CentralNotice/Request/WikiMOOC

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WikiMOOC[edit]

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?
  • 2nd January 2017 → 15th January 2017
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • 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?
  • Anonymous users + logged in users with less than 500 edits (beginners)

What countries will your campaign target?

  • All

Banner/Campaign Diet:

  • To be determined by Central Notice admin

What is the purpose of Campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?[edit]

Description - As for last year ([1]), the banner will be used to inform Wikipedia readers that they can enroll in the WikiMOOC #2, a course designed by french Wikipedia volunteers, with the help of Wikimedia France (I also work on it with Jules WMFr account). We informed the community (here), there is no opposition—the community is familiar with the project . We will ask in January for a second CN round in February, as for last year. Thanks!

Metrics - Last year, the number of enrollment/day during the display of the banners was way higher than when there was no banner.

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

Banners - 4 banners, to display alternately: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Landing Page - https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/WMFr/86001S02/session02/about

Community Feedback[edit]

Central Notice Admin comments[edit]

I can only agree with Jules78120 and would also like to stress how it is important for us in the swiss french speaking community to obtain more active contributors for community building purposes. It is important for us to increase the banner's visibility. We are not asking for funds here, but actually offering a free service. This could also help as examples to show that wikipedia is not using banners just for funding.--Nattes à chat (talk) 17:20, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I didn't set the campaign settings, but it is being custom that banners have a traffic limit set. I guess, we can disable it if we also limit the number of banners an individual can see. Joseph, can you take care of the amendment of campaign settings, please? Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 08:00, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @MarcoAurelio and Seddon (WMF):, it would be great! Sorry to bother you with this CN :/. But for the context: we have half less registrations to the WikiMOOC than last year over the same time, with the banner, which is disappointing for us, because we (about 15 volunteers and myself) will have spent over 2000 hours to create the WikiMOOC #2, so we want to have a lot of registrations to train and retain as many future contributors as possible, in order to make the time and the energy we spent on the WikiMOOC useful. Best, Jules WMFr (talk) 10:25, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed the traffic limit now. Still waiting for the banner JS so it only displays to certain registered users. For now, only anonymous users (now w/o traffic limit) will see the banner. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 12:35, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]