CentralNotice/Request/Wikicite 2025

Wikicite 2025

Ilario (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 17:56, 14 June 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?

29th July 2025 → 29th August 2025

Which projects will you be targeting?

All, mainly Wikidata

What languages will you be targeting?

All (except Catalan)

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 (except countries with fundraising banners)

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 - After a hiatus of 5 years a group of volunteers has proposed a new online edition of Wikicite in hybrid format: one day in-person, focused on Switzerland, followed by two days online.

The main goal is to reconnect with former participants and revitalize an event whose themes are now more relevant than ever. To ensure wider visibility, we propose displaying the banner for one month, with an impression diet to avoid being intrusive while maintaining a longer time window to reach a broader audience.

This extended timeframe is essential, as the event is designed to be inclusive of multiple time zones—from New Zealand to the Americas—ensuring participation from a globally distributed community.

Metrics - Number of participants

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

Banners - Special:CentralNoticeBanners/Edit/Wikicite

Landing Page - WikiCite_2025

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - This is a community event supported with a grant of Wikimedia CH

Link to grant -

Discussion

The request comes from the Wikicite community. I have also seen that there is no banner in August, so it would be easy to manage. The request is for one month and will be for a wide audience but setting an appropriate impression diet to don't be invasive. I can take care of it as I will do for itWikicon's banner. --Ilario (talk) 21:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ilario: Please keep in mind that according to the CN guidelines, global campaigns have several requirements: This campaign is scheduled to run longer than two weeks so that all targeted communities should be notified in advance. As this does not make sense, please shorten the campaign to a maximum of two weeks which should be a sufficient time span for an event invitation anyway. — Furthermore, banner text and landingpage should be marked as translatable as early as possible and should be translated into the main languages. Since this event is English only, it could be sufficient to have that information available in multiple languages in the banner and the landingpage in English only. But without that no global campaign could be approved or should be enabled. — It's great to see WikiCite back and in Switzerland! :) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:17, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DerHexer no problem. I confirm that 14 days are good. It will be one month only for Wikidata (as the organization is done by people and for people of the Wikidata community) and for Switzerland only. The banner will be translatable and translated in the main languages (English, French, German and Italian) as usually is done for banner I manage. Ilario (talk) 21:28, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Central Notice admin comments

I will shift the start for some days to cover also the days of the event, so from 1st August to 31th August. Only for two weeks as global campaign. --Ilario (talk) 07:11, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]