CentralNotice/Request/Wikimedia news: Manavpreet Kaur

Wikimedia news: Manavpreet Kaur

Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 16:15, 24 May 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?

31 May 2019 → 7 June 2019

Which projects will you be targeting?

Wikipedia

What languages will you be targeting?

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?

Anonymous Users

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 - Promoting a profile of Manavpreet Kaur, a Punjabi Wikipedia editor.

Metrics - Unsure how many pageviews to target—we're hoping to begin running banners more regularly, which will help us know how many to strive for.

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

Banners - Currently being constructed with Joe Seddon

Landing Page - https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/17/this-forensic-scientist-wrote-her-discipline-into-wikipedia-now-shes-training-others-to-do-the-same/

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion

Oppose. I thought at first that this was some kind of disguised fundraising attempt, but it doesn't seem to have anything except highlighting an editor's work. How could this possibly be worth running a banner over the entire site? This would be a substantially worsened user experience for all anonymous users on the entire English Wikipedia, without any commensurate benefit. CentralNotices are already overused, and this is not an appropriate use of one. --Yair rand (talk) 21:30, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Central Notice admin comments

Approved with note: To be limited by audience, time and impression count/percentage. Seddon (WMF) (talk) 15:10, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Seddon (WMF): - From when are we pushing CENT-banners, to promote individual Wikimedians? What's the desired goal, of running this banner? How are you going to measure the impact (whatever that is)? Is this any linked with fundraising?

CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines#Approval states:- All banners need a comment period of at least 7 days which does not mean that you choose to ignore the comments, accumulated therein. Also, it states The target wikis should be notified of the Meta-Wiki discussion, see Distribution list or whatever venue is most suitable to efficiently reach most interested users.. Pray give me the notification-links, since this is not a standard case. (votes/surveys, maintenance notes, fundraising banners et al)

This is an entirely new class of banners, probably aimed at inspiring new editors to click the edit button:-) But, then again, the design of the linked report is awful, for such a purpose. Above all, running these banners has it's own banes and boons but the cost-benefit ratio needs to be evaluated by the global community, beforehand.

Please pull this. It's pretty poor of you to not possess the minimal courtesy of replying to the sole user, who commented (and opposed this); even notwithstanding the inherent conflict-of-interest in self-approving a banner, in whose design, you were already involved, (per the OP's admission). Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 18:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]