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 defunct 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 contributors 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

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure

• Offeror: Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{WrestleMania XXVIII} _{The Undertaker 20–0}
• Date offered: 22:31, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
• Request: Closing discussion, which were requested at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure
• Reward: Award is given after closing 4 discussions. Admins receive {{The Admin's Barnstar}} and non-admins receive {{Working Man's Barnstar}}.
• Limit on rewards: No limit set.
• Expires: Whenever there are less than 3 open requests at the page. 31 December 2013

Another copy of Civilization V (5)

• Offeror: ツ Jenova20 ^(email)
• Date offered: 14:06, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
• Request: I require someone to add a significantly large quantity of information to the article Birmingham Gay Village, preferably historical information about the area.
• Reward: A copy of Civilization V (PC game), practically new.
• Limit on rewards: One, to the person who announces their intent to add the content and adds a significant amount.
• Expires: 30 November 2013

Israel Defense Forces

• Offeror: Inkbug (talk)
• Date offered: 16:11, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Bring Israel Defense Forces to Featured Article status.
• Reward: The Original Barnstar + WikiChevrons + The Israel Barnstar of National Merit + Any Barnstar You Choose
  • For Good Article status, you will get The Original Barnstar + Any Barnstar You Choose
  • A Golden Wiki Award will be given if one also brings either Israeli Air Force or Israeli Navy to FA status.
• Limit on rewards: NA
• Expires: 31 December 2013

Ananya Chatterjee

• Offeror: Tito Dutta (contact)
• Date offered: 15:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Expansion! Rewriting career etc section in Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra format as far as possible!
• Reward: Bengali film barnstar
• Limit on rewards: No limit, no condition!
• Expires: N.A.

Meghe Dhaka Ritwik

• Offeror: Tito Dutta (contact)
• Date offered: 15:57, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Anyone who'll help to expand/modify/copyedit Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013 film) will get a "Ritwik Ghatak related barnstar! Special barnstar for collecting free media related to the film (has been attempted here, but, no success)!
• Reward: Ritwik Ghatak/Film related barnstar
• Limit on rewards: No limit
• Expires: 6 February 2014

Recipeints

• Dwaipayanc (talk · contribs) 20 May 2013 for copyediting the article and nominating for DYK!
• You?

Realm Of The Mad God

• Offeror: §haun 9∞76 ^༆
• Date offered: 03:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Help me get Realm of the Mad God to GA status.
• Reward: Barnstars! Many, many Barnstars! (Note: If it is brought to FA I have an extra mystery Steam game I may give out)
• Limit on rewards: None! (Only one FA one however)
• Expires: 1 January, 2014

Industrial music albums

• Offeror: —Torchiest ^talk_edits
• Date offered: 20:07, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Get an album article for any of the following industrial bands up to GA status: Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Pigface, Throbbing Gristle
• Reward: I will award {{The Industrial Barnstar}} and copy edit an article of your choice for each album article brought to GA status.
• Limit on rewards: One barnstar per user per band, but one copy edit per article, e.g. if you did two Pigface albums and one Front 242 album, you'd get two barnstars and three copy edits.
• Expires: 8 January 2014

Elevate Kongregate to B or higher

• Offeror: Topperfalkon (talk)
• Date offered: 14:45, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Elevate Kongregate to B-class or higher. Review must come from WP:VG for B reward Whilst its importance is considered Low, I think it's the best example of that genre of websites (The genre being free online flash games with optional purchases).
• Reward: The Original Barnstar, or any other applicable Barnstar from Twinkle's default set. For GA status or higher, an award of a single Steam game from my inventory is available (currently includes titles such as Deus Ex, Dota 2, Bioshock, XCOM, Ravaged), barnstars, and food/drink.
• Limit on rewards: Maximum of two reward winners for GA+ tier
• Expires: March 30, 2014

Water bear

• Offeror:···Vanischenu^「m/_Talk」 21:34, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
• Date offered: 21:34, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
• Expires:1 April 2014
• Objective:Make the article "Tardigrade" appear on Main Page.

  Mission briefing:Practically, there are two methods by which this can be accomplished,

  • Option 1:Raise the article to FA status.
  • Option 2:Expand the article 5 times.

• Reward:A brand new surprising barnstar! In addition to this, two conventional barnstars (you can predict them!) will be given to each user. (Thus, 3 barnstars for each winner). And above all, to be honored to receive a barnstar from Vanischenu!
• Limit on rewards: Only for upto 5 editors.

Terraria for Terraria

• Offeror: Odie5533 (talk)
• Date offered: 16:59, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
• Requests:
  1. A giftable copy of Terraria on Steam to any user that brings one of these survival video games to GA: Terraria, Don't Starve, Wasteland (video game), S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
• Limit on rewards: Limit one reward per article. Please message me with your intent to improve the article for this reward.
• Expires: August 13, 2014

Note: I am not affiliated with Terraria in any way. I simply have extra copies of it in my Steam inventory.

Comcast Business

• Offeror: Cla68 (talk)
• Date offered: 01:34, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
• Request: Create an article about Comcast Business, the business-to-business enterprise within the Comcast Corporation. It is a separate entity, accounting for $2.4 billion in sales in 2012. Current content found at Comcast#Business_Services may be helpful but is very detailed and needs more general encyclopedic coverage.
• Reward: The Original Barnstar and USD $75, payable direct to editor by check or PayPal, or equivalent donation to a humanitarian charity of winner's choice.
  • For a stub with 3 independent references (e.g., similar to Work N Gear), award is the barnstar.
  • For a start-class article with at least 10 independent references (e.g., similar to Aeroflex), award is the $75 gift.
• Limit on rewards: One barnstar and one $75 prize will be rewarded to the editor(s) judged to have contributed the most to each goal.
• Expires: 31 December 2013

• • Comment If the article is created, there is a substantial likelihood that I shall consider listing it at AfD. We normally cover subsidiaries within the main company, even if they are legally separate entities. I suppose I should also say that although this board was kept at MfD, I shall be watching very carefully any request here that offers money. just as I watch other paid editing. DGG ( talk ) 19:45, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Following up, the article was in fact created, and, as is often the case with paid editing, half of it was advertising: a list of customers. It is not encyclopedic content which businesses use a communication company's services . I removed that part. I'm looking at the rest. DGG ( talk ) 20:47, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Rather unfair to say that "half of it was advertising: a list of customers", when clearly it is hardly an unprecedented practice on Wikipedia. DGG, shall we expect your equally faithful work soon on the following articles?

• notable customers include
• some of their customers include
• customer list includes
• some key clients
• notable clients
• some of their clients include
• client list includes

Now, those are several hundred cases of Wikipedia articles presenting nothing different than what the Reward Board author produced. DGG elected to call it advertising and remove it in this one instance. What about the hundreds of other instances? Shall we just let those go, or do we have a new WikiProject:Removal of customer lists to launch? - I'm not that crazy (talk) 03:30, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Suburban Express

While the MfD for this page ended up being resolved in favor of keeping this page open, there was an overwhelming consensus that this specific post was not in line with community expectations. Therefore as part of the MfD close, I am closing this thread. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:55, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Offeror: User:Suburban Express President Date offered: 03:49, 25 October 2013 (UTC) Request: 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 $150 reward 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 $150 reward is offered for restoring reasonable balance to the article and maintaining same for 60 days. Reward: $150-$300. Limit on rewards: One, to the person who announces their intent to undertake the work. Reward is payable after 60 days of post-completion maintenance have elapsed. I am willing to negotiate this language. Expires: 11/15/13 I want to reiterate that this reward is not being offered to swing this article beyond neutral and into our favor. This reward is being offered to correct numerous factual errors related to cited sources and move the article towards a more neutral state. Thank you. I have accepted this offer and will be editing the Suburban Express article. I have declared my COI on my user page. SirCharlesofDriftwood (talk) 23:51, 5 November 2013 (UTC) Comment - It seems the individual offering the reward is currently blocked. GamerPro64 01:37, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

See also

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