CentralNotice/Request/Picture of the Year 2018

Picture of the Year 2018

• Zhuyifei1999 (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 05:45, 9 January 2019 (UTC))
• Christian Ferrer (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), Committee member
• -revi (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections), Committee member
• Steinsplitter (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections), Committee member

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 3rd February 2019 → 17th February 2019 Which projects will you be targeting? all What languages will you be targeting? all Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly? all 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 - As every year, to announce the POTY vote. See also the campaign from last year.

Metrics -

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

Banners - Similar to Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/POTY_2017_R1

Landing Page - c:Commons:Picture of the Year/2018

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

•  Oppose. CentralNotices are overused, and POTY is not sufficient justification for a month of Wikimedia-wide banners. --Yair rand (talk) 06:21, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

  I believe there is some misunderstandings here. By tradition each POTY round are two weeks ('campaign duration'), however, also by traditions there are two days after POTY's official start date for 'beta testing'. To avoid excessive CN exposure, the actual CN activity duration is limited to a week (so that's at most 2 weeks of actual CN use), and measures such as 'limit traffic' and 'impression diet' have been taken so that banners are not always visible during the banner active period.

  The point of POTY is to have Wikimedians globally vote on what they think is the best 'picture of the year', and CN have been our way of announcing the event to Wikimedians that aren't Commons regulars. POTY, in its current state, cannot run without CN.

  We have been using CN since POTY 2011 (May & June 2012), among the very first users of CN. If any rules regarding 'sufficient justification' have changed (which as a 'standard banner' I am doubtful of), I believe out use has been 'grandfathered in', if I may say.

  If you feel like POTY's use of CN could be improved, or could be replaced with a better suited venue, I am open to suggestions. If you feel like CN are overused in general and banner exposure are excessive, I believe CN admins and developers are open to your suggestions as well.

  --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

  I agree with Zhuyifei1999. POTY Banner has a long tradition and we never had problems/complains (as far i remember). I also want to note that we run the banner for one week (r1) and then later on (r2) one week as per standard practice. --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:56, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

•  Support No problem, go ahead! And a big thank you for take care of that. Yann (talk) 18:52, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

•  Approved; delegating management to Steinsplitter. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:01, 28 January 2019 (UTC)