CentralNotice/Log

This log was used by Meta-Wiki administrators and Wikimedia Foundation staff members though July 21st 2011 whenever they enabled a new notice or made changes to its settings (basically anything done through the Special:CentralNotice interface, but not actions done through Special:NoticeTemplate). The log is now at Special:CentralNoticeLogs.

July[edit]

Fundraising test campaigns are up in the US [1] and rest of the world (except chapter countries, but including Canada) [2] from 20:00-21:00 UTC. Both anon only. Pcoombe (WMF) 20:06, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Both these campaigns are now off. Pcoombe (WMF) 21:06, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy vs Steven Walling fundraising tests up: US [3] and EN [4] (targeted as above). Pcoombe (WMF) 18:05, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Above test is over. Pcoombe (WMF) 19:04, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

10-17 July: Campaign WMIL Wikipedia Academy trageted to Israeli users, requested by Itzik Edri. LeinaD (t) 00:56, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Created Wikimedia Deutschland survey banner, put up on testwiki Nimish Gautam 23:24, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Recreated the Editors Survey 2011 exam for the Japanese survey. (It was deleted by someone who thought it was no longer needed.) Cbrown1023 talk 02:11, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Activating WMDE survey for enwiki and dewiki Nimish Gautam 17:45, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a need for this survey to be run globally? Jseddon (WMF) 17:52, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Enabled generic maintenance notice on all wikis at 14:48 CEST (12:48 UTC) on July 13, 2011. guillom 12:55, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- It was disabled automatically at 17:00 CEST (15:00 UTC) on the same day. guillom 15:45, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
changes to active wmde survey javascript: using toggleNotice() and changing 'consts' to 'var's Nimish Gautam 17:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Enabled "Editors Survey Japan 2011", showing on jawiki. Isn't set to automatically un-enable -- Mani Pande will tell us when to disable it. Cbrown1023 talk 20:50, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Testing Kaldari fundraising banners: EN and US. Also turned off WM.DE Survey temporarily, while we do this. Pcoombe (WMF) 18:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WMDE survey switched back on and fundraising banners switched off Jseddon (WMF) 19:22, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
disabled WMDE survey, will re-enable after bugfixes Nimish Gautam 14:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
re-enabling WMDE survey until 26th Nimish Gautam 18:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Kaldari fundraising test (programmer vs author) up for EN [5]. WMDE survey disabled for the duration. Pcoombe (WMF) 17:33, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- EN test now over, and WMDE survey is back up. Pcoombe (WMF) 18:30, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June[edit]

Turned on fundraising test banners for Mexico Jalexander 21:38, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Belgium banners just turned on, Ireland/Brazil/Tanzania/South Korea earlier Jalexander 22:28, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mexico, TZ and KO off Jalexander 23:07, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Fundraising test banners in Belize,Liberia,Suriname,Camaroon,Ghana, Botswana Jalexander 22:15, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Belize,Liberia,Suriname,Camaroon,Ghana, Botswana off Ppena (WMF) 23:17, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Test banners up in US, NZ and Japan Jalexander 18:41, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
US, NZ and Japan off Ppena (WMF) 20:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Turn on staff Brazil visit banners. Brazil only 25% logged in. Adjust POTY campaign to ignore Brazil (POTY banner still being shown but been moved to Brazil campaign for now to make math easier). Jalexander 21:39, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Reverted last change for now. Jalexander 22:23, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Added specific bottom margin to board banner Jalexander 22:47, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Brazil change redone about 20 minutes ago Jalexander 01:38, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Election ends at 23:59 UTC." added to 2011 Board Elections - voting. Trijnstel 15:00, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"The Wikimedia Board of Trustees election ends today at 23:59 UTC." - changed 2011 Board Elections - voting to ensure it's not conflicting. Thehelpfulone 15:20, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
13-23 June: campaign Registration for Wikimania 2011 - visible to anonymous users only for the first 5 days, requested by Itzik Edri. LeinaD (t) 21:07, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion moved to talk page

Running fundraising test banners [6] in Saint Lucia for an hour. Pcoombe (WMF) 21:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ran fundraising test banners [7] in Belize. Jseddon (WMF) 16:06, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Running fundraising test banners in US [8] and everywhere else except cat 1 chapter countries [9]. Pcoombe (WMF) 17:06, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- These are now off. Pcoombe (WMF) 18:14, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
See talk page, moved Wikimania banners to 25% logged in 10% logged out. Jalexander 05:37, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Running fundraising test banners [10] in Samoa for an hour. Pcoombe (WMF) 21:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ran fundraising test banners [11] in Barbados for one hour. Jseddon (WMF) 19:56, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
18 June 2011 - fixed "You're invited to The Great American Wiknic , a Wiki-Picnic being celebrated in 10+ US cities on Saturday June 25!" by removing the excess space before the comma. Philippe (WMF) 04:31, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
New campaign Wikimania-2011-Israel geotargeted at Israel with a higher percentage of banner visibility (currently 50% for both logged in and anon) --Church of emacs talk · contrib 17:31, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
US campaign [12] and EN campaign (Not US, Cat 1 and PT) [13]. Live from 17:45 UTC for one hour. Jseddon (WMF) 17:50, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

EN campaign changed to remove US (about 10 minutes ago) Jalexander 17:59, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Both campaigns now off. Pcoombe (WMF) 19:05, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Adjusted Brazil banners to add 5% anon by request of Moka Jalexander 17:58, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Stopped Wikimania-Israel-specific campaign. May be restarted a week before start or so. --Church of emacs talk · contrib 17:29, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May[edit]

Added the fr translation to poty2010 and enabled it for fr - Hoo man (talk) 21:42, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Created campaign for the 2011 Board Elections candidacy phase, reusing 2009 messages. Runs from 00:00 2 May to 23:59 22 May on all wikis; initially for both anons and logged-in users, will change to logged-in only on May 4. Jon Harald Søby 00:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Removed pl, csb, szl from 2011 Board Elections - 2 May 2011 is important, because this is the last day when we can receive "1% of taxes", tomorrow I will re-enable these languages. LeinaD (t) 10:50, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WMPL campaign ended, restored pl, csb, szl in 2011 Board Elections campaign. LeinaD (t) 22:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Translated and enabled potty2010 campaign in Italian. Nemo 11:45, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Enabled poty2010 for bn, after Tanvir translated it (Thanks for that :) ) - Hoo man (talk) 13:28, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Made the 2011 board elections campaign logged-in only. Jon Harald Søby 19:43, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Enabled the May update banner. Philippe (WMF) 01:09, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
corrected the Hebrew translation of May update banner. Matanya 15:05, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
published ja may update. Matanya 11:39, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
created campaign WMDE_community_budget and banner WMDE_community_budget and started it --Church of emacs talk · contrib 17:28, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Created and enabled campaign WMHU actions to promote the possibility of 1% of income tax allocation (will switch off next Friday). --Dami 13:40, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Turned off May Update banners and enabled banner for Commons POTY by community request (will not start until 00:00 ) Jalexander 21:07, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Created two new banners for the poty2010 campaign (for the second round) and set the start time to: 2011/05/19 00:00 and the end time to 2011/05/29 23:59. Not yet enabled, btw - Hoo man (talk) 21:42, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Disabled poty2010 banners on some non-en/de languages, because there are no translations now. Nemo 09:39, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Fully disabled poty2010, the vote started with a few unclear thinks (eg. the first round results haven't been checked). Therefore we're freezing the vote for now. Furthermore the notice shouldn't have been activated without fixing the banner issues - Hoo man (talk) 10:02, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Disabled Generic maintenance notice - maintenance is over for the most part, finished at 14:00UTC, no need to leave this on and confuse users. The Helpful One 16:47, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Disable Wikinic campaign for now, set time for June 19th after talking to Pharos. Jalexander 17:31, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Disabling banner '20101119_JA010A_US' from testing campaign Awjrichards 18:47, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Enabling banner '20101119_JA010A_US' from the testing campaign on testwiki to test analytics pipeline for fundraising Awjrichards 17:58, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Setting 'wikimania_reg' banner to logged-in users only --Church of emacs talk · contrib 07:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Created campaign for the voting part of the 2011 Board Elections, reusing 2009 messages. Will be activated when everything is in order. Jon Harald Søby 21:48, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Enabled the poty2010 campaign for all projects from 2011/05/29 00:00 until 2011/06/07 23:59 with a new banner (50%) (bn, de, en, fr, pl, pt only). - Hoo man (talk) 00:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Turned on the board elections campaign. Werdna 00:20, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Translated and enabled poty2010 Italian banner. Nemo 08:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
POTY banner now overridden by board elections. Make sure it stays that way as the WMF banners take precedence over community ones. ℳono 21:14, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
...And re-enabled again per a mixup. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Disabled potyNotice per request. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Banner of 2011 Board Elections - voting has set 50 weight, so the remaining 50 can be used to other campaigns - configured poty2010 banner with 50 weight and disabled (0 weight) "BlankBannerNew". LeinaD (t) 09:56, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, that's a flawed understanding. It's not a percentage, it's a ratio. So if it's set to 50 and nothing else is running, then it's getting 50 of 50 available views. But if it's set to 50 and something else is running at 25, it's getting 50 of 75 available views. So you shouldn't use that to judge intent. --Philippe 17:46, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Turned on fundraising banners for English Wikipedia (Bermuda only) as part of the start of fundraising testing (anticipated 30 minute run). Jalexander 23:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Fundraising banners off Jalexander 23:47, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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