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Request for CentralNotice banner

Hi all! I would some help to create a CentralNotice banner for the one phote contest WikiTour planned by Wikimedia Argentina.

We want to try this campaign:

    • link: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/wikitour/
    • from December 10th to January 10th, 2016.
    • logged-in and anonymous users.
    • only in Argentina, only in Spanish projects.
    • text1: ¡Participá de WikiTour 2015!
    • text2: WikiTour es el concurso de fotografías en el que podés participar con imágenes y con experiencias de tus viajes.

--Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 19:26, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Giselle Bordoy WMAR: Listo (ejemplo). Matiia (talk) 00:42, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Matiia, can we delay this banner until december 10th? Thanks a lot! --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 13:13, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Matiia (talk) 14:44, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot Matiia --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Un abrazo. --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 14:56, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Giselle Bordoy WMAR: listo con el del Wikiproyecto Mujeres. Este banner no está activado en Colombia, ¿no te refieres al del desafío de edición?. Matiia (talk) 15:14, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Si, perdón el de desafío de edición. Gracias. --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 15:29, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Listo. Matiia (talk) 15:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Matiia we need to cancel this banner for now. Can you do it? Regards.--Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 21:43, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Matiia (talk) 21:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request for CentralNotice banner

Hello. The Wikimedians of Colombia user group needs your kind help with a CentralNotice banner for colombian users.

The information is the following:

  • link: http://wikimediacolombia.org/vacaciones/
  • dates: from today (or the closest possible date) until January 31th, 2016
  • logged-in and anonymous users
  • only in CO (Colombia). Only in Spanish projects + Commons.
  • text1: ¡Participa en Wikivacaciones 2015!
  • text2: Gana premios saliendo de vacaciones por Colombia y ayudando al conocimiento libre.
  • image: File:Wikivacaciones.png

Thanks in advance for the help! --Racso ¿¿¿??? 01:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Racso: ya que dijiste Only in Spanish projects + Commons y no se puede activar solo en eswiki, esvoy... lo he activado para todas las personas que están usando el idioma español en la interfaz (y, por supuesto, que viven en Colombia), pero si quieres, puedo quitar proyectos que no tienen su versión en español (Wikidata, testwiki, MediaWiki...). Por favor, dime si lo puedes ver y/o si piensas que se le debería hacer algún arreglo. Matiia (talk) 03:39, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
¡Gracias, @Matiia:! Lo puedo ver bien. Sin embargo, lo pensé de nuevo y ahora creo que las personas que vivan en Colombia pero usen Wikipedia en inglés (enwiki) probablemente no verán el mensaje. ¿Sería posible ponerlo en todos los proyectos, para las personas que viven en Colombia? ¡Gracias! --Racso ¿¿¿??? 14:20, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Racso: está activado en todos los proyectos, pero, solo puede ver visto según el idioma de la interfaz (actualmente, no es posible activarlo a un proyecto en específico). Por ejemplo, si vas a enwiki y tienes configurado el idioma español (en tus preferencias o modificando la URL), se debería poder ver, pero, si lo tienes en inglés u otro idioma, no se podrá ver. Si quieres que más gente de enwiki lo pueda ver, puedo añadir que sea visto por las personas que usan el idioma en inglés y otro idioma común que pudiera ser usado por gente que vive en Colombia (me tendrías que decir cuál, de ser el caso) en la configuración del CentralNotice, ya que poner que sea visto en todos los idiomas que existen, no creo que sea una buena idea. Matiia (talk) 14:46, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Matiia:: Vale, comprendo. En ese caso, entonces creo que el impacto máximo sería Inglés y Español, sólo personas de Colombia. El inglés tiene sentido sobre todo para los usuarios anónimos, ya que enwiki y Commons aparecen en inglés para los anónimos. --Racso ¿¿¿??? 14:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Listo. Matiia (talk) 15:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gracias por todo, @Matiia:. --Racso ¿¿¿??? 00:08, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No hay problema. :) Matiia (talk) 00:38, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Add a new section for translation

Hi, I need to add a new section here with the sentence "payment slip". I am modifying the banner for Swiss fundraising and I suppose to don't have the admin rights to modify this page. --Ilario (talk) 23:27, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried to add it from Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/B15 WMCH Millions? Matiia (talk) 00:38, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request for an anonnotice on frwiki

Hi,

Since June 2015, with the support of Wikimedia France we are a little group of experimented contributors creating a Mooc on frwiki. It aims to teach how to contribute to wikipedia and presents the backside of the community. All the work is available here if you want to take a look. We are currently recording the courses' videos, but the enrolment will start soon, the 14th of December and will stay open until the beginning of the course, mid-February.

We have already ask for the french community agreement on our Bistro, no one oppose. We would like to know if it will be possible to add an annonnotice some days during this period, to invite visitors to join those lessons? For example:

Thanks in advance for the help! — 0x010C ~talk~ 13:59, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that, in our template, there is not the definitive link; we will know it monday in the evening. Regards, Jules78120 (talk) 14:10, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The agreement mentioned is fr:Wikipédia:Le Bistro#Le_WikiMOOC.2C_c.27est_pour_bient.C3.B4t_.21? --Base (talk) 21:38, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Base: yes! There were only two answers, but no one oppose. (For the context: we previously talked to the community about the project and lot of Wikipedians follow us on Twitter, so community is globally aware of the project) Jules78120 (talk) 21:48, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have created a draft campaign for the time being. Someone with better CSS than mine needs to improve the banner because now it sucks. --Base (talk) 23:11, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot, @Base:. Does anybody have CSS knowledge to center the text vertically and improve the .cn-closeButton (with background-color:#6599c9;) please? Best regards, Jules78120 (talk) 23:23, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The URL to use in the banner is this one: https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/WMFr/86001/session01/about. It will be accessible monday around 12:00 UTC. Jules78120 (talk) 15:06, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
URLs to third party websites are not allowed unless there is a notice informing the user about it. --Glaisher (talk) 17:21, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Also why can't the local Anonnotice be used? --Glaisher (talk) 17:22, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Glaisher: Thank you for your answers. What is exactly "a notice informing the user about it"?
And for local Anonnotice: we just have no technical skills in our group about sitenotices, and there is no help page about fr:MediaWiki:Anonnotice on frwiki. Can you explain us in a few words what the difference is with CentralNotice? Is it easier to use the local anonnotice, please? Jules78120 (talk) 18:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Anonnotice is actually much easier for wikimedians to set, since is uses wikimarkup, not raw css/js/html as CentralNotice does (so for instance you can just transclude that template there). Here's basic info on site and anon notices: mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice. The disadvantage is that if there's also a cental notice set both banners will be shown (which considering the height of this year's fundraising banners may well end up being about 100% of height on small screens), while if it is done by central notice, central notices rotate. As to the notice about the link I believe something like "(third party's site)" or similar words clearly indicating that the link goes beyond Wikimedia sites should do. --Base (talk) 19:30, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Base: Thank you very much for your help. Two last questions (sorry): if I read correctly Special:CentralNotice, there are at least two banners on fr.wiki during the same period: one in Canada, and a second one in Switzerland? So maybe it's better to use CentralNotice in our case, to avoid two banners on a same screen for Canadians and Swiss?
If we use CentralNotice, something like that is ok? (but very unsightly :/)
Jules78120 (talk) 20:00, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WMES request for a CentralNotice banner

Hi. Wikimedia España (WMES) will conduct an edit challenge about museums of Madrid in the next weeks. We need a banner to promote this activity among Wikimedia users. The campaign details are:

  • link: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMing_Madrid_Challenge/es
  • dates: December 14 - January 14
  • logged-in and anonymous users.
  • destined for Spanish users only. To be shown in all projects in Spanish (es.)
  • text1: Participa hasta el 14 de enero en el GLAMing Madrid Challenge
  • text2: Gana premios ayudando a mejorar el contenido de Wikipedia

I've just created a test code here. Thanks in advance. Montgomery (talk) 21:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Matiia (talk) 21:23, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Wikipedia Library Mass Message Announcing New Access Signups

Hi,

We'd like to globally announce new Wikipedia Library access signups, per our usual process of informing every community they are eligible for new publisher access. (I'd use my personal account's mass message rights but WMF wisely prohibits that for 'official business'.)

Can someone help please?

-Thank you!! Ocaasi (WMF) (talk) 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Target List: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikipedia_Library

Subject: New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

Message: 



<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Hello Wikimedians! 
[[File:Wikipedia_Library_owl.svg|thumb|150px|The TWL OWL says sign up today!]]
[[m:The Wikipedia Library|The Wikipedia Library]] is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our [[m:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|Publisher Donation Program]]. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
* [[w:en:WP:Gale|Gale]] - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
* [[w:en:Wikipedia:Brill|Brill]] - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
* [[w:fi:Wikipedia:Wikipedian_Lähdekirjasto/Suomalaisen_Kirjallisuuden_Seura|Finnish Literature Society]] (in Finnish)
* [[w:fa:ویکی‌پدیا:مگ‌ایران|Magiran]] (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
* [[w:fa:ویکی‌پدیا:سیویلیکا|Civilica]] (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on [[m:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|our partners page]], including [[w:en:WP:EBSCO|EBSCO]], [[w:en:WP:DeGruyter|DeGruyter]], and [[w:en:WP:Newspaperarchive.com|Newspaperarchive.com]]. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
<br>--[[m:The Wikipedia Library/Coordinators|The Wikipedia Library Team]] 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

:''Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org''<br>
:<small>This message was delivered via the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MassMessage#Global_message_delivery Global Mass Message] tool to [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikipedia_Library The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List].</small></div>


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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

  • Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
  • Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
  • Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
  • Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
  • Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
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