Wikipedia:Reward board

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Wikipedia Reward Board
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The reward board is an informal page where users who want a specific task related to Wikipedia (such as the promotion of an article to featured article status or the editing of an image) can offer a reward to editors willing to take on the task. The execution and details of the transaction are the responsibility of the participating parties, and the reward can be monetary, goods (books, cookies, etc.), barnstars, or tit-for-tat editing (like improving another article).

Reward board is similar to the Bounty board; however, instead of a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, payment is made directly to a specific editor.

The Wikimedia Foundation is not hiring and no payments are made by the Foundation. This is purely a page for editors to offer rewards to other editors. Challenges may remain open for a maximum duration of one year. After that period of time, the challenge will be moved to expired requests; however, the author of the challenge may repost the challenge with a new expiration period. The aim of this policy is to keep the board clutter-free, ensure editors are available to fulfill such challenges, and to ensure the challenges are still valid.

See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for information about monetary compensation and possible conflicts of interest.

How to offer a reward

If you would like to offer a reward such as the ones below, simply add an entry below. Add all the details that you feel are relevant to the reward, in a format similar to this pattern:

===Reward title===
*'''Offeror''': ~~~
*'''Date offered''': ~~~~~
*'''Request''': What needs to be done to claim the award.
*'''Reward''': The reward you are offering.
*'''Limit on rewards''': In the case of possible multiple rewards, any limit set.
*'''Expires''': Date until which your offer is valid. Max expiration date is one year from offer date.

In the case of a monetary offer, please specify country currency. Numerous countries use the same symbols.

Please place new entries in chronological order of expiration. See Wikipedia:Reward board fulfilled requests for past rewards.

Active requests

Wild Style

• Offeror: -Cntras (talk) 10:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
• Date offered: February 7, 2012.
• Request: GA status. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page.
• Reward: Original barnstar.
• Limit on rewards: One per User.
• Expires: August 7, 2012.

Help with Operation SS

• Offeror: Rcsprinter (talk)
• Date offered: 19:26, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Help with Operation SS adding symbols to stations, for a task to help with ask at Rcsprinter's talk page.
• Reward: A special barnstar and help with an article of your choice to the person who completes the most phases.
• Limit on rewards: Second reward only available if a phase is completed.
• Expires: 13 February 2012

Submarine references

• Offeror: --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions
• Date offered: 06:31, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
• Request: Find as much comprehensive references HMS Trenchant (S91), HMS Courageous (S50), HMS Sceptre (S104) or HMS Vigilant (S30). Among others, this may include news articles, books that can be previewed on Google Books and featured articles. I'd like enough source so I can write 2000-words-plus articles.
• Reward: At least two barnstars. Depends on the quality and quantity of sources.
• Limit on rewards: no
• Expires: 29 February 2012

Wikify articles

• Offeror: WikiProject Wikify
• Date offered: 20:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
• Request: Participate in the February Wikification drive
• Reward: Barnstars that can be found on the awards page.
• Limit on rewards: See awards page for details.
• Expires: February 29, 2012

Translate Bitcoin to any language

• Offeror: ColdWind (talk)
• Date offered: 22:47, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Translate Bitcoin to your language, and properly adapt to local policies.
• Reward: Upto 23 BTC (depending on the language and the contribution).
• Limit on rewards: If the bounty (which is funded collectively) runs out of funds, payment might be delayed. It should not be a problem at the moment, as of 23:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC) we have funds for 4-6 translations, and growing.
• Expires: 20th March 2012
• Details: Further details and discussion of this bounty can be found in this thread at the Bitcoin forum.

GOCE Copy edit drive

• Offeror: Guild of Copy Editors
• Date offered: 03:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Request: The GOCE March Backlog Elimination Drive, which aims to reduce the backlog of articles tagged for copy edit, runs from March 1 to March 31.
• Reward: Various barnstars are available depending on the amount of copy editing completed.
• Expires: 31 March 2012

George Demeter

• Offeror: Achowat (talk)
• Date offered: 14:45, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Research appropriate secondary sources to be added to improve the page from a Stub class. Adding sources is not necessary, simply alerting me of the sources will suffice
• Reward: An appropriate barnstar as well as a monetary donation to the Wikimedia Foundation in your name, based on the Quality Scale class attained (all in USD): Start - $10, C - $20, B - $35, GA - $50, A - $75, FA - $100; alternately, editors may receive payment directly at a rate of half of the donation bounty, capped at $25.
• Expires: George Demeter Day, 24:00, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Sian Elias

• Offeror: OCNative (talk)
• Date offered: 18:37, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Upload a free-use photograph of New Zealand Chief Justice Sian Elias for placement in the Sian Elias article. After you have uploaded the photo, leave me a note on my talk page.
• Reward: The Photographer's Barnstar
• Limit on rewards: One barnstar per editor
• Expires: 18:37, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Pictures of World War II military equipment

• Offerer: Carnildo
• Date offered: 21:12, 26 April 2010 (UTC) [Reposted; originally posted 02:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)]
• Request: Color photos of World War II military equipment for which Wikipedia has an article but not a free-license color image. Images should have a person in the picture to give a sense of scale: carrying or wearing the equipment for personal gear and weapons, or standing next to it for vehicles and larger weapons. Images should be in the public domain or under an appropriate Creative Commons license.
• Reward: One photograph of anything the reward-claimer wants per photo provided, provided that I can legally and reasonably create that photo in the Inland Northwest.
• Photos so far: Image:UofIdaho Arboretum Entrance20060624.jpg in exchange for Image:Bb-38.jpg
• Expires: April 26, 2012

Gary England to GA or higher

• Offeror: Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)}
• Date offered: 15:40, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Raise Gary England to GA or higher status.
• Reward: {{Oklahoma Barnstar}} per significant contributor, defined as anyone who could not review the article at a GAN due to significant contributions.
• Limit on rewards: None
• Expires: May 1, 2012

C++ GA/DYK

• Offeror: decltype (talk)
• Date offered: 11 June, 2009 (Renewed on 12 May, 2011)
• Request: Get any existing C++-related article to GA, or get DYK credit for a C++ article (creation or 5x expansion)
• Reward: Computing star and GA review and/or copy-edit of an article of your choice.
• Limit on rewards: None
• Expires: 10 May 2012
• Notes: Consider contacting me first if you are unsure whether the article is within scope.

Chemical pages

• Offeror: Ebe123
• Date offered: 18:23, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Have existant all the red-linked articles at List of extremely hazardous substances.
• Reward: The Red link removal barnstar. Please leave a message on my talk page to claim your reward.
• Limit on rewards: One barnstar per article/user.
• Expires: 29 July 2012

Editor reviews

• Offeror: Buggie111 (talk)
• Date offered: 23:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
• Request: Review editors at WP:ER.
• Reward:1-3 gets an Original Barnstar, 4-7 the Working Wikipedian,8-10 the Helping Hand, 11-13 the Barnstar of Dilligence,14-15 the Tireless Contributor. Anything higher, well, that's something special arranged on later.
• Limit on rewards: No limit, though there are limited editors currently on review. Comment on my talkpage for further details
• Expires: 5 October 2012 or when the backlog is less than a month old. Whatever comes first.

• Just reviewed two editors; Uirauna and Catchthedream. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 00:16, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

• If you're done, then I"ll go ahead and award. Buggie111 (talk) 00:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

• I was going to review on a daily pattern, but if you give one for each reviewer's total efforts, then I'd rather the award waited till I'd done my full part. :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 00:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

• I've finished the review on SwisterTwister. I don't think I'll do another one because of my other tasks, but I'll think about it. Nah, I'll do a few more. --Sp33dyphil © • © 21:49, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
• I'm not done reviewing editors yet, but to keep track of the reviews I've done (together with the two mentioned above): LoveUxoxo, Neckername, Mobile Snail, Simply south, and Strikerforce; that's seven so far. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 03:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

• Make that 8; just reviewed Sodacan. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 04:35, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

History of Christianity and homosexuality

• Offeror: Chamberlian (talk)
• Date offered: 03:41, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
• Request: GA Status
• Reward: LGBT Barnstars
• Limit on rewards: Only one editor will get the bounty, or it will be split among those worthy.
• Expires: 7 October 2012

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

• Offeror: --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions
• Date offered: 05:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
• Request: Upload free photos (preferably three) of the production of the the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This may mean sending requests to the producer of the film, or any legitimate owners of movie footages.
• Reward: Three barnstars of choise; more if the photos are of high-quality or importance, or offer an unique insight into the filming of the film.
• Limit on rewards: No
• Expires: 31 December 2012

Add C-SPAN Video Library to External links

• Offeror: WWB Too (talk)
• Date offered: 16:21, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
• Request: Help add specific interviews from the C-SPAN Video Library to External links on articles where they belong, but do not now exist. To facilitate the process, I have compiled 185 pre-formatted snippets in the {{C-SPAN}} and {{CongLings}} templates, on this page in my userspace: User:WWB Too/C-SPAN ELs

Please note, in some cases there is no current template in place, so adding it is a very simple thing. In many cases, however the template is already in use, but the C-SPAN link is not filled in. In these cases, I have included all parameters listed at the time of review (late 2011) so you should check that adding in the prepared snippet does not remove any information; if any new parameters have been added, please include them as well. See the Notes column on the project page for more details.

• Reward: Editors adding at least one (1) link are entitled to display this barnstar-inspired personal award. Editors who adds a minimum of ten (10) links are entitled to display the award and may be eligible to receive a free C-SPAN baseball cap (click links for images). Contact me on my user Talk page for more details.
• Limit on rewards: In the case of the C-SPAN baseball cap, we can only send to U.S. addresses. 15 hats available. Limit one per individual editor.
• Expires: 31 December 2012

See also

• Wikipedia:Bounty board
• Wikipedia:Awards
• Wikipedia:Job center