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

See Wikipedia:WikiMoney_accounts

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. But be sure to notify the person whose account you are deducting the WikiMoney from.

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

Addition

  • ψ4 for completing the blank sections of Pre-historic art with at least two paragraphs of solid information. --Alex S 03:41, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • W$10 for anyone who replaces all the low quality flags and/or coats of arms on Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon with better versions.Vancouverguy 17:33, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ5 for finishing the "Todo"s and "Add details"s in Combinatory logic. -- Timwi 18:13 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Another ψ5 for the same -- Dominus 03:30, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • W10 to any group/individual who adds birth and death years as well as one-line descriptions to all the people in the alphabetical biographical listing. AxelBoldt 23:16 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
    • That's a lot of work. How about $5/letter of alphabet. And I don't agree with making a one-line description. I like the current 1-2 word description. The birth/death years would be useful, though. LittleDan
  • W10 for expanding any of the articles below to at least twice their current size, based on solid research: --Eloquence 23:45 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • W1 to anyone who adds a list of critical points for each matter in Critical temperature article. -- Taku
    • Added table with the values available in my copy of the CRC.Gentgeen 11:35, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • W10 for anyone who wants to help me develop the individual Paralympics pages. - fonzy
  • 1ψ for incorporating (in a larger-than-stub entry) [1] into Amphetamine. Kingturtle 19:15 17 May 2003 (UTC)
  • 2ψ for posting a translation of the List of Roman Emperors page, & the same amount for each Emperor biography to the Latin Wikipedia. llywrch 23:08 17 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Someone who is more fluent in Latin than I may want to check it, but Imperatores Romani is done. Adam Bishop 13:11, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
      • I'm not really concerned with earning WikiMoney, but just for fun I have attempted to translate Titus into Latin. Adam Bishop 15:01, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • W2 for completing Genghis Khan with a description of his unification of the Mongolian tribes and his expeditions to Europe. AxelBoldt 19:47 22 May 2003 (UTC)
  • 5ψfor adding a nice photo of interference between two point sources in a ripple tank I'm not good enough to draw the diagram and I don't have access to a digital camera. Theresa knott 10:31 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • 1ψ for anyone who will add decent explanation of the history and methods of either Suminagashi or Turkish Marbling in the marbling article.Theresa knott 15:17 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ3 for each full paragraph added to TechTV. ilyanep 16:06 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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

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 [2]. (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: [3] ("Sense 2") for an example. -- mkrohn 01:38 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • See [4] 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)
  • W15 to W30 for anyone who implements m:SVG image support. W15 if it just allows some kind of autoconversion of svg images to pngs and url rewritting. W30 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) (and another W5–10 from bdesham 22:17, Dec 15, 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.

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