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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 article. 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

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

Recently added

Toontown Online to GA (info)
California State University, Pomona to GA (info)—Shouldn't take much effort as it's moderately developed.
Opium Wars / First Opium War / Second Opium War to GA (info)
Blenheim Palace to FA (info) (However, this page is already undergoing re-write here User:Giano/Blenheim Palace. In user space as the page is too big to rewrite and simultaneously keep stable/readable in mainspace.
Evolutionary approaches to depression to FA (info)
Neural oscillation to FA (info)
Serotonin to FA (info)
Beyond Good & Evil (video game) to FA (info)
Infinite-loop motif to GA or deleted (info)
Exodus from Lydda / Lydda Death March (info)
Pier Gerlofs Donia artwork requested — artistic users needed! (info)
United States invasion of Panama to FA (info)
Seton Hall University to FA (info)
David Irving to FA (info)
John Tams to FA (info)
Lee Ingleby to FA (info)
Nanking Massacre to GA (info)

Bounties on individual pages

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

Toontown Online

Amount: US$30
Bounty offerer: User:Allmightyduck
Expiration: 12 August 2010
Notes: Improve to GA. If it becomes FA, an extra $20.

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Amount: US$25
Bounty offerer: User:Marco Guzman, Jr
Expiration: 01 July 2010
Notes: Improve to GA status. As stated before, it shouldn't take much effort as it's moderately developed. Cheers!

Blenheim Palace

Amount: US$50
Bounty offerer: User:Labattblueboy
Expiration: 11 July 2010
Notes: Improve to FA status.

Evolutionary approaches to depression

Amount: US$25
Bounty offerer: User:Åkebråke
Expiration: December 31, 2010
Notes: Improve to FA status

Neural oscillation

Amount: US$25
Bounty offerer: User:Åkebråke
Expiration: December 31, 2010
Notes: I would like to see some physicists contributing to the article, not only physicians.

Serotonin

Amount: US$100
Bounty offerer: User:Åkebråke
Expiration: December 31, 2010
Notes: Improve to FA status

Beyond Good & Evil (video game)

Amount: US$20 + US$50
Bounty offerer: MrStalker
Expiration: June 13, 2010
Notes: Improve to GA status ($20) and then to FA status (additional $50); Comment: BG&E is now a Good Article. GamerPro64 (talk) 19:52, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Exodus from Lydda

Amount: US$250
Bounty offerer: Ian Pitchford
Expiration: 31 May 2010
Notes: Improve to FA status

Saladin

Amount: US$250
Bounty offerer: Roger Davies
Expiration: 31 Mar 2010
Notes: Improve to FA status

Rod Serling

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.

Raw Power

Amount: $20 USD
Bounty Offerer: Endlessdan
Expiration: --
Notes: I tell ya honey it's a crying shame... this article should have been an FA a long time ago.

United States invasion of Panama

Amount: $40 USD
Bounty offerer: Jun-Dai

Wario

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.

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]

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]

Infinite-loop motif

Amount: US$25
Offerer: User:Jarhed
Expiration: When it becomes GA status or gets deleted, I don't care which

After finding no way to improve this article to meet standards for inclusion, I prod tagged it for deletion on April 17. Just before it was to expire, a user boldly moved it to userspace (at User:Cyclopia/Infinite loop motif) for further work. - Dravecky (talk) 14:04, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ideal type

Amount: For "GA" status, $40; for "FA" status, $120
Offerer: User:Agradman
Expiration: August 15, 2010; Notes: The discussion page is replete with online sources, so it's just a matter of paraphrasing & citing.

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: User:Åkebråke
Expiration: December 31, 2011

UK Members of Parliament

Amount

Improve any currently serving MP or 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 2009)

Comments

Doubled to £10. --h2g2bob (talk) 22:50, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"The next United Kingdom general election is due to take place on or before 3 June 2010, barring exceptional circumstances." - Dravecky (talk) 19:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The UK Parliament dissolved on 12 April 2010. Has this request therefore expired or could it be changed to focusing on MPs from that Parliament? Cloudbound (talk) 16:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bounties for other tasks

EssayBot

Amount: $60 USD and a barnstar
Bounty offerer ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 02:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Expiration date Until complete.
Notes: Develop a bot for WP:ESSAY C/C (and get it approved) that will crawl all Wikipedia essays in Category:Wikipedia essays, add the {{essaysort}} tag to the talk pages of essays that do not have one, and assign an importance rating according to our scale (which is based on the number of incoming Wikilinks). If interested, notify ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! on his talk page before beginning work.
- This request is officially withdrawn. We've come upon another solution do-able by an existing bot. ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 16:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transwiki watchlist tool

Amount: $50 USD
Bounty offerer MrZaius^talk 11:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC) (Anyone else want in? Surely I'm not the only one who'd want this.)[reply]
Expiration date Projected retirement date, ~2038 - Maximum of a single payout.
Notes: Develop an open-source, web-based tool or mediawiki extension allowing for aggregating watchlists from multiple sites accessible from the tool's host (ie, a corporate intranet). Preexisting stand-alone client side tools and/or browser extensions are unacceptable solutions to this problem due to security reasons and lack of portability. While it would be acceptable for the watchlist tool to be limited in scope to Wikimedia projects, it would be much preferred if it were able to also parse Wikia and unaffiliated hosts's watchlists.

Bonus! $15 extra for a tool that mimicks popups with tools in a host-neutral manner.

Done

Introducing Watchlistr - a transwiki watchlist tool. It can parse any mediawiki-based wiki, but currently only includes the Wikimedia projects (because I'm not sure what other wikis would be good to include). Does not currently mimic Popups, but it's only in Beta (so that might be a future addition). I'm still doing some testing on it, so you might encounter some error messages here and there — tell me if you come across any. Also, let me know if there's anything else you would like added to it.

Cat1205123 (talk) 17:14, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does this require an editor to enter their Wikipedia username and password? I'd be somewhat concerned about sharing the password with an outside site; this was an issue in the past with various studies and other software. Risker (talk) 18:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does. Q ^{T C} 19:40, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It does, I'm afraid. As there is no way to see other users' watchlists, we have to log in as you to download it. I've detailed how we store the passwords (securely) here. I'd also be willing to release the source code if someone would like to do a code audit (which might not be a bad thing). Cat1205123 (talk) 05:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Pending code audit, I have disabled registrations and removed all users from the database. MrZaius — you may end up having to keep your $50. I tried the most secure way of producing a transwiki watchlist tool, but even then received a rather massive backlash from the community. It would appear that there is, currently, no way to do this securely enough for everyone. Cat1205123 (talk) 06:37, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great to see some progress here. While security concerns from automated attacks may be relevant here, it is nice to see the tool's sourced released and available for private hosting. Wouldn't use this as a service myself for precisely the same reasons described above, but intend to test this on personally controlled hosting account in mid-August after a brief wikibreak. Thanks, MrZaius^talk 09:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update (again): So, it turns out that the devs added functionality to MediaWiki (and my extension, Wikipedia, et. al.) for pulling watchlists without requiring a password some time ago. Now, instead of requiring a password, it uses a token that can be found under My Preferences -> Watchlist. I am updating/have updated Watchlistr to incorporate these changes. It's currently usable now, but I'm still making some transitions, pulling some old code, etc. - and it should be 100% ready in a few days! Cat1205123 (talk) 23:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Expired and claimed bounties

See Wikipedia:Bounty board/Expired and claimed bounties.

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