted on a blog called Reddit.

These three issues have been mashed into one, and a handful of people are really fired up and doing everything they can to maximize damage to the reputation of Suburban Express. "Tech Blogs", which seem to have a vested interest in fanning flames to earn clicks and generate attention, have also worked hard to exploit the situation.

At this time, the Suburban Express article is chock full of inaccurate citations. By that, I mean that the article might say, "Suburban Express likes green eggs and ham" and cite Article A. But examination of Article A reveals that there is no such quote in Article A.

Also, the article lacks balance. Much of the quoted material is negative, and the Suburban Express "side" of the story has been left out. For instance, there are "admissible" quotes which discuss the types of situations which lead to collection suits (ie passengers printing multiple copies of one ticket and thereby stealing rides), but these either do not appear in the article, or they are immediately removed -- leaving one side of the story.

A $125 bounty is offered for syncing up the article with the cited articles, by removing statements which are not supported by the cited articles or by removing citations, and defending the article against re-posting of bad citations for 60 days.

A $125 bounty is offered for restoring reasonable balance to the article and maintaining same for 60 days.

Again, if anything above is inappropriate, please advise this newbie.


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]

    After a very long absence, I am back and have restarted the bot. Initial tests are now underway. I will post another update when the bot is running full time. --ThaddeusB (talk) 01:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    It may be worth mentioning that webcitation.org seems to be having some fundraising troubles. See their page here. --Jackson Peebles (talk) 04:33, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Expired and claimed bounties

    See Wikipedia:Bounty board/Expired and claimed bounties

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