It has nothing to do with original question (at least not based on what I know). OP claims he is still searching for his WIF, as he wrongly decoded some characters, and work continues. Nothing new is known.
It is true WIF500 is a very similar problem (similar combination of known characters and missing ones).
Find the WIF challenge
https://github.com/phrutis/wif500Suppose you do find the coins (which actually belong to @soferox) - how will you return them to him?
Some others think it too
