Wikipedia:Reward board

The reward board is a place where users who want a specific task related to Wikipedia (such as the promotion of an article to featured article status) can offer a reward to editors willing to take on the task, similar to the German edition's de:Wikipedia:Auftragsarbeiten.

How to offer a reward

If you would like to offer a reward such as the ones below, simply add an entry to the appropriate category of the New requests section. 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 to be considered valid.

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

New requests

Tit for tat FA

Biographies of Chinese people

• Offeror: Miborovsky
• Date offered: 07:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Write new articles or improve stub articles on a Chinese person. Expect to see decent level of quality/improvement.
• Reward: I will respond in kind. Double if biography is on a Chinese soldier or general. Something extra if involved in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• Limit on rewards: Inform me before undertaking the task (but no need to wait for "approval"). I may take a while to reciprocate.
• Expires: Until withdrawn.

Central Asia cities or transportation

• Offeror: FrancisTyers ·
• Date offered: 19:30, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Spend an hour writing about a city or transportation in Central Asia (Common modern definition) — note this includes interwiki translations.
• Reward: I'll do the same
• Limit on rewards: One hour per day.
• Expires: Until the offer is withdrawn.

Pokémon FA

• Offeror: Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers}
• Date offered: 23:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Promote any Pokémon creature of character article to Good Article or Featured Article status.
• Reward: For every GA/FA nom promoted, I will promote another article to the same standard (by GA/FA standards)/I will reveal my name.
• Limit on rewards: Only 3 FAs, but limitless GAs.
• Expires: The day I start caring about football (never), or when 3 FAs have been promoted.
• Notes: Articles exempt -
  • Bulbasaur
  • Torchic
  • Charizard

Apple Macintosh photographs

• Offeror: grm_wnr
• Date offered: 11:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Upload one of the missing photographs in List of Apple Macintosh models by case type to Commons (with an appropriate license, of course).
• Reward: I'll translate an article of the uploader's choice from German to English (or vice versa).
• Limit on rewards: As many as there are missing images - four at the moment.
• Expires: When the article is complete or I remove this.
• Notes:
  • Article length should be related to image quality - a featured-length article translation needs a featured-quality image - when in doubt, ask in advance.
  • Uploader must contact me and claim the reward.
  • For rewards given (one so far) see below.

Africa culture article

• Offeror: Xed
• Date offered: 20:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Two hours of work on one of the red-links or stubs in this template.
• Reward: Two hours of work on one of the red-links or stubs in this template.
• Limit on rewards: One for now.
• Expires: When I remove this, after at least one tit-for-tat is done.

Pictures of World War II military equipment

• Offerer: Carnildo
• Date offered: 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
• Expiry: Whenever I remove this listing.

Translation from German good/featured article and vice versa

• User: Achim Raschka (de) (please contact there)
• Date offered: 08:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: The translation of a good article or featured article from the German Wikipedia ...
• Reward: ... will be rewarded with the translation of an English good or featured article to the German Wikipedia.
• Limitations: I will try to translate one article/week
• Completed so far:
  • User:Grm wnr translatet Wilhelm Hasenclever and will be rewarded with a translation/Merging of Apple Macintosh to the german WP.
• Expiry: Whenever I remove this advert.

Roman art FA

• Offeror: Ferkelparade π
• Date offered: 00:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring Roman art to FA status
• Reward: Tit for tat - every editor who makes a non-minor contribution to the article on its way to FA may request the creation of one Ancient Rome-related article, or the expansion of a Rome-related stub.
• Limits on rewards No limit
• Limit on topics No limit
• Expiration: When I feel like it - I'll probably not take hundreds of requests if it takes three years for the article to become featured, but I'm willing to be patient :P

Latin literature FA

• Offeror: Ferkelparade π
• Date offered: 00:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring Latin literature to FA status
• Reward: Tit for tat - every editor who makes a non-minor contribution to the article on its way to FA may request the creation of one Ancient Rome-related article, or the expansion of a Rome-related stub.
• Limits on rewards No limit
• Limit on topics No limit
• Expiration: See above

African countries and cities

• User: — Matt Crypto

I'll match this. - FrancisTyers ·

• Date offered: 00:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Someone puts in an hour of work on an African country or city article.
• Reward: I'll respond in kind on another African country or city article; suggestions welcome. Drop me a note on User talk:Matt Crypto.
• Limitations: Max one hour per day (unless I'm feeling very overburdened with free time)
• Completed so far: Winneba [1] (me) vs Navrongo [2] (Xed).
• Expiry: Whenever I remove this advert.

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Money

Atlantis and/or Location hypotheses of Atlantis

• Offeror: --Reflex Reaction (talk)• I've been working on these articles for a while and would love to see them at FA status. The Atlantis article has come a long way in part after the Locations article was split from the main article.
• Date offered: 18:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Atlantis and/or Location hypotheses of Atlantis brought to featured article status
• Reward: $30 USD for Atlantis, $50 for locations. $5 Bonus if on main page
• Limit on rewards: Reward can be split. I will be watching both of the articles for changes, but let me know if you would like to be part of the undertaking
• Expires: January 2008.
• Notes: I will be watching the pages but keep me informed of any FA submissions. I will pay a reduced amount for substantial contributions that do not acheive FA status.

Emma Goldman FA

• Offeror: Kaldari
• Date offered: 22:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring Emma Goldman to FA status and contact me once it is done.
• Reward: $25 USD, payable via PayPal
• Limit on rewards: 1 reward available, can be split if requested
• Expires: January 1, 2007

Almost any Lithuania-related article

• Offeror: Renata ($50/60), Creidieki ($5)
• Date offered: 21:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: bring an article directly related to Lithuania to Featured status.
• Reward: $55 USD. Additional $10 USD bonus if it is Vilnius or Lithuania.
• Limit on rewards: max 2 rewards
• Limit on topics: article cannot be related to pop-culture or to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (because there are already a couple featured articles related to that topic), or be a list. Article can be written from scratch (i.e. red link). It must be directly related to Lithuania. Not sure? Ask on my talk page.
• Other notes: You have to claim the reward (i.e. contact me either on talk page or through email). If the nomination for Featured Article fails for minor details and the article is substantially improved, I will consider paying you the reward. If during the nomination there are any violations of Wikipedia policies (e.g. use of sockpuppets or spamming talk pages asking for support), no payment will be made no matter the outcome. If two or more people worked on the article, I will try my best to split the reward equally. I will be more than glad to help you out with sources, advice, insight, etc. Just ask me!
• Additional bounties:Creidieki will defer to the judgment of Renata on payment of the additional $5.
• Expiration: as long as I have a job :) or when the max number of rewards is claimed.

Pictures for Body Mass Index

• Offeror: Creidieki
• Date offered: 01:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Pictures wanted to help illustrate a wide variety of body types for the Body mass index article. Take pictures of yourself (or someone else, with consent) from the front and the side, against a neutral background, wearing approximately boxers or sweatshorts (or the female equivalent). You can obscure the face or other identifying features. Include accurate height and weight for the subject, so BMI can be calculated. Pictures must be freely-licensed.
• Reward: USD$2 each will be paid via Paypal, personal check, or charitable donation. Pictures may be uploaded here or at Wikimedia commons. Please leave message on User talk:Creidieki.
• Limitations: 9 remaining.

MadnessCombat

• Offeror: User:simonkoldyk
• Date offered: 23:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring MadnessCombat to FA status and contact me once it is done.
• Reward: $20US
• Notes: Payable via PayPal to person who completes or to foundation, whichever the person chooses, should more than one person put substantial work to getting article to FA status then money will be split between them.
• Expires: January 1, 2007

Animals and plants

• Offeror: Kelly Martin
• Date offered: 14:09, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Raise any article on a plant or animal to featured status.
• Reward: US$10.00 per article
• Notes: Will be paid via PayPal.
• Limitations: Maximum of US$100.00 total paid per calendar year to all editors. If I feel that more than one editor deserves the reward I will either split the reward or award two rewards for the same article, at my discretion.

Any topic related to Belarus, Russia or Ukraine

• Offeror: wants to be anonymous
• Date offered: 06:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Request: create from scratch or raise from pity shape any article related the history, politics, economy, anything of any of these three countries to WP:Featured status.
• Additional requirement: the editor has to live in any of these three or other former-USSR countries (Baltic States are also eligible).
• Reward: Reimbursement of three months worth of the costs of your Internet service provider (DSL or other high speed services are also eligible within reason)
• Notes: please contact the awarding party by email here if you have any questions, to claim an award or if you are interested in cosponsoring. The donor is an established editor (maybe a group of editors) willing to make this offer anonymously. The moneys will be paid in cash in your local currency in an informal manner. If several editors co-edited the article together, the reward will not be divided. Rather all main contributors will receive a full award.
• Limitations: None. The offer may be terminated at any time while there are no specific plans to do so.

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Awards

Iran

• Offeror: Cdamama
• Date offered: 10:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Significantly expand an article describing a modern-day Iranian religious or political leader, political event, political or religious organization. Make sure that the article is clear to a non-Iranian persons.
• Rewards (one of)

• Expand an article of your choice related to modern-day North American politics or religion
• Barnstar
• Maybe: Expand the Wikibook on Admission to Graduate School in the U.S.[3]

• Limit on rewards: Up to 13 articles
• Expires: Not earlier than December 2007

Total Football

• Offeror: Intergr8
• Date offered: 18:50 24 November 2006 {UTC)
• Request: Make Total Football go to featured article status
• Reward: The Dutch Award
  • Extra: TFAM - If done before 2007
• Expires: N/A

SpongeBob SquarePants FA

• Offeror: AMK152
• Date offered: 17:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Make three SpongeBob SquarePants articles go to featured article status: SpongeBob SquarePants, Bikini Bottom, and one of your choice.
• Reward: TFAM
• Expires: When I decide to withdraw the offer.

Pac-Man GA

• Offeror: NeonMerlin
• Date offered: 00:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Make Pac-Man a GA
• Reward: CVG Star (can be shared by several editors)
  • Bonus! ZOMG Star if finished by end of September
• Expires: End of 2006

Pac-Man FA

• Offeror: NeonMerlin
• Date offered: 00:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Make Pac-Man a FA
• Reward: CVG Star (can be shared by several editors)
  • Bonus! ZOMG Star if finished by end of 2006
• Expires: End of June 2007

Agriculture in London

• Offeror: Richardkselby 22:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Date offered: 00:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Put Agriculture in London to featured article status
• Reward: The Richard Aelby Award
• Limit on rewards: None
• Expires: When it is a FA

Stargate FA

• Offeror: Zxcvbnm,
• Date offered: 12:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring Stargate (device) to FA status.
• Reward: The Stargate Barnstar
• Limit on rewards: None, but the reciever has to do something substantial.
• Expires: When the article is featured

The Holy FA

• Offeror: General Eisenhower
• Date offered: 00:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring a stub named The Holy to featured article status
• Reward: Awards, awards all the awards you want and I mean it. Can not be a minor edit or a small few sentences.
• Limits on rewards No limit
• Limit on topics No limit
• Other notes Anybody who edits the page from 00:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC) to a few days later gets an award. BUT it has to be a major mass edit. Maybe a few sections would be nice. This is an almost impossible task.
• Expiration: Until it becomes a featured.

Rock band Good Article

• Offeror: Osbus
• Date offered: 23:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring an article of a relatively unknown rock band to Good Article status...must be approved by me first.
• Reward: Osbus's barnstar for being the one of the coolest Wikipedians around...I give these sparingly, and they are looked upon as a status symbol (no, not really).
  Oh, and much respect from rock's underground.
• Limit on rewards: 3 at most.
• Expires: Whenever...but one has already been taken. Two more lucky people shall recieve.

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Other

Missingno. or Pwnage FA (or Pokemon Glitches)

• Offeror: User:Flameviper
• Date offered: 22:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Take Missingno. or Pokemon Glitches and source it, and improve it to FA status. Either that or Pwnage.
• Notes: It's a real shame that Missingno doesn't even get its own article anymore, and I think that the subject is really interesting. There's a lot that can be written about these subjects, and a huge amount of useful information was deleted simply because it was unsourced...

And also, I just think pwnage rocks, and having it become an FA would just be awesome.

• Reward: I'll give you a barnstar. Also, I can make a Flash animation on the subject of your choice and put it on Newgrounds.
• Expires: Until it is achieved.

Ismail Faruqi FA

• Offeror: User:Menj
• Date offered: 17:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring Dr Ismail Al -Faruqi to FA status and contact me once it is done.
• Notes: I would appreciate if anyone can tell me what's wrong with the article I've been working on for the past two years and have yet to reach FA status.
• Reward: How about a pat on the back for a job well-done? Just kidding. I will send you a copy of the book Islam by Dr Al-Faruqi. Only 3 copies are available.
• Expires: Until it is achieved.

Any FA

• Offeror: User:Philwelch
• Date offered: 23:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring any article to FA status and contact me once it is done.
• Reward: I will compose a (potentially violent or lecherous) limerick in your honor. Upon request, I could compose the limerick in honor of the article subject instead. The completed limerick will be posted to your talk page. Limit two per person.
• Expires: When I say it does.

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

• User offering: — Matt Crypto
• Date offered: 19:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Reward: I'll post you Volume 23, Number 2 of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video (see table of contents). I received a copy of this issue in error a few days ago, and the publisher said to do whatever with it.
• Request: If you wanted to try and see if you could use anything from the journal's articles to help improve a Wikipedia article or two, and/or make a stub for the journal, that would be groovy and you'd get oodles of good WikiKarma.

Sports Articles

• Offeror: Jaranda ^{wat's sup}
• Date offered: 20:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Bring an American football, baseball, basketball or hockey article to FA and maybe GA. I normally check FAC so I will know or contact me in my talk page.
• Reward: A selection of sports cards of star players or pre 1980s cards, no overproduced commons junk from mid 80s, early 90s.
• Expires: Anytime as I got plenty of cards available.

Fulfilled requests

Tennessee State Museum

• Offeror: Kaldari
• Date offered: 21:28, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Write a decent-quality non-stub article about the Tennessee State Museum
• Reward: $10 or $20 USD (see notes below)
• Limit on rewards: 1 reward available, can be split if requested.
• Notes: For the $10 reward, the article must be of acceptable writing quality, at least 400 words (not counting lists, templates, refereces, or external links), and include at least two references. For the $20 reward, the article must be well written, at least 800 words (not counting lists, templates, refereces, or external links), and include at least three references. Reward payable via PayPal only. Can be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation if requested.
• Recipient: Snailwalker
• Date awarded: 16:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Paid: $10 to foundation (at user request).

BMI Images

• Offeror: User:Creidieki
• Request: Images with known height/weight for Body mass index article: Image:Male borderline underweight.jpg
• Reward: $2 USD per picture.
• Recipient: Fredrik Johansson
• Date awarded: 00:19, 19 April 2006
• Paid: To foundation (at user request).

Pre-War Blues, Gospel, and Jug Band: Will Shade

• Offeror: Catherineyronwode
• Date offered: 22:43, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Create from scratch a biographical article longer than a stub about any individual "red link" pre-war African American rural acoustic blues, jug band, gospel, or songster musician -- or any collective "red link" pre-war African American acoustic hokum, jug band, string band, or gospel group -- and contact me once it is done. Extra rewards paid for articles with photos (but not for photos alone), and extra rewards paid for articles with valid external links to discographies and caches of lyrics (see sliding scale).
• Reward: Text: $15.00 (US currency) per text article (base rate). Image: Add $5.00 (US currency) if a photo is included (only one photo per page will be paid for, and it must feature the artist -- album covers with generic photos or painted artwork do not count). External Links: Add $1.00 (US currency) per external link to a discography, add $1.00 (US currency) per external link to a lyrics cache. No bonus paid for external links to other biographies, although they may, of course, be cited. Total possible reward per page: $22.00 (US currency).
• Recipient: → J@red 
• Date awarded: 19:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Paid: $20 to user.

Apple Macintosh photographs (partial)

• Offeror: grm_wnr
• Details: See above.
• Filled:
  • 1/5: Wilhelm Hasenclever translated from German on June 4 2006 for User:Linuxerist, who provided Image:Power Macintosh G3 AIO.jpeg

Expired Requests

Nazanin

• Offeror: --Kickstart70-T-C
• Date offered: 18:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Link to Nazanin from all appropriate and applicable Wikipedia pages, and deliver me a list of all of those pages to my Talk page
• Reward: $5 CAD, paid via Paypal
• Limit on rewards: Flat 5 bucks to the person who does the most and most appropriate links.
• Expires: May 10, 2006.
• Notes: This should be a quickie, hence the low pay. Would prefer someone who has knowledge of the Wikipedia human rights related pages to judge appropriateness (I don't want this spammed inappropriately). Bonus points (but no bonus money) if you help improve Nazanin as well.

Harsco

• Offeror: MyWikiBiz
• Date offered: 22:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Request: Create an article in NPOV style, with citations and logo, about this Fortune 640 company, located in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Must be at least as passable as the article about Arch Coal.
• Reward: $13.65 USD
• Limit on rewards: 1 reward available, can be split if requested.
• Expires: 1 December 2006

See also

• Wikipedia:Bounty board