Start your request for a CentralNotice banner campaign here!
The aims of this process are as follows:
To improve community access to central notice through a clear and transparent process.
To improve best practice and ensure greater consistency in campaign implementation.
To improve communication around campaigns. Creating clear forums for feedback on campaigns, providing metrics back to campaigns and also a clear method for assessing community consensus for campaigns relating to advocacy.
To reduce potential clashes between campaigns
Requests must be made, at minimum, 14 days in advance of any campaign
Step #4 : Add it to the calendar and check for conflicting campaigns in your period for language/geotargeting. Contact the organizers of the other campaigns to solve them!
Step #5 : Notify target projects and geographic affiliates. Add edit diff links to request.
Step #6 : CN Admin & Community feedback [14 days]
Advocacy/Payments: WMF Legal Review [21 days])
Step #7 : Approval/rejection
Step #8 : CN Admin sets up campaign (recommended to allow for up 3 days)
Step #9 : Campaign enabled
List of currently active volunteer CentralNotice administrators:
For normal requests, a central notice admin will close the discussion. In the areas of advocacy, the stewards team may be called upon to assess consensus.
1 November 2025 - 15 December 2025 (full contest duration) for logged-in editors 1-7 November 2025 (first week) and 9-15 December 2025 (last week) only for anonymous/non-logged-in users
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?
United States
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 - Wiki Education's Wikipedia Student Program supports Wikipedia writing assignments in university courses. This one is a set of about 30 US college towns where most of the population in each area is connected to the university there. (See also the previous request which didn't end up running.)
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?
Both, maybe Logged in for a longer period
What countries will your campaign target?
subnational regions in US/Canada hosting local events
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?
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?
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?
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-out
What countries will your campaign target?
India, South Africa
Banner/Campaign Diet:
South Africa: Turn on Dec 14 at 22:01 UTC; Off Dec 19 at 21:59 UTC
India: Turn on Dec 14 at 18:31 UTC; Off Dec 19 at 18:29 UTC
Maximum impressions any individual will see: 3
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - The Communications and Product teams at the Wikimedia Foundation are looking to do a small central notice banner test to drive downloads of the Wikipedia app on English Wikipedia, fr two countries. It will include simple banners in English and will look to target both logged in and logged out users on mobile, in support of our Foundation's APP goals to further engage Wikipedia readers and editors. The timing will be from December 15 to December 21. We will be sending people directly to Google Play and Apple App stores so that they can download the app directly onto their phone. Central notice admins are okay with us sending people to the Google and Apple stores, and the campaign will socialized with the English community.
Metrics - We will be measuring internally how many people are clicking on the banner, and how many downloads of the app we receive.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Side note: I created one campaign per OS for each country, based on the previous Japanese campaign. I spent some time reading the documentation, trying to figure out if one single campaign would have worked with all the different banners (banner bucketing versus OS). When my research time got closer to the time needed to create a campaign, I decided to create a separated campaign. Do you think one unique campaign would work?
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-out
What countries will your campaign target?
Japan
Banner/Campaign Diet:
Turn on Dec 14 at 15:01 UTC
Off Dec 16 at 14:59 UTC
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - The Communications and Product teams at the Wikimedia Foundation are looking to do a small central notice banner test to drive downloads of the Wikipedia app on Japanese Wikipedia. It will include simple banners in Japanses and will look to target both logged in and logged out users on mobile, in support of our Foundation's APP goals to further engage Wikipedia readers and editors. Japanese reasers were previously A/B/C tested, in May 2025. We have selected one banner, and we will now run the selected one. This banner will be sending people directly to Google Play and Apple App stores so that they can download the app directly onto their phone. Central notice admins are okay with us sending people to the Google and Apple stores, and the campaign will socialized with the English community.
Metrics - We will be measuring internally how many people are clicking on the banner, and how many downloads of the app we receive.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
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?
Both Logged In and Anonymous users. Users from small wikis with 20-25 active editors and 1-2 admins.
What countries will your campaign target?
Multiple Countries (TBD)
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 - Hi! As part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan, several teams are involved in an experiment (WE 2.1.5) aimed at surfacing content gap contribution opportunities to engage native speakers in small wikis. This experiment is connected to the Language Onboarding and Development initiative and aligns with the Vital Knowledge objective in the annual plan. See T405298.
This builds on a previous experiment from the last quarter, where we used Growth features. Results from that experiment are now published here: Research: Engage native speakers to improve vital content in small language Wikipedias. The results show positive signs, so we are now planning to explore further with a more focused and longer experiment involving two smaller wiki communities. This experiment will make use of the Content Translation tool, and we plan to run the banner for one month.
Metrics - Measured three months after the experiment concludes:
Average monthly pageviews on content pages of small wikis
Average monthly number of active editors
Total edits by users from the experiment to vital articles via Section/Content translation tool
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@DerHexer I have the banner here Special:CentralNoticeBanners/Edit/WMF VKD IN. So far, we have heard from the Telugu community, and we are getting ready to deploy on their wiki in the region where Telugu is spoken in India. I am yet to create a campaign for that. Would you like to review that too before launch? I can set it up quickly in the next couple of days. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to update that the requirements for the CN banner launch are still pending as of today. Since we have now entered December, which is generally a quieter month for launching new projects and campaigns, we are considering postponing the banner launch until January. Just giving a heads-up here. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 00:16, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Slovakia
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 - Taxpayers in Slovakia may ask that 2% of their income tax be distributed to an NGO of their choice. Wikimedians of Slovakia would like to give their supporters this option and inform about it through the use of banners. Thank you.
Metrics - No metrics are needed. We will not be able to know who decided to give their 2% to WMSK based on this ad. During spring 2026 we also expect to run banners for the Wikipedia 25th anniversary event.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Jetam2: I know that this is not the first campaign of this kind, as I handled last year's campaign, too. However, two things are uncommon for me: the very long duration of the campaign (that was even increased by a month this year), and that you are also targeting logged-in users—which is usually not done in fundraising campaigns because we usally don't want to ask our volunteers for two kinds of participation (but I know that the tax deducation model is slightly different). Is it fine as is? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:55, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: I think it would be good to have it longer since people take time to do their taxes. I would just display it less often. If only shorter is possible, then start at 01-JAN and finish 31-MAR.--Jetam2 (talk) 12:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jetam2: You know best when the tax income happens in Slovakia, so I have implemented the full duration to the campaign but set the cookie for a month before another cycle gets started. I have reused the banner from last year because the text and link seem to be the same. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:12, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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 and logged-out users
What countries will your campaign target?
All
Banner/Campaign Diet:
For logged-out users, we plan to sequence the banners such that they see banner 1 first and banner 2 second. For both logged-in and logged-out users, we plan to limit impressions to 3 per banner over the course of the campaign.
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - For Wikipedia's 25th birthday, we (WMF) plan to run two banners:
For logged-out users, a banner celebrating Wikipedia's 25th birthday and pointing users to a Wikipedia 25 landing page on wikimediafoundation.org (not currently up)
For logged-out and logged-in users, a banner celebrating Wikipedia's story over 25 years and pointing people to a microsite which tells that story. The microsite (not currently up) will be at wikipedia25.org, which is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
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?
both
What countries will your campaign target?
Czechia
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 - Senior Month is our yearly campaign targeting seniors (or their relatives). We do want to promote the courses and give the people easy ability to sign up for the courses.
Metrics - Number of seniors that sign up for a course
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
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 & anonymous users
What countries will your campaign target?
no specific country target, all projects in the Ukrainian language
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 - From December 8 to January 11, the Ukrainian Wikipedia is hosting a marathon called "(Un)known Women in Wikipedia" dedicated to improving and creating articles about prominent women. Its goal is to highlight and show the world the achievements of women and their role in history.
Metrics - 400 articles created, 60 participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@OlenaVinsent (WMUA): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). This banner has no problem with dark mode, as far as I can see. But please notice that you are requesting a banner duration for more than 14 days which requires a local announcement first with no strong objections. As soon as this is done, please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Commons (commons.wikimedia.org) as its the primary upload destination. * May consider expanding to other Indian languages after this month.
What languages will you be targeting?
English, Hindi, and other Indian 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?
Both logged-in and anonymous users
What countries will your campaign target?
India
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?
hi @Soylacarli thanks for the message . Banner is looking good please go ahead , i confirm . Please enable these additional Indian languages also - Tamil , Odia, Assamese , Kannada . thanks :) Irvin calicut (talk) 06:59, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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 & anonymous users
What countries will your campaign target?
no specific country target, all projects in the Ukrainian language
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 - December 1, 2025 - January 11, 2026, Ukrainian Wikiquotes will host the sixth "She Said" marathon as part of the international #SheSaid campaign, dedicated to creating and improving articles about outstanding women. The goal of the event is to highlight and show the world the achievements of women and their role in history.
Metrics - 100 articles created, 20 participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Ciell: I have created the banner. Does it look as intended? — Next time we meet, I can show you how to create it with the current system; it's really super easy copy and paste into the standard banner. :) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:34, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @DerHexer! I can't remember having received the recording of the presentation we had in September, nor a link to the new tool. It would be great to get the link!
@OlenaVinsent (WMUA), here is a preview of your banner. Please let us know if anything should change. Normally, 6 weeks is too long of a runtime for a banner, but since you are only requesting the banner to be shown on Ukrainian Wikiquote I don't see a problem here. Is the community okay with it as well? Ciell (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Bangladesh, India (West Bengal only)
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 - Wiki Loves Children 2025 is an annual event about children. It will take place on Bengali Wikipedia, focusing on improving content related to child safety, rights, health, and development. We need promotional banners to support and spread awareness of this initiative.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
According to the CentralNotice/Usage guidelines, campaigns should run for a maximum of two weeks, so I have adjusted the end date to 15 December 2025. Please let me know if the current schedule (1–15 December) works for you.
@Darafsh Thanks for creating the campaign and banner. However, I had already created both yesterday; I just didn’t mention it here because the banner needed a small adjustment.
Regarding the schedule, Wiki Loves/contest banners typically run for the full contest period—at most one month—based on community consensus. All previous Bangla WikiConnect banners have also followed this one-month duration.
I wasn’t aware that you had already created the campaign and banner, my apologies for the duplication. Regarding the schedule, I’m fully fine with keeping the original one-month period.
Haha, it's nice to see the first edit conflict of CentralNotice admins! ;D It's great to see more activity in this area here thanks to you and others. :) — I would not say that each Wiki Loves campaign should be allowed to run for a month, but this one is established and could get an exception. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:23, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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?
both
What countries will your campaign target?
Romania
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?
Hi @Strainu: Thanks for the request! Just a couple of quick notes: there’s currently a Wiki Science Competition banner running in Romania, but it only targets enwiki. I don’t think your request conflicts with that, but for future campaigns it would be great to coordinate with the organizers beforehand so there aren’t overlapping banners for the same country. Also, I can’t use the banner image you uploaded directly, since CentralNotice banners must be built in HTML/CSS to ensure responsiveness and accessibility (see the guidelines here).
You have two options:
Provide the banner in HTML/CSS format, or
I can create it using the standard banner template, which allows for a simple design (like this for WSC).
Thanks for heads up, it was a last-minute idea to use CentralNotice. You can use the same banner as for the other request, it's all good. Strainu (talk) 14:18, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Strainu: here’s the campaign and the banner (preview). Please review the text, I don’t speak Romanian :) If everything looks good, please ping me so I can enable the campaign. Also, just a quick reminder that banners should be requested at least 14 days in advance and usually run for no longer than two weeks. Since this is a long-established campaign, I’ve set it to run from November 25 to December 15. Best,--Soylacarli (talk) 20:24, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Soylacarli let's use the following text (a bit shorter, the banner is too high on mobile): Participă la Concursul Wiki Science România 15 noiembrie – 15 decembrie (also corrected the end date). The rest looks good. Thanks again! Strainu (talk) 20:36, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All (viewed from the territory of Ukraine or in the Ukrainian language)
What languages will you be targeting?
Ukrainian
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?
Description - Science Photo Competition 2025 in Ukrainian Wikipedia will be a new edition of several earlier contests for scientific photos in Ukraine. Having a CentralNotice banner is an important aspect for the success of the contest and thus for closing content gaps on Ukrainian science.
Metrics - 500 photos from 70 participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
This contest is part of the international competition (see the international request), but we've agreed with international organizers that we would submit a separate request.
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 users
What countries will your campaign target?
Mainly countries with national competitions, but a moderate campaign in the rest of the world, if people want to access the international prizes.
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 - Wiki Science Competition has taken place once every two years since 2015 and within the same timeframe.
Metrics - The main target group is people studying and/or working in higher education institutions. We are especially interested in people who have never uploaded files, but could add quality content. The banner is intended to be minimalist, and the main metric is the number of files uploaded per country.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
There are two sets of countries. Actively participating countries, which request a more intense campaign, and the rest of the world category. Almost all countries run the competition from November 1st to December 15th and would need banner impressions, especially in the start and end sections of the competition. The international upload form will function until the end of the year. It is not a problem if there are some other banners, as two months should be a sufficient time period for the rest of the countries to have at least some banner impressions during this time.
Countries that need special attention are Argentina, Ireland, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria, South Africa, the USA, and Uzbekistan, as they have more limited possibilities of using other banners. Actively participating countries also include Albania, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and Poland. Chile has already collected images, Bangladesh is doing it now, and India has a separate campaign request just like Australia and New Zealand. We would make separate requests for Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Malaysia, Mongolia, and Ukraine, as they start later.
Countries starting on November 1st, that do not have a separate CentralNotice request, are: Albania, Argentina, Greece, Ireland, Kosovo, Nigeria, South Africa, USA, and Uzbekistan. Countries mostly solving it via Sitenotice are Estonia and Finland, but they do not mind some banners on lower rate (as people from those countries also use other language versions and may not notice the Sitenotice banner in local wiki).
Countries that would be separate from this main request;
Some details are still changing as the competition official start is approaching and countries update their information. So for now the main goal is to inform that this thing is coming. By the time when someone would be starting to set up the campaign, we would have all the details. We would also create a few more requests for countries that would use different start and end times. And if needed, could create even more requests.
The campaign could run on normal priority with the period around the competition start and competition end on medium-high priority. We do not mind if there are some other campaigns running in that time period as well (there is always something). What is important is that this has good visibility at the start and at the end week and something in between. Especially in countries that have their own local competition.
It would be good to have a little bit of banner impressions on some other countries as well, as a) we are collecting images from all countries and b) as science is international, then it is not rare that a person originating from country x studies at country y and does research in country z. That would help to get a lot more participants if there were some banner impressions in countries where we have not managed to find a local organizer. Not to mention, there are some countries that have actively participated in the past, but are skipping this year for some reason (like Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Indonesia, North Macedonia, Portugal, Thailand), where there might be interested participants. And there are some other bigger countries (like Canada, Germany, Mexico, the UK) where a lot of files could be submitted just with the help of the banner alone. Kruusamägi (talk) 20:50, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: there are currently multiple open requests, including 3 WSC requests that are targeting a start date of November 1st. As you dealt with the WSC request last time, I ask from you (but feel free to involve another administrator if you are busy), might it be possible to move forward with the WSC banner requests? Kruusamägi (talk) 00:32, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I have been on the road for the past two weeks. I will take a look at the requests this week, having set up most of them by Thursday at the latest. Any other CN admin can help here, of course. :) —DerHexer(Talk)18:46, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kruusamägi: Please fill out this table in exactly this format so that we can handle your request by copying most of the stuff for each campaign separately. The way you have provided it last year (and this year again), has been an inacceptable overload of work on the CentralNotice admins. —DerHexer(Talk)18:25, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer:Thanks for the ping! I was handling the AU & NZ campaign request just now, so I didn't see your note until after I had already created the banner and campaign. I’ve added it to the table below so everything for the Wiki Science Competition is centralized.--Soylacarli (talk) 20:01, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: There have been two and a half weeks to comment on this, but no-one has not even bothered (and there are many other open requests that seem rather abandoned). And you could not reasonably expect me to know how you specifically (or anyone else) want it here, especially as this has not been specified in clear manner in any previous years. So please, don't act surpised if you do not like the result. And there is a separate page that has all this info, but well, I will then copy it here as well.
I split the table to two to make it clearer which countries go together, making it easier to avoid mistakes. I did not add the countries that cover it by local banner. I start with the countries that have already started collecting images and add later countries that start on November 15th (as there is more time with them anyway). Kruusamägi (talk) 11:15, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, as you know, we are all volunteers here. :) I took a break for exactly these 2.5 weeks. And I can fully understand why other CN admins either didn't want to or were not fully skilled to work on such a complex request. The shortage on CN admins is well known and has been tackled by WMF and volunteer CNAs with trainings in the past year. We see some progress, but the number of requests is increasing, some of them very complex. Furthermore, a few procedures have changed since the new usage guidelines. — In any case, thank you for helping out with structuring the request so that it will maybe only take us 2 instead of 5 hours to create all the different campaigns and banners (different dates, links or other targets require us to create separate campaigns; and we cannot copy campaigns which is well known but hasn't been tackled by WMF developers). Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:21, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And yet, at the same time, those big requests are even more important to deal with, as they affect many countries and a lot more people :P
All the big international campaigns are a bit of a mess. If there are 20+ countries participating (we have 24 countries + "international" cat for the rest of the world), then that means a lot of differences + information keeps changing. Even now there is one update: Bangladesh extended image collecting until November 12th (so this might still need attention). But it is highly likely that there would be many more similar updates.
I have never really understood why WMF doesn't just put staff on this, as this is a highly technical and time-sensitive task. And it does come as a surprise to me that the technical tools for that are so lacking -- like no copying, for real, there should be a massive number of recurring campaigns (as I can't access the stuff you have, so I don't know how that works and what exactly do you need or what options there are).
When this thing has been dealt with, then I will add some more countries that start later. But now the campaign is running in multiple countries, and they need a banner first. Kruusamägi (talk) 21:10, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kruusamägi: Welcome to my world. ;) I'm telling these things to WMF for the past 10+ years. We've got some more support last and this year, but that stopped. We can only try the best we can do. — That means that I have created all the campaigns asked for in the tables (we cannot connect a country and a landing page for technical reasons; each one requires a new campaign that we cannot clone :) ). Please check each of them thorougly, approve them in the column and ping me when you have completed some or all so that I can enable these. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:15, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately I have not managed to review any banners as it seems to hint I do not have the permission. Or is there anything specific I should do?
@Kruusamägi: Thanks for the checks and approvals! I have enabled all campaigns from the table. Please ping me when you add more campaigns there that you want us to create. (I will be on the road from Thursday to Tuesday, but will try to help out when I have a bit of time.) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:13, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The request as it's summarized in the table below has been fully handled, we just wait for some approvals before we can enable one or the other campaign. Future help with additional requests on this page is appreciated, of course. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:55, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: I added table 3 for countries that start later. In the last set there are 3 waves of start times. Currently, the countries listed have the campaign already underway. Then, more countries will join, and on December 1st, the last countries will start. Some countries were also changing their start dates, and there were some issues with upload forms. That is why we wanted to start with the banner campaign a bit later. Kruusamägi (talk) 00:32, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kruusamägi: Okay. I have created the three campaigns in the third table, please check and approve them. The fourth campaign will likely be handled by my colleague. — Just ping me for the remaining campaigns when they are ready. I should be available until mid-December on a daily base from now. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:43, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Currently the WMF fundraising banner campaign is also running and we are experiencing some problems with our data collection on the banners (Phab task). In order to figure out what is going on we will need to take the banners for the Wiki Science competition out for logged out users. I hope this is ok and apologies for this. I will be in touch once we know for how long (hopefully not long) they will be down. Thank you so much for your understanding. Best JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: all good to go. Also, a Finnish competition might need a small boost. Something similar to the Estonian banner (i.e people would see banner if they are from Finland, but visiting English Wikipedia). So I added this as well. Kruusamägi (talk) 22:52, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: there is now also one for the United Kingdom (they will start on December 10th). And there is competition ongoing in Kazakhstan, but they have not yet provided any information about banner. And some countries might ask for deadline extensions. Kruusamägi (talk) 23:12, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all,
Can you hold on the UK one until we have figured out what is going on with our data (with regards to fundraising). It is fine to enable it for logged in users but not for logged out users at this stage. I will let you know once we know more. Thank you so much! Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 05:57, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: I approve both (as it seems there are no other comments on regarding the UK). I will aslo see if I can get the Kazakh organizer to provide Kazakh translation. Kruusamägi (talk) 15:32, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Uzbek: Ilmiy fotosuratlar tanlovida ishtirok eting va sovrinlarga ega bo‘ling! Russian: Конкурс научных фотографий: участвуйте и выигрывайте призы! Karakalpak: Ilimiy fotosúwretler tańlawında qatnasıń hám sıylıqlarǵa iye bolıń!
15-11-2025: 15th November 2025 → 18-12-2025: 18th December 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All
What languages will you be targeting?
Arabic
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?
Both
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?
1 November 2025 - 15 December 2025 (full contest duration) for logged-in editors 1-7 November 2025 (first week) and 9-15 December 2025 (last week) only for anonymous/non-logged-in users
Which projects will you be targeting?
Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)
Note: Initially targeting Commons only, as it is the primary upload platform for the competition. We may consider expanding to other Wikipedias or Wikidata in future editions based on community feedback and this year's participation metrics.
What languages will you be targeting?
English, Hindi, and other Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi - translations in progress)
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?
Both logged-in and anonymous users (with different campaign durations as specified above)
What countries will your campaign target?
India
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?
Sub-heading: Photograph, upload, and share India’s scientific discoveries, research, equipment, and innovations. Participate from 1 November to 15 December 2025.
@Dev Jadiya: A few remarks before we can create the campaign:
A banner campaign running for 1.5 months is very uncommons. Please check out the usage guidelines that recommend campaigns not running for more than two weeks. Any campaign running longer definitely has to be announced in the targeted projects, here probably c:Commons:Village pump should be the right place. This is especially important for campaigns reaching millions of readers. — Please consider reducing the campaign duration, especially for non-registered users. Maybe two windows make sense: A week for the start of the competition and another week before it concludes.
Does it make sense to only target the Commons community? Wouldn't you reach a wider audience on Wikipedia, for example? (Of course, this needs further announcements.)
When you target more than one language, you have to have the banner and landing page available in all targeted languages. In this request, only an English banner text was mentioned. Please add the other languages here. — For the landing page which is only available in English as of now, please get it marked for translation and provide the texts at least in the major languages with support of the local translation admins and through the translators' noticeboard.
Dear @DerHexer, Thanks for your detailed feedback.
We can move with two weeks windows as it will be align with guidelines and a week for start and another before it concludes will suit well.
Yes our plan is to share with as many audience and it would be great it you could extend it to wikipedia also.
I have put the landing page translation request in translation community check. Meanwhile, I will also provide some of the banner translation in this page.
Also a new village pump discussion has been added Link.
I believe these updates address all the points you raised. Please let me know if any further clarifications or modifications are needed.
@Dev Jadiya: I have created the campaign and banner (English, Hindi, Awadhi preview) for the logged-in campaign (cookie reset after a month), as well as the campaign and banner (English, Hindi, Awadhi preview) for the non-registered users, starting tomorrow for one week because of the delay in creating the campaign. Please make sure that the landing page will be marked for translation and translated as soon as possible. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:09, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikiquote & Wikipedia (see here for the banner diets)
What languages will you be targeting?
all that have signed up (and have a landing page, etc)
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?
Description - The #SheSaid drive, part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative, celebrates women leaders by focusing on enhancing their visibility through the creation and improvement of Wikiquote entries related to them.
Metrics - We will measure the metrics by the number of articles created and improved on WikiQuopte for each participating language.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Afeq I have recreated your image the best I can. A few remarks with the banner preview:
Per usage guidelines, I can't include bit.ly links in the banner, since it's a third party service. It feels a bit redundant to have in the banner anyway imho, when one click also leads them to the correct plage, don't you think? Also as a suggestion, more in general since I know you'll also be designing handout materials: you could consider to use Wikimedia's own url shortner w.wiki instead, to keep things in our own domains.
I have yet to learn how to create a second text box as the one you have on the right. If we remove the link, per the previous comment, it's only the "Join now!" that is left: is this also covered by "give her a voice", or maybe we can combine them "Give her a voice - join now!"
Perfect @Afek91: I have created banner in 6 languages to go live tomorrow, 0.00 UTC. As last year, the languages listed on Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid 2025/CentralNotice that don't have a completed translation, or had no or a problematic landing page, will not go live. I left my notes in the table there. If there's something that needs updating, please ping me here! Ciell (talk) 19:37, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciell: Thoughts on changing the color scheme to a more standard one? At the very least I'd recommend we change the white text, as it is not accessible. Thinking mostly about the "we recommend that you avoid overly distracting designs" part of the new guidelines. The bright yellow and purple is quite distracting in light mode, and in dark mode is really experience-breaking. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 02:13, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Afek91 with regards to Vermont's concern above, would it be okay for you if I for instance change the color of the banner to a light yellow, and the white text to a dark grey? Ciell (talk) 15:39, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Vermont fyi, I expect @Afek91 back in office tomorrow, but if she doesn't respond I'll change the colors in the banner per my proposal. SheSaid has a new design and color palette every year, that they use for their swag and prints as well, which I why I hope they can agree or give alternatives to the issue you raise. Ciell (talk) 18:05, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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?
Both groups
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany / Baden-Württemberg
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?
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 with less than 100 edits
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?
We'd like to continue the campaign from last year (request). The banner will only be running for two days before the first Wednesday of each month, and will be targeted to users with less than 100 edits.
Requests must be made, at minimum, 14 days in advance of any campaign
For normal requests, a central notice admin will close the discussion. In the areas of advocacy, the stewards team may be called upon to assess consensus.
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