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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 #1 : Review the usage guidelines for CentralNotice Step #2 : Create your request Step #3 : Include it on this page. 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 List of currently active volunteer CentralNotice administrators: Ciell DerHexer Martin Urbanec Romaine Steinsplitter Ата 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.

(This list is automatically updated every two hours.)

Request	Requested at	Last edit	Primary contact	Duration	State
Wikiconcurso Wiki Loves Bahia	21:27, 22 June 2021 (UTC)	12:50, 23 June 2021 (UTC)	Sturm	1st July 2021 → 1st August 2021	open
2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election	21:15, 17 June 2021 (UTC)	09:15, 17 June 2021 (UTC)	JKoerner (WMF)	4 August 2021 → 17 August 2021	open
schrijfweken Maand van de Geschiedenis	09:33, 15 June 2021 (UTC)	08:42, 15 June 2021 (UTC)	DDJJ	→ 2021-09-27 - 2021-10-27	open
Wikiprojekt: Změna klimatu	15:32, 21 May 2021 (UTC)	12:33, 11 June 2021 (UTC)	Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ)	13th June 2021 - 23rd June 2021	open
Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia	17:20, 7 May 2021 (UTC)	08:23, 05 June 2021 (UTC)	Alchimista	7th May 2021 → 9th May 2021	open
20th Birthday of Spanish Wikipedia	20:36, 26 April 2021 (UTC)	04:27, 10 May 2021 (UTC)	Cftoro (WMCL)	12 May 2021 → 26 May 2021	open
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2021	12:26, 2 June 2021 (UTC)	09:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)	T Cells	1st July 2021 - 31st August 2021	approved
Board Election Campaigns	00:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC)	10:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)	Seddon	→	running
Wiki Loves Earth 2021	14:50, 18 April 2021 (UTC)	03:33, 18 April 2021 (UTC)	Romaine	1 May 2021 → 31 July 2021	running
Wikimania 2021 submissions	17:17, 3 June 2021 (UTC)	08:54, 18 June 2021 (UTC)	Bodhisattwa	3rd June 2021 (asap) ---> → 18th June 2021	running
Wikidata online Edit-a-thon 2021 Korean	08:32, 27 May 2021 (UTC)	06:48, 08 June 2021 (UTC)	이강철 (WMKR)	7 June 2021 00:00 (UTC) → 10 July 2021 15:00 (UTC)	running

Queued requests

Wikiconcurso Wiki Loves Bahia

• Sturm (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 21:27, 22 June 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - The "Wikiconcurso Wiki Loves Bahia" is a competition for the Portuguese Wikipedia and Commons. It integrates a series of activities that will take place throughout 2021 within the scope of the Wiki Loves Bahia project, conceived and carried out by the Wiki Movimento Brasil Users Group (WMB). The initiative aims to encourage the participation of the Wikipedia editors and publishers community in the improvement of entries related to the Brazilian State of Bahia.

Metrics -

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - link

Landing Page - w:pt:Wikipédia:Wikiconcurso Wiki Loves Bahia

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - sAPG

Link to grant - Grants:Simple/Applications/Wiki Movimento Brasil/2021

Endorsement

•  Support -- Joalpe (talk) 21:48, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Myxomatosis0 (talk) 21:51, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ederporto (talk) 22:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Friduxa (talk) 22:33, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Boa ideia! Ixocactus (talk) 00:23, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support ━ ALBERTOLEONCIO Who, me? 12:50, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election

• JKoerner (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 21:15, 17 June 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - This banner will be used to notify contributors of the opportunity to vote in the 2021 Board of Trustees election running from 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. The banner does not have to run for the whole time. The facilitation team would like to replicate what was done last Board election.

Metrics - none

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - Standard Wikimedia template; likely will reuse previously used Board election voting banner since that already has community acceptance.

Landing Page - tbd

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - none

Link to grant - none

schrijfweken Maand van de Geschiedenis

• DDJJ (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 09:33, 15 June 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - In October 2021, as part of History Month, we will organize writing weeks in the theme of At Work. We will do this in cooperation with the organization of Month of History (an initiative of Nederlands Openlucht Museum). The aim is to inspire new editors to contribute and to offer a challenge to the existing community. Subjects that fall within the theme are broad. Think of supplementing knowledge on crafts but also, for example, on contract labor, labor migration, slavery, labor participation of women, etc. Participants can contribute to the Wikimedia projects they are interested in: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata are central.

Metrics - number of participants + added/improved items/articles -> resultslist on landingpage/results tab

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice#Schrijfweken_Oktober_2021

Landing Page - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Schrijfweek/Aanhetwerk

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Organized and funded by Wikimedia Nederland

Link to grant -

Wikiprojekt:Změna klimatu

• Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 15:32, 21 May 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - Wikimedia Czech Republic announces a contest (17.6.2021 - 31.8.2021) and an opening editaton (17.6.2021) on climate changes

Metrics - number of participants and articles edited

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiklima_2021

Landing Page - https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Wikiklima_v%C3%BDzva_2021#WikiKlima_v%C3%BDzva_2021

Logo

c:File:WikiKlima výzva 2021.png

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -
WMCZ APG, US small grants
Link to grant -

Central Notice admin comments

@Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ): Hello Natalia! I'm sorry, but the landing page is not sufficient for a central notice banner at this point. It seems the centralnotice (CN) should be created to propagate a WMCZ-organized editathon. However, neither of the Wikimedia-hosted pages linked in your CN request ([1] [2]) mentions the editathon at all.

The sign up form does mention the editathon, but as it's not Wikimedia-hosted, it cannot be linked from a central notice banner.

Could you please create a Wikimedia-hosted landing page that can be linked from the banner?

Thank you, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:52, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello Martin @Martin Urbanec:, thank you for your comment. We've created a project website with more detailed information on edit-a-thon and competition. Please check it out and let me know if it's sufficient or if we should provide you with something else: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_Zm%C4%9Bna_klimatu#WikiKlima_v%C3%BDzva_2021 --Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk) 16:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

@Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) Thanks for the link! Can we make it a standalone page rather than a section? Linking to a section is less reliable than to link to a page. Otherwise, it LGTM. Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:26, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for the feedback, I have created a website: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Wikiklima_v%C3%BDzva_2021 --Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk) 20:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Perfect! Thanks. Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:41, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia

• Alchimista (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 17:20, 7 May 2021 (UTC))
• Sturm (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), secondary contact (Requested at 05:41, 7 May 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description -
The Wiki-Lusophony Festival is a celebration of Wikipedia's 20 years held by organizations of Portuguese-speaking Wikimedians. It takes place in the first half of 2021, in a calendar of activities that runs from January to May.
Metrics -

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - User:Ederporto/Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia

Landing Page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festa_da_Wiki-Lusofonia

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

I know this a very last minute request. :( But, pls, hope @Ата: and @Ciell: can help here. Sturm (talk) 21:01, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Sturm: you only want to target the Portuguese Wikipedia. Why not use your local site notice? It's empty and every admin can help you with that. The proposed banner is already in wiki-text, which needs to be converted to html by the CN admin first, and this would cost more time, plus through the Mediawiki extension the community will be able to self-govern the banner, opposed to being dependent on CN admins when you use the CN banner. Ciell (talk) 06:47, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Adding Alchimista to the ping-party. Ciell (talk) 06:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

I'm sorry you did not receive an update so far. Is there anything the CN admins can do for you at this point? Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:23, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

20th Birthday of Spanish Wikipedia

• Cftoro (WMCL) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 20:36, 26 April 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - It is the 20th anniversary of Spanish Wikipedia and we want to celebrate with all the community.

From May 12 to 26, the chapters and user groups of Spanish Wikipedia are launching a set of activities, including a global editathon that will move from different time zones across the globe. So in order to have all the activities in one place, we will need a banner. We opened the possibility to all the spanish wikipedia community to put their activities in the landing page, that way all the groups will benefit from this banner and we all can celebrate the anniversary as a community.

Metrics - Page views. New articles improved and created.

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - Here is the banner

Landing Page - Celebración del 20º aniversario de Wikipedia en español

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

My proposal for a slightly modified image for the banner Regards --Basquetteur (talk) 07:26, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Gracias Basquetteur! La cambié :-).--Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 20:54, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Ciell:, @Martin Urbanec: hope everything is ok with you and your families. I just wanted to ask if you had the opportunity to review this proposal. Thank you in advance :-).--Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 20:58, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi @DerHexer:, @Romaine: hope everything is ok with you and your families too. I just wanted to see if anyone had the chance to review this proposal. Thank you! :-).--Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 22:14, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

@Cftoro (WMCL): I've created the campaign and banner. Banners require html code and not wiki markup. I tried to rebuild it but it looks slightly different. You can find a preview here. Please tell me if that's okay for you, then I can enable the campaign. It will run as requested. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:24, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

@DerHexer: Thank you so much! The banner it's Ok :-). I will do it in html for the next time. --Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 15:29, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• Campaign is activated, banners will be shown at max. 3 times per week in the proposed setting. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:27, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Approved & Work in progress

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2021

• T Cells (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 12:26, 2 June 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) is an annual campaign where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking images. This is to promote the use of digital media files collected from various WP photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages. Thousands of images have been donated and contributed to Wikipedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging

Metrics -

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners -

Join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2021 to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize!

Landing Page - Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Project Grant
Link to grant - Grants:Project/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos International Team/2021 coordination

Endorsement

•  Support --Cbrescia (talk) 00:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Azogbonon (talk) 09:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 08:26, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Matarimi1 (talk) 09:46, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support M-Mustapha (talk) 11:33, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Swaralasika (talk) 12:42, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Sumasa (talk) 21:31, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Rahmatdenas (talk) 17:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Yamen (talk) 20:03, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Kushared (talk) 06:44, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Tochiprecious (talk) 08:53, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support - Mrb Rafi (talk) 12:13, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support - Mrbobax (talk) 12:32, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support - Kunokuno (talk) 09:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

Romaine, since you are on the team, will you be handling this request? I understood the team would like to start the translation of the banner preferably before the campaign starts. Ciell (talk) 20:32, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

I am not in this years team, and I am lacking time to do this banner. Romaine (talk) 20:34, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Romaine. I found last years code, and should be able to easily recycle it I think. Ciell (talk) 19:57, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

In order to be pro-active as always, I think it should be done before the campaign as well. Thank you --Azogbonon (talk) 08:35, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Pro-active is good! ;-) Ciell (talk) 19:57, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

So T Cells, here's the banner for 2021: preview. What do you think? Please test the translations link in the right bottom as well. Ciell (talk) 20:20, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

(And yes, you can start translations immediately, if everyone is okay with this text! The translations of the banner will not interfere with any last minute tweaking of the visual mark up, so go right ahead. :) Ciell (talk) 20:26, 4 June 2021 (UTC))

Wow! I have looked at the preview [linked above], the banner looks good. Thank you so much, Ciell. We'd use the translation at Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos/CentralNotice since it's the same text. I'd follow up with User:Tulsi Bhagat, our communication manager on getting translation for additional langauges. We appreciate this valuable work, Ciell. Regards. T Cells^Talk 11:59, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Campaigns currently running

Board Election Campaigns

• Seddon (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 00:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - Board of Trustees elections are anticipated to be held 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. The Call for Candidates is planned to open on 9 June 2021.

Metrics -

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - Standard wikimedia template.

Landing Page - tbd

Central Notice admin comments

• Approved - Seddon (talk) 00:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

  Comment - Campaign live for 7 days. Seddon (talk) 22:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2021

• Romaine (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 14:50, 18 April 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - annual photo contest Wiki Loves Earth 2021

Metrics -

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners -

Landing Page -

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Wikimania 2021 submissions

• Bodhisattwa (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 17:17, 3 June 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - Promoting awareness of the call for submission proposals to Wikimania 2021. This is considered a "standard banner" as per CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines#Approval.

Metrics - Number of submissions received (we can measure these ourself). Would be great to get clicks from different languages and/or countries at some point, but that's mostly for evaluation.

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - A Call for submission proposals equivalent of the call for 2018 Scholarships banner but for 2021 Wikimania and with this logo.

As banner text we would like to use "The 2021 Wikimania Conference is now open for program submissions. -- See the main page for more information." (we may update for the final days).

Landing Page - https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - n/a (directly WMF funded)

Link to grant - n/a

Discussion

• @Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ): THere would be a few day overlap with your proposed campaign, but I hope that is not a problem. I think they can run concurrently. Effeietsanders (talk) 18:10, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
• @이강철 (WMKR): There would be overlap with your campaign in Korean Wikipedia. I think they can run concurrently, especially given that our focus is the days after. Effeietsanders (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
• @JBrungs (WMF): Courtesy ping. I don't believe there would be overlap, but please let me know if I'm wrong. Effeietsanders (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

  This is running in June if I read the calendar right. So that is all good. The Japan campaign is the next banner fundraising which will take place in July. Thanks for the ping! JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 05:30, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

• @T Cells: It looks like there will be overlap (not sure in how many countries) with Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP, July 1 ― Aug. 31). Do you foresee problems with running concurrently? Effeietsanders (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
• @Romaine: It looks like there will be overlap with Wiki Loves Earth. Not sure in how many countries. Given that we're not close to your final sprint at the end of the month, and that you're more focused on anonymous and we're more on logged-in, do you foresee problems? Effeietsanders (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

 Approved and Done. Should start displaying soon: [3]. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:12, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

• Since submissions got extended for 2 more days, I went ahead and also extended the banner time. Ciell (talk) 08:54, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata online Edit-a-thon 2021 Korean

• 이강철 (WMKR) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 08:32, 27 May 2021 (UTC))

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - Wikidata online Edit-a-thon 2021 Korean will be held to encourage Korean users to edit Wikidata by Wikimedia Korea.



Metrics - The number of participants, and the number of values edited

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners -

위키데이터 온라인 에디터톤(6/13~7/10)에 참가해서 한국어 데이터를 보완해 주세요!

Landing Page - d:Wikidata:위키데이터 온라인 에디터톤/2021년

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - sAPG

Link to grant - Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia_Korea/2021

Discussion

I don't have any comments for 7 days from wikidata korean village pump & korean wikipedia community. Could you help me with Central Notice running? --이강철 (WMKR) (talk) 01:29, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi 이강철 (WMKR), could you please check this preview for me? Ciell (talk) 18:23, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

You only want to target ko right, not the ko-kp for North Korean? Ciell (talk) 18:43, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

@Ciell: I only want to target, language : ko, Country: South Korea. --이강철 (WMKR) (talk) 01:48, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

@이강철 (WMKR): okay, thanks. And the banner as in the preview above is agreed? Then I can go forward and enable it for you. Ciell (talk) 21:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

@Ciell: I agree banner. thank you :) --이강철 (WMKR) (talk) 01:19, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Great, banner is enabled. Ciell (talk) 06:48, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Past requests

• See Category:Closed requests for CentralNotice campaigns.