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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Koyaanis Qatsi (talk | contribs) at 22:32, 14 May 2003 (more detail about my offer). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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 100 units of WikiMoney (also known as Wikis and written like this: W45 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" (with 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.

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 100 units.

To transfer money from your account into somebody else's, edit the two account balances accordingly. (The total sum of all balances should therefore always remain equal to the number of participants times 100.)

The Bank accounts

Offers

Explanation

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

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: ~~~~).

WANTED

New articles

  • W2 for every fallacy (subpage) linked by logical fallacy. As of the time of writing this there are 11 unwritten articles linked on the list, so that would be a good place to start. Articles should be comparable in length to similiar articles (typically 2-3 short paragraphs with an example). Rotem Dan 10:10 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • W10 to anyone who made a decent article for Korean proverbs. -- Taku
  • ψ1.5 for a larger-than-stub article about Trisha Meili (aka the Central Park jogger) Kingturtle 05:55 May 14, 2003 (UTC)
  • ψ20 for a decent article on FTL Software, the 1980's and 1990's company that created the games SunDog and DungeonMaster. The article doesn't have to include any significant information on the games (except perhaps the dates they were published), but a decent history with dates and mention of their initial founders (e.g. Bruce Webster) is desired. In short, a significant article and not just a stub. :-) --Frecklefoot 20:33 May 14, 2003 (UTC)

Destubification

  • ψ3.5 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)

Addition

  • W50 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 $25/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
  • W3 to anyone who adds a decent description of his work and impact to Guillaume Apollinaire. AxelBoldt 23:16 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • W5 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)
  • W5 to anyone who added a list of critical points for each matter in Critical temperature article. -- Taku
  • W3 to anyone who added 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
  • W2.50 for anyone who wants to help me develop the individual Paralympics pages. - fonzy
  • W50 to anyone who follows through the "Instructions for converting Electoral College maps" on Talk:U.S. presidential election for U.S. presidential election, 1789 through U.S. presidential election, 1984. See U.S. presidential election, 1988 for example. -- RobLa 03:24 May 14, 2003 (UTC)
  • W50 for anyone who turns up a physical copy of the following items: the article in I think the Saturday Evening Post circa late Nov/early Dec 1949 questioning the "epidemic of rape" happening in Los Angeles after Fred Stroble fled following his abduction, molestation, & murder of a girl named Linda Joyce Glucoft. It may have been Newsweek or Time Magazine instead but I'm fairly certain it was the Sat Eve Post. You can find the coverage in the index at the L.A. Public Library in the newspaper archives under the topic heading "sex crimes." Also, I'd like at least a few days' worth of the front page L.A. Times coverage of the Stroble case in November 1949, if not all of them. It starts in the second or third week of November and the coverage lasted for a week. (if you need more detail, see the article Sid Davis.) Koyaanis Qatsi

Mistakes

  • 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)
  • Spelling mistakes: three for a one Wiki. (I dare not offer more as I make so many of them!) Correct three of my spelling mistakes, help yourself to a Wiki. Tannin

Copyediting / merging / wikification

NPOV

Software development

  • W20 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 a single section of an article (== foo ==, === bar === etc.), where not the whole article is loaded into the edit window, but just that specific section.
    • 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 W20 from me. AxelBoldt 01:04 May 11, 2003 (UTC))
      • Another WPP15 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 WPP15 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 W15 for killing duff characters. but a W15 fine if they're in-- Tarquin 08:18 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • W45(+W34) 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 W34 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.
  • W5 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)
  • W5 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...
  • Interlanguage links W5 for a quick interlanguage links hack. You get an extra W5 once it is running on the 10 largest phase-3 wikipedias. -- Tarquin 08:18 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • W5 for anyone to replace the "search" button in the Cologne Blue theme with a "go" button (they acutally function), unless somebody objects. LittleDan
  • W50 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)

Naming

Symbol for WikiMoney

  • W1 for someone to choose a symbol for wikimoney in unicode (that most computers probably support). LittleDan
    • Suggestion: ψ, as in Kingturtle has ψ100.00 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

Medicine

  • ψ1,000,000.00 for the discovery of a cure for Wikiholism without significant side effects.
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