Wikipedia:WikiMoney

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WikiMoney is a mutual credit system used by Wikipedians. Its main purpose is to create an "economy of incentives" for working on Wikipedia-related tasks. Some see WikiMoney as a quantification of WikiLove -- as an act of friendship between contributors. Others see it in a more pragmatic sense, as an efficient system to prioritize tasks and direct the community towards effective contributions.

The system works as follows: every long-term contributor (active for longer than 1 month and having made more than 200 edits) gets an initial grant of 20 indivisible units of WikiMoney (also known as Wikis and written like this: ψ45 for 45 Wikis). This WikiMoney can be offered to other Wikipedians in exchange for various services. The WikiMoney accounts of all Wikipedians are maintained in the WikiBank on this page; WikiMoney is transferred by simply editing the account balances in the WikiBank.

However, not only veteran contributors are allowed to earn WikiMoney; anyone can join. If you are new or too busy to become a "long-term contributor" (according to the definition above) you can earn your initial credits by accepting offers (listed below). Note, however, that wikipedians usually have high standards for the writing of articles, so make sure you are familiar with the policies and guidelines, especially the requirement for NPOV.

Why should you try to earn WikiMoney? Because you can spend it on tasks that are near and dear to your heart (but please do not use it to push your point of view in edit disputes, or to bribe people when voting). The concept is similar to the idea behind timebanks and LETS systems, where volunteers earn "time credits" or local currency for helping their local community. Our system is more flexible: It allows you to define how valuable the tasks are to you, and you can join up with others to "fund" a specific activity.

Please remember that WikiMoney is not "real" money! So don't take it too seriously. (In the case you are serious about Money and Wikipedia, please consider making a donation to Wikipedia.)

WikiBank

Explanation

If you have worked on Wikipedia under your current user name for longer than 1 month and have made more than 200 edits, you can add yourself to the account list, with an initial balance of 20 units.

To transfer money from your account into somebody else's, edit the two account balances accordingly.

The Bank accounts


Offers

You can offer to pay WikiMoney for various services, or you can offer to perform services for a specified amount of WikiMoney. Examples include:

  • offer WikiMoney for the creation/improvement of a specific article
  • offer WikiMoney to anyone who finds a factual mistake in a specific set of articles
  • offer WikiMoney for a specific laborous task, such as a voluminous renaming, spell checking, modification of the format of date pages, list of biographies etc. -- or conversely, offer to perform such a task for a specified amount of WikiMoney
  • offer WikiMoney to the developers for implementing a specific feature/fixing a specific software bug
  • in principle, WikiMoney transfers aren't even limited to goods/services related to Wikipedia

Please remember that the currency is not divisible: only whole numbers are possible.

Note that if you see an interesting offer below, you can of course add to the offer by inserting a comment to this effect. Please remember to sign any offer you make with the date and time (shortcut: ~~~~).

If an offer has been completed and paid, you may want to move it into the "fulfilled requests" section below.

New articles

See also: Wikipedia:Requested pages

  • ψ5 to whoever writes a decent article about the historical background and military campaigns which caused the nursery rhyme "The Grand Old Duke of York" -- SGBailey 2003-11-15
  • ψ2 each (ψ4 total) for articles about the war games Advanced Squad Leader and France 1940. The lack of descriptions of war simulation games is the biggest hole in our article on board games. If you write any of these articles, help yourself to the wikis in case I'm offline. --Fritzlein 15:02 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ2 for whoever writes two articles on mancala variants, one on Oware and one on Awari. If you write only one article, you get 950 rin. --Juuitchan 2003-06-23 07:33 UTC
  • ψ6 for a larger-than-stub article at English studies (or at a better title if you think of one). I want to be able to redirect all the links to the disambiguation page [[English]] that refer to the study of, or qualifications in English. -- sannse 21:48 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ6 for a longer-than stub article on American Alligators. If it takes multiple people to get it to that level, they can all split it.

Destubification

  • ψ1 for the wikipedian who writes a NPOV explanation on Christine Todd-Whitman of her 1996 frisking incident [1] and the reaction that followed. Kingturtle 23:40 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ1 for the wikipedian who destubs and writes a factually accurate article on Coherentism. Poor Yorick 11:54, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)


Addition

Factchecking

  • W1 to anyone who finds a factual mistake in one of the articles in the main namespace listed on user:AxelBoldt. AxelBoldt 23:16 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • W3 for finding a factual mistake in the Encyclopedia Britannica, correcting it in Wikipedia, and listing it on m:Making fun of Britannica. AxelBoldt 16:43 25 May 2003 (UTC) +2 by Taku. Rivalry is good for productivity. -- Add 1 :-) from me. Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 19:06 4 Jun 2003 (UTC) --. Sounds like fun, I'll ante 1 ilyanep 23:44 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • The above offer stands at W7 by aggregate at this time. (please edit sum if you add to the offer)
      • I still need to write the thermal transpiration article, but I have added Crookes radiometer to the list (verified the correct explanation in the 3 external references and checked that EB has the wrong explanation in the 2003 edition) Have not transfered money yet. Jrincayc 18:28, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ1 for finding a factual mistake in TechTV and correcting it. ilyanep 16:06 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Copyediting / merging / wikification

  • W1 for merging the discussion of "female circumcision" in clitoral hood into the circumcision article. --Eloquence 23:25 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ2 for anyone who merges Hipparchos with Hipparchus, and redirects Hipparchos to Hipparchus. MB 00:27 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ8 for anyone who moves (and then deletes) all 44 or so of the "September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack" subpages (listed here) to the 9/11 Memorial Wiki. --bdesham 00:29 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)

NPOV

Software development

  • W6 for adding any of the following features to the Wikipedia software (leave me a message for details): --Eloquence 23:45 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
    • to edit tables in their own namespace. Tables should still be stored in the CUR table in the same row as the articles that use them, but if a table is preceded by [[Table:Title of table]], the table code is hidden when the page is edited, and can instead be edited on a separate page (by following a small edit link under the table), like the text of image pages.
      • combine this with m:Image pages for an extra W20 from me. Both of these systems should be able to use common markup to align the table or image to right / left / center. -- Tarquin 08:18 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • to propose an automatic merge in case of edit conflicts whenever possible, and only ask the user to verify this merge (using a diff).
    • to support external editors via a helper application written in a script language of your choice, and possibly changes to the Wikipedia software, as described in [3]. (External editor support gets another W4 from me. AxelBoldt 01:04 May 11, 2003 (UTC))
      • Another WPP3 from me if and only if it will NOT allow MS-y ";smart quotes", &#8217 single quotes, similarly encoded mdashes, etc. If anyone creates such an editing utility that does allow such atrocities, however, I shall demand a WPP3 fine for all the extra work that's going to make for me. John Owens 07:56 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
      • Same from me: extra W3 for killing duff characters. but a W15 fine if they're in-- Tarquin 08:18 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
      • Hey, do HTML editors count (like Mozilla's built-in composer)? My html2wikipedia tool converts HTML to Wikipedia wikitext. It also tries to fix up some of Microsoft's stupid characters (though not all), so the not smart quotes get translated - so you could even use Word as your offline editor (though I don't recommend it for that purpose). Take a look, if it meets your needs, feel free to say so and send Wikimoney my way! -- Dwheeler 04:31 24 May 2003 (UTC)
  • W9(+W7) for any built-in system that supports meta-data/categories such that lists, like List of mathematical topics, List of lakes can be (at least in principal) generated automatically. Additionally W7 for automatically including Hypernyms within this system. This means that adding the category "tiger" to the "java tiger" should automatically add the meta-data "carnivore", "mammal", "animal" etc. to "tiger". See: [4] ("Sense 2") for an example. -- mkrohn 01:38 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • See [5] for a simple proposal to accomplish this. If you allow nested categories, you can have the automatic association you describe.
  • W1 for someone to make a feature so that ^e makes a € and ^l makes a pound sign. LittleDan
    • Can we alter the requirements for this one a bit? After all, "^e" is going to be used a bit in math articles, where it will mean "raised to the power of the logarithmic base", of course. Converting it to a € seems a poor choice to me. -- John Owens 05:18 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
      • Maybe &e. I don't think that's ever used. (the convention in math articles is to use <sup>''e''</sup> anyway.
        • Read any TeX <math> stuff lately? Sure, we could program in an exception for that... and then another, and another.... -- John Owens 09:53 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
      • I don't see why "^e" would be a problem. How likely is it that someone will want to use € in an equation? It could probably be set up so that "^e" is not recognized (as €) inside <math> anyway. --bdesham 02:01 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • W1 to anyone who makes it so that things enclosed in ^^s (two ^ on either side) are superscript and things inclosed in __ (two underscores on either side) are subscript (comment about underlines deleted) LittleDan
    • See, the problem is that now I can outbid you because I can't see ANY reason to underline things in Wikipedia, and I think it should be avoided. This is why money is bad :( It's better that we discuss these things rather than just throw money around even if it is fictional. -- Tarquin 19:08 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
      • Well, I still think we need subscript and superscript. And we do discuss things. People wouldn't blindly make a feature just for money. Maybe there should be a Wikipedia:Requested features or something like that.
        • there is...
  • W1 for anyone to replace the "search" button in the Cologne Blue theme with a "go" button (the actual function), unless somebody objects. LittleDan
  • W10 for anyone who implements my "bookmarking for diffs" feature request -- RobLa 03:24 May 14, 2003 (UTC)
    • I don't like the added complexity of bookmarks. How about transparently storing the revision number in the watchlist when viewing the article? That way, you could have a diff to the "last seen" version. Alternatively there could be a diff to the "last edited" version, which would be the last one edited by the user.--Eloquence 03:59 May 14, 2003 (UTC)
      • The problem with the "last edited" would be that people might start doing spurious edits to simulate bookmarks. "Last seen" might work, but that seems like too much of a hair trigger. -- RobLa 05:39 May 15, 2003 (UTC)
  • W5 to W10 for anyone who implements m:SVG image support. W5 if it just allows some kind of autoconversion of svg images to pngs and url rewritting. W10 if it allows editing and diffing of the images as discussed in the article. I also promise to upload svgs for all the images that I have created from vector graphics when this feature is added. Jrincayc 02:15, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

WikiLove, WikiMen and WikiFlowers

As suggested by KingTurtle, it is the end of spring, bees are still busy buzzing in gorgeous flowers. And men may be offered flowers to show appreciation.
Especially flower pictures, as it does not imply preventing the plant to reproduce (which is not very nice, right ?).

Hence, I will offer 1 wikilove to anyone who will offer one or several beautiful non-copyrighted flower pictures to a wikiman. Favor one man, you get 1 wikilove from me (perhaps, you will also get virtual wikilove from the man as well). Favor two men, you get 2 wikiloves. Favor 10, and you get 10 wikiloves. Right ?

Pictures have to be free of copyright of course, so they can be used for Wikipedia. Preferably, wikiflower pictures should illustrate a plant which either has no article on itself, or an article with no flower picture at all. But any wikiflower will be nevertheless warmly welcome.

For reference

  • Dear KQ gets 2 wikiloves for giving me the idea with 64 white pure flowers.
  • Dear MB gets 1 wikilove for offering me a lavender flower plant pict and putting it at lavender. Thanks a lot MB.
  • Dear MB gets 1 wikilove for offering User:Angela a trillium flower plant pict and putting it at trillium. Thanks a lot again MB. (The wiki is gonna be very very colorful !)
  • Dear User:Hephaestos gets 2 wikiloves for image:Pasdetout.jpeg. Double amount of love for a perfect timing.

See also m:WikiWomen m:Anthere

Tip: setexconsulting seems to offer a number of flower images for free User:TeunSpaans


Fulfilled requests

Here we record requests that have been completed and paid.

  • W1 to anyone who adds a decent description of his work and impact to Guillaume Apollinaire. AxelBoldt 23:16 May 10, 2003 (UTC);
  • W1 for someone to merge Linux and GNU/Linux. (unless I decide to do it first) LittleDan
    • Taku did this, and I paid her. LittleDan
    • Actually I am he and I have not yet get money yet. (I wonder what made he believes I am her, just curious no offense). -- Taku 21:12 25 May 2003 (UTC)
  • W2 for copyediting goatse.cx and throwing out dead URLs. You don't have to check the goatse.cx URL itself, it still works. --Eloquence 23:23 15 May 2003 (UTC)
    • W1 paid to kingturtle
  • Paid W3 to Amillar for work on adding dates to biographical listing pages. AxelBoldt 19:34 22 May 2003 (UTC)
  • W1 for someone to choose a symbol for wikimoney in unicode (that most computers probably support). LittleDan
    • Suggestion: ψ, as in Kingturtle has ψ20 to spend. Kingturtle
    • Suggestion: Use W¤ (a "W" followed by the international generic currency symbol)
      • I like ψ the best, so I'm giving Kingturtle ψ1. LittleDan
    • What is the kanji for this currency unit? --Juuitchan
  • W1 to anyone who adds a list of Heat of vaporization for each matter in Heat of vaporization. You can use what's link here feature to find out a value. (I know this is just a labor-intensive job. I will appreciate such a boring job by giving wikimoney) -- Taku
    • Done. I really, really like Perl :-) --bdesham 22:45 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • W4 for adding one-line descriptions to all the Nobel prizes on Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. AxelBoldt 04:24 28 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Paid to myself. AxelBoldt 00:16 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • W6 for adding one-line descriptions to all the Nobel prizes on Nobel Prize in Chemistry. AxelBoldt 04:24 28 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Done, to stop AxelBoldt paying himself. 212 09:32 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Sphenic number didn't turn out to be worthy of it's own article. I am giving 600 rin to Theresa Knott, and 300 rin to Juuitchan for confirming their existence and providing a precise definition, which I didn't have myself. Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 11:46 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • W5 for fact-checking and expanding upon the cellular respiration article. — bdesham 23:31 27 May 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ1 for a larger-than-stub article about old wives' tales. Kingturtle 19:23 24 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Fufilled by CGS 20:42 26 Jun 2003 (UTC).
  • W1 for NPOVing Mohammed Mossadegh. Ericd
    • Should be better now. --Eloquence 22:01 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • I added ψ2 to my account for creating Harvey Ball. As Timwi pointed out, someone forgot to sign this one, so I don't know which account the money should be removed from. Angela 19:07, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • I took ψ2 from Tiles for adding Carol Shields's maiden name to the article (info from http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/sh.htm ).
  • Ilyanep was offering ψ4 for a longer-than-stub article about Golden retrievers. An anonymous user had made a stub and I expanded it, so I'm taking just ψ2 for it. Anon is welcome to the other 2 if they ever find this page. Angela 02:35, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ3 for a larger-than-stub article about the philosophical topic of Paternalism. Poor Yorick 07:44 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Done. --Alex S 21:06, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ3 for a larger-than-stub article about Roots of Peace....utilize [6] & [7] Kingturtle 21:09 24 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Done. Took my money. --Alexandros 03:18, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ5 for de-stubifying and adding useful information to Saqqara. Ilyanep 18:04, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Did that about a month ago. Photo and all. ψ5 taken from Ilyanep. –Hjr 03:24, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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