CentralNotice/Calendar

CentralNotice calendar

The purpose of this page is to track the intended use of CentralNotice banners, and to provide contact information as to the banner's "sponsor". This also improves transparency: it gives the community the ability to comment on banners and to appropriately schedule them. Certain times (for instance, for WMF fundraising banners, steward elections, or referenda) may be reserved by the Foundation. That is, we certainly won't postpone the fundraiser because there's no banner time available. However, in all cases, project sponsors should be sensitive to the overall banner needs and mindful of the obligation to minimize the banners.

Please post here the purpose, projects, language versions, and project sponsor for banner campaigns.

Remember to consider whether CentralNotice is the right tool for the job: would your notice work as well using watchlist notices or sitenotice? Also remember to be judicious in your use of the tool, restricting it to just what's needed. Overuse hurts us all. Comments about banner campaign scheduling on talk.
Past requests are archived here.

Please note that putting a banner on this calendar does not mean that it automatically "gets done". You still need to design and run the campaign, or ask a Meta administrator or Central notice administrator to do so for you (for example, on WM:RFH).

Dates YYYY/MM/DD	Banner purpose	Projects	Language	Logged in or Anonymous	Geo-located to	Project sponsor	Comments from sponsor
Jan 24 onwards	Fundraising translation requests	Wikipedia	Various	Logged in	Worldwide	User:Pcoombe (WMF)	Logged-in campaigns to recruit translators for fundraising messages. These will be concentrating on a few languages at a time.
All Year around	Low level fundraising campaign	Wikipedia	all languages	Anonymous	Worldwide	Jessica Robell for WMF Fundraising
August 25 - 31	Wikipedia Learn To Edit workshop	Wikipedia	HE	Logged in and anonymous	Israel	Itzik Edri for Wikimedia Israel
August 27 - 31	Videos für Wikipedia-Artikel last call for workshop registration	Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Commons, Wikimania	all	Logged in and anonymous	Germany, Austria, Switzerland	Manuel Schneider for the project team	Special:EmailUser/80686 / User Talk:80686 / IRC root-80686
August 28 - September 7	Media Viewer Consultation	All	All	Logged in	All	Wikimedia Engineering	Banner issues can go to User:Jalexander-WMF
August 29 - September 7, 2014	Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer	All	All	Logged in & IP	All	Pete Forsyth on behalf of current signators of letter	Banner not yet designed, planning here
September 6-14	Wikiconference in Moscow	Wikipedia	ru	Logged-IN	RU	rubin16 (talk)	Starts in a week before conference begins, ends after the conference is closed
September	Netherlands Fundraising campaign	Wikipedia	nl, en	Anonymous	NL	Jessica Robell for WMF Fundraising
September	Austria Fundraising campaign	Wikipedia	de, en	Anonymous	AT	Jessica Robell for WMF Fundraising
September	Italy Fundraising campaign	Wikipedia	it, en	Anonymous	IT	Jessica Robell for WMF Fundraising
September	Wiki Loves Monuments in various countries	Wikipedia, Commons	various, languages spoken in participating countries	Logged in and anonymous	specific countries	Romaine for WLM teams	Available at IRC at #wikilovesmonuments and some other channels.
September	Wikipedia Summer of Monuments	Wikipedia, Commons	en	Logged in and anonymous	United States	James Hare and Leo Zimmermann for Wikimedia DC
October 1 - 15	International francophone contribution month	all	fr	Logged in + Anonymous	Worldwide	Benoit Rochon for WikiFranca	Invitation to visitors
October 27 - November 2	Videos für Wikipedia-Artikel last call for submissions	Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Commons, Wikimania	all	Logged in and anonymous	Germany, Austria, Switzerland	Manuel Schneider for the project team	Special:EmailUser/80686 / User Talk:80686 / IRC root-80686
October 1 - November 30	Wiki Loves Africa (photographic contest)	Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Commons	English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, African languages (list here)	Logged in and anonymous	All African countries	Anthere for WLA	Photographic contest running for 2 months on the African continent. Call for participation