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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: DerHexer Martin Urbanec 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
2023 Science Photo Competition Russia	19:35, 19 March 2023 (UTC)	09:35, 21 March 2023 (UTC)	JukoFF	2st April 2023 → 31th May 2023	open
surveying readers and contributors to Wikipedia	12:27, 6 February 2023 (UTC)	09:06, 23 March 2023 (UTC)	Jullienn	→ 2 to 3 weeks for each language	open
Movement Charter ratification methodology feedback	19:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC)	04:14, 28 March 2023 (UTC)	Ciell	10 April 2023 → 24 April 2023	approved
Wikiconcurso Wiki Loves Pará	21:01, 14 February 2023 (UTC)	06:23, 04 March 2023 (UTC)	EPorto (WMB)	13th April 2023 → 13th May 2023	approved
WikiForHumanRights 2023	00:41, 21 March 2023 (UTC)	12:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)	Astinson (WMF)	April 17 → April 24	approved
WikiKaleidoskop 2.0	07:46, 13 March 2023 (UTC)	12:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)	Dimas H (WMID)	1st April 2023 → 30th April 2023	approved
Polish Tax Campaign	12:36, 2 January 2023 (UTC)	12:37, 02 January 2023 (UTC)	Jacek Broda (WMPL)	1st February 2023 → 1st May 2023	running
Women's Month on Wikipedia / WikiGap 2023	14:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)	11:59, 01 March 2023 (UTC)	Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ)	1st March 2023 → 8th April 2023	running
AKI Environment Africa Day	18:33, 6 January 2023 (UTC)	05:07, 02 March 2023 (UTC)	Anthere	1st March 2023 → 31st March 2023	running
Wiki Loves Africa 2023	18:24, 23 November 2022 (UTC)	09:26, 01 March 2023 (UTC)	Anthere	1 March 2022 → 30th April 2022	running
Wiki Loves Folklore 2023	03:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)	08:45, 25 February 2023 (UTC)	Tiven2240	1st February 2023 → 31st March 2023	running
2023 tax campaign of Wikimedia Hungary	20:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC)	11:50, 14 February 2023 (UTC)	Samat	15th February 2023 → 21st February 2023	running
Wikimedia Terms of Use update 2023	23:02, 4 January 2023 (UTC)	08:06, 01 March 2023 (UTC)	RStallman (WMF)	→ 22nd February 2023 through 20th April 2023	running
Bangla Wikipedia article contest 2023	17:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)	10:05, 12 January 2023 (UTC)	MdsShakil	1 February 2023 → 31 March 2023	running
RU block	21:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)	07:10, 29 September 2022 (UTC)	Seddon	1st March 2022 → indefinite	running
Tax fundraising in Slovakia	13:02, 18 November 2022 (UTC)	05:27, 07 March 2023 (UTC)	Jetam2	1 February 2023 → 31 March 2023	running
Quinzaine des autrices francophones	10:18, 17 February 2023 (UTC)	12:21, 14 March 2023 (UTC)	Natacha LSP	18st March 2023 → → 2nd April 2023	running
Mais Pretas em Teoria da História na Wiki	11:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC)	07:05, 28 February 2023 (UTC)	Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+)	15st March 2023 → 7st April 2023	running

Queued requests

2023 Science Photo Competition Russia

• JukoFF (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 19:35, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 2st April 2023 → 31th May 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? Multiple 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? Anonymous Users What countries will your campaign target? Russia Banner/Campaign Diet: 5 impression per week

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

Description - Science Photo Competition 2023 is a Russian part of an international contest Science Photo Competition, conducted by Wikimedia movement volunteers to promote science and illustration of science-related Wikipedia articles by quality modern photography and media-files. The Russian part of the international competition will be held from April 2 to May 31, 2023. These dates are coordinated with international organizations.. Authors of 24 best photoes & multimedia files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons (3*8 nominations) will be awarded.

The contest is co-organized by Wikimedia Russia volunteers in partnership with Russian-language "Nauka" 24/7 Science TV Channel.

Metrics - New Users + Number of photoes & media files

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

Banner -

• RU

Участвуй в «Конкурсе научных фотографий 2023».
Cнимай науку для Википедии!

Banner -

• EN

Join «2023 Science Photo Contest».
Visualize Science for Wikipedia!

Landing Page - RU, EN

Community notification text

• RU: 2 апреля стартeт уже традиционный «Конкурс научных фотографий 2023». Приглашаем всех кому небезынтересна наука и кто в силах держать в руках фотоаппарат. Правила конкурса очень просты, призы имеют место быть! Коллеги, для привлечения внешних участников, мы предложили баннер конкурса через CentralNotice.
• EN:On April 2, the «Science Photo Competition 2023» started, traditionally the photo marathon is being held jointly with the Nauka television channel, it will be interesting. We invite everyone who is interested in science and who is able to hold a camera in their hands. The rules of the contest are very simple, prizes have a place to be! Colleagues, to attract external participants, we proposed a banner of the competition through CentralNotice.

Notifications

• ru
• en

Discussion

•  Strong support. Traditional international competition. It has been running for over 8 years. During the competition, it is possible to obtain unique and high-quality photographs that illustrate thousands of articles about various fields of science.--Ctac (talk) 08:43, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• 2022 campaign —DerHexer (Talk) 21:35, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

surveying readers and contributors to Wikipedia

• Jullienn (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 12:27, 6 February 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? → 2 to 3 weeks for each language → all the languages do not need to be targetted in the same weeks → starting languages may be French and English, ~ 2nd half of April, if possible → other languages may follow according to the availability of the translated questionnaire and of a banner slot → it would be optimum if all the languages could have been addressed before summer (June, 21) Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? English, French, Turkish, Italian, German, Ukrainian, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic (and other languages the community would interested by providing that the translating resource is available). 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? Any user (both logged in and anonymous) 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 -

The campaign aims at surveying the Wikipedia users on how they consider, use the information provided by Wikipedia, according to the context (professional, personal, etc.) It will also ask the contributors specific questions about their participation and their involvement.

It is managed by a group or researchers from several public research institutions, mainly French, coordinated by the research network Marsouin with, we hope, collaboration with the different language communities.

More precisely, the survey aims at addressing the following questions (open list):

• for the contributors, what does that mean to be a contributor, how it is perceived by their relative, how this impacts their practice, their vision of Wikipedia and of its governance (see the WMF's taxonomy of "gaps", p. 16)
• for the readers, how they use Wikipedia, but also what does acceptability as a source of information means, according to the context - school, university, information, etc.), for them and for their "audience" (see WMF's taxonomy of "gaps", p. 10)
• this questionnaire will rely on and expand the one done in 2019 by the WMF (would be happy to have feedback from Isaac_(WMF) or Jmorgan_(WMF)

Again, we would like to have inputs from the community of what questions we could address together!

The list of the languages contacted, and the people volunteering to translate is maintained in the project's Research page

The survey is inspired by the survey to the French users made by the same team in 2015 and in 2011.
See the results of the former surveys (in French: 2011, 2015), and by the survey made by the WMF in 2019.

Metrics - We are expecting to reach ~16.000 answers in two weeks in each language addressed, as in 2015.

IRB approval - The research has been evaluated and approved by IMT Atlantique's IRB.

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

Banners - The Banners will have the same text, translated in the language of the wikipedia surveyed

'Please help us better understand what you do on Wikipedia!' By answering to [https:// this questionnaire] created by an international group of university researchers and members of the Wikipedia community.
[https:// Answer to the questionnaire]

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'Aidez-nous à mieux comprendre ce que vous faites sur Wikipedia!' en répondant à ce questionnaire créé par un groupe international de chercheurs universitaires et de membres de la communauté Wikipédia.
Répondre au questionnaire

Landing Page - The landing page will be different for each language targeted. But as in 2015, each landing page will be hosted in the project pages of the concerned language. This page explains the goal of the survey, before sending to a LimeSurvey instance hosted by Marsouin, on France located servers

The French landing page is here

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -
No grant, several public research centers involved

However, this project is conducting while Nicolas Jullien is visiting professor at Università Ca'Foscari Venezia

Link to grant -

Discussion

Hi Jullienn, I have a quick question around this campaign. When are the exact dates you are running it? We (the WMF) has fundraising banner campaigns in both Italy and the Czech Republic scheduled for the dates I see you mention in the CN calendar. Do you think you will run the survey in either of these countries? The fundraising banners are only shown to logged out users. Thanks, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:00, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi JBrungs (WMF). Thank you very much for your question, it'll help me precise our needs.

• we do not have precise dates in mind, so we can be flexible. It is not a problem either if in some languages the banner appears a bit later than in other
• this said, for the time being we are able to do the questionnaire in French, Turkish, and in English (maybe arabic). Probably in Italian as well (I am currently in Italy) but we would very much like having the support/interaction with the communities to do so
• other languages and timing are pending the possibility to exchange with the community on their needs and on the translation

Jullienn (talk) 12:06, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Jullienn for getting back to me.

Generally, you can find what fundraising campaigns are happening for non-logged in users in the CN calendar.

In case your campaign runs at the same time as one of the fundraising campaigns, readers will still see your banner after they saw 10 fundraising banners. So the overlap would not mean that your banners do not show at all.

I will keep an eye on this page and see how your plans develop and if you need any further help or information, just ping me.

Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 12:10, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

hum, do I understand you well, @JBrungs (WMF) if I say that it means that a person would have to open 10 pages before seeing out banner? If yes, that would not do, as there would be a huge bias toward the big Wikipedia users in our dataset.

That obliges us to schedule our banners out of the period of fundraising. It is a constraint but as you say we have the date and we can adapt (and it is us to be adaptable anyhow).

Best, Jullienn (talk) 14:21, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Jullienn,

Yes, that is correct. A reader will see fundraising banners for the first 10x they visit a wiki page and after that your banner would display. Please note, that for the time you are running the survey this is only applicable to non-logged in readers in Italy (please note that we might not run banners in Italy during this time, this is still to be determined) and the Czech Republic. Logged in users will see your banner straight away as we do not display fundraising banners to them.

I always make sure that I add our fundraising campaigns to the Central Notice calendar as soon as I can, so you can always check there when and where we are having fundraising banners up.

Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:42, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Ok, well, providing that our demand is accepted, I think the best would be to adjust "our" banner's time slot to the final fundraising calendar; we don't mind a delay, but better to have the same protocol for all the languages targetted. Jullienn (talk) 08:26, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Approved & Work in progress

Movement Charter ratification methodology feedback

• Ciell (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 19:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 10 April 2023 → 24 April 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? all except test 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 with +1000 edits in the past year. Diet can be set to 3 impressions overall. 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 Movement Charter Drafting Committee wants to get an early start with finding a good methodology to get movement wide ratification for the Movement Charter. The ratification for the charter itself is not expected before Jan 2024, but we would like to get feedback on a proposal for the methodology from experienced editors throughout the movement in an early stage. The banner with the invitation will only be shown to editors with +1000 edits in the last year, and the diet will be set at 2 impressions.

Metrics -

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

Banners -

text1: This is an invitation to provide your early input for the methodology used to ratify the new Wikimedia Movement Charter.
text2: Please visit <mention page on Meta also in plain text> to review and comment.
image: File:Noun Scroll 308110.svg

Landing Page - tbd (somewhere one Meta)

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - not applicable

Link to grant -

Central Notice admin comments

Hi @DerHexer: could you help me with the script for this banner? I would like to have this targeted at logged in users with +1000 edits in the past 365 days only. Ciell (talk) 19:35, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@Ciell: Sure, it's easy to implement. I couldn't find a banner where I could add the code. Do you want me to take care of the entire creation of campaign and banner? Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:52, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

I have not yet created the banner, whatever is most convenient for you is fine with me. Thanks DerHexer! Ciell (talk) 19:33, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

@Ciell: I've created the campaign, banner and preview. Please check if it looks as intended. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:20, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

@Ciell: Should this start tomorrow? The campaign is not enabled because there was no approval yet. ;) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:45, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

No, it's been postponed. Thanks for checking though! I'll update the dates when I know more. Ciell (talk) 02:16, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikiconcurso Wiki Loves Pará

• EPorto (WMB) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 21:01, 14 February 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 13th April 2023 → 13th May 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? One Language (Portuguese) 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 Wiki Loves Pará Wikicontest is an wikicontest (editing competition) on the Lusophone Wikipedia. It is part of a series of activities that will take place throughout 2023 within the scope of the "Wiki Loves Pará" project, conceived and carried out by the Wiki Movimento Brasil User Group (WMB). The initiative aims to encourage the participation of the Wikipedia editors' community in improving entries related to the State of Pará.

Metrics - number os bytes added/other

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

Banners - link

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

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Multi-annual grant

Link to grant - Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wiki Movimento Brasil, 2023-2025

Central Notice admin comments

• @EPorto (WMB): I've created the campaign and banner (preview). In my opinion, it's a bit large. Anyways, I can only enable it when the landing page is ready, the local community was notified about it (please add a link) and you've approved the settings. I know it's still some time to go. ;) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:23, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

WikiForHumanRights 2023

• Astinson (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 00:41, 21 March 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? April 17 → April 24 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedias, Wikidata What languages will you be targeting? English, plus other languages -- we can get translation best in Spanish, French, Arabic etc 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, more than 300 edits 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 - The #WikiForHumanRights includes local events and a global challenge on the "Right to the healthy environment" and global environmental issues around climate change, Pollution, and Biodiversity. The current campaign has strong regional presence.

This year, we expect a sub-campaign organized by @Scann (WDU): to include a Spanish language only banner which would be operating seperately from the international campaign.

Metrics -

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

Banners - Let's use a variation on the previous year CentralNotice/Request/WikiForHumanRights2022 Writing Contest

Landing Page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - NA

Link to grant -

Discussion

@Ciell and DerHexer: apologies for not initiating this sooner -- happy to discuss more about specifics -- let me know what questions you have, Astinson (WMF) (talk) 00:43, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @Astinson (WMF): I've created campaign and cloned and adjusted the banner (>300 edits). Please check both and the preview. Let us know if you want to update the text and about the Spanish banner variation. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:09, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

  Hello! I'm working on getting the image for the banner & Spanish text. Will be sending the details soon. Scann (WDU) (talk) 18:20, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

  Hi @DerHexer this is the Spanish text: Por favor, únete a nuestra campaña #WikiPorLosDerechosHumanos y participa en el concurso y otras actividades relacionadas al "Derecho a un ambiente sano". As for the icons, any of the icons here would work, but probably this one is the best. This is the landing page. Thanks! Scann (WDU) (talk) 00:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

WikiKaleidoskop 2.0

• Dimas H (WMID) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 07:46, 13 March 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st April 2023 → 30th April 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia and Commons What languages will you be targeting? Indonesian and 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, logged in and anonymous users What countries will your campaign target? Indonesia 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 - WikiKaleidoskop 2.0 is a thematic photo contest on Wikimedia Commons

Metrics -

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

Banners - Indonesian:

• id text1: Ayo ikut WikiKaleidoskop 2.0, kompetisi foto tematik di Wikimedia Commons!
• id text2: Pendaftaran dibuka sepanjang tahun 2023. Lihat syarat dan ketentuannya.
• logo1: File:Wikimedia-logo-id.svg

English (if needed):

• en text1: Join WikiKaleidoskop 2.0, a thematic photo contest on Wikimedia Commons!
• en text2: Registration is open all year long. See the terms and conditions here.
• logo1: File:Wikimedia-logo-id.svg
  
  

Landing Page - Commons:WikiKaleidoskop 2.0

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - General Support Fund

Link to grant - Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Indonesia 2022–2023

Central Notice admin comments

• @Dimas H (WMID): As with the 2021 campaign: We can only activate it for English Wikipedia if you have an English version of the landing page and reached out to English Wikipedia with a note about the campaign in advance. Meanwhile, I've created the campaign and banner. Please check these and the preview. Please ping me when you approve the Indonesian version (and you have proceeded with the English stuff). Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:52, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: The landing page has several subpages with a specific explanation of photo themes. Is it allowed only to translate the main page (Commons:WikiKaleidoskop 2.0) or the subpages (for example, Commons:WikiKaleidoskop 2.0/Hadiah and Commons:WikiKaleidoskop 2.0/Maret - April) also needs to be available in English? Best regards, -- Dimas H (WMID) (talk) 04:44, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

  @Dimas H (WMID): Well, please provide an English page which gives an overview of all steps for participation. There's no need to translate each and every detail or subpage. But if you wouldn't have an English landingpage, how would otherwise non-Indonesian users understand why they are guided to that landingpage and how to participate? Meanwhile, I've activated the campaign for Indonesian. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:26, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: Thanks for your explanation. The banner looks good. We are working on the English version of the landing page. I already requested to mark the landing page for translation. Best regards, -- Dimas H (WMID) (talk) 03:45, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: The English version of the landing page can be accessed here. I hope it will suffice. Best regards, -- Dimas H (WMID) (talk) 12:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Campaigns currently running

Polish Tax Campaign

• Jacek Broda (WMPL) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 12:36, 2 January 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st February 2023 → 1st May 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? All What languages will you be targeting? Polish 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? Poland 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 tax campaign in Poland.

Metrics - Metrics are not required on our side.

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

Banners -

Landing Page - opp.wikimedia.pl -> page will be updated.

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - None

Link to grant - None

WikiProjekt Ženy/Měsíc žen na Wikipedii

• Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 14:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st March 2023 → 8th April 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata What languages will you be targeting? One Language (Czech) 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 - The project aims to engage more female editors on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as well as create content to decrease the gender gap, invite Czech community to create a new content, missing on Czech Wikipedia

Metrics - number of participants, number of partners, number of created or edited articles, number of events

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

Banners - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Month_on_Wikipedia_/_WikiGap_2023_banner

Landing Page - https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_%C5%BDeny/M%C4%9Bs%C3%ADc_%C5%BEen_na_Wikipedii

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Wikimedia Community Fund

Link to grant - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Wikimedia_Czech_Republic

Central Notice admin comments

• @Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ): I've created campaign and banner for you. Please check that and the preview. As soon as you approve, I will enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:45, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

  Hello, thank you for the meassage and for preparing a campaign for us! If it's ok, we'd rather keep our banner we uploaded as a part of the request as we had it discussed with our PR specialist. What would be great is to add there a grey background and frame (sorry for my basic editing skills), would it be possible @DerHexer? Best, Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk) 19:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

  @Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ): Unfortunately, we cannot process a banner design created in Wikimarkup. CentralNotice banners are created in pure HTML and CSS (and JavaScript). Therefore, I had to recreate it, using our standard banner which allows a responsive display also on mobile pages and small displays. Your design wouldn't work on mobile (see screenshot). Without mobile display, you'd lose more than 50 % of traffic which I cannot recommend. So either please provide a responsive banner design in HTML/CSS or lets proceed with my banner creation (certainly, some adjustments could be made). Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:44, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

  I understand however, I'm positive that the banners, which was created by us earlier, were accepted. In that case, can I ask you to adjust the banner you've created by using violet and bold letters? Thank you for your support! Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk) 19:31, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer I'm writing because I haven't heard back from you and our campaign should start tomorrow. Can we proceed with the procedure? I'm adding here also @Martin Urbanec in case he could help setting up a banner. Looking forward to hearing from you, Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk) 20:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

  Campaign enabled. Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

  @Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ): I didn't see your message because you didn't ping me and there are some more campaigns around. ;) By enabling the campaign, Martin reduced the traffic without giving a reason. I've reverted this as there has already been a diet based on cookies. Furthermore, I've added the bold font weight and the purple text color. The campaign should be now as requested. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:42, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer thank you for your support! Natalia Szelachowska (WMCZ) (talk) 10:20, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

  Hi @DerHexer, I did that change as I tried to follow the guidelines, which suggest keeping traffic at 50% or below, as well as using the cookies-based diet. Admittedly, I set the value to 65% (which is slightly higher than 50%), as this is a fairly major campaign, but this is the motivation for diets. That said, if you think that setting the cookie-based diet is enough, I don’t object to that at all. Best, Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:10, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

  Lowering the percentage doesn't make sense for many campaigns. I've put CN on the agenda for today. Let's talk about it there? :) I'd be bold and remove that part of the guidelines as this does not reflect common practice. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:59, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

AKI Environment Africa Day

• Anthere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 18:33, 6 January 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st March 2023 → 31st March 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? All projects What languages will you be targeting? 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? All users What countries will your campaign target? All countries (see talk page) 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 -Campaign related to Climate/Environment as part of Environment/Wangari Maathai Day – Mar 3, 2023, an Africa Knowledge Initiative involving WMF, ANF and African Union. There is a very early draft of a portal page here : Africa Environment

Metrics -

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

Banners -

Background colour: #4cbb9c
Text

English:

• Title big: Africa Environment WikiFocus
• Body text: Join the Africa Environment WikiFocus to add content about climate and the environmental impact on Africa.

French:

• Title big: Africa Environment WikiFocus
• Body text: Rejoignez Africa Environment WikiFocus pour ajouter du contenu sur l’impact du climat et de l’environnement en Afrique.

Visuals

• logo: File:African Environment WikiFocus logo white.svg
• photo: File:Deadvlei (37742427011).jpg

Mockup visual:

Landing Page -

Africa Environment

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Wikimedia Foundation project with African Union

Link to grant - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative

Discussion

• @DerHexer: - just letting you know that the visual elements are all loaded now. Please let me know if there is enough to proceed with the banners, if you have any questions, or if there needs to be any adjustments to suit the central notice process ... thanks!! Islahaddow (talk) 17:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @Islahaddow and Anthere: Not an easy request. I've created a banner which looks pretty similar to your proposal and should also work on mobile (English desktop, French mobile preview). However, I had to crop the file but I didn't mirror it yet (I'm not sure if that would look natural). Please do so if you think that it would be better. Furthermore, I've added a [Help with translation] part so that the texts can be translated into more languages than English and French which you've also requested.
  Usally, we only create campaigns in languages where the landing page is translated. However, your landing page is translatable right now (so is the banner now). Nonetheless, banner campaigns which do not only target logged-in users but readers should be promoted for feedback on the affected wikis. With English and French in mind, enwiki and frwiki should be informed at minimum. As you want to reach out to sister projects, usually you should also let them know before.
  Since you've requested two campaigns with different settings, it might make most sense to limit the non-Africa campaign to logged-in users which would avoid the notifications to the larger projects because of banners for readers. The Africa focused campaign could be more easily activated for readers, too. Please tell me what you think about it before I start to create the campaigns. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello DerHexer. Looks great to me. I’ll share with the other members of the team so that we get more testing on different environment. The translate link will be very practical. Thanks for that.

I already announced the project on the French Wikipedia quite generously (pump, wikiproject pages etc.), but I will also add a note about the banner for safety.

If I understand you properly, you suggest that the banner could run for logged-in and anons on African countries. And that the banner would only run for logged-in in non African countries. If so, that looks great to me. One benefit of the campaign is to recruit African editors (so all editors looks good) and the other benefit is to get African Union content used on Wikipedia articles (and for this... only logged-in editors is best...). If I understood you well, we should go this way ! thanks Anthere (talk) 09:20, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello DerHexer - this looks great!! you have done a really awesome job - only problem is that the banner is linking to the wrong space. It needs to go to Africa Environment not to African Knowledge Initiative. Thanks so much Islahaddow (talk) 12:18, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Oops, fixed right now. Thanks for the open eye! —DerHexer (Talk) 12:21, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

@Anthere and Islahaddow: What a ride! We cannot select continents but have to check or uncheck all countries individually. We now have the campaign for Africa and its banner for logged-in and anonymous users, as well as the campaign for non-African countries and its banner for logged-in users only (don't get confused by the wrong title). As they both have the same display and you've approved the preview, I've enabled both campaigns. Please ping me if you can find any mistakes! Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Congrats ! I had no idea we could now geo target at a lower level than the country... I wanted to ask you if the current geotag of Morocco included or did not included Western Sahara ? If it does not include Western Sahara, then we need to add it to the list of African countries to make sure it is not left behind. The « wrong » title could get confusing lol ! Otherwise, looks great to me. Let’s cross fingers. Thanks ! Anthere (talk) 17:43, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Haha, I couldn't find Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in the list, having had en:List of African countries by population open for the country check. I've just read now that it might be listed here as Western Sahara which it actually is. Already fixed. ;) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Well yeah... it is a tiny bit more politically neutral to name that area Western Sahara... Anthere (talk)

Ahum. Now the next step is the WLA one :) Good news... same countries... (I hope you can duplicate stuff ? Or does that need to be rechecked entirely from scratch ? ) CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Africa 2023 Anthere (talk) 17:46, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

On it, no option to copy campaign (that made me cry way too often in the past). —DerHexer (Talk) 18:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that :( Anthere (talk) 18:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

I was bold and made images and text smaller with the intention to make the banner less angry. -- Ата ^(talk) 17:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Africa 2023

• Anthere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 18:24, 23 November 2022 (UTC))
• OtuNwachinemere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), secondary contact

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1 March 2022 → 30th April 2022 Which projects will you be targeting? all projects What languages will you be targeting? 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? Logged In users and Anonymous Users What countries will your campaign target? Only african countries 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 - Call for participation to Wiki Loves Africa 2023.

The banner is to promote the Wiki Loves Africa photo campaign. It is a call for participation. It is pretty much unchanged compared to previous years. The contest is open for 2 months (by popular support). We run the banner only in Africa (though the contest is open everywhere). Every year, 90% or so of our participants are new (and some are retained there after !), so running the banner for IP addresses is very important as it serves as recruitment system for new participants. The contest runs over all African countries. In some countries (around 25), local teams will organize activities. They are very much in ask for the banners (both because it helps promote the contest in countries where wikipedia is not very well known) and because it makes them feel we take them seriously (and we do of course...). We changed the timeline just a tiny bit : 1 March 2023 → 30th April 2023

Metrics -

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

Banners -

We'd like to have the banner similar to previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, etc. with a scrolling banner + logo + linked text.

Text:
The annual celebration of Africa is Open!
Climate & Weather
enter your photos, video, and audio
Text colour: #C4463B

Visual elements here:

• logo on its own - svg
• logo puzzle box - png
• logo puzzle box - svg

scrolling banner photos

Here is a mock up of the visual:

Landing Page -
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 competition portal on Commons

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - GFS

Link to grant -

Wikimedia Community Fund: Wiki in Africa Multi-Year General Support 2023-25

Discussion

• @DerHexer: - just letting you know that all the visual elements you need should be in the right section above. Please let me know if you need more, in a different format, or a longer rolling banner (wasn't sure of the dimensions). Thank you!! Islahaddow (talk) 15:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

• @DerHexer: - pinging again in case you didn't see it. The deadline is coming closer!! Thanks Islahaddow (talk) 12:22, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @Anthere and Islahaddow: I've created the campaign (with Western Sahara) and banner (preview). Sadly, my CSS skills are not goop enough to flip the positions of text and logo. I tried but always messed up the mobile display. Either you find somebody to change it or we must go with this version. Please ping, approve, etc. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
  • Thanks. As far as I am concerned... I find the logo on the left and text with link on the right more logical than the reverse... What do you think @Islahaddow: ? Anthere (talk) 23:27, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

    I am super happy with it as it is! Please go ahead!! Thank you so much @DerHexer!! Islahaddow (talk) 09:11, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

    Done. —DerHexer (Talk) 09:26, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2023

• Tiven2240 (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 03:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1st February 2023 → 31st March 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? All including Wikipedia and Commons What languages will you be targeting? Multiple languages in a country 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? International Banner for all countries except the signed up countries and seperate banner for signed up countries. 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 - Wiki Loves Folklore is an international Photography contest held on Wikimedia Commons from 1st February till 31st March. The main motive of the project is to gather media from all round the globe so that it could be used on Wikipedia and other sites on the internet under free licence. These images are unique and the project aims to represent and document Intangible Heritage Culture. Wiki Loves Folklore campaign is designed in a dual structure. We have national coordinators and International Team. The role of national coordinators or country organisers is to organize Wiki Loves Folklore in a specific country and the role of International Team also includes to organize Wiki Loves Folklore in countries where there are no national coordinators. Thereby representing the underrepresented Countries under the Wikimedia ecosystem. This year we have specially crafted local banner images which have images of that country which has a national organiser so that it encourages local participation from a country. And the international Banner image to display winning and featured images during the contest. Since this is our 5th Year anniversary and this year we also celebrate 20th anniversary of UN convention on Intangible Culture Heritage we would like to target more reach and awareness as well as participation through the Central Notice.

Metrics - We will share the report with Metrics like this

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

Banners - Similar to previous years Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/wikilovesfolklore2021, Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/wikilovesfolklore2022 with logo and scrolling banner, (more) (more) previous years translations are available

We would also like to have the translations link so that we can share with national organiser to translate in their local language.

The banner image of International campaign is at File:WLF2023Banner.png and images for other countries are at c:Category:Wiki Loves Folklore CN Banners

Landing Page - Wikimedia Commons Landing Page for the International Banner. Subsequently the landing pages for National Banners at this page.

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Wikimedia General Support Funds

Link to grant - Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wiki Loves Folklore 2023

Central Notice admin comments

• @Tiven2240: Hey, it's very uncommon for an international project to ask for individual banners per country. Each country would require an individual campaign (and banner). This would mean work for about 20 campaigns in this request. Of course, we can take people by languages to the different landing pages. However, this is not possible per country within one banner. As of now, the status of many of the landing pages is very different: some barely exist. We wouldn't create campaigns for these right now. Please check back with the international team how you want to proceed. I can help you with the creation but likely not with these many. Please ping me. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:24, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

  Dear @DerHexer thank you for your comments. We have one global banner image ready for the banner File:WLF2023Banner.png. We will coordinate with the country organisers to create the landing page and i am sure they will be ready very soon. Also meanwhile can you share me the translation link of the text of the central notice banner so that we can share it for translation. --Tiven2240 (talk) 18:45, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

  @Tiven2240: Just to be clear again: We will create only one campaign with one banner and photo (which leads to multiple landing pages), as it was done in 2022. We cannot use multiple country-related photos in one campaign. If you agree with that, I can create the campaign where the translation link will also be created then (therefore, I cannot provide a link for translation yet). Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:16, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

  Dear @DerHexer kindly help us with creation of two campaigns. One for the signed up language countries and another for the non signed up language countries. Thank you --Tiven2240 (talk) 17:46, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

• @Tiven2240: I've created a campaign, banner, preview for the non-signed up language countries. For that purpose, I cloned the 2022 banner which already has some translations available from Wiki Loves Love 2020 (I don't know why you have used that); if need be, I can make a newly translatable text available. This leads to c:Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2023.
  I've also created a campaign, banner, preview for all the signed up language countries. As said, it's not possible to use a country-specific banner under these circumstances; therefore I re-used the general banner. Please provide a landing page for all these signed up language countries; temporarily, I've linked it to c:Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2023/Organize. Same issue with text messages here: it re-uses the WLL texts; if need be, I can also enable newly translatable texts here.
  Please let me know when both campaigns can be activated. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:57, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi @DerHexer: and @Tiven2240:, we are organizing the national contest in Nigeria, and we will like the CN Banner linked to our landing page. See Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Nigeria. Thank you. T Cells^Talk 14:06, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

@T Cells: Unfortunately, we cannot adjust the banner per country (only by language). For each of them, a new campaign would have to be created which is not feasible for the number of participating countries and the limitations of CentralNotice (campaigns cannot be copied but have to be created manually; the number of active CN admins is extremely low: just a handful). For that reason, I had proposed a joint landing page for the signed up countries which the orga committee didn't want. Therefore, I can offer you to add links to the Nigerian landing page from igwiki and yowiki (including multi-language wikis like Commons and Wikidata when users have ig or yo settings enabled). That's an easy hack which I can also do for other languages. Would that work for you? Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:58, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi @User:DerHexer, I apologize for missing this message. Considering the limitations you highlighted above, let's add a link to the Nigerian landing page from yowiki (including multi-language wikis like Commons and Wikidata). How should the link be added? T Cells^Talk 09:35, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

@T Cells: I've implemented that as proposed. Please check this preview if it works as intended. @Tiven2240: I can do the same hacks for other languages (but not countries). I've already implemented a switch so that I can add other language codes and landing pages more easily. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:28, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @User:DerHexer, that works. T Cells^Talk 18:29, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Countries were updated. —DerHexer (Talk) 14:34, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @DerHexer --Tiven2240 (talk) 19:26, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

• Hi @User:DerHexer, the banner displayed on Commons, Wikidata and Meta is not linked to our landing page at c:Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Nigeria . Please help us link it to our landing page. Thank you for your help. Happy new month. T Cells^Talk 08:11, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

  @T Cells: Please re-read my message: “Unfortunately, we cannot adjust the banner per country (only by language). For each of them, a new campaign would have to be created which is not feasible for the number of participating countries and the limitations of CentralNotice […] Therefore, I can offer you to add links to the Nigerian landing page from igwiki and yowiki (including multi-language wikis like Commons and Wikidata when users have ig or yo settings enabled).” Do you have ig or yo setting on those wikis mentioned, or English? In any other setting than ig or yo, people will be forwarded to the general landing page as said. If there's a bug with the multi-language forward, this would require professional developer ressources. I can only offer what I can offer. If it sticks to one more campaign, just for Nigeria, I might find some time today or tomorrow to create it. But I cannot promise it. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:58, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the additional clarification @User:DerHexer. I apologise for my earliest misunderstanding. Regards. T Cells^Talk 10:28, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

No worries! :) Thank you for your understanding. —DerHexer (Talk) 10:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Comment I have removed the reoccurring cycle for the not-participating countries banner. There is no need to show it every week on all projects in all languages: it only causes annoyance and will impact the banner experience for the banners on events that these targeted projects do have a local team in. I hope this is okay. It will still be shown 5 times to all, so creating awareness for the initiative (which I assume is the goal of the banner for countries/languages without a local team) is still in place. Ciell (talk) 11:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@Ciell can you please explain us why was this sudden decision taken by you in between of the contest? We could have discussed before any changes. --Tiven2240 (talk) 17:22, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Happy to try and clarify @Tiven2240. To be clear: I have not turned it off, but only lowered the diet of this specific banner. The banner has been running for almost a month and daily visitors of the projects have seen 20 impressions, more if they have visited more than one project in these past weeks. There are a lot of banners lined up to start in March, and by lowering the diet of this banner for not-participating countries, those banners get more room. Sadly, we only have one banner space for all to use: we have to share and also be considerate to not lose the effect of banners in general.

I hope this helps, more in general about why we cannot show banners all the time is explained in this question of the CentralNotice Banner FAQ. Ciell (talk) 20:45, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

2023 tax campaign of Wikimedia Hungary

• Samat (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 20:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 15th February 2023 → 20th May 2023 15th February 2023 → 21st February 2023 15th March 2023 → 21st March 2023 28th April 2023 → 5th May 2023 12th May 2023 → 20th May 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? All What languages will you be targeting? English/Hungarian 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? Hungary Banner/Campaign Diet: Maximum impressions: 3; restarting cycle: 259200 seconds

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

Description - Appeal for tax donations in the Hungarian 1% system. (Hungarian income tax system allows individual Hungarian tax payers to direct 1% of their tax to an organization of their choice, that has PBO status. Wikimedia Hungary registered and qualified as a public benefit organization.)

Metrics - Number and amount of tax donations

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

Banners - WMHU_1percent_2023, WMHU_1percent_2023_mobile

Landing Page - https://wikimedia.hu/wiki/1

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

Comment WMHU has a signed agreement with the WMF about this banner campaign. The campaign will be between 15th February and 20th May, separated into four periods. Active campaign periods were consulted with the Online Fundraising Team of the WMF:

• 15 to 21 February,
• 15 to 21 March,
• 28 April to 5 May and
• 12 to 20 May.

I am a CN admin, and I can handle and administrate the campaign myself as I did in the previous years. Samat (talk) 20:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

@JBrungs (WMF): let me know if you have any concern about my changes in the calendar. Kind regards, Samat (talk) 21:14, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Samat,

This looks ok to me @TGorski (WMF), do you have any additional comments?

Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:17, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Meanwhile, Tomasz answered me in an email that he has no further comments and wished best of luck with the campaign. If there is no further comments or objection, I will move the request to the approved ones. Samat (talk) 11:50, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

Campaigns were created:

• February: desktop, mobile;
• March: desktop, mobile;
• April: desktop, mobile;
• May: desktop, mobile -- Samat (talk) 22:46, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia Terms of Use update 2023

• RStallman (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 23:02, 4 January 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? → 22nd February 2023 through 20th April 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? All What languages will you be targeting? Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish 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? worldwide if that's an option 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 Wikimedia Foundation will be updating our Terms of Use in 2023. We want to alert users and offer a link to a landing page with a summary of what is changing and the proposed changes. There will be a 2 month comment period before the changes are finalized.

Metrics - Receiving feedback and discussion from community.

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

Banners - Please use the standard banner with logo

Wikimedia Foundation logo - vertical

and text “The Foundation is updating our Terms of Use. You can read about it and submit comments here“. With a link to the related meta page.

Landing Page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/2023_ToU_updates

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

Just an FYI that we have discussed internally a potential clash with a WMF Fundraising banner for Japan, and we're fine to defer to that banner during the overlapping request time. RStallman (WMF) (talk) 00:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @RStallman (WMF): I've created campaign and banner in accordance to the additional information received by email. You can check the preview here. There you can see, that I did some minor changes: “The Wikimedia Foundation” instead of “The Foundation” for clarification reasons. Furthermore, I've activated the campaign for all languages because this ToU change affects all communities and not only those which you were targeting here (likely because you will provide translations yourself here). But people on other projects can help with translations, too. I have activated that functionality in the banner. You can submit your translations into these languages here, just change to the target language. Of course, you can invite translators from around the world to submit further translations before the campaign will start. I will enable the campaign when you confirm the settings and preview. Please ping me. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:18, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks so much for your help! I'll run the details by our team and respond again if anything needs to be tweaked or if we're ready to go for when the comment period begins on February 21st. RStallman (WMF) (talk) 23:18, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

  Hello again, DerHexer. The team approves of the banner. Thank you! There is a tweak to the dates of the campaign. We'd like it to begin on February 22nd instead of the 21st to make sure all of the content is definitely up when we send people to review it, and ending one day earlier on April 20th. When inviting translators, do I make a post on Meta:Babel with a link to this page? Thanks for your advice! My first go at this. RStallman (WMF) (talk) 00:27, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

  @RStallman (WMF): I didn't see your message until now. I've enabled it (and saw the other communications elsewhere). —DerHexer (Talk) 18:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

  Thank you! RStallman (WMF) (talk) 20:06, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Bangla Wikipedia article contest 2023

• MdsShakil (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 17:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1 February 2023 → 31 March 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? all projects What languages will you be targeting? Bengali, 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 (Logged in and out, Mobile, Computer all user) 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 -

Metrics -

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

Banners - User:আফতাবুজ্জামান/Article Writing Contest 2019 Banner (same as last year & before that)

Landing Page - https://bn.wikipedia.org/s/pfsr

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

• Banner settings will be same as last year please. You may copy the banner and the campaign from last year (Just change the banner code & date). —MdsShakil (talk) 17:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @MdsShakil: I've created the campaign and banner. Please check the preview. Once you approve it, I can enable the campaign. Please ping me. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:46, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer please update link, the link is

  https://bn.wikipedia.org/s/pfsr —MdsShakil (talk) 20:51, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

  @MdsShakil: Done, please check again. —DerHexer (Talk) 20:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer LGTM —MdsShakil (talk) 21:00, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

  Campaign enabled. —DerHexer (Talk) 22:05, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

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)

Tax fundraising in Slovakia

• Jetam2 (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 13:02, 18 November 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 1 February 2023 → 31 March 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? sk.wiki, sk.wiktionary, sk.wikisource, Commons, Wikidata What languages will you be targeting? Slovak 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? Slovakia 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 tax fundraising campaign. The local community has been notified as well.

Metrics - Metrics are not required on our side.

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

Banners - The best would be to use this version of the banner, as amended by the community on sk.wiki

Landing Page - https://2percenta.wikimedia.sk/

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Annual tax fundraising campaign

Link to grant - There is no connected grant.

Discussion

Just a quick note, I have made the WMF legal team aware of this request and will update decisions here and with @Jetam2 directly. Thanks JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 08:27, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

@JBrungs (WMF): Thank you for the note.--Jetam2 (talk) 17:46, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Note to admins, WMF and the user group have signed an agreement and the user group can run the tax banners. @Jetam2 have a good campaign. Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:13, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

@JBrungs (WMF) Thank you for the notification. So, there should be no other problem with running this, right?--Jetam2 (talk) 09:31, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Not from the WMF's side, now that the agreement is signed. JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 09:49, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@DerHexer and Martin Urbanec: Could we get this going, please? Or let me know if there is an issue? Thank you!--Jetam2 (talk) 13:58, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

@Jetam2 and JBrungs (WMF): I cannot remember that volunteer CentralNotice administrators have ever set up a fundraising campaign. Personally, I volunteer to support community outreach, content creation, event advertisement, and such. Raising funds should be left to professionals, including setting up the campaigns. — I think I wouldn't want to take this responsibility here. There are plenty of fundraising banner campaign experts (e.g., at WMF or WMDE) among the CentralNotice administrators who could help much better here. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:47, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@DerHexer: What makes you hesitate? Everything has been set up already, we just need to enable the banners. The Foundation okayed it, the community okayed it. Fundraising banners have been done in the past. How can we resolve this? Pinging the whole group? PS: I did not think of using that list as admins (as volunteers) are listed on the request page.--Jetam2 (talk) 19:32, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@Jetam2: What do you mean with “has been set up already”? I cannot find a campaign on Special:CentralNotice nor a usable banner on Special:CentralNoticeBanners. Therefore, both have to be created. The banner draft you've provided contains wikimarkup which we cannot use here. So we have to develop a similar banner first which will take some time. Then, we have to test the banner for logged-in, anonymous, desktop, mobile and in all combinations. All in all, this will take between 15 and 30 minutes. As said, I will invest my time for creating the various community campaigns which have been proposed instead of a fundraising campaign when there are hired fundraising experts who could set up these. Certainly, you can ping other stewards or CentralNotice administrators. As you've found the list of people, you are already aware who has actually set up CN banner campaigns here in 2022. Maybe you can motivate others to help out here. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:38, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

@DerHexer: Dear Der Hexer. To be honest, I am quite baffled by your response and still not quite sure what to say but at the same time feel rather pressed on time as the last weeks of our inteded campaign are quickly ticking by (tax returns are to be handed in by 31 March) so here it is. You make it sound as if this was a commercial project. It is not, the funds collected will ultimately go towards content creation as you request. We will probably collect between five hundred and a thousand Euros and this is the majority of our non-WMF funding. Hiring an external expert does quite match it. There are several similar campaigns done in the past, some self enabled. I am not able to tell whether by (at the time) staff or not. Some have no indication. Correct me, please, if I am wrong, but I have not found any "fundraising needs to have own staff" disclaimer on Central Notice pages. It might be a good idea to include this to avoid further delays in the future.

I have used similar wikimarkup before and it has not been a problem (as far as I could tell) so I was unaware that there was any special markup required.

What I found was the volunteers listed on the Request page and as I wrote above I had no way of knowing that they (or at least one) would refuse and that I should look for alternatives. You linked the list and thank you for that. So, I will scramble and contact other possible providers off-wiki first, hopefully that will work.--Jetam2 (talk) 21:39, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @Jetam2: Alright, all community campaigns are finished and I still had some minutes left. I've created the campaign and banner (preview). There must be some space around the text and logo. I hope that this till works for you. Two notes: 1) Why do you want to have the campaign running for logged-in users, too? I think that all fundraising campaigns nowadays are limited to anonymous users. 2) Please get the landing page fixed, I get this error: Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /data/d/0/d02453b1-a9d8-495d-b9d5-7190f53fd509/wikimedia.sk/web/wp-content/plugins/cta/classes/class.cta.render.php on line 492
  As soon as these things are solved and you confirm the settings, I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:45, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

@DerHexer: Thank you for setting that up. 1) not sure what everyone else does but as far as I know we have not made any distinction here, logged-in users can send their tax contribution as well as logged-out users. It is a good reminder in any case. 2) okay, let me try to fix the landing page.--Jetam2 (talk) 15:53, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Enabled. —DerHexer (Talk) 17:27, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Quinzaine des autrices francophones

• Natacha LSP (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 10:18, 17 February 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 18st March 2023 → → 2nd April 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? French wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? French 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, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Bénin, Sénégal, Ivory Coast 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 "Quinzaine des autrices francophones" is a series of workshops organized in the second half of March and the beginning of April throughout the French-speaking regions with the aim of improving Wikimedia projects in French concerning women writers from francophone speaking countries with a special focus on Africa.

Metrics - New edits, new articles or images uploaded, new users ...

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

Banners - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Natacha_LSP/banner-quinzaine-des-autrices-francophone?venotify=created

Landing Page - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Limoges/Quinzaine_des_autrices_francophones

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Central Notice admin comments

• @Natacha LSP: I've created the campaign and banner. Please check this and the preview before I can enable the campaign. As this campaign will also affect readers, please notify French Wikipedia on their Village Pump that this campaign will take place and add a link here. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:43, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

  Hi @DerHexer, looks fine by me, I have posted on the francophone village pump here

  @Natacha LSP: Thanks, the campaign is enabled. Please don't forget to add a signature when you ping me because otherwise I won't be notified. In this case, the campaign was enabled even before. :) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:21, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Mais Pretas em Teoria da História na Wiki

• Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 11:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 15st March 2023 → 7st April 2023 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipédia/Commons/Wikidata What languages will you be targeting? One Language (Portuguese) 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, Anonymous Users) What countries will your campaign target? BR - PT - AO (Angola) - MZ (Moçambique) - GW (Guiné-Bissau) - TIM (Timor-Leste) - GQ (Guiné Equatorial) - MO (Macau) - CV (Cabo Verde) e ST (São Tomé e Príncipe) 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 Mais Pretas event is a thematic competition on Wikipedia in Portuguese, Commons and Wikidata. It is part of a set of activities that will take place throughout 2023 under the Mais História da História na Wiki Project. The project aims to encourage the involvement of current and new editors in Wikimedia projects. Everyone who identifies with or sympathizes with the proposed themes is welcome to support open science and the construction of collaborative knowledge in editing themes related to gender and race studies and the epistemology of the Global South.

Metrics -

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

Banners - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banner_MaisPretas_1200x396px.png

Landing Page - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Projeto_Mais_Teoria_da_História_na_Wiki/Mais_Pretas

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - Group of individuals not registered with an organization

Link to grant - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Mais_Teoria_da_História_na_Wiki_2023

Discussion

Olá, deixo aqui registrado a comunicação do pedido de divulgação na Esplanada e na página de discussão do Wiki Movimento Brasil.--Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 11:30, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

• @Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+): Hi, we cannot make use of an image-only banner like this. Please provide a banner source code in HTML, CSS and JavaScript (no Wiki markup). In other cases, we can modify the standard banner (please give one logo and one line of texts) or do slight modifications to previous banners. Please ping me when you respond. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:41, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: Hi! Thanks for your response. The same code used here can not be reused on this request? RGhidini (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 16:36, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

  @RGhidini (Projeto Mais+): Sure, if you are fine with a limited banner. I've created a campaign and banner. Please check this and the preview. When you approve it, please ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:56, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: Hi! Thanks for your help! Can you replace the logo to this one? RGhidini (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 16:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

  @RGhidini (Projeto Mais+): There's too much space above and below the logo. Since this is an SVG, I cannot crop it. If you provide a usable version, I can replace it. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:01, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: This one is better? RGhidini (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 16:46, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

  @RGhidini (Projeto Mais+): Yes, that would work. Can you check the preview and approve it so that I can enable the campaign? Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:51, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

  @DerHexer: Looks good. Thanks a lot DerHexer! RGhidini (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 19:05, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Past requests

• See Category:Closed requests for CentralNotice campaigns.