Start your request for a CentralNotice banner campaign here!
The aims of this process are as follows:
To improve community access to central notice through a clear and transparent process.
To improve best practice and ensure greater consistency in campaign implementation.
To improve communication around campaigns. Creating clear forums for feedback on campaigns, providing metrics back to campaigns and also a clear method for assessing community consensus for campaigns relating to advocacy.
To reduce potential clashes between campaigns
Requests must be made, at minimum, 10 days in advance of any campaign
Step #4 : Add it to the calendar and check for conflicting campaigns in your period for language/geotargeting. Contact the organizers of the other campaigns to solve them!
Step #5 : Notify target projects and geographic affiliates. Add edit diff links to request.
Step #6 : CN Admin & Community feedback [7 days]
Advocacy/Payments: WMF Legal Review [21 days])
Step #7 : Approval/rejection
Step #8 : CN Admin sets up campaign (recommended to allow for up 3 days)
Step #9 : Campaign enabled
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For normal requests, a central notice admin will close the discussion. In the areas of advocacy, the stewards team may be called upon to assess consensus.
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Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged and Anonymus
What countries will your campaign target?'
Spain, Mexico, Perú Chile, Argentina, Honduras, Guatemala, USA, Italy, France
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Multiple Languages (Uzbek, Kazakh, Russian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Persian)
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users, 500+ edits, 6+ months registered
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - On the occasion of International Volunteer Day, WMDE's Community Conferences & Volunteer Support team would like to express its appreciation for the voluntary engagement of those active in Wikimedia projects and, in doing so, to give a more detailed presentation of the support and recognition offered by Wikimedia Deutschland for voluntary engagement. For more information see description from last year's campaign under w:de:Wikipedia:Förderung/Wikimedia Deutschland/Förderung bewerben#Bannerkampagne zum Internationalen Tag des Ehrenamts.
Metrics - page views, requests for honorary cards at Wikimedia Deutschland, use of The Wikipedia Library
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Danke, dass du die Wikimedia-Projekte besser machst!
Anlässlich des Internationalen Tags des Ehrenamtes möchten wir bei Wikimedia Deutschland uns für dein Engagement und deine Zeit bedanken und dir zeigen, wie wir dich dabei unterstützen können.
Erfahre mehr
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged in users
What countries will your campaign target?
all
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - This is the first survey about the French-speaking Wikipedia community. We aim to describe the main characteristics of this group (demographic and social features, type of contributions, psychological profile...)
Metrics - number of respondants > 400
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Qui sont les bénévoles qui contribuent à Wikipédia en français ? Aidez-nous à décrire la communauté francophone de Wikipédia en complétant notre enquête !
Type of grant - There was no need of funding. This survey is conducted by a French researcher in psychology and myself (wikimedian volunteer) and is supported by both Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Belgium. This survey is GPDR compliant.
Hello @.Anja.! As this is a more complex survey scenario than is typical for Central Notice (specifically as I understand it, a demographic survey of editors conducted by an external researcher, with the intent to publicly release the dataset), please bear with me as it may take some time to discuss and approve it. As a note, technically the discussion period for surveys is 90 days. Please allow me a few days to get back to you with my questions and comments, and in the meantime: if you have a draft of the survey that you can share here, that would be very helpful to better understand the research. - TAndic (WMF) (talk) 18:49, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @DerHexer, at least from my side I think this will take some weeks -- @.Anja. I am awaiting your email with the survey draft (in French is fine :)) before I make comments (and of course feel welcome to also include your research collaborator, I am happy to discuss with you both!) Best, - TAndic (WMF) (talk) 18:37, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both groups
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany / Baden-Württemberg
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Das ist ne Menge Text. Idealerweise wärs weniger (nur zum Vergleich: So sieht unser Template aus [1]). Aber wie bereits in der Vergangenheit (z.B. [2][3]) lässt sich das auch mit viel Text umsetzen. --Johannnes89 (talk) 20:14, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Leserättin ich habe die Kampagne [4] und das Banner [5] (Vorschau [6]) erstellt. Bitte kontrolliere, ob alles wie gewünscht aussieht und eingestellt wird, bevor ich es einschalte. Bitte beachte, dass unangemeldete User das Banner vermutlich kaum sehen werden, weil die Banner der laufenden Fundraising-Kampagne priorisiert ausgespielt werden. Johannnes89 (talk) 07:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
All (viewed from the territory of Ukraine or in the Ukrainian language)
What languages will you be targeting?
Ukrainian
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
All countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Science Photo Competition 2024 in Ukrainian Wikipedia will be a new edition of several earlier contests for scientific photos in Ukraine. Having a CentralNotice banner is an important aspect for the success of the contest and thus for closing content gaps on Ukrainian science.
Metrics - Science Photo Competition 2024 in Ukrainian Wikipedia will be a new edition of several earlier contests for scientific photos in Ukraine. Having a CentralNotice banner is an important aspect for the success of the contest and thus for closing content gaps on Ukrainian science.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@AntonProtsiuk (WMUA) I've created the campaign [7] and banner [8] (preview [9]). Note that I exempted some organizational / technical projects and Wikidata (because they already receive many banners). Please check if both campaign settings and banner are correct and ping me once you're done, so that the campaign can be enabled. --Johannnes89 (talk) 14:59, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Description - Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Chile and WhoseKnowlegde? are organizing the third edition of the regional campaign "16 days of activism against gender violence" in Spanish Wikipedia. The goal is for participants to create and improve articles about organizations working for women's rights.
Metrics - number of participants and edits contributed during the campaign
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - Súmate a la campaña "16 días de activismo contra la violencia de género" para visibilizar el trabajo de las organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos de América Latina y el Caribe
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged in users
What countries will your campaign target?
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Promoting the new WMDE Technical Wishes survey on future technical improvements within the German-speaking community, similar to our 2022 request. As always WMDE CN admins will take care of the request.
Metrics - We will measure
banner impressions
clicks on the banner
how often the banner was closed
daily, both for
new users (edit count <= 200)
experienced Users (edit count > 200)
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
Nigeria, Ghana, Benin
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
TransVisibility Nigeria Challenge is a public writing competition to create and improve articles to strengthen Nigeria and other West African countries Wikimedia's coverage of Trans and gender non-conforming related topics on Wikipedia and Wikidata in celebration of the global Transgender Awareness month.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Hadassahlove: Please add the languages you are targeting. For large projects like English Wikipedia, a local notification on their village pumps usually is recommended. Please also be aware that you should provide banner texts and landing pages in all languages you are requesting, having the latter marked for translation. If you only want to target English-language users, that will remove these problems, though. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:57, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: I have added the languages and also provided their banner translations here in Yo, Ha and Ig.
All Wikimedia Projects (excluding Catalan Wikimedia Projects).
What languages will you be targeting?
English, French, Swahili, Spanish, Arabic.
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
Global
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - This campaign is for the Wikimania 2025 scholarships application and we are looking forward in reaching a wider audience during the application stage for the travel scholarships.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hello Admins, please for this is the HTML source code for the Wiki text banner I created: HTML Code.
If you need help with anything that will help expedite this process I am willing to assist with any support or further information needed.
Is there some way this could have been requested earlier? I think I'll have time later today. Don't say "click here". anyone else have thoughts about diet or other settings? besides Catalan we could also exclude wikitech? (they're in the middle of a transition, they already have a banner up all the time. it's not plausible that that would be someone's only wiki, they must use other wikis too.) --Jeremyb (talk) 17:10, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Joris Darlington Quarshie: I've created the campaign and a version of your banner (preview). Please provide as many translations as possible for the banner through this link. Furthermore, please also let the landing page be marked for translation (I could see that there are already translation tags) and provide as many translations there as possible, too. As soon as this is done and the preview looks good to you, I can enable the campaign. Please don't forget to ping me. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:29, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
05-10-2024: 5th November 2024 → 31-10-2024: 31st November 2024
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia Spanish
What languages will you be targeting?
Spanish
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
All Users
What countries will your campaign target?
All Countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Metrics - Article counts improve from the historic table here. It would also be amazing if more users could participate, compared to previous editions.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hi! This is my first proposal for a banner, so, please, feel free to tell me how to improve it in any way.
In Spanish Wikipedia, I have been organizing the local edition of the Asian Month for the past 2 years. It is sad to see such an interesting project, and one that started my contributions to the Spanish Wikipedia, loose users every year, going from 42 at its best moment to 18 in last year's edition.
I think a banner could greatly improve discovery of this event, which offers a soft, cute landing for new users, and an interesting objective for more experienced users.
@Marion Moseby: Thanks for the preparation of the banner, however, it doesn't work on mobile with me. Can you please check the preview yourself (see link below)? I also removed the Montserrat font because we've had problems with importing fonts recently. Please also note my other ping with the conflicting campaign of Wikimedia Arentina. Furthermore, we would usually expect a local announcement of banner campaigns but as this is a returing campaign, it isn't necessary. — I have created the campaign and banner. Please check the desktop and mobile versions of the display. Do you have the same problems as I do? I can activate the campaign for desktop now if you approve it. Please don't forget to ping me. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:54, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @DerHexer:, thanks for your comments! I wasn't really aware there was a template for Notice messages, so I just copied one from somewhere; it makes sense that it doesn't work 😅. I have re-designed the banner based on the one from Argentina that you linked (thanks, btw, for the coordination efforts!). If you can update the preview with the new code from my Workshop, that would be super useful! I cannot update it myself, as it seems like I don't have the right permissions. Other than that, if the preview works for you (it does for me on mobile and desktop), I definetely approve you activating the campaign! --Marion Moseby (talk) 18:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so, so much, @DerHexer:!!!! Have a nice day! 🌠 — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marion Moseby (talk) 21:53, November 5, 2024 (UTC)
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Primarily Argentine, and LATAM + Spain.
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - "DesafioGLAM" is a wikicampaign to encourage the use of uploaded and digitized files from the GLAM Program (Programa de Cultura y Conocimiento) of Wikimedia Argentina. This is the third activity of this campaign.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - Standard banner, with this logo on the left side. Text and link centered: "Wikimedia Argentina te invita al DesafíoGLAM del mes de Noviembre. Colaborá en la preservación digital de fotografías agregando categorías, sumando datos estructurados e ilustrando artículos."
Hi all, thanks for the ping! Thanks for the compatibilization of both campaigns, I am happy we can make both work at the same time 💖. Have a great day! --Marion Moseby (talk) 12:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
both
What countries will your campaign target?
Czech Republic
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Wikipedia Asian Month is an annual online event that occurs in November and which aims to promote Asian content on Wikipedia. Since 2015, each participating community has run a local online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on the Wikipedia site of their own language promoting the creation or improvement of the Wikipedia content about Asia except their own country.
Metrics - number of participants, number of artiles edited and created, number of newcommers
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Estonia
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
@Kruusamägi: A little bit of description would be nice, but it looks like the Wiki Science Competition in Estonia to me. ;) Furthermore, can you please provide the banner in HTML/CSS/JavaScript source code? We cannot use wiki markup for the banners. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)22:14, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is an article competition on science. And yes, that is closely associated with the Wiki Science Competition.
@Kruusamägi: Of course I remember the WMDE design. ;) However, I forgot about your request a year ago where I had already spent time to convert the wiki markup into HTML (a link would have been nice!). I could now copy and adapt this so that you can find the campaign and banner (preview). Don't forget to ping me (again ;) ) when you have checked and approved it so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)08:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: All seems to work. Feel free to enable it.
@DerHexer: I now noticed the line in the banner is "Osale lühiartiklite võistlusel ja võida auhindu", but the asked line was "Osale artiklivõistlusel ja võida auhindu". Could that be updated? :) Kruusamägi (talk) 10:26, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
France + overseas territories: France [FR], Guadeloupe [GP], Guyane française [GF], La Réunion [RE], Martinique [MQ], Mayotte [YT], Nouvelle-Calédonie [NC], Polynésie française [PF], Saint-Marin [SM], Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon [PM], Terres australes françaises [TF], Wallis-et-Futuna [WF]
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - WikiScience Contest 2024 in French Wikipedia will be a new edition of several earlier contests for scientific photos on science in French Wikipedia. It is organized by the Wikimedia residencies in France. The residencies are funded by the French Ministry of Research.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
WSC will not be held in 2024 (next time is indeed in 2025), but if countries want, they may have local science photo competitions. Over the years some countries have occasionally also held competitons in even-numbered years, but this is not centrally coordinated. Some other countries, like Estonia, have tried article competition in thouse years (example). Kruusamägi (talk) 12:02, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
2024-10-28 → 2024-11-11 AND 2024-11-17 → 2024-12-10
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia, Commons
What languages will you be targeting?
Czech
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
both
What countries will your campaign target?
Czech Republic
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Competition Czechoslovakia is one of the annual competitions hosted by Wikimedia Czech Republic. It is focused both on experienced editors and people who never edited before. During the challenge, we teach Wikipedia users who are interested in the topic how to edit. People can also upload photos to participate.
Metrics -quantitative: Number of articles and pictures uploaded, number of participants; qualitative: jury will pick the articles that are "articles of the highest quality, particularly beneficial for Wikipedia".
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Janbery: Thanks for the good preparation of the campaign. You can find the campaign setting and banner (preview) here. Before I enable the campaign, I need your approval and ping.
We cannot program a break into the settings, but we can switch it on again. Can you please remind us with a ping after the first term?
I'm getting an error in the preview because the banner is loading an external Montserrat font. Is this needed? Can we use a different font instead?
For the correlation to the other campaign (which I will likely create later today) we have a couple of options: e.g., we can change from 50:50 display to any kind of percentage. But we can also let the 3 displays per 2 days standard setting (can be changed upon your request) of the primary campaign complete first and then show the other campaign (which would be adapted by different priority levels but at a 100 % display for each when they run). What do you prefer? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Nigeria only
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Bringing together the vibrant worlds of AfroCuisine and AfroFestival, Culture Connect Africa presents a dynamic fusion of culinary arts and cultural celebration. This integrated initiative celebrates the diverse culinary traditions and spirited festivities of the African continent, uniting them under one engaging platform.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Edriiic: I have created the campaign and designed a banner (preview). Does it look good to you? I had to use three lines and it made most sense to me to arrange the text like that. Is the gradient as intended? — Please also provide translations to the banner and landing page if possible. As soon as everything is ready and approved by you, I can activate the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)13:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @DerHexer thanks again for your help with this.. Your idea of having three lines is perfect—it makes total sense! The colour gradient looks great too. Could we adjust the width slightly? It seems a bit too wide, and I think the size you created here for the bootcamp is ideal. Also, would it be possible to remove the green line underneath? Thanks once again @DerHexer: Edriiic (talk) 18:54, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Edriiic: I have removed the green line and some white spaces, but in general I kept the word size and spaces between the elements. I have enabled the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:23, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, @DerHexer! It looks great now. Just one last thing: it seems like the text is aligned to the left. Could we please centre it?
@Edriiic: I tried to move it to the right place, but I couldn't figure it out. I have asked other CN admins for help, maybe you can ask your colleagues too. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:33, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
All
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - The #SheSaid drive, part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative, celebrates women leaders by focusing on enhancing their visibility through the creation and improvement of Wikiquote entries related to them.
Metrics - We will measure the metrics by the number of articles created and improved on WikiQuopte for each participating language.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Type of grant - On Wiki in Africa side, the campaign is funded by an annual grant. Some other groups are likely to use their annual support grant too. During the last year, a dozen of groups applied for a rapid grant to support that project and this is likely to be the same this year.
Great to have SheSaid back, and happy to help set up the campaign and banner.
Like last year, we will only enable the campaign for those languages in which the banner + landing page has translations. Can you please supply me with a list of these before the expressed starting date of the campaign? I will try and create a preview of the banner for you to check out over the weekend. Ciell (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
campaign for the banners on Wikipedia (very restricted diet, will show 3 times every 28 days per user per project)
I am proposing the Wikipedia banner to start on Sept 2nd, because the WLM banners will also already go live on the 1st. Does that make sense to you? Ciell (talk) 18:49, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Over the weekend I have been working to improve the SheSaid banners by shortening the participant pipeline (number of clicks they need to engage with the landing page). By creating individual campaigns and banners for all languages, the engagement is now much more direct. For this I reviewed all the languages and landing pages you have listed on the Meta page and collected them here in one overview with the information I need for the banners, and noticed that 5 languages do not have a landing page for SheSaid 2024: I have decided to not target these languages anymore, since I assume these are not really participating? No landing page means no available information for participants. For the 4 languages that I, after a month of running the translatable banner, don't have a local language version on the banner text available, they are still receiving the general banner they saw previously, but will still be send to Meta where the participant will have to look up their project manually (instead of being directed to their Wikiquote directly).
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged-in users with less than 100 edits
What countries will your campaign target?
All
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
We'd like to continue the campaign from last year (request). The banner will only be running for two days before the first Wednesday of each month, and will be targeted to users with less than 100 edits. Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (talk) 08:24, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Requests must be made, at minimum, 10 days in advance of any campaign
For normal requests, a central notice admin will close the discussion. In the areas of advocacy, the stewards team may be called upon to assess consensus.
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