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Can I put a bounty on a community wiki question? While I haven't found any information eliminating this possibility, I have also not found a confirmation answer. Given the special nature of CW questions, I'd like to make sure that bountifiability doesn't die with communitywikification.

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Yes, whether or not the question is Community Wiki makes no difference to the bounty system.

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    So you can gain rep from "winning" a CW question? That almost seems a little bit of a contradiction.
    – TheTXI
    Commented Jul 4, 2009 at 15:40
  • I have received an answered to one of my questions but in the meantime the answered got marked as CW. I would like to start and award a bounty, but I can't seem to be able to start a bounty, the button is missing. What am I doing wrong ?
    – George Profenza
    Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 12:31
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Yes

Further to this, what happens when multiple users contribute to one post?

I assume it gets awarded to the person who originally posted the answer, which seems a little unfair if someone else contributes to the answer (which is hte idea of CWiki..), but splitting the bounty between contributors would be abuse-prone (people doing meaningless edits just before the bounty is awarded etc)

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    While it is a legitimate concern, I think that it's more theoretical than practical, as I have a hard time coming up with a time that this happened. Usually if someone is going to add a lot of content to a question, they add their own answer rather than editing another one.
    – Kyle Cronin Mod
    Commented Jul 4, 2009 at 21:10
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Do you even gain rep from an accepted answer of a Community Wiki question (I can't remember off the top of my head). If you can gain rep from a correct answer (which I want to say is not the case), then I would suspect you should be able to set a bounty...

But I do not believe that is true. I believe setting a rep on a bounty (if it were in fact possible) would be more like throwing away rep than anything else.

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  • Yes, if you post an answer as CW and it's accepted, you get +15. Also, the bounty works as it should regardless of CW status.
    – Kyle Cronin Mod
    Commented Jul 4, 2009 at 15:41
  • Interesting .
    – TheTXI
    Commented Jul 4, 2009 at 16:41
  • Huh. I thought CW meant that you would never get any rep from the answer; I guess I don't participate in CW questions often enough to have found out.
    – mmyers
    Commented Jul 4, 2009 at 22:50
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It's happened. For example: this question

Yet the FAQ seems wrong on this point:

Of course, bounty awards, like all accepted answers, are immune to the daily reputation cap and community wiki mode.

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  • Ah - I thought it meant that such posts were immune from being turned into community wiki mode. How about a change of wording then?
    – Draemon
    Commented Jul 21, 2009 at 21:38

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