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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 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
Meeting WP:FIP in Stuttgart on 22 July 2022	13:09, 2 July 2022 (UTC)	06:53, 03 July 2022 (UTC)	Leserättin	9 July 2022 → 22 July 2022	open
Rabimas proofread competition	06:58, 28 May 2022 (UTC)	07:09, 28 May 2022 (UTC)	Bodhisattwa	8th July 2022 → 8th August 2022	open
Change The Story (July 2022)	13:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)	02:31, 04 July 2022 (UTC)	Richard Nevell (WMUK)	6th July 2022 → 31st July 2022	approved
2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election	17:15, 14 June 2022 (UTC)	06:47, 03 July 2022 (UTC)	MPossoupe (WMF)	15th August 2022 → 29th August 2022	approved
Kartensaison – creating maps with Kartographer	08:40, 23 May 2022 (UTC)	11:55, 20 June 2022 (UTC)	Johanna Strodt (WMDE)	20-06-2022: 9th June 2022 → 14-07-2022: 9th July 2022	approved
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2022	17:59, 27 June 2022 (UTC)	01:54, 04 July 2022 (UTC)	Ammarpad	1st July 2022 → 31st August 2022	running
Wiki Loves Earth 2022	04:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC)	04:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC)	Romaine	1 May 2021 → 31 July 2021	running
RU block	21:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)	10:02, 02 March 2022 (UTC)	Seddon	1st March 2022 → indefinite	running

Queued requests

Meeting WP:FIP in Stuttgart on 22 July 2022

• Leserättin (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 13:09, 2 July 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 9 July 2022 → 22 July 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? German 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 and anonymous users What countries will your campaign target? Germany - state 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?

Description - Einladung zu Treffen der WP-Gruppe „Frauen in der Politik“ (WP:FIP) am 22.7.22 (17-19 Uhr) im Frauenkulturzentrum in Stuttgart - repetition of banner for meeting on 17.6.22. Last time we had a notable success: a newcomer joined us.

Metrics -

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

Banners - Please use the standard banner with logo File:Logo WP Frauen in der Politik Stuttgart.svg and text:

„Unsere Wikipedia-Gruppe „Frauen in der Politik“ trifft sich regelmäßig in Stuttgart. Wir wollen uns gegenseitig beim Schreiben in der Wikipedia zu unterstützen. Fokus ist ein gemeinsames Projekt auf dem Themengebiet „Engagierte Frauen“. Wir freuen uns über erfahrene Wikipedianer:innen und auch über weniger Erfahrene, die mit uns auf diesem Gebiet arbeiten wollen.
Am 22. Juli treffen wir uns wieder in Präsenz im Frauenkulturzentrum Sarah in Stuttgart.
Sei dabei und mach mit!“.
Show to users reading pages with the following categories (incl. subcategories): Frauen, Feminismus, Frauenrechte, Frauengeschichte, Stuttgart, Namibia

Landing Page - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stuttgart/FIP/Workshop_Frauen_in_der_Politik_(Kurzvorstellung)

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Rabimas proofread competition

• Bodhisattwa (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 06:58, 28 May 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 8th July 2022 → 8th August 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary What languages will you be targeting? Bengali 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 minimum 500 edits What countries will your campaign target? India, Bangladesh 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 - Proofread competition on Bengali Wikisource remembering Rabindranath Tagore

Metrics -

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

Banners - This banner

Landing Page - উইকিসংকলন:রবিমাস প্রতিযোগিতা ১৪২৯

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Approved & Work in progress

Change The Story (July 2022)

• Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 13:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 6th July 2022 → 31st July 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? English 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 anonymous and logged in users What countries will your campaign target? UK 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 - Wikimedia UK, Women in Red, and CARE International are working together to raise awareness about the gender gap on Wikipedia and work being done to address it.
CARE International are an international humanitarian agency and are running a campaign to promote gender equality. As part of that, WMUK and WIR are working with CARE to improve women's representation on Wikipedia. The banner will direct Wikipedia's readers to the page about the campaign where they can find out more about it and how to get involved.
Metrics - Number of pages edited through the campaign

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

Banners - We would like to use this image for the banner if possible, and are open to discussion!

Landing Page - ChangeTheStory

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - N/A. While the work is not specifically grant funded, but is supported by efforts at Wikimedia UK and Women in Red

Link to grant -

Discussion

@Ciell: I saw you noticed a previous request (CentralNotice/Request/Change The Story) this is the replacement now the project has changed. Is it practical to have a banner that consists entirely of an image as suggested? Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:19, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Richard, I personally cannot create a banner from a single image, no. Maybe @DerHexer knows? Ciell (talk) 18:50, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Good to know, I see if DerHexer can confirm either way if it's possible and then we may need to change the design to be regular text and an image. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 14:55, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

@Victuallers: Pinging you so that you know the request is live and can see what is being asked. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 15:50, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

@Richard Nevell (WMUK): Thanks Richard, I have noted this at the WIR discussion so our members are aware. Feel free to say hi there Victuallers (talk) 08:10, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

@Ciell, Richard Nevell (WMUK), and Victuallers: I've created a banner which should do, please have a look at the preview. When you change the size of the screen, you will see that text size will not be adjusted (which results in small texts or overlayed text). Please tell me if that's okay with you or if we want to provide a scalable HTML version. Then a campaign could be created by Ciell, me or any other CN admin. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:14, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you DerHexer for the contribution, I think thats as good as the original image. Victuallers (talk) 07:32, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks DerHexer.

@Victuallers, @Richard Nevell (WMUK): has the community been notified about the banner, are they okay with it? Ciell (talk) 07:54, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election

• MPossoupe (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 17:15, 14 June 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 15th August 2022 → 29th August 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? All What languages will you be targeting? All 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 banner will be used to notify contributors of the opportunity to vote in the 2022 Board of Trustees election running from 15 August 2022 to 29 August 2022. 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 - Same as the one of last year, 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

Central Notice admin comments

To help with more translations for this year's banner, I've already copied last years banners (link for translations).

• election banner
• election banner for mobile

NB: securepoll link, landing page link, etc still need to be updated in the banners. Translators would like to get an early start in translations.
Both banners still need a script review before going live, would you be able to do this @DerHexer? Ciell (talk) 08:50, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

There are no scripts in the banner right now. —DerHexer (Talk) 23:35, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @DerHexer! And the style is up to date as well? Ciell (talk) 18:15, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

@Ciell: I'm not sure what you mean. It's not my banner, and if the WMF (@MPossoupe (WMF):) is okay with the style, I'm also fine with it. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Campaign is now also ready here. @MPossoupe (WMF) Since the voting eligibility is quite complex, the banner will be shown to all logged in users, even if the are not eligible for voting at the moment of the elections. Ciell (talk) 18:47, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Kartensaison – creating maps with Kartographer

• Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 08:40, 23 May 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 20-06-2022: 9th June 2022 → 14-07-2022: 9th July 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? One Language (German) 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 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 - Beginning of June 2022, the Kartographer extension will become usable on German Wikipedia. WMDE's Technical Wishes team wants to raise awareness for this tool, explain how it works, and inspire users to start creating more maps on German Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Deutschland's Fundraising Tech team will implement the banner. (via Kai Nissen (WMDE), see also phab:T308229)

Metrics -

• Traffic limit: 30%
• Maximum impression count: 3

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

Banners -

Landing Page - link will be WP:Kartensaison (to be done) (this is the draft page)

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - /

Link to grant - /

Discussion

@Ciell: Hi Ciell, I was wondering if we have the green light for this banner. What do you think? -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 08:56, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

@Romaine, @Steinsplitter, @Martin Urbanec: Pinging you to hear your thoughts if this banner can happen. -- Thanks and greetings from Berlin, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 09:59, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

I think that in the case that WMDE staff will implement the banner and there are no further comments by other CentralNotice administrators, just go ahead. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:00, 14 June 2022 (UT

@Johanna Strodt (WMDE) and DerHexer: It appears that the Kartensaison_2022 banner is throwing client errors when users close the banner.

"this.removeBannerSpace is not a function"

https://logstash.wikimedia.org/goto/cb10e8ff6b90b1576f91f7834ed01ad0

I've disabled the campaign for the time being. Could you fix and then the campaign can be reenabled. Seddon (talk) 11:45, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping but I haven't been involved with this banner, I just gave a comment here. ;D Thanks for observing the error, of course! —DerHexer (Talk) 11:51, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

@Seddon: Thanks a lot for the report. Our developer is working on the fix right now. Quote:

"It's already fixed and re-uploaded. "Just waiting a minute for the front end cache to clear and I'll re-activate it"

Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:55, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Campaigns currently running

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2022

• Ammarpad (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 17:59, 27 June 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st July 2022 → 31st August 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons What languages will you be targeting? All that signed up Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022/Participating Communities 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. Not number of edits, but users who have an account for at least a year (if that's possible) 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 - Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022 is the third edition of this annual campaign that promotes improving Wikipedia articles with photos and contextual images with view of encouraging use of digital media files collected from various Wikimedia photography contests and photowalks.

Metrics -

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

Banners -

Join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2022 to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize!

Landing Page - Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Rapid Funds

Link to grant - Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022 Campaign International Coordination

Discussion

Hi Martin Urbanec, please can you or other CN admins help check this? I understand it's not yet 10 days since posting this, but I would appreciate if there's a way to move this forward a bit. Thanks. – Ammarpad (talk) 12:24, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

• Any passing CN admin should please help with this request. The campaign started yesterday. Thank you so much for your help. T Cells^Talk 22:49, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

Hi @Ammarpad, @T Cells , I have created a banner similar to the one we had last year, please review the preview, and feel free to start translations as well. I've reviewed the table on Commons, and choose to geotarget the participating countries (and so not 'global', as per some requests in the table), also taking into account the feedback we received from some communities last year. Same reason why the banner will not show every day, but one in ~5 days (but for the full period of the requested two months). Please let me know if the banner design is okay like this: I need you to check and confirm before I enable. Ciell (talk) 13:04, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

@Ciell, yes the preview looks OK. Also I have started adding the translations. Thanks. – Ammarpad (talk) 13:32, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick confirmation Ammarpad! I'll turn it on today. Ciell (talk) 13:39, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, Ciell. T Cells^Talk 13:54, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2022

• Romaine (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 04:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1 May 2021 → 31 July 2021 Which projects will you be targeting? WP/WM/C/VOY What languages will you be targeting? multiple 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? multiple 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 - annual photo contest Wiki Loves Earth 2022

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 -

RU block

• Seddon (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 21:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st March 2022 → indefinite Which projects will you be targeting? currently wikipedia, possibly all projects What languages will you be targeting? currently russian, possibly all languages 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? Russia 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 - Russian Wikipedia block notice

Metrics - none

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

Banners - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0?banner=programmatic_ruRU_ru_block_variant3_contrast&uselang=en&force=1

Landing Page - see banner (w:ru:Википедия:Что_делать,_если_Википедия_заблокирована)

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Central Notice admin comments

 Approved following this decision. Seddon (talk) 21:38, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Past requests

• See Category:Closed requests for CentralNotice campaigns.