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Arabic Wikipedia Central Notice Guidelines
[edit]Dear Admins of Central Notice Requests, @Ciell, DerHexer, Johannnes89, Martin Urbanec, Seddon, Soylacarli, Steinsplitter, Vermont, and Yahya:
I am writing to you in my capacity as an administrator on Arabic Wikipedia. Our community has an established policy regarding the publication of banners, which stipulates that any banner intended for display on Arabic Wikipedia must first be requested through our designated local page. This policy can be accessed Local Banner.
In accordance with this policy, we kindly request the immediate removal of the ARWiktionary banner that was published today without prior approval. Furthermore, we ask that future banner requests—excluding international campaigns such as elections—be submitted through our local request page before being displayed on Arabic Wikipedia.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in respecting our community’s procedures.
Best regards,
Administrator, Arabic Wikipedia --SanBonne (talk) 10:19, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- @SanBonne Thanks for the ping. Just to be sure—do the other Arabic Wikimedia projects have similar local banner-approval policies?
- Pinging @Darafsh ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 10:58, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your question @Yahya. No, there isn’t, as the community is mostly active on the Arabic Wikipedia. As a result, many areas are still missing or underdeveloped in the Arabic-language sister projects. SanBonne (talk) 11:03, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- @SanBonne@Yahya Thanks for the ping. You are absolutely right, the consensus link was not included in the request, and it was my oversight that Arabic Wikipedia was also enabled. It has now been disabled.
- Best Darafsh (talk) 11:11, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your prompt reply and engagement. looking forward to cooperation between our communities. SanBonne (talk) 11:16, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your question @Yahya. No, there isn’t, as the community is mostly active on the Arabic Wikipedia. As a result, many areas are still missing or underdeveloped in the Arabic-language sister projects. SanBonne (talk) 11:03, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
A banner for International Mentoring Day, 17 January
[edit]Hello, Central Notice Request administrators ...
I have been hoping that a central notice banner can be posted on Wikipedia to encourage editors to voice appreciation on 17 January — which has been officially designated as International Mentoring Day — to mentors and other volunteer staff serving in an assistive way in the Teahouse and at the Help Desk. This is what I'd like your thoughts on.
When the idea of proposing a central notice banner came to me, I thought it would be a fairly straightforward process, like I'd simply ask: "Would you please post a banner from 3 through 17 January saying something like, At the heart of Wikipedia's success: our mentors & Teahouse & Help Desk staff. On International Mentoring Day, 17 January, let's remember with appreciation all they've done for us." But when I came to the banner request page and saw all that would be entailed in making the request, I felt a bit overwhelmed.
Since I saw the pending 25th anniversary banner dates would overlap four of the most critical days during the time frame I'd be requesting, I wrote the requester — BCamarda-WMF — to see if we could agree on some sort of workaround. Other things related more directly to the request itself came up, though, as RAdimer-WMF joined in the discussion, and it was at his suggestion I came to this page.
Apparently a basic question is whether the topic I planned to propose would in fact be a good candidate for a banner. As RAdimer commented after asking me if there'd be a landing page associated with my request: "Typically, calls to action involve a specific place people are pointed to where they can then do something." I don't understand the need for one in my banner request because the only action I'm hoping Wikipedians will take is voicing appreciation to their mentors and other assistive Tearoom and Help Desk staff on International Mentoring Day.
Because word doesn't seem to be out about the existence of this commemorative day, and I know of no earlier Wikipedia attempts to promote recognition for all that these tireless volunteers do, I thought a central notice banner would be the perfect way to bring all this about. If not, could you administrators guide me where else to try? Thank you in advance. PeakeChes (talk) 13:15, 11 December 2025 (UTC)