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 #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:
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.
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(This list is automatically updated every two hours.)
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 Logged In users and Anonymous 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 - The Wikiconcurso Justiça Climática e Amazônia is a wikicontest (editing competition) on the Lusophone Wikipedia. The competition will be dedicated to the Amazon region and topics related to the agenda of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-30) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The competition seeks incentives for the creation and improvement of articles related to sustainability, climate change, rights of indigenous peoples, environmental policies, biodiversity and other topics crucial to preserving the Amazon and combating the climate crisis.
Metrics - number of bytes added/other
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
As we scheduled in the CentralNotice Calendar, we will promote this contest this second semester. Just now we finalized its visual identity, so I'm requesting this banner; The dates requested are short notice, so, dear banner organizers, we are fine with any 30-days period starting the closest date you find convenient. Thank you so much for your work! I already checked the banner locally, it only changes dates and contest name. Cheers, EPorto (WMB) (talk) 22:54, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@EPorto (WMB): Thank you for providing the banner source code. That will compensate a little for the very short notice. ;D I have created the campaign and banner (preview). I have added pt-br as language but I don't think that it has much effect on ptwiki anyway. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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?
Nigeria 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 - Bringing together the vibrant worlds of AfroCuisine and AfroFestival, Culture Connect Africa presents a dynamic fusion of culinary arts and cultural celebration. This integrated initiative celebrates the diverse culinary traditions and spirited festivities of the African continent, uniting them under one engaging platform.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Edriiic: I have created the campaign and designed a banner (preview). Does it look good to you? I had to use three lines and it made most sense to me to arrange the text like that. Is the gradient as intended? — Please also provide translations to the banner and landing page if possible. As soon as everything is ready and approved by you, I can activate the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)13:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @DerHexer thanks again for your help with this.. Your idea of having three lines is perfect—it makes total sense! The colour gradient looks great too. Could we adjust the width slightly? It seems a bit too wide, and I think the size you created here for the bootcamp is ideal. Also, would it be possible to remove the green line underneath? Thanks once again @DerHexer: Edriiic (talk) 18:54, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Edriiic: I have removed the green line and some white spaces, but in general I kept the word size and spaces between the elements. I have enabled the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:23, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, @DerHexer! It looks great now. Just one last thing: it seems like the text is aligned to the left. Could we please centre it?
@Edriiic: I tried to move it to the right place, but I couldn't figure it out. I have asked other CN admins for help, maybe you can ask your colleagues too. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:33, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 and Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
Uruguay
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 - Elecciones 2024 is a photo contest that seeks to document on Wikimedia Commons the election campaigns and election events taking place this year in Uruguay. As the campaign is coming to an end and the national elections are at the end of the month, we want to strengthen communication to increase participation.
Metrics - Increase the number of participants to at least 30 people.
Obtain at least 30 photographs of candidates for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Paula (WDU): I have created the campaign and banner (preview, I've only added the logo once which should be sufficient, I think). However, I did not add English projects to the campaign settings because there was no English banner text provided nor the landing page available in this language. Furthermore, we usually expect campaign requesters to notify the local projects about the upcoming campaign (to see vetos or consensus). For a campaign limited to Uruguay, it might be okay without that, but English projects in particular are very strict about involvement (and translations). Let me know how we proceed from here? I can activate the campaign for the Spanish part, of course. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:16, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: You're right, there's no point in posting this banner on en.wiki. Both the banner and the campaign are great! Thank you so much, everything is approved. Best, Paula (WDU) (talk) 18:06, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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?
Anonymous Users, users from Berlin + Brandenburg
What countries will your campaign target?
DE
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?
and the following text:
Headline (bold/large): Wikipedia-Einführungskurs am 30. Oktober 2024
Wissen verändert die Welt – mach mit! Finde heraus, wie du in Wikipedia mitarbeiten kannst. Hier anmelden.
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?
@DerHexer: Fine with me. Somehow I don't think I saw the banner change last year. IMO showing multiple images makes it looks like "these are the finalists" but not a big deal. We can discuss over on Commons if we should alter it for next year, but for this year no objections! Thanks! — Rhododendritestalk \\ 13:17, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Rhododendrites: I fully agree with you! It always confused me why we are using very old photographs for invitations to the second round. I also felt that they look more like phase 1 winners but they are not. If you have any other photo collection (or create one for phase 2) that this I am open to implement this one! Best, —DerHexer(Talk)14:46, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looked okay in dark mode, but I've tweaked it a little so the text section can also be dark. It seems like we can actually use the Codex CSS variables in banners now, which makes things a lot easier. Peter Coombe (WMF) (talk) 23:20, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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?
France + overseas territories: France [FR], Guadeloupe [GP], Guyane française [GF], La Réunion [RE], Martinique [MQ], Mayotte [YT], Nouvelle-Calédonie [NC], Polynésie française [PF], Saint-Marin [SM], Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon [PM], Terres australes françaises [TF], Wallis-et-Futuna [WF]
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 - WikiScience Contest 2024 in French Wikipedia will be a new edition of several earlier contests for scientific photos on science in French Wikipedia. It is organized by the Wikimedia residencies in France. The residencies are funded by the French Ministry of Research.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
WSC will not be held in 2024 (next time is indeed in 2025), but if countries want, they may have local science photo competitions. Over the years some countries have occasionally also held competitons in even-numbered years, but this is not centrally coordinated. Some other countries, like Estonia, have tried article competition in thouse years (example). Kruusamägi (talk) 12:02, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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?
South Korea
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?
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?
Anon
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany, only the region of Berlin
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 - Leading up to the campaign in 2023, we want to find more people for a monthly Meetup for young wikipedians in Berlin to establish a small community of active users.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Headline (bold): Teile dein Wissen in der Wikipedia!
Normal text: Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und möchtest regelmäßig mit Anderen Artikel zu deinen Lieblingsthemen schreiben? Dann komm am 10.10., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
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?
Bangladesh, India (West Bengal 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 - Since the launch of Bangla Wikivoyage, we've faced challenges with the addition of copyrighted content and non-compliant pages, leading to a significant drop in the number of articles after removals. Many key travel destinations still lack content, and despite 226 million Bengali speakers globally, awareness of the project remains low. We also struggle with a lack of an active community, as some members are unfamiliar with the site's policies and editing procedures, resulting in decreased interest in contributing. A competition is being organized to solve these problems. We want a banner for it.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Yahya: 30 and not 31 October is correct? Usually, we should have banner texts available in the language of the local project (therefore, English would be missing here). Nevertheless, I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Please check everything and ping me with your approval so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:18, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(ec) I have enabled the campaign. You should know better than me how many non-Bangla speakers visit your country and go to English Wikipedia to read something and might get confused by a Bangla banner which they cannot make any sense of. :) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 (if possible, those with with over 100 edits)
What countries will your campaign target?
no specific country target, all projects in the Ukrainian language
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 - In late October, Wikimedia Ukraine will organize its Wikiconference, the largest annual gathering of the Ukrainian Wikimedia community. There will be an online part, a main meet-up in Kyiv and a secondary meet-up in Kharkiv. It would be highly beneficial to spread the word about the conference as widely as possible for more people to participate. Registration is open until 15 October 2024.
Metrics - around 80 online and 50 offline participants of the conference, something like 16 hours of recorded sessions, available for after-the-conference use
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
I have notified the Ukrainian Wikipedia community on the Village Pump, as required. Also, see identical requests from previous years: 2023, 2022, 2021.
@Tohaomg: For unknown reasons, I didn't get your ping and just saw this now. Do you want to keep the banner end date or should we move it because the first week was missed because of this problem? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)11:27, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Tohaomg: I have changed it to a 2-day cycle. Your pings once again didn't reach me. It might be caused by the cSS in your signature, please adjust it and try again. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:50, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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?
It looks like there are conflicts on the calendar with 1Lib1Ref in Ukrainian and WikiDaheim in German. Looking to regulars here for suggestions on how to best resolve. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 22:13, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the conflict with other banners is a huge issue, that basically happens every year with POTY. Suggestion: Run one campaign for Commons on normal priority and a second campaign for all other projects (looking at the calendar there are even more conflicts than the two mentioned) with low priority, to allow banners which are probably more closely related to the individual wikis to be shown first. Johannnes89 (talk) 15:07, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, yes I saw that. Content to defer to cawiki regulars to decide if they want to propose it there. I presume after coming to that decision they have community representatives monitoring CN. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 15:37, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I know they do not monitor CN and expect users to either ask at cawiki or abstain from showing the banner at ca-projects (which is the setting DerHexer has chosen).
I can't replicate the issue, but apparently on some screens the background images is repeated (that's how I understand @Lvova's request [10]) which should be avoided using background-repeat: no-repeat; (I think in the .cbnnr-main section, correct?) Johannnes89 (talk) 06:18, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 Logged In and Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
Uruguay, México, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Perú, Venezuela, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, República Dominicana, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, España
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?
@Johannnes89: thank you very much for all your work. The banner is perfect. Now I realise that only logged in users can see Wikidata in Spanish. With that in mind, would it be possible for everyone who has Wikidata set to Spanish to see the banner anywhere in the world? Paula (WDU) (talk) 13:33, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Paula (WDU) just to make sure there's no misunderstanding: You would like to drop the banner for logged-out users and make the banner more visible for logged-in users by removing the country restriction? Yes we can do that. Johannnes89 (talk) 15:29, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89: yes, please. I would like to drop the banner for logged-out users and make the banner more visible for logged-in users by removing the country restriction. Thanks for the clarification. Paula (WDU) (talk) 16:44, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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?
Czech Republic
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 - Czech Wiki Photo 2024 is a photocontest focusing on photographers living in the Czech Republic. Through this activity we would like to attract new users and engage active members of our community.
Metrics - number of files uploaded, numbers of articles in which those files were used, number of Newikipedists
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@DerHexer I've completely missed your comment/notification due which that banner was not active at all during the requested period. My bad.
However, I still would like to set this banner active to attract more people to join the competition. Is it possible to change the banner date from 2024-08-15 to 2024-08-31? Richard Sekerak (WMCZ) (talk) 09:08, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer I've just realised there is a small error in the banner I prepared. Could you please change the number of the year to 2024. In the sentence "Zapojte se do Czech Wiki Photo 2023 a vyhrajte skvělé ceny!" replace the year to 2024 "Zapojte se do Czech Wiki Photo 2024 a vyhrajte skvělé ceny!"? Richard Sekerak (WMCZ) (talk) 16:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer, @Johannnes89 could the same banner (with same settings) be used in in period from 2024-10-01 to 2024-10-27 which is planned in CentralNotice/Calendar?
Thanks for the ping, the campaign was indeed not enabled. The banner should appear on your wiki now (or in a couple of minutes, if there are caching issues). Johannnes89 (talk) 10:47, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 Logged In users and Anonymus Users
What countries will your campaign target?
Israel
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
Wikimedia Israel asks for low exposure. We think 3 exposures per user is enough.
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Wikimedia Israel and the Deror Lin Research Fund call for proposals for interdisciplinary research into the social, cultural, scientific, technological, legal, and educational aspects of Wikipedia, as a global knowledge base and as a digital phenomenon.
The proposals must be submitted as an attachment to the email main.office@wikimedia.org.il by October 31, 2024
Metrics - Number of proposals received
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@AndreFrank-WMIL: just noting that you haven't linked a banner yet (or specified how the banner is supposed to look like, if you just want to use a standard banner with icon + 1-2 lines of text). CN admins usually need this up to a week in advance to deal with requests and your campaign is supposed to start in two days. --Johannnes89 (talk) 09:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Johannnes89! Thanks for the comment. I'm still getting used to the platform. I've just added a link to an HTML banner based on the template Central Notice indicates and also updated the start date for the campaign. I really appreciate if you can help me moving forward. AndreFrank-WMIL (talk) 02:54, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 - The #SheSaid drive, part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative, celebrates women leaders by focusing on enhancing their visibility through the creation and improvement of Wikiquote entries related to them.
Metrics - We will measure the metrics by the number of articles created and improved on WikiQuopte for each participating language.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Type of grant - On Wiki in Africa side, the campaign is funded by an annual grant. Some other groups are likely to use their annual support grant too. During the last year, a dozen of groups applied for a rapid grant to support that project and this is likely to be the same this year.
Great to have SheSaid back, and happy to help set up the campaign and banner.
Like last year, we will only enable the campaign for those languages in which the banner + landing page has translations. Can you please supply me with a list of these before the expressed starting date of the campaign? I will try and create a preview of the banner for you to check out over the weekend. Ciell (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
campaign for the banners on Wikipedia (very restricted diet, will show 3 times every 28 days per user per project)
I am proposing the Wikipedia banner to start on Sept 2nd, because the WLM banners will also already go live on the 1st. Does that make sense to you? Ciell (talk) 18:49, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Over the weekend I have been working to improve the SheSaid banners by shortening the participant pipeline (number of clicks they need to engage with the landing page). By creating individual campaigns and banners for all languages, the engagement is now much more direct. For this I reviewed all the languages and landing pages you have listed on the Meta page and collected them here in one overview with the information I need for the banners, and noticed that 5 languages do not have a landing page for SheSaid 2024: I have decided to not target these languages anymore, since I assume these are not really participating? No landing page means no available information for participants. For the 4 languages that I, after a month of running the translatable banner, don't have a local language version on the banner text available, they are still receiving the general banner they saw previously, but will still be send to Meta where the participant will have to look up their project manually (instead of being directed to their Wikiquote directly).
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?
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 less than 100 edits
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?
We'd like to continue the campaign from last year (request). The banner will only be running for two days before the first Wednesday of each month, and will be targeted to users with less than 100 edits. Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (talk) 08:24, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Requests must be made, at minimum, 10 days in advance of any campaign
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.
Participez au concours de photo scientifique, la Wiki Science Competition 2024 !
Participez au concours de photo scientifique, la Wiki Science Competition 2024 !
Done, thanks for noticing! --Johannnes89 (talk) 13:07, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
