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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025

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Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration?
  • 2 May 2025 → 16 May 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • Wikipedia
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

What countries will your campaign target?

  • All 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?

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Description - Article writing challenge on Ukrainian culture and people.

Metrics - Last year 1,260 articles were created during the campaign, and we expect a similar level of participation this year. Nearly 55% of participants reported that they learned about the contest through the CentralNotice banner, highlighting its key role in promoting the campaign. A similar results page will be published at the end of this year’s contest, featuring all relevant metrics and insights.

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

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Banners - The same banner as last year, but with this picture and this backgroud colour code: #72D2B4

Landing Page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%27s_Cultural_Diplomacy_Month_2025
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Discussion

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Central Notice admin comments

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  • @OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA): Thank you for your request. Since the last edition, the CentralNotice/Usage guidelines have been updated and provide much stricter rules for (fully) global campaigns. Technically, it's no problem to create the proposed banner, but there a couple of remarks before this campaign can be approved and enabled:
    • Campaigns should usually not run for more than 14 days. Exceptions can be made (especially for established campaigns), but in that case local announcements should be sent to all targeted communities (e.g., through global village pumps and MassMessage). Local ambassadors for each participating country/language/affiliate are highly recommended. How do you want to handle involvement of local communities under these new conditions?
    • Campaigns should only be shown to language communities where the landing page and banners have been translated. A couple of banner translations from 2024 are ready and could be copied to 2025. Furthermore, a link in the banner can invite people to help with banner translations which can be reused from the previous campaign. However, please provide as many translations as possible, for both, the banner and the landing page. Please note that all translations need to be approved by CentralNotice admins because of technical limitations which adds a lot of extra work on us. For that reason, we usually don't enable campaigns for languages that are not available yet. As this is a returning campaign, we might make an exception here, but maybe you can focus on some preferred communities. How do you want to handle translations of banner and campaign?
    • Please note that Catalan communities have opted out from campaigns a) that are not translated into the local language, b) that are not announced on their local wikis.
    • There are a couple of campaign scheduled for the same date (and language/country, which is all for this campaign as of now), including some large campaigns like Wiki Loves Earth, CentralNotice/Request/2025 annual review (UCoC EG/U4C Charter), CentralNotice/Request/Coordinate Me 2025 Wikidata contest, etc., please have a look at CentralNotice/Calendar. Usually, it's your duty to get this coordinated with the other organizers so that users will not suffer from banner blindness. Certainly, it is possible to find solutions for this but it should be coordinated as soon as possible.
  • Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:14, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @DerHexer, Thank you for the helpful feedback!
    We acknowledge that our campaign qualifies as an established campaign. However, if crucially, it's fine to shorten the banner timeline to 14 days and/or shift it to more convenient dates to avoid overlap with other campaigns.
    From our side:
    • We have submitted a MassMessage request for previous participants.
    • We’ve also requested announcements on the village pumps of the relevant communities.
    • The message includes a call to help with translations of the landing page and banner, as well as an invitation to join as a local ambassador.
    • We’ve copied last year’s banner translations into this year’s campaign and are continuing to collect as many translations as possible — part of them is already in place.
    Lastly, I’d like to clarify:
    What exactly do you mean by “coordinating with other campaign organizers”?
    Should we reach out to each one individually to discuss shifting dates, or is there another form of coordination you’re referring to?
    Please let us know if further adjustments are needed. OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 16:38, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @DerHexer, hi! Do you have any updates on the banner state? When it's possible to be approved? OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 11:49, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In Mazandarani WP

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We don't want to see the campaign in Mazandarani Wikipedia. Because we consider this campaign to be in conflict with our neutrality policy. Don't show the banner on mzn.wp anymore. --Ταπυρ (گپ) 08:07, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I Second That. HenryThe (talk) 19:02, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed this language until this is clarified. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:08, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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