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], potential rejection of the request
Advocacy/Payments: WMF Legal Review [21 days])
Step #7 : CN Admin sets up campaign (recommended to allow for up 3 days)
Step #8 : Final approval of the campaign and banner settings by volunteer CN Admin and requester
Step #9 : Campaign enabled by CN Admin
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.
01-04-2025: 1st April 2026 → 15-04-2025: 15th April 2026
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?
Description - Annual article writing challenge on Ukrainian culture and people.
Metrics - Last year 1,623 articles were created and improved during the campaign by 153 participants from around the world, and we expect a similar level of participation this year. 51% 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?
Hi @OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA): Here’s the campaign and the banner (preview). I copied the banner and updated it with the new image, but the background color is the same as last year. Is that okay? In the request it seemed like you wanted a different color, but the code provided is the same. Let me know what you think. Best, --Soylacarli (talk) 21:32, 5 March 2026 (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
What countries will your campaign target?
US: (IL)
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 - An online and in-person edit-a-thon focused on Chicago woman authors and writers. In running this event, our goal is to encourage awareness of subject gaps around this topic as well as supporting the arts here in Chicago.
Hi @Luiysia: Here’s the campaign and the banner (preview). I’ve set the start of the campaign for this Monday. I also wanted to ask about the end date: it currently says March 31, but the event takes place on March 24. Would you still want the banner to show after the event? It might make more sense to end the campaign the day after the event. Let me know what you think. Best, --Soylacarli (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2026 (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
What countries will your campaign target?
Iran
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?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany (Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen; more precisely, a 40 km area around Leipzig, using this new technology)
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 - The WMDE-owned Wikipedia Bus makes its first stop in Leipzig. Readers are invited to participate in the program organized in cooperation with local community in order to increase the awareness of Wikipedia‘s functionality. — Announcement on the official bus page. Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
16th March 2026 (dewiki birthday) → 22nd March 2026
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia
What languages will you be targeting?
German
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?
Germany
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 - Wikimedia Deutschland congratulates Germany-based contributors to German Wikipedia on the 25th anniversary of the project with a thank-you and support page.
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?
Logged-in and logged-out
What countries will your campaign target?
Norway
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 @Jon Harald Søby (WMNO): Just for best practices (and documentation), here is the campaign and the banner. I noticed that the campaign is already enabled. As far as I understand, the usual practice is that the person requesting the banner should not be the same person creating and enabling the campaign — normally another CN admin reviews and enables it for transparency reasons. Please keep this in mind for future requests. Other than that, everything looks good from my side. Best,--Soylacarli (talk) 15:09, 5 March 2026 (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?
France / Île-de-France
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 - Invitation for an event during the week of French language and Francophonie. It's organised by Wikimédia France and Sorbonne University. This event will have an edit-a-thon, a round table and a cocktail. The main point of contact is Adélaïde Calais WMFr (and Pyb en résidence for the CentralNotice). This event is one of the main events organised between the 25th birthday and Wikimania and we would like to be sure to have a lot of people. This is also a good occasion to try the geolocation of the banner on a French Region (it will be the first time).
Metrics - number of page views on the landing page + number of participants at the event
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
For me, the current setup is fine, but you should respond to the concerns on frwiki first, I think. Personally, I don't feel that a single region in France is very disruptive, but I don't live there, so … ;) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:37, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Multiple Languages (Portuguese/Brazilian Portuguese)
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 users and Anonymous Users
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?
Description - Cada Livro Seu Público (eng: Every Book Its Reader) is a campaign to increase quality content about books, literary works, and oral stories in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. Organized by the GLAM Bibliotecas da USP, with support of Wikimedia Brasil. Announcement of this request in the Portuguese Wikipedia village pump.
Metrics - number of articles created/edited; number of organizers; number of editors; other
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Lilian Viana e @Ssstela Preparei este pedido para facilitar a organização do concurso no próximo ano. O banner eu repliquei o mesmo do ano passado. Por favor, me avisem se precisar de alguma modificação, ok? Abraços, bom fim de ano! Ederporto (talk) 23:31, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. @Ederporto: (I'm not a CN admin - I'm just trying to share useful tip) Feel free to answer the question in the Settings, about 'Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?'. Thanks! ValerioBozz (talk) 11:25, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
24 February 2026 → 02 March 2026 and from 12 March 2026 → 22 March 2026
Which projects will you be targeting?
Meta-Wiki, Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata
What languages will you be targeting?
ar, en, ms, fr, hi, dag, ur, bn, zh, uz, ary
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?
Morocco, Guinea, India, UAE, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Singapore, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Niger, Indonesia
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 Ramadan 2026 is a global photography competition aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse cultural heritage, traditions, and architecture observed during the month of Ramadan on Wikimedia Commons.
Metrics - :
Collection of hundreds of high-quality images documenting Ramadan traditions, food, and architecture.
Engagement of contributors from diverse regions, including the Arab world, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Documentation of underrepresented cultural heritage and increased visibility on Wikimedia Commons.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Bonnjalal00: I have quite a flashback on all the problems we had last year with CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025. In particular, the wiki markup banner proposal while the CentralNotice/Usage guidelines are pretty clear of what we can process. Furthermore, it is unclear which languages you target that have been notified and involved in advance (as of now, English only). I do appreciate the focus on specific countries with local support. — Nonetheless, banner texts and landing pages should be available in the main languages your projects targets. Please provide them as soon as possible. // CC @Ciell and ZI Jony: Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:38, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: Regarding the Writing Competition, we have opted for a language-based targeting strategy rather than a country-specific one. The goal is to reach all relevant countries using unified banners for each major language (for example, a single Arabic banner targeting all Arabic-speaking countries, and a French banner for French-speaking regions).
For Landing Page, The landing pages and participating communities for this track are documented here: Participating communities.
For banner Translations, The English version is ready for review. Once the translation infrastructure is created for us, we will promptly mobilize our contributors to provide the necessary localized versions for all targeted languages.
For banners code, I only used HTML and CSS (wikitext for links only). and I made sure that it appears good for mobile and computer.
Don't you think that the 2 banners you are requesting to run at the same time about the same topic on all project is a bit much....? Keep in mind, we only have one banner space and in March, among others, we also have Wiki Loves Folklore. Wiki Loves Africa and a (for limited time) Gendergap banner running. (check the calendar!)
It would help me if you could be more specific about your targeting: is it really necessary to run the photo competition banner on all projects for instance, and the article writing one also on all projects, *at the same time*? And are all the communities of these projects and languages aware of your proposed Ramadan CN-campaigns @ZI Jony?
@Ciell: Thanks for the feedback. I have tried to limit the scope of this request to be as respectful of the banner space as possible:
I have limited the projects to only four. Specifically, the photo competition will only be shown in few countries and only in few languages. I have also limited the number of languages and projects for the writing competition.
For scheduling The two banners are set for different dates and will not run for long periods.
Also the local organizers have already started providing translations. You can see their progress here:
@ZI Jony: last year, there was a limited result in Wikipedia articles, but moreover you only collected 141 new files for Commons from the whole campaign. So you might understand why I am a bit concerned whether the language communities are truly onboard with the campaign.
Can you please inform the communities in their local Village Pumps and make sure they agree to the effort and it's worth running the CN banner? Please share the links to these discussions here, especially because there are other big campaigns running at the same time, and we only have one banner space.
Dear @DerHexer and Ciell:, Apologies for the late reply. I have been quite busy recently, and today I am traveling a long distance.
Thank you for raising your concerns. We understand that there are other major campaigns running during this period. However, as you know, the timing of Ramadan changes every year according to the lunar calendar. Because of that, our campaign dates also shift annually. At the moment, this is still a relatively small campaign, but we are working step by step to improve and expand it each year.
Regarding community discussions, due to time constraints, we are unfortunately unable to open discussions at every Village Pump. Instead, we are requesting the banner to be shown only for communities that have signed up and expressed interest in participating in Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026. For Wikimedia Commons, the banner will be limited to the participating countries only.
For the writing competition translations, we can follow the same method used previously (WLR2025 banner translation workflow via Special:Translate), which allows translations to be handled through the CentralNotice translation system. This approach reduces the workload for CN admins and enables communities to translate directly.
In addition, we already have prepared translations available here:
UAE is not listed as a participating country for Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, but the CentralNotice banner is currently being displayed there. As a result, the national organizer has raised a concern, asking why users in the UAE are seeing the Wiki Loves Folklore banner instead of the one for Wiki Loves Ramadan.
I would like to kindly request that the Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 banner be made visible to users in the United Arab Emirates. Displaying the banner in the UAE will help increase awareness and participation among the local community and other contributors interested in documenting Ramadan-related knowledge and culture.
Your support in enabling the banner targeting UAE will be greatly appreciated and will contribute to the success of the campaign under the broader mission of the Wikimedia Foundation. Akbarali (talk) 04:11, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I hope the silence means you are in conversation with the communities about the banner! If not, please start your conversations as soon as possible. I do see you have improved parts of your campaign (translations, among others!), but Central Notice campaigns should serve the community, not the other way around, and therefore you as initiator and organizer should make sure you have the consensus of the community to undertake your initiative. (ar:قرار بالإجماع) The Ramadan follows the lunar calendar every year, this only means you'll have different conversation partners from other initiatives when it comes to scheduling your campaign. This should not be a problem because you can plan ahead with the lunar calendar in hand, and we had the same problem last year as well.
Feedback on the landing pages:
Writing: The meta page had way too much text for new users. Make a decision on who you want this campaign to be for: new/aspiring Wikipedians, or seasoned users? Make the campaign and outreach fit with the target audience. For newbies: move the section on participation to the top, all of the rest is redundant information. A landing page is not a Wikipedia article, or your project plan. A landing page should give all the basic information a participant should know to be able to participate in one glimpse. Please don't forget to translate the participation guide.
Photograph: The Commons landing page is only translated in one other language besides English. Ironically, according to the list of languages you are not targeting the Chinese language, even though you do want to show the banner in Singapore. A small oversight maybe? The landing page would need more translations if you want to go through with this.
Writing: The banner for the writing competition links to the local English page en:Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2026. Please make a choice whether you'll have local landing pages for every language, or the one landing page on meta as mentioned in the review above. We can't do both! I would propose to do the latter: from a quick review I think those 16 local pages will serve as better landing page than the Meta page linked in your request. I notice you have (again) used a lot of text in the banner: this will not work. The less text, the better: for instance reduce it to one sentence, 50 characters, no date. For instance "Join the global campaign to tell the world about Ramadan traditions!". Keep it simple.
Photograph: same feedback for too much text in the banner, and same alternative proposal for "Join the global campaign to tell the world about Ramadan traditions!" or something with this length. If you want to use one banner for all languages, make sure not only the text is translated, but also the links in the banner include a Special:MyLanguage in the URL so people end up directly at the right language-version.
Final remark: I don't agree to the requested dates and duration, I see both these requests as one WLR initiative. What about showing both banners consecutively for up to 5-7 days? You'll need time for the translations of the Commons pages before we can enable that one anyway, and to get agreement from the communities from the project languages of the writing competition. Ciell (talk) 18:22, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
One more thought: I notice several upload campaigns for WLR have been created on Commons, but these are not easy to find from the main landing page. Can you please simplify this for the participants? Ciell (talk) 18:51, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your feedback. We will try to make changes as much as possible based on your suggestions, but I have a few comments and a question regarding implementation:
Banner links: We need the banners to target the local landing page of each community (The English link is just an example).
Commons landing page: The main landing page is not obligated to be translated. It is up to the local organizers to choose to do that or not, because each country has their own local landing page, and the competition is country-based. You can see the participating countries' landing pages here: Commons:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026/Participating countries.
Singapore targeting: We provided the languages that the local organizers gave us. They just added the Chinese translation text to the list, so I will update the targeting countries based on it.
I also have a question about the banner configurations: how should I make a link translatable? (and how can I add the Special:MyLanguage to an http link) I followed the standard example of banners, and in it, they only use full URLs rather than wikitext links. عبد الإلاه جلال (talk) 21:05, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Bonnjalal00 Ah, all banners should directly go to the local landing pages, gotcha!
For the writing competition, the list of landing pages on Meta is still empty. Or maybe I should look on a different page?
For the photograph competition, the list of landing pages on Commons is still empty and the table with participating countries does not include links to the landing pages, only to the uploadcampaigns. I think several of the Commons landing pages don't have a link to the upload campaign yet, and I do think this is necessary to make participation as easy as possible.
Banner configuration:
A link to a translated page will guide the reader directly to the version in their preferred (interface) language when the string "Special:MyLanguage" is included in the URL. Compare using https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2026 to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2026 when a language different from English is set by the user. English will always be the default/fall back option when the page is not available in their preferred Mediawiki UI language. This 'special' function works with both internal as external links, but your observation is correct that our banners need the external link format. I can add this option when the individual banner will target a page for a country that requested the banner to be shown in multiple languages.
@Ciell The Participating communities page contains all the landing pages, the landing pages that you are looking at is just a guideline under For local organizers menu.
Hi @Ciell, Apologies if it felt like I disappeared, that wasn’t the case. I’ve been dealing with some health issues over the past few days and had to go back and forth between doctors and the clinic. That slowed me down a bit.
That said, @Bonnjalal00: and the team are actively working on everything, and progress is ongoing.
Regarding the landing pages:
Meta (writing competition): I’ve reviewed it again, and structurally it now looks much clearer and more focused.
Commons (photography): I’ve updated additional information there to improve clarity and make participation easier to navigate.
We’re continuing to refine things based on your feedback, especially around structure and usability. If there’s anything specific you’d like us to prioritize next, please let me know. Thanks again for the careful review. Regards, ZI Jony(Talk)17:16, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the responses both!
@ZI Jony: I hope you are okay again - I myself also had some offline things to attend to last week, so also my apologies for slowing down the process. Have you been in touch with the local communities? I'd love to see the conversation - even if no responses came from your message to them. This can also be seen as consensus.
@Bonnjalal00: thanks, gotcha. Is there also a table that has an overview of the languages per country for the photo competition banner? The banner and the landing pages need translations in all the languages the banners will be targeting. On Commons, the translation tags for multiple of the landing pages have not been activated yet, and your local organizers can't start their translations.
Thank you for your work on this. Regarding the banner links you provided, I noticed both point to the photo competition; I believe there might have been a duplication error. I agree that the banners are a bit wide, so I will remove the dates as you suggested to save space.
However, regarding the banner text, it is difficult to change it at this stage. Local organizers have already finalized their translations, and in many cases, they have customized the wording to fit their specific community needs. You can find the current translations here:
Regarding community consensus: I have reached out to local organizers to initiate conversations on their local Wikis, but I have not received responses yet. Is it acceptable for me to start these discussions in English on the local Village Pumps/Wikis if I don't hear back soon?
Finally, for the Commons landing pages, I have informed the local teams that I can enable the translation feature upon request. but, I think I will enable it for all participating countries anyway to ensure everything is ready.عبد الإلاه جلال (talk) 21:45, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the changes, I've also implemented them in the previews linked above. Another benefit of not including the dates is that banners and translations without date/year are easier to reuse in following editions of WLR.
I've also added some additional code to support dark mode settings. If you switch to Wikipedia's dark mode, you can see why we want logo's and texts in CN banners to be coded instead of pulled in from Commons as much as possible... we had this problem last year as well, and it would be great if you can get the issue with the image on the left fixed. Please also check the previews on both desktop and mobile device, and in several browsers. Please review them and the links again!
Photo competition: thanks for the link, but as I understand your competition, all local competitions have their own start and end dates, and there is a landing page per country. This means that for the banner I need to know: 1) first the country, 2) then the languages their local banners need to be available in, 3) and then the dates for their local upload campaign. I need all three to set up the CN campaigns that go with the CN banners. At the moment I can't read which languages should be enabled for which country from your table? Fyi, Ghana doesn't have a working landing page yet. Without a proper landing page their banner can't go live.
Writing competition: I noticed the Arabic and Bangla translation are already available, thanks! I've activated them, but for now let's make sure to agree on the banner text before we share the link to the translation message-group with the other organizers. :)
The conversations with the local communities don't have to be in English! Please hold them in the language of the community members. I (and CN admins in general) can use translation services to check if there were no objections. I think it would be preferred if the local organizers initiate these conversations, but I don't see a problem with you stepping in to move this forward. Ciell (talk) 11:33, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I have been working on the banners and the coordination with local teams. Here are the updates:
Banner Technical Updates
Mobile & Layout: I have updated the banner code to remove the images and decreased the font sizes. The previous version didn't look right on mobile, so this should provide a much cleaner experience across devices.
Image Hard-coding: Regarding your suggestion about coding logos: do you mean embedding the SVG paths directly into the banner code so they can be styled via CSS? I want to make sure I understand the best practice here to ensure it displays correctly in dark mode.
Question on Multi-language targeting: For countries like Singapore and Malaysia, the organizers provided multiple languages. Is it possible for you to enable multiple languages for a single country, or should I ask them to choose one primary language for the banner?
Landing Pages: I will update the targeting to exclude any countries (like Ghana) that do not have a functional landing page or translated banner text yet.
Community Consensus
I have reached out to the local organizers. While the process is moving slowly, here are the links to the discussions that have started so far:
Arabic Wikipedia: They have already approved a local notice here. I hope this can be considered community approval to show the banner to Arabic-speaking users on other projects as well.
@Ciell and @DerHexer, there are several communities' approval we have for CentralNotice of Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026. Kindly enable at your earliest convenience for the approved communities. Regards, ZI Jony(Talk)09:52, 1 March 2026 (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 Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Cuba, Haití, República Dominicana y España.
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 - This campaign aims to engage women and other gender identities in improving access to reliable and up-to-date information on gender and diversity on Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedia.
Metrics - Number of participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Soylacarli: perdón por el pedido tan sobre la fecha. Pero ¿podrás fijarte si todo está en orden? Cualquier cosa que falte, quedo atenta a tus indicaciones. Muchas gracias desde ya. Un abrazo, --Paula (WDU) (talk) 02:03, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc. (all if possible)
What languages will you be targeting?
Spanish
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, at least with 50 edits.
What countries will your campaign target?
Argentina
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?
Banners - Standard, with this and this images and this text: Line (headline) 1 in Bold: "WikiConf Argentina" / Line 2: "Participá del encuentro de la comunidad wikimedista argentina el 18 de abril en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires."
01-03-2026: 1st March 2026 → 15-03-2026: 15th March 2026
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia, Commons
What languages will you be targeting?
Czech
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 (all events are newcomer friendly)
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 - Promoting WikiGap in the Czech Republic, series of online and in person editathons to help to close the gender gap on Wikipedia. The event is intended for both experienced Wikipedians as well as those who have never edited Wikipedia before.
@Tadeáš Bednarz (WMCZ): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). I assume that it is intended that your banner links to a redirect (maybe for the metrics). However, the banner doesn't seem to be dark-mode ready, the background color remains white. At the bottom of the CSS part in Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/WMIL_Igul_2025 you can find an easy way to modify colors and image for dark mode. Please provide an update of the code. :) Other than that, it looks good for me. Please already check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign as soon as it's dark mode ready. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:42, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Meta
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?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
France, Burundi, Benin, Madagascar
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 - The Quinzaine des autrices francophones, in March 2026, aims to enrich Wikipedia with articles about Francophone women writers. Organized by les sans pagEs in collaboration with Les Francophonies, the event is now calling for participants!
Metrics - dashboard : new edits, new articles, quotes or images uploaded, new users ...
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hello @DerHexer, thank you for your comments and your help. We have no problem using the logo instead of the illustration. However, I’m unable to access your link because I don’t have permission… Best regards, Myrelionis (talk) 14:46, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Myrelionis: I can access the preview link even in a private browser window. The banner link might not fully work for you, but you should still be able to see the settings and source code (same for the camapign link). — Anyway, enabled. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:24, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
En, Fr, Pt, Ar, African languages (to be specified a bit later...)
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 and Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
Only African countries / Diet: To be determined by Central Notice admin
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 - The banner is to promote the Wiki Loves Africa photo and media campaign. In 2026, the theme is Rites & Rituals. It is a call for participation. It is pretty much unchanged compared to previous years. The contest is open for 2 months (by popular support). We run the banner only in Africa (though the contest is open everywhere). Every year, 80%+ or so of our participants are new (and some are retained there after !), so running the banner for IP addresses is very important as it serves as recruitment system for new participants. The contest runs over all African countries. In some countries (around 25), local teams will organize activities. They are very much in ask for the banners (both because it helps promote the contest in countries where wikipedia is not very well known) and because it makes them feel we take them seriously (and we do of course...).
For country coverage please review previous coverage for previouis campaigns 2024 and 2025.
Metrics - tbd
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Right: theme logo + call to action text
Rites & Rituals
Africa’s largest open-licenced photo contest
NOW OPEN!
Enter your photos, video, and audio
Text colour: #0ba997
Background: #ffffff
@Islahaddow: (I'm not admin - just sharing a useful tip) Feel free to answer the question 'Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?' in the settings. Thanks ValerioBozz (talk) 11:23, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Islahaddow: I have created the campaign and banner (preview; it looks okay on dark mode, but not perfect on my mobile). As you can see, my technical skills didn't allow me to integrate the campaign logo, but I added the new text. As far as I can see, the general logo is the same as last year which is why I reused it; I couldn't make use of the 2026 version because of the left and right transparent layer around it (if you want to use the 2026 version, please remove it in your design tool). Please add all translations through this page, and let me know which other African languages I should add so that the campaign will also be displayed in these-language wikis (I have removed mediawiki, testwiki and wikitech from the lists of targeted projects, because that's likely not the target of this campaign). Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:16, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @DerHexer: - you are a super star! The visual looks great! We have a few questions ...
around the translation page. We have added the French and Igbo as a tester, but cannot seem to publish ... we understand why this isn't the case at the moment, but when it is ready, are you the one who is going to authorise/publish all those translations? For the moment, to the Languages mentioned on this page, I would add Afrikaans and Igbo but I am not sure what other Africa-specific languages will be translated by the community (I am not also not sure if we need to select these languages first or if they are automatically added if the language is translated via your link?).
I went through the "Countries and regions" selected. Please can you add Haiti and Western Sahara. Thanks so much for this huge effort. Nearly there! Islahaddow (talk) 10:14, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I have added Haiti and Western Sahara (quite a surprise that the later was missing in previous campaigns!) to the country settings.
Translations for banners are a nightmare. As of now, only the very few CentralNotice administrators can mark translated banner texts as published. Not even metawiki (translations) admins can! Please help us promote phab:T341414. — We need to check the Message group statistics regularly (see my training slides here), so that we can approve new translations. For that reason, I create a bookmark for the right settings (in your case, these ones) and try to remind myself to check that on a daily base (unless I find very obvious mistakes in the limited numbers of languages I can check, I approve everything and hope that mistakes will be corrected soon). If we CN admins don't do that, all the translations of banners get stuck.
Having said that, I can regularly check for new translations, approve them and can add them to the campaign settings alongside (I already did so for the test languages), but I still need to check if local language wikis exists and is Africa-related (eo = Basque likely is not ;) ). There is no automatism, so that a list of expected languages could easify this process a little. I have already added Afrikaans and Igbo. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)11:31, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @DerHexer - thanks so much! The contest started yesterday and we were checking for the banner, and I don't see it on any project from South Africa. I see the Celebrate Women, and Wiki Loves Ramadan banners, but not Wiki Loves Africa. Is this because we are on a low priority setting on the campaign page? In previous years we have been on the normal settings. Would this account for it? We are just worried about losing time. Thanks again for all your help and work on this!! Islahaddow (talk) 10:08, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Islahaddow and Anthere: Well, there were some procedural questions for which I was waiting for feedback. There was no approval so that I didn't enable the campaign yet. I will do so now, but please comment on the country changes and the proposed process for translations. I didn't see any new translations incoming! Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:50, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the response, @DerHexer and all the work. There didn’t seem to be a question in all your feedback, so I didn’t have anything to respond to really. However, yes. It is all good. Please can we go ahead with the banner being made public. Re:translations … We have put a call out to the community to translate the banner, along with your helpful links, and hope that we get some takers. As long as the main languages are covered, we will be happy. Thank you so much again for your hard work on this. And apologies for my confusion as to the approvals process. Please proceed to launch ;-) . Islahaddow (talk) 18:35, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
“I will do so now” meant that I have enabled it. :) Sometimes my questions could be a little bit implicit: Are you sure about Haiti? Can you provide more translations before enabling, please? Can we have a list of expected languages? — Next time I will be more clear with that. None of that was a blocker, I would have enabled the campaign with any kind of approval. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:42, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish
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
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?
Per our Usage guidelines, campaigns should usally run for two weeks. As this is a returning campaign and you will likely notify targeted communities before the start, we can likely make an exception here. Did you consider not to target all registered users but maybe only those with a minimum number of edits or registration date? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:30, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @DerHexer, yes, we actually wanted to target a specific subset of users. We'd have preferred to show only on selected namespace, but it seems it's impossible, so maybe only users with 500+ edits would be great. Two weeks for running is acceptable for us, and I guess it will be a recurring campaign if this one will be successful. Thank you for your help, this is the first time that I ask for a CentralNotice, so please forgive my mistakes if there are any. Also, I think it would be great to translate the message: how can I do it? Does it work like MassMessages or translations should happen through the interface? Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Sannita (WMF): Both is possible. Each page sends a wgNamespaceNumber that a JavaScript within the banner source code can request (see my explanation in this slide on MW configuration variables; the text about magic words is wrong, though). Limiting the display to users with local 500+ edits can additionally be set. — Translations can be prepared anywhere, but they have to be submitted through the translation extension (and approved by a CN translation admin); see my slides here and following pages. — Per the usage guidelines, campaigns and banners should be created by WMF or affiliate staff and only be approved by volunteer admins. Am I right in understanding that you ask volunteer CN admin to help with this campaign? I will check, but I can probably help here. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:23, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer Thanks for the info, I'll review them on Monday. Any kind of help for this first campaign would be very welcomed, so yes, I'm asking for a bit of help. In the meantime, I'll start requesting translations for our message. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:34, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Sannita (WMF): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Let me know what you think about the text, color and logo (I have also tested it on mobile and dark mode), because we cannot use the wiki markup of User:Sannita (WMF)/CW centralnotice (for example, multiple links don't work in the (adjusted) standard banner). I have copied the translations of the languages the campaign was requested for, but please send the translators directly to this page. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:37, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer Thank you very much. I will immediately redirect translators on the right page, but if someone translates the wrong page, how can I import the translations in case? Thanks again for your help! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:20, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer Yes, everything looks fine. I'm just waiting for the Spanish translation to be ready, but I guess this is my problem and not yours, so on my side everything's good to go. Thank you very much again for your help! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:58, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer Sorry to bother, but we had a problem just right after my green light message, and we need to postpone indefinitely this campaign. Probably we'll resume it later in the year. Can you disable the campaign? Thanks. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 24 February 2026 (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?
Anonymous Users, users from Berlin + Brandenburg
What countries will your campaign target?
DE
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?
and the following text:
Headline (bold/large): Wikipedia-Einführungskurs am 29. April 2026
Wissen verändert die Welt – mach mit! Finde heraus, wie du in Wikipedia mitarbeiten kannst. Hier anmelden.
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
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?
Thanks for this nice campaign. I personally suggest to avoid "Click here". I agree with this essay: [6]
I also think that people click more on banner if the banner has less text (but that's just a personal hypothesis). If you agree, consider completely omitting the the "click here to see what you can do". Just a personal opinion. Thanks again! nice banner ValerioBozz (talk) 17:08, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I've been reading up on the problems with "click here" recently (because the same feedback had been shared on another banner I was working on), and I already included information on our local page about accessibility and Wikipedia. For our local 8 March landing page I was able to resolve it by adding code around the "click here" that does work for screen readers, because I still sometimes struggle to think of the right alternatives. Can you help me by proposing how to rephrase the call to action in the banner? Ciell (talk) 09:18, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
(Fyi, this banner already has translations in 50 languages, and I am not sure if simply removing the third sentence or rephrasing will work in all of them. But with your ideas and input here, maybe next year we can do better!) Ciell (talk) 09:35, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
> Can you help me by proposing how to rephrase the call to action in the banner?
Sure Ciell. I was just proposing to omit the final phrase: «click here to see what you can do» since the banner is already self-standing and well-designed and every part of it can be clicked. Just that edit seems sufficient to me, for the "less is more" bonus point. Again, nice banner thanks ValerioBozz (talk) 09:39, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Just to clarify, from:
Help close the gender gap on Wikimedia this March: click here to see what you can do.
To:
Help close the gender gap on Wikimedia this March.
It's an interesting proposal, thanks! I think communication courses teach you to also answer the 'how?' question in a call to action message, this is why banners sometimes get to elaborate. I agree that less is more, and am a fan of simplicity in banners. The more text, the more distractions, the less you will pay attention to the message in the banner. Ciell (talk) 09:49, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Unapeça: I notice you have listed an event in Catalan on the Event-page for International Women's Day, but please be aware that the Catalan community has voted against CentralNotice banners in general, see this discussion from 2020: Viquipèdia:Presa de decisions/2020/Gestió dels bàners. I am therefore hesitant to turn the banner on for the Catalan projects without community consultation. Have you asked your community members what they think?
And a link to your Eventpage is still missing: where (on ca.wikipedia?) can people find out more about Les dones fan coses? Ciell (talk) 10:01, 1 March 2026 (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 Logged In users and Anonymous Users
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?
Description - The Wiki Loves Minas Gerais Wikicontest is a wikicontest (editing competition) on the Lusophone Wikipedia. It is part of a series of activities that will take place throughout 2026 within the scope of the "Wiki Loves Minas Gerais" project, conceived and carried out by the Wikimedia Brasil (WMB). The initiative aims to encourage the participation of the Wikipedia editors' community in improving entries related to the State of Minas Gerais.
Metrics - number of articles created/edited; number of organizers; number of editors; other
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hello, @DerHexer can you point me to how to test with dark mode? I did via Preferences>Gadget>Dark mode, and to me it changes white to black, and the red to a muted red. Maybe I can create a css workaround if that's the case, but I was unable to reproduce the problem.
About the PS, this is the symbol of the flag of Minas Gerais, and I'm quite confident that Brazilians will readily recognize it in that context. It's a well-known historical emblem here --attatched to the 1789 unsuccessful separatist movement called Inconfidência Mineira--, so the association tends to be very clear. I completely understand your point, though — context really does make all the difference! Cheers, EPorto (WMB) (talk) 14:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Here on the right (maybe you have to uncollapse it at the top) there is a section "Color (beta)" which easily allows you to change between dark and standard mode. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)14:29, 13 February 2026 (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?
Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Equatorial Guinea, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe.
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 -The Minicurso Wikipédia em Chave de Gêneros is offered in a virtual, asynchronous format. Its objective is to foster reflection on gender and sexuality gaps on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons, and to help address these gaps through the implementation of an in-person, online, or hybrid activity.
Metrics - Number of organizers; number of participants; number of graduates; others.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hi @Manuela Alves de Souza (Projeto Mais+): I know you just submitted this request, and it’s scheduled a few months in advance, but just to make sure the request is complete:
Do you need a standard banner? That field is currently empty. You can simply choose an image and a short text, and I can create a standard banner for you.
The landing page link doesn’t seem to be working. Could you please check it? If the page isn’t ready yet, you could create it with the basic information so we can work with the URL.
The banner is currently requested for a bit longer than two weeks. In that case, you would need to inform the targeted communities about the banner (for example a short message on the relevant Wikipedia community pages is fine). Alternatively, I can shorten the dates so the campaign fits within the two-week limit set by the guidelines.
Thank you for your message and for pointing these out.
I’m currently working with my board on the remaining adjustments and gathering the missing information. The issue with the landing page link and the banner has already been resolved. As soon as everything else is finalized, including the other details, I will get back to you with the full update.
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?
Guinea, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Nigeria, Bangladesh, USA, UK, Ukraine, Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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 Ramadan 2026 is an annual global campaign and contest aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse customs, traditions, and cultural heritage observed during the month of Ramadan across various Wikimedia projects.
Metrics - :
Creation or improvement of over 10,000 articles, images, and data entries.
Engagement of contributors from 32 countries and 26 language communities.
Documentation of underrepresented cultural traditions and Islamic historical figures.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
(I'm not a CN admin - just sharing useful tip to speedup this request - I hope). Feel free to share an explicit answer about the question 'Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?', in the Settings of this page. Thanks :) --ValerioBozz (talk) 11:27, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
For the Photo Competition, our strategy is to target by country, with each banner appearing in the primary language(s) of that specific nation. This localized approach aims to better support the specific needs of each participating community.
For Landing Page You can find the list of participating countries and their respective landing pages here: Participating countries.
For banner Translations: We have prepared the English version of the banner. So I think we need you to activate the banner page so we can begin localizing it to other languages.
For banners code, I only used HTML and CSS (wikitext for links only). and I made sure that it appears good for mobile and computer.
I would prefer collecting the feedback and discussion on just one page, and will follow the link mentioned above by DerHexer (since that is where the most extensive feedback is already).. Ciell (talk) 12:32, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I share a review of the banners, landing pages and proposed settings here.
I don't agree to the requested dates and duration, I see both these requests as one WLR initiative. What about showing both banners consecutively for up to 5-7 days? You'll need time for the translations of the Commons pages before we can enable that one anyway, and to get agreement from the communities from the project languages of the writing competition. To keep the conversation in one place, your responses are again welcome at CentralNotice/Request/Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2026:_Photo_Competition#Central_Notice_admin_comments. Ciell (talk) 18:25, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@ZI Jony, @Bonnjalal00 I have enabled the banners for the writing-competition part, where both landing page + translation was available. I've kept note in Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026/Participating communities - everything without note was incomplete and I therefore wasn't able te create the banner. They will become visible in 30 minutes. All will have a single cycle of 5 impressions on both Wikidata and Wikipedia, except for English Wikipedia, where the banners only get 3 impressions (because everyone wants to include en-wp in their campaigns, plus you have the watchlist notice there as well).
I'm calling it a day for now (this was a lot of work..) I hope everything works!! Please double check the ar-wikipedia banner, because it's always tricky to code a rtl-text on my ltr screen. I'll do a round of banner and campaign creations later this week for the photo competition. Ciell (talk) 17:36, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for your hard work and for getting these live!
Regarding the writing competition, I have just updated the translation table with the button links (landing pages) for Indonesian, Urdu, Ukrainian, and Madurese. The local organizers have already translated the banners directly, so please add these remaining ones when you have a moment.
The Arabic translation looks acceptable, so thank you. Regarding the layout: the banner is indeed a bit wide (I have prepared a version without an image and with smaller fonts more friendly for mobile photo and writing) if you can update it it will be good.
One important issue: I noticed that the Urdu Wikipedia is currently displaying the Arabic version of the banner. I am not sure if this was a setup error or perhaps a mistake by @Fahads1982: in the local configuration, especially since the table shows Urdu isn't officially enabled yet by you @Ciell.
One more thing regarding the Arabic Wikipedia banner: could you please disable the CentralNotice specifically on ar.wikipedia.org We already have a local notice enabled there, and we want to avoid overlapping notifications. You can keep the banner active on other Wikimedia projects, or if it's easier, you can disable the writing competition banner for the Arabic language entirely across all projects, as our participation levels are already doing very well.
The ar-banner is turned off now. It's very strange that is was visible for Urdu, since it only had the Arabic language selected... (sounds like a bug?)
I'll look at the new translations later today, thanks for the headsup.
Regarding layout: next time let's try to finalize the code before I create the banners in their respective languages because they all will need to be individually updated when code changes are proposed. ;-) Ciell (talk) 11:01, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
All including Wikipedia and Commons (except catalan)
What languages will you be targeting?
Multiple languages in a country
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?
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 - Wiki Loves Folklore, an annual international photography contest hosted on Wikimedia Commons from February 1st to March 31st, serves as a global initiative to amass a diverse collection of media. The primary objective is to contribute content to Wikipedia and other online platforms, all under free licenses. The contest focuses on capturing and showcasing unique images that represent and document the intangible cultural heritage of various communities worldwide.
Structured with both national coordinators and an International Team, the campaign ensures comprehensive coverage. National coordinators, responsible for organizing Wiki Loves Folklore within their respective countries, play a vital role in fostering local participation. Simultaneously, the International Team steps in to organize the contest in countries lacking designated national coordinators, thereby addressing the representation gap within the Wikimedia ecosystem.
Metrics - We will share the report with Metrics like this
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hi @Joris Darlington Quarshie! I was looking at last year’s request and noticed that we ended up with several different setups: country-specific campaigns, non-country campaigns, anon-only campaigns, and some additional country-specific requests. Will it be the same this year? I see that the country-specific campaign you created looks good. I’m just asking to understand whether we should expect multiple campaigns under this request. If this hasn’t been communicated yet to the organizers in other countries, could you please let them know? That way, we can avoid having to remove countries from this banner later when their specific campaigns are enabled. Also, thank you very much for having an admin involved who can create the campaigns, that helps a lot :-). Best, Soylacarli (talk) 19:13, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Soylacarli thank you for pointing this out, we plan to have the national organisers request on this page itself. We have a dedicated admin to serve their requests. we will ping if we require help from other admins. once again thank you and happy new year. -- Tiven2240 (talk) 08:46, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Nokib Sarkar: Thanks for setting up the campaign! With only en as priority language, the banner cannot be translated into other languages. Is this intended? I would expect that all participating languages should be available. Do you intend to add them one by one? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:39, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Whatever you prefer and makes it easier for you to handle these. In my opinion, it depends a little on the number of subcampaigns (fewer campaigns can be handled separately more easily, requests with multiple subcampaigns seem easier to be handled on one page; but these are just my feelings). — CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Science Competition 2025 was even a combination of both. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)11:21, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The "participate now" button hadn't been translated into Norwegian Bokmål (no) and Nynorsk (nn), so I have done that now. It should read "Delta nå" in both languages.
Also, re. campaign duration: It has been set up to run for two whole months. Could that be changed to one month for languages no, nn and se? All of March Wikimedia Norge will be investing a lot of time and resources in our annual Women in Red campaign for Norwegian and Sami Wikimedians. We are planning a central notice banner to draw attention to activites, and it would be good if we don't have to compete for attention at the risk of banner fatigue. Also, for those languages we have an alternative annual push in September each year to grow content about living heritage, and we don't have any Wiki Loves Folklore organisers. Elisabeth Carrera (WMNO) (talk) 06:35, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, @Nokib Sarkar. I'm receiving complaints (and I confirmed, both logged in and logged out) that there are two banners being shown. I see that BR was removed from this banner, but remains on this one. Can you please remove BR from this one also? This is generating confusion among the local participants. Cheers, EPorto (WMB) (talk) 16:35, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer@EPorto (WMB) Initially the anononymous banner was not Geotargeted at all. It was meant to be shown to all non-logged in users. But now, as per your request, I removed Brazil, Portugal and Ukraine from the list. Nokib Sarkar (talk) 18:34, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Notes: 1) There's a thread asking for pointers on how they can help with translation at Talk:CentralNotice#Translation_question. Please reply with whatever links/questions are needed. -- [EDIT: Johannnes89 already partially replied, but I believe the 2nd link is also needed]
2) I tried to check, and saw the 2nd link above didn't work properly, so I believe I've fixed it with this edit (just FYI, unless it needs further changes).
Hi. The second text in the announcement ("Photograph your local culture...") is not translatable and translation link ("Help with translations)" is not clickable. Nemoralis (talk) 23:00, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Since 9 February, this has been running on nearly all projects in all languages in nearly all countries with no impression diet. Scheduled to end 31 March. In other words, this has been shown to every reader on every Wikimedia site until they click the X for roughly a week, and would have run for nearly a month and a half.
This edit pointed anonymous users to this event page, which transcludes the translated Commons page but does not actually display translated versions. In other words, the readers sent here from hundreds of languages were sent to an English-language page.
Since 1 February, running on all projects in all languages and in a number of countries. Impression diet is 5 impressions every 4 days. Scheduled to run until 31 Match.
Since 1 February, running on all projects in all languages and in the countries not covered by the country-specific one. Impression diet is 7 impressions every week. Scheduled to run until 31 March.
The two logged-in user banners have different identifiers, so someone traveling (or VPN-ing or just with a weird ISP) could easily be seeing both of these banners.
I've turned off the anonymous campaign, this has done enough damage already. For the logged-in campaigns, I recommend using the same identifier for both, a shorter run period (1 month at maximum), and increasing the impression limit to 3 per two weeks. I know that recurrent campaigns in theory do not require consensus, but I think we've hit a breaking point here. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 22:18, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly support the suggestions given above. I've heard quite a bit of complaining about these banners, and the reason @Vermont dug these numbers out in the first place is because I asked a group of admins why the heck this banner is so much "stickier" than other banners and why I feel like I'm having to turn it off every time I log in to my account. With 7 impressions every week, no wonder it's been getting so annoying! That's easily more than twice as many as I would consider the outside bounds of appropriate. -- asilvering (talk) 23:17, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the guidance. I remain in close coordination with the international team members and will implement the changes progressively.
The anonymous banner was an oversight on our part - thank you for addressing it. I have now enabled the banner with a low weekly impression cap and will continue to monitor its performance.
While the Events namespace was suggested by WMF, I believe it may not be the most appropriate option for this banner. As a result, I have redirected the campaign to the Commons namespace project page instead. Please let me know if you have any further recommendations. Nokib Sarkar (talk) 04:01, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Nokib Sarkar: I've turned the logged-out banner off again. It showed to every reader for a week. We're talking about billions of impressions here, this has already run its course a dozen times over. Do not turn it on without consensus. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 04:06, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The settings for this banner campaign was a disaster. We really need to consider tightening the rules around CN banners. Even "long-established" need some limit on how often they can be displayed, for how long, and to whom. Toadspike[Talk]20:26, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the usage guidelines (“rules”) are pretty clear about it (I just added a paragraph to make it even more clear), and so is the training material we have created. Certainly, there were good intentions behind that, but there is a lot of knowledge about the usefulness of banners after a maximum number of displays, frequency, etc. (see this research, for example). Every campaign should have a diet or limited traffic. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:49, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone, I would like to clearly express my strong support for activating the CentralNotice for Wiki Loves Folklore 2026. As one of the major international campaigns within the Wikimedia movement, Wiki Loves Folklore relies heavily on effective visibility and outreach. The use of CentralNotice is essential to raise awareness, encourage wider participation, and strengthen overall community engagement across Wikimedia projects.-Best regard Cnyirahabihirwe12345 (talk) 12:11, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to add my support for keeping the logged-in banner running for the remainder of the campaign. As the Regional Ambassador for Wiki Loves Folklore in the African region, the Central Notice is one of the few reliable ways contributors across the region get to know about campaigns like this one. That said, I understand the concerns raised around impression frequency and the anonymous banner, and I think the adjustments already made are a step in the right direction. I hope a balanced approach can be found that keeps the banner visible without being disruptive to the wider community. Nwonwu Uchechukwu P (talk) 10:57, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I put my strong support behind enabling the CentralNotice for Wiki Loves Folklore 2026. Wiki Loves Folklore is one of the key international campaigns within the Wikimedia movement, comparable in scale and impact to Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. In 2025 alone, the campaign contributed over 84,000 uploads to Wikimedia Commons, with South Asia being among the highest contributing regions. As a regional ambassador representing South Asia, I have seen firsthand how visibility through CentralNotice directly impacts participation, especially in culturally rich but underrepresented communities. While I understand the concerns regarding anonymous banner display, in our region a significant number of contributors initially engage as IP users before creating accounts. Limiting the banner may reduce outreach and participation. I therefore support activating the banner for both logged-in and IP users across South Asian and other countries.
Shreya (talk) 12:54, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I want to raise a concern about the hold placed on the India banner request. Wiki Loves Folklore ends on 31 March, and with very little time left, every day without a banner means reduced visibility for communities across India, not just one region but all Indic language communities.
The organizer dispute is a separate matter and should be resolved through appropriate talk page discussion. Linking it to the banner request is penalizing thousands of potential contributors who have nothing to do with this disagreement.
India is among the highest contributing regions to this campaign. If there are any technical or policy related issues with the banner, I would request that experienced community members here help resolve those first so we can move forward. This will also encourage new contributors and create a more welcoming space for everyone.
I would request that the banner request be processed without further delay and the organizer dispute be handled separately. : SuyashDwivedi (💬) 20:11, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Just had time to go through the thread and noticed that this central notice has been closed whiles the campaign is still ongoing. Please is it possible to negotiate on a rotational banner across the month until the campaign ends this month. Atleast once or twice a week will be deeply appreciated. Joris (talk) 16:08, 03 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
On the basis of requests from organisers and assuming consensus from communities I have enabled the banner. I have limited the banner as many other campaigns are going on. Will monitor in future for performance. Nokib Sarkar (talk) 16:36, 3 March 2026 (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 (Logged in and out, Mobile, Computer all user)
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?
Hi @R1F4T:, I’ve copied the banner (preview) and updated the landing page, please check that everything looks good. We don’t currently have an option to copy campaigns directly, so I used last year’s campaign as a reference to set up this year’s one. Please review everything and let me know so I can enable it. Also, even though this is a recurring campaign, it would be great if you could briefly describe the purpose of the campaign in the request, so it’s well documented for the future. Best,--Soylacarli (talk) 16:13, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Soylacarli Thanks a lot for your help, Everything looks fine but a small problem with the text, instead of "অমর একুশে নিবন্ধ প্রতিযোগিতা ২০২৪" it will be "অমর একুশে নিবন্ধ প্রতিযোগিতা ২০২৬" sorry for the confusion. R1F4T (talk) 18:11, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Pawiki, Enwiki (Eastern Punjab and Western Punjab), Commons (Eastern Punjab and Western Punjab), Pawikisource
What languages will you be targeting?
Multiple Languages (English and Punjabi)
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?
India and Pakistan
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?
Please note that it the request was on the edge of being submitted in time. 14 days are preferred. ;)
Do I understand it right that for English Wikipedia and Commons the banners should only be shown in the federal states of Eastern Punjab and Western Punjab? If so, I will have to create a separate campaign for that, but it's no problem. I just don't want to do it unnecessarily. ;)
Please provide a text in English and Punjabi for the standard banner. A logo would also be good, but it's not mandatory.
Please also provide a landing page in Punjabi language. As far as I can see, only an English project page exists so far.
Yes, the banner is for pawiki, pawikisource, Punjab, India (eastern punjab) and Punjab, Pakistan (western punjab) regions on Commons and English Wikipedia.
Banner text
en - Participate in Wiki Loves Punjab 2026 (Let's document Visuals from Villages of Punajab)
@Kuldeep (Punjabi Wikimedians): Settings turned out to be more difficult than expected. But I think I got it right: This campaign and banner (English, Punjabi preview) will only be shown on English Wikipedia and Commons for users with English or Punjabi language settings in Western and Eastern Punjabi. That campaign with that banner (similar designs) will be shown on Punjabi Wikipedia and Punjabi Wikisource for users with English or Punjabi language settings in all of India and Pakistan.
However, there are still two remarks:
The campaign is much longer than the recommended 14 days. You will need to notify local communities on all targeted wikis first, otherwise we have to shorten the duration.
The provided logo looks nice, but the text is invisible in dark mode. Please provide a dark-mode-ready version of the logo. Either one for all or an alternative that we would display in dark mode, both is fine with us.
@DerHexer: thanks for creating two different camapaign and banners, we can display banner on pawiki and pawikisource for all users without any geographical restriction because they are native punjabi language projects. we planned to display second banner on enwiki and commons for users in Punjab, India and Punjab, Pakistan region only because we don't want to disturb other users on big projects (wikis). hope i was able to clarify things.
np, we can notify if it needed for even when the banner is targeting some geo specific location only. if yes, do we need to get the consensus or just need to notify them?
for logo if i provide png format the logo, would that work? because that will not change in dark mode.
@Kuldeep (Punjabi Wikimedians): Yes, thanks, the dark modo logo version works better. I have enabled the pawiki and pawiksource banner but only for India and Pakistan right now because of the banner coding I have used. — I have send you a link for enwiki and commonswiki village pumps where you should announce the campaign. Consensus is not needed, but there should be no serious objection. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)00:30, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Kuldeep (Punjabi Wikimedians) in the banner I see the sentence "Let's document Visuals from Villages of Punajab" . Is there a typo or the spelling for Punjab is written such locally. Also @DerHexer I see the banner in all wikipedia where I visit from India whereas the banner is requested only for Commons, En and Punjabi Wikipedia and Wikisource. Can you please have a look. Tiven2240 (talk) 06:08, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Tiven2240: Thank you so much for catching the typo and bringing to our attention. The Spelling we want to use is 'Punjab'. so the corrected banner text is
Participate in Wiki Loves Punjab 2026 (Let's document Visuals from Villages of Punjab)
@Tiven2240 and Kuldeep (Punjabi Wikimedians): I have changed the text (whose wrong version was posted above ;D), and fixed the display for Wikipedia versions. It seems that you are using English language likely in your global settings; otherwise you likely would not have seen it because it was only targeting either pa or en languages. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:47, 6 February 2026 (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]
going to be repeated in April and May (planned), that will be handled on this page, too
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia
What languages will you be targeting?
de
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?
Germany: federal states Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg (planned: without a circle around Berlin, using this new technology); if needed, one or two more federal states would be added to reach a broader audience
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 - Wikimedia Deutschland together with community trainers invites non-registered users to learn about Wikipedia, focusing on more rural areas in Germany. The campaign will soon be announced in the WMDE portal in German Wikipedia.
Metrics - at least 50 registrations through this banner
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - standard banner with this logo; texts: headline: Wikipedia? Kannst du auch!; main text: Neugierig aufs Mitmachen bei Wikipedia? Am 10. März, 18 Uhr, zeigt dir ein erfahrener Wikipedianer online, wie Artikel entstehen – und du machst gleich deine ersten eigenen Schritte. Jetzt kostenlos anmelden!
Thanks for creating the banner @Martin Rulsch (WMDE), the new geo-location script looks very interesting. The banner does not work in dark mode for me, and I notice there's a lot of text in the notice, and would advise (non-binding) to shorten the invitation to join the event. Ciell (talk) 07:56, 27 February 2026 (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?
Again we would like to continue our campaign from 2025 and the year before. The banners will only run for a few days before the monthly event (normally the first Wednesday of each month, unless that happens to be a public holiday).
@Jon Harald Søby (WMNO): Chapter request approved per usage guidelines. A few remarks: I have added a campaign type (article writing) which I considered to fit best. Please check it and change it if needed. – Furthermore, please consider a diet for your campaign. We have statistics that after a good number of displays (at least 10+), banners have limited to zero effect. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:00, 5 January 2026 (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, the proportion can be determined by the CentralNotice Admin depending on what works best.
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany, only the region of Berlin. Depending on what works best, the CentralNotice Admin can deviate from this (e.g. a circle with a certain radius around the centre of Berlin).
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 - Leading up to the campaign in 2025 where we already established a community, we want to find more people for a monthly Meetup for young wikipedians in Berlin to establish an even bigger community of active users.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Headline (bold): Teile dein Wissen in der Wikipedia!
Normal text:
for geographic-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und möchtest regelmäßig Informationen über die von dir besuchten Orte in der Wikipedia ergänzen? Dann komm am dd.mm., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
for history-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und fasziniert von Geschichte? Ergänze fehlende Informationen zu historischen Ereignissen und komm am dd.mm., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
for sport-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und vermisst einige Informationen über deinen Lieblingssportler/-in in der Wikipedia? Dann komm am dd.mm., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
for tech-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und begeistert von Technologie? Ergänze regelmäßig Artikel zu innovativen Entwicklungen! Sei dabei bei „Jugend editiert“ am dd.mm. um 18 Uhr in Berlin!
for art-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und liebst Kunst in all ihren Facetten? Schreibe über deine Lieblingskünstler/-innen und -werke bei „Jugend editiert“ am dd.mm. um 18 Uhr in Berlin!
for music-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und möchtest regelmäßig über die neuesten Titel deiner Lieblingsinterpreten schreiben? Dann komm am dd.mm., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
for science-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und interessiert an Wissenschaft und Forschung? Bringe regelmäßig dein Wissen ein und komm am dd.mm., um 18 Uhr, zu „Jugend editiert“ in Berlin!
for other topics:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und möchtest regelmäßig mit Anderen Artikel zu deinen Lieblingsthemen schreiben? Dann komm am dd.mm., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
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.
Done
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