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 [7 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.
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?
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?
Multiple Languages: de, en, es, fr, nl; in cooperation with CEE Hub: az, bg, el, hy, mk, lv, pl, ro, ru, sq, sr, tr
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?
Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Niger, Senegal, Spain, Tchad, Uruguay; + CEE: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Latvia, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey; + Regions: Republic of Srpska, Ural Federal District (Russia)
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?
EN d:Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2025 for: az Azerbaijan, bg Bulgaria, el Greece, en India and Canada without Quebec, lv Latvia, mk North Macedonia, pl Poland, ro Romania, sq Albania and Kosovo, rs Serbia and Republika Srpska, ru only Ural Federal District
Now the banner code is completed (it should be displayed in 17 different language versions depending on the user's language setting) and also the geographical targetting is set. Please take look and let me know if it is alright like that or if something should be changed. I am not sure about the language switch of the banner, still looking into it. It is displayed correctly in English, but at least in the preview I can not make the languages switch. --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 14:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC) Edit: The language switch is working. --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 18:38, 24 April 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?
We will target logged in editors for the first few days, then target anonymous users for the remainder of the campaign duration
What countries will your campaign target?
Japan
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 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 Japanese only 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 April 28 - May 10. 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 has been socialized with the Japanese community on their announcement page.
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?
Banners - The banners will look like this, but the copy will change slightly. We’re testing multiple copy options for logged out users.
Wikipedia apps banner on Japanese Wikipedia
Landing Page - iOS users will be sent to the Apple Store, and Android users will be sent to the Google Play store.
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Just following up on this request; I've added the missing details as requested. Since we're planning to launch in about a week and a half (April 28), we’d love to make sure everything is on track.
Let us know if there’s anything else we need to do, thank you!
@DerHexer Thank you for taking the time to review these. I've fixed the bucket issue (placed all banners in one bucket and assigned equal weights). Also, thank you for flagging the issue with Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/wpjapanout2_android (Out Android, Banner 2), I included the banner code yesterday. All campaigns and banners are now set, I'll be around on Monday to enable the first set of banners. I appreciate your support with this request @DerHexer. Best, SCampos-WMF (talk) SCampos-WMF (talk) 16:16, 25 April 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 - Bangla Wikibooks faces several key challenges: lack of child-friendly educational content, limited coverage of Bengali cuisine, and low awareness and participation from the Bengali Wikimedia community. The Yearly Bangla Wikibooks Writing Contest 2025 is being organized to address these issues. We need banners to promote the contest.
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 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 - Article writing challenge on Ukrainian culture and people.
Metrics - Last year 1,260 articles were created during the campaign, and we expect a similar level of participation this year. Nearly 55% 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?
@OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA): Thank you for your request. Since the last edition, the CentralNotice/Usage guidelines have been updated and provide much stricter rules for (fully) global campaigns. Technically, it's no problem to create the proposed banner, but there a couple of remarks before this campaign can be approved and enabled:
Campaigns should usually not run for more than 14 days. Exceptions can be made (especially for established campaigns), but in that case local announcements should be sent to all targeted communities (e.g., through global village pumps and MassMessage). Local ambassadors for each participating country/language/affiliate are highly recommended. How do you want to handle involvement of local communities under these new conditions?
Campaigns should only be shown to language communities where the landing page and banners have been translated. A couple of banner translations from 2024 are ready and could be copied to 2025. Furthermore, a link in the banner can invite people to help with banner translations which can be reused from the previous campaign. However, please provide as many translations as possible, for both, the banner and the landing page. Please note that all translations need to be approved by CentralNotice admins because of technical limitations which adds a lot of extra work on us. For that reason, we usually don't enable campaigns for languages that are not available yet. As this is a returning campaign, we might make an exception here, but maybe you can focus on some preferred communities. How do you want to handle translations of banner and campaign?
Please note that Catalan communities have opted out from campaigns a) that are not translated into the local language, b) that are not announced on their local wikis.
There are a couple of campaign scheduled for the same date (and language/country, which is all for this campaign as of now), including some large campaigns like Wiki Loves Earth, CentralNotice/Request/2025 annual review (UCoC EG/U4C Charter), CentralNotice/Request/Coordinate Me 2025 Wikidata contest, etc., please have a look at CentralNotice/Calendar. Usually, it's your duty to get this coordinated with the other organizers so that users will not suffer from banner blindness. Certainly, it is possible to find solutions for this but it should be coordinated as soon as possible.
We acknowledge that our campaign qualifies as an established campaign. However, if crucially, it's fine to shorten the banner timeline to 14 days and/or shift it to more convenient dates to avoid overlap with other campaigns.
From our side:
We have submitted a MassMessage request for previous participants.
We’ve also requested announcements on the village pumps of the relevant communities.
The message includes a call to help with translations of the landing page and banner, as well as an invitation to join as a local ambassador.
We’ve copied last year’s banner translations into this year’s campaign and are continuing to collect as many translations as possible — part of them is already in place.
Lastly, I’d like to clarify:
What exactly do you mean by “coordinating with other campaign organizers”?
Should we reach out to each one individually to discuss shifting dates, or is there another form of coordination you’re referring to?
@OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA): I suggest to have the UCDM campaign started after the UCoC campaign, on 2 May (until 12 May). There will be overlap with the Wikidata competition, but that cannot be avoided and has less overlap because of their limited targeting. Thank you for the MassMessages and preparations. Together with the copied translations for the banner and reaching out to translators, I think it's okay to proceed with the campaign implementation: Please find here the campaign and banner (preview). Please everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable it. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)21:54, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer Thanks for your comments. We approve the campaign and the banner. In case the start date of the campaign is postponed, is it possible to have it until 16th May? (2 weeks, and it will match with the end of the contest). OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 15:13, 23 April 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?
Description - ‘’Wiki por los Derechos Humanos’' is the Latin American version of the Wiki For Human Rights campaign. As previous years, the chapters and user groups from the region are promoting an editing contest, a photo contest, an online course and local activities for people interested in improving access to verified and neutral information on climate change and sustainability using Wikimedia projects. Earlier version can be found here: 2024, 2023.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hi everyone! Just a quick FYI, I’ve requested the banner dates for one month, as we've done in previous years where the banner typically ran for the full month. Would it be okay to do the same this time?
Since it’s for the whole month, I assume we can go with a lower rate as well. Thanks! --Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 20:29, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Cftoro (WMCL): Campaigns longer than two weeks can be enabled when there is local community communication about that (i.e., no complaints about it). However, please notice that CentralNotice/Request/CEE Primavera 2025 partly targets a similar audience. Please make an arrangement between your campaigns and communicate it to the CentralNotice admins. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)21:47, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer, thanks for the update :-). I've notified the community here. I saw that the other campaign changed the dates of the banner so its up until May 21st. We'll be ok with starting our banner campaign in that date and ending on June 8. Let me know if that would be possible. Thanks again, best. Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 21:50, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Cftoro (WMCL): I had meant not only to notify the community about the event itself but also about the upcoming banner campaign. Please add that to your message to the community, meanwhile I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)20:58, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @DerHexer:! The campaign looks great, thank you! In my message to the community, I mentioned the campaign and the banner (my mistake for not including the English version as well). The original message said, "as usual, a banner will be released (...)." I followed up with another post to highlight the banner specifically for Latin America, along with its release dates. Best, Carla Toro (WMCL) (talk) 19:00, 24 April 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?
Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
US (geotargeted by JavaScript code)
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. For this campaign, we want to recruit new instructors to participate in several US college towns — Eugene, OR; San Luis Obispo, CA; and Ellensburg, WA — where most of the population is connected to the university there.
Metrics - We will collect metrics on pageviews of the landing pages, as well as the corresponding wikiedu.org pages that those link to.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
I've just linked first banner, for Eugene, OR, for review. We (Wiki Education) want to use the same design with adjusted colors, image and text for the two other locations as well. I've used the JavaScript geotargeting strategy from campaigns like Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/Wikicurious_launch to limit the banner as narrowly as possible to the college town of Eugene.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk)
@Sage (Wiki Ed): Thanks for the preparations! I have further limited the campaign to the federal state of Oregon in the general settings, the JavaScript will hopefully do the better targeting, too. Am I assuming right that you will request more campaigns for the other cities later? It makes more sense to create individual campaigns than changing this one every time, but it doesn't make much of a difference. Please find the campaign, banner and preview. Please check everything, approve it and ping me afterwards so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:49, 31 March 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?
Anonymous
What countries will your campaign target?
USA (CA) (geotargeted by JavaScript code)
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?
Anonymous
What countries will your campaign target?
USA (WA) (geotargeted by JavaScript code)
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?
@Sage (Wiki Ed): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. — Because of the long “Central Washington University” term, the “join us” buttons seems to disappear pretty often in my mobile preview which reduces the call-to-action a little. What does your banner test show? Do you want to shorten it to CWU? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:28, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: I think it's okay if the button disappears on mobile; it's still hopefully an intriguing banner that will catch the attention of the people it's for. I suppose I'd rather shrink the font size than shorten the text, but let's run it as-is. Approved. Thanks! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 12 April 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?
What countries will your campaign target?
Portuguese speaking 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 - 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.
Metrics - number os bytes added/other
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
I am not sure if you are running this for both logged in and logged out users but just to let you know, that there will be fundraising banners in Brazil until the 15th of April for logged out users. This would mean that logged out users will only see your banner after they have seen their max impression of fundraising banners. Since this is the second half of the fundraising campaign, many users might already be at the max impression for fundraising banners and hopefully will see mainly your banners. Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 05:37, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have now also created the campaign with the technical settings for the banner; please review.
I have added both pt and pt-br language to be targeted, but am aware there are differences between these languages. Would you like to only target pt as requested, or also pt-br?
I notice from the landing page, you'll have a kick-off event on March 31st. Would you like the banner to start the day before April 1, so people might join you for that event?
After reviewing the landing page and the information given there, I think the campaign is best suited for logged in users only. When designing a landing page to activate non-registered visitors, often passive readers, the landing page should contain a very simple and actionable outline for the newcomers. Here that is not the case. I therefore propose the banner will only be shown to registered users (fyi @JBrungs).
@Lilian Viana: As of now, the campaign targets all Portuguese speakers around the world on Portuguese Wikipedia, not only the ones living in Portuguese-speaking countries. Is there a specific reason why you intend to focus on these countries only? PS: The campaign still waits for your approval. :) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)14:48, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @DerHexer! Correct, the campaign focuses on Portuguese language speakers regardless of their country of origin. I approve the banner being presented. Do I need to make the approval in a specific location, or is it sufficient to inform you here? I apologize for my delay and the confusion; this process is new to me. Thank you a lot for all the patience Lilian Viana (talk) 13:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @JBrungs (WMF), Sorry for my delay. Please, include pt and pt-br .
If it's possibile we would like that non-registered visitors could see the banner. We are planning in-person activities in libraries, and the banner can help bring newcomers to these events and make librarians aware of and engaged in the campaign. If it's not possible, I understand. Again, I'm sorry about my delay. Thank you! Lilian Viana (talk) 13:28, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The campaign is currently running and will run for another week (finish next week Tuesday). Non-logged in users will see 10 impressions of a fundraising banner first and then will see your banner. As the campaign has now been running since mid-March, many people might have already had their 10 impressions and hopefully get shown your banner instead. Have a great campaign. Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 04:30, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lilian Viana: I have enabled the campaign at a diet of 50 % and a low priority, but for non-registered users as well. Please let us know about the feedback and registrations you receive so that we can adjust the diet in one or the other way. —DerHexer(Talk)20:54, 11 April 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
What countries will your campaign target?'
Spain, Mexico, Perú Chile, Argentina, Honduras, Guatemala, USA, Italy, 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?
@Althair: That's acceptable although still pretty detailed. I have seen that you have announced the competition here. However, there is no notification that banners will be shown. It's very uncommon that campaigns run for almost two months. I recommend to use the standard two weeks or limit it to at least a month. What would be suitable campaign dates therefore (e.g., 1 to 31 May)? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)21:41, 11 April 2025 (UTC) PS: Please notice that CentralNotice/Request/Wiki por los Derechos Humanos 2025 partly targets a similar audience at the same time.[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 Maranhão Wikicontest is a wikicontest (editing competition) on the Lusophone Wikipedia. It is part of a series of activities that will take place throughout 2025 within the scope of the "Wiki Loves Maranhão" project, conceived and carried out by the Wiki Movimento Brasil User Group (WMB). The initiative aims to encourage the participation of the Wikipedia editors' community in improving entries related to the State of Maranhão.
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?
@EPorto (WMB): Am I assuming right that you don't use the local SiteNotice because this cannot process CSS as requested? Usually, targeting one project should be handled locally. Furthermore, this was requested as an unusually long campaign, even without a country limitation where I would have expected Brazil only, as far as I can see. Why is this intensive use of CentralNotice needed and what kind of cycles do you have in mind the banners should be shown during that long time? And where was this announced locally? I cannot even find it in your grant request. — Thanks for preparing the banner code which looks good to me. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:19, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@EPorto (WMB): Indeed, the competition has been announced but not that it will be conducted through a (CentralNotice) banner campaign. Please add a sentence about that (with a link to this page) to the general announcement. When this is done, please check the campaign and banner (preview). Please ping me with your approval so that I can enable the campaign (when it was communicated). Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:10, 12 April 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 with at least 300 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?
Description - Invitation to review voter information on the changes proposed to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter
Banners - Please use similar to previous banner. Banner text: The voting period for the proposed changes to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Read more on voter information and eligibility details.
The banner looks good to me. A little unfortunate that it is too long so that the main text cannot be fit in one sentence, but it looks like that will have to be necessary. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 11:00, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Xeno (WMF) and Keegan (WMF): I'm a bit confused by this request. Do you want us volunteer CN admins to create this for you? According to the CN guidelines, WMF and affiliate should be created by their staff and the volunteer CNA's just check that and enable the campaign. — However, the proposed settings are not so difficult so that I could help with the creation if need be. However, some remarks:
Please note that Catalan communities have opted out from campaigns a) that are not translated into the local language, b) that are not announced on their local wiki.
The proposed landing page looks very unclear to me. Are you sure that this is the right one? I cannot easily identify a call-to-action. I don't really know what you want me to do and why. At first, I thought that you were requesting a campaign for voting on the new changes (see “Metrics: voter turnout”).
If the latter is true, a better targeting could make sense (minimum number of edits, etc.). But also for a call for feedback a minimum level of knowledge about our communities might make sense instead of inviting every newly registered account to give feedback on such a complex change.
Please get some more information handy, the campaign is scheduled to start in a week! (And I will be travelling most of the time, just saying.) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)22:01, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks DerHexer, your kind assistance would be really appreciated (I'm afraid I'm not entirely clear on the process to create the banner itself! I will work to learn for next time...).
It probably makes sense to set the diet to the users that would more likely meet the eligibility requirements, such as at least 300 edits.
And it's fine if this doesn't launch right away, due to the short timing window and your communicated capacity - we appreciate your help! Xeno (WMF) (talk) 16:27, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: we should be good to launch, please let us know if there are further questions. The reason this was brought to the volunteer CN request is because this is on behalf of the U4C who are running this election, it's a volunteer project that we're helping facilitate and not a Foundation initiative. I hope that helps clarify the forum question. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:18, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Keegan (WMF) and Xeno (WMF): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). I have adjusted the banner to make translations easier and set up the 300 local edits threshold. Please help with spreading the word about translations of the banner and landing page. The former I will check regularly so that banner translations will be quickly approved. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can activate the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)21:34, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Keegan (WMF) and Xeno (WMF): Thanks to Jon Harald Søby I could add a fix to your standard template which caused problems in dark mode and caused some complaints (and it's not compliant with the usage guidelines either). In the future, please only use a copy of this banner and not older versions. :) Best,
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?
Switzerland
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?
I received this request by the organizers of the Webinar in the French speaking community within a grant supported by Wikimedia CH. I can handle the administration of this banner myself, no intervention necessary from other CN admins. --Ilario (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ilario: Sure, please link the campaign and banner here as it is standard practice and seek for approval from a non-WMCH related CentralNotice admin. I am happy to take a look at it soonish when I am pinged. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)21:43, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer thank you, the campiagn is set here. The banner is already associated. I only prolungued half day my request as I have been informed that also last minute subscriptions will be accepted. Ilario (talk) 11:04, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @DerHexer Thanks! I went ahead and fixed the banner visibility for anonymous users, as that wasn’t originally intended. That said, I noticed not just a minor adjustment, but a rather significant change: from what I can tell, the impression diet was modified to 7 days before the banner is shown again. This would mean a user sees the banner only 8 times over two weeks (if I calculated right – 604,800 seconds = 168 hours). Given that the banner is running only in French-speaking Switzerland, I don’t see such a strong overlap with other campaigns that would justify this level of restriction. I’d have expected a discussion before applying such a major change, especially since I had originally set it to show every 12 hours. Assuming this may have been an oversight, I’ve now reduced the interval to 86,400 seconds (24 hours). Also, just to clarify: this banner refers to a governance matter, not an event – it’s about an internal community policy. Based on the guidelines, it seems that campaigns like this are typically configured by chapter-connected admins, while CentralNotice volunteers can suggest changes.
Without a signature, the ping doesn't work. I only see the message right now. fr:Event:Webinaire_WMCH_Requête_aux_administrateurs clearly is an event and even in the Event namespace. “Governance” is only used for movement-wide governance topics like Movement Charter, Board Elections, etc. With regards to the banner impressions, I assumed a typo on your end. There are no other campaigns that are shown more often than every three days, most of the campaigns have a week cycle which I have also adapted to your campaign, especially when they run for more than two weeks. Furthermore, the whole idea behind campaign diets is not to avoid overlaps but to reduce banner blindness for everyone significantly. There is evidence from CentralNotice studies that there is no significant impact on participation after the 10th display of a banner anyway (especially for a minor trainings like the one advertised through this campaign). For that reason, the times of running banners everytime everywhere are long over and the usage guidelines also take that into concern. Diets are set by volunteer CentralNotice admins and not staff, unlike you are saying. I will leave it as is for this campaign, but please do not overuse CentralNotice for any purposes. Others want to make us of it in the future, too. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)20:39, 22 April 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?
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 30. April 2025
Wissen verändert die Welt – mach mit! Finde heraus, wie du in Wikipedia mitarbeiten kannst. Hier anmelden.
@Johannnes89: Hoffe, diesmal hab ich auf allen Seiten, auf denen ich was eintragen sollte, auch alles eingetragen ... ;D Wie gehabt im Januar, gleiche Kampagne, gleiche Laufzeit. Grüße! --Grizma (talk) 09:35, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89 Sieht gut aus, kann so aktiviert werden! Ich mache mir auch eine Notiz im Kalender für den Starttermin und melde mich ggf., falls mir da was auffällt. --Grizma (talk) 20:37, 3 April 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, Tripura)
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 youngest of the Bengali Wikimedia projects "Bengali Wikiquote" had been progressing rather slowly since its launch in August 2022. However, that trend was broken by the Quote Competition held in April last year. Out of the 1,347 entries currently available on the project, 823 (61%) were created through this competition. The competition successfully attracted several new contributors, some of whom are now actively contributing to the project. Therefore, following last year's success, we are going to organize the competition again this year. We want a banner for this purpose.
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What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@DerHexer Thanks for the update! I tested it on my phone and laptop using different browsers, and it looks responsive to me. I also adjusted the position of the close button. @MS Sakib I’ve added Tripura. If no other concerns come up, I’ll proceed with approval in the next few days. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 21:30, 17 March 2025 (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
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 - Call for participation to Wiki Loves Africa 2025.
The banner is to promote the Wiki Loves Africa photo campaign. 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, 90% 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...). We changed the timeline just a tiny bit : 1 March 2025 → 30th April 2025
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Ciell and DerHexer: – this request now has the visuals for your banner creating pleasure! ;-) I hope I have uploaded all the elements in all the formats you need. Please, let me know if you have everything you need to get started on this. Thanks again for the supreme effort and support. Islahaddow (talk) 10:11, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Me again ... is there a way to measure how many hits the banners get? It would be good for us (and you guys) to see how much of our traffic comes through the central notice? Hope there is a simple answer. Thanks! Islahaddow (talk) 10:14, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
March, that's good (sorry that I didn't know that at first place), and still some things needed for preparation. — I'm on my way to the w:en:Federal Network Agency for a VLOP stress test. But with that information I can prioritize it for the weekend, unless Ciell or anybody else wants to take it. ;) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:26, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think that I will find some time for that on the weekend at the German AdminCon. Ciell also must feel annoyed that I don't respond to her banner question. ;D Four weekends in a row, last week Steward Conference, and so on. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)21:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I responded most eleborative in the Wikimania Program Proposals one - balancing the IWD and WLA banners has in the past always been done by giving WLA the head start from March 1, and after a few days the IWD is enabled with more impressions, since it is up for only 6 days anyway.
@Anthere, Ogalihillary, and Islahaddow: I have created the campaign and banner (desktop and mobile preview). Please note that in the mobile preview on a smartphone device, the WLA logo looks unexpected to me. Furthermore, the knobs (I don't know the English word) of the pieces puzzle between the center and left and right section look nice in the mockup but I am not capable of programming that into the banner. The given logos are not transparent either so that they could be put one on top of the other. If you need an improved version that looks closer to your mockup, please reach out to a designer yourself. For me, this version looks good enough to go. But please review everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign with the recommendations of Ciell in mind. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)11:40, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @DerHexer you are a super star! I am happy for a flat (no knobs on either side) as long as there is more space round the logo. Is that possible? I can provide transparent versions of the logo if that would help? I have uploaded these options - do they make it easier to get the border around the logo and words?
@Islahaddow: I have changed the left logo but haven't changed the text—because it's a (translatable) text and not an image. ;) In all my previews there is enough space around the text. I would leave it as is. Are you okay with that? Then I could enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Islahaddow, @Anthere: please be aware that your banner is not live since DerHexer is still waiting for a final confirmation on the last changes. :)
Also, note that you have not updated the languages listed for this request, which means that the banner currently will only run in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese. If you need more langueges (which I assume!), please name them one by one. Thanks! Ciell (talk) 08:40, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
1 March 2025 (several shorter sub-campaigns) → 1 August 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All
What languages will you be targeting?
en, fr, es
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 (bulk of sub-campaigns)
What countries will your campaign target?
countries in North America
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 Pharos, I had to disable both campaigns that were live since yesterday for WCNA.
Per the phabricator:T388080 ticket, please ensure these and all of your future banners are compatible with the Mediawiki dark-mode settings.
Also, please make sure to specify the campaign type in the drop down in the campaign settings to allow people to filter through their preferences the types of campaigns they see.
Don't forget to list your campaign in the calendar and coordinate with others that might be targeting the same country/projects/languages. Currently the banner for International Women's Days is also running in the USA.
@Ciell, @Pharos I'm sorry, but the new "dark-mode" supported banner has low contrast ratio (2.66:1) and fails WCAG 2.0 standard of at least 3:1 for web accessibility. The background grey has to brighten up to #CCCCC at the minimum to create sufficient contrast. OhanaUnitedTalk page18:10, 11 March 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?
Germany, only the region 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 2024 where we already established a small community, we want to find more people for a monthly Meetup for young wikipedians in Berlin to establish a bigger community of active users.
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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 03.04., 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 03.04., 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 03.04., 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 03.04. 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 03.04. 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 03.04., 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 03.04., 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 03.04., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu „Jugend editiert“!
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?
24.03.2025 → 31.03.2025 and 11.08.2025 → 18.08.2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia, Commons
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?
The campaign targets Logged In Users. There will be two different banners which target different groups: One banner targets users from one edit up to the level of flagged revisions, the other banner will target user who have reached the flagged revision rights in de WO
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 - WMDE offers editors of Wikipedia a range of support. This includes but is not limited to trainings, funding for their own projects, organising of events and so on. This support is not known by quite a few volunteers of the German Wikipedia. With this campaign, we want to make people aware of the WMDE community portal. The community portal presents the different aspects of Wikimedia Deutschland's work
Depending on the targeting, users receive a different landing page. The banner, which is aimed at inexperienced users, refers to learning offers from both WMDE and the community. The banner for experienced users refers to a page in the community portal that presents the various training courses.
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We hope that the WMDE Community Portal site will become more popular. It is therefore of interest to us that the “News” page in the portal in particular is observed by more users.We will also track whether the campaign has a (positive) influence on the editing behavior of users who we refer to as occasional editors. The tracking is secured by our in-house data unit.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - The banners have already been created and implemented. Our own CN Admins can start the campaign if the campaign has been green lit by a volunteer admin:
The campaign will be announced on the German Wikipedia in the course of next week. This will also allow the community to submit objections or communicate requests for changes.
The link to the communication will then be added here.
would you mind looking over this CN application? Ideally, neither Johannes89 nor theHexer will be involved in this request, as it means mixing their roles as volunteers and employees. Thank you! Merle von Wittich (WMDE) (talk) 11:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All affiliates need a volunteer CN admin (like me), to sign off on their CentralNotice camapigns. A CentralNotice is the banner (front-end visual) + the campaign (technical settings): therefore, if your FunTech Team is going to create the campaigns themselves, I'd like to see the campaign and the technical settings before you enable. Ciell (talk) 17:53, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciell I would not mind If you would create the campaign, but at the moment I am not sure if this is last approved version of the banners; to my understanding there have been some code changes after the first implementation. Therefore I am still waiting for this info. – So let me either get back to you either with the campaign settings of the FunTech Team or the go ahead, that you can create the campaign :) Merle von Wittich (WMDE) (talk) 07:47, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not 'big' for coding: if you'd like a full review I can ask another CN admin to do that. But because you choose to run a customized banner it is your responsibility to test it across all platforms. I just want to see the final banner and the campaign settings - I can do this myself if you prefer, but might not have time available before the weekend. Ciell (talk) 15:43, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have no expectations that you will check the banners :) I realize that this is within our scope! - Unfortunately, I still don't know whether the current banners have been implemented. - At the moment I'm still hoping that WMDE/I will make progress here by 24.03. and that you can then release the campaign for the planned run (last minute).
With every hour that passes, I assume that we will have to postpone the campaign period.
@Merle von Wittich (WMDE) one more question: I notice your fun-team has set up the campaign including a sample rate of 1 for legacy hiding and impressions. I have never come across a sample rate like this, and learned (the hard way) that WMF sometimes uses history logging samples at a rate of 0,01%. Is your team sure a sample rate of 1 makes sense, and does WMF agree with it being used like this? Ciell (talk) 13:31, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciell: Actually, this is something we set for all of the fundraising campaigns we run and it's part of the "muscle memory" when setting up the campaign. It dates back to a Central Notice introduction I received when I started working at WMDE in 2011. Thinking about it now, I'm sure we don't need to set a sampling rate at all, so I'll disable it. We measure banner interaction (and also banner display) using Event Platform. Kai Nissen (WMDE) (talk) 17:25, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining @Kai Nissen (WMDE)! Interesting that you received information about this during the onboarding almost 14 years ago: the Help:CentralNotice does not mention the 'special features' options, and I sometimes feel a bit in the dark on how the can be used. The small paragraph about banner history logging was only added recently. I'd love to learn more about this, if you ever have the time to write your experience down. Ciell (talk) 19:03, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
March 2025 (up to 30 days for each event) → November 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All
What languages will you be targeting?
en (possibly fr, es)
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?
subnational regions in US
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?
2025-01-22 → 2025-02-05 and 2025-05-15 → 2025-05-22
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia
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
What countries will your campaign target?
Czech Republic
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 - #1Lib1Ref is a global campaign that aims to make Wikipedia more reliable by calling on librarians to add missing references to articles. We try to aim not only to librarians, but also editors and people that never edited Wikipedia before.
Metrics - Number of particpants, number of newly registred participants, number of references added
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
I am sorry for the late request, we will do our best to request the next banners 14 days before as per the rules. We are currently discussing the possibility of my banner admin request to take WMCZ banners out of your hands. Best, --janbery (talk) 16:10, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Shame on the late request! ;P Two kinds of feedback: The text is longer than in many other banners, is that intended? In my mobile preview, the “Zjistit více” button disappeared which removes the call-to-action; I don't think that this is a good solution.
Anyway, you can find the campaign and banner (preview). Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign.
For the second part of the campaign, please either ping me/the CN admins here or start a new request. We cannot set multiple dates and cannot promise that we don't forget to update the dates. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:32, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
as this is a long lasting competition, please used intervalls
2025-01-07 → 2025-01-31
2025-07-01 → 2025-07-15
2025-09-01 → 2025-10-05
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia/Commons/Wikidata/Wikivoyage
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?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Austria
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 CentralNotice/Usage guidelines campaigns running longer than two weeks usually require community approval. Even if this is an established campaign, the unusually long duration should be discussed with the de(-AT) community.
Personally I think the duration might be ok, if the banner is running on a low impression diet and with limited traffic, in order to make sure it doesn't annoy editors (and readers) again and again for many weeks... Johannnes89 (talk) 18:40, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. You can create both the banner as well as the campaign via the CN admin interface. Once you link the created campaign & banner on this page, volunteer CN admins can take a look. If no-one reacts, you can ping one of the active CN admins mentioned at CentralNotice/Request, preferably (or Ciell who is not on the list, but also active and very helpful as well). Johannnes89 (talk) 19:06, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have changed the start date of the campaign in January from 1st to 7th, also talked about it with Christian. It's because I am on vacation around new year's eve and have very limited internet access in this time, so it would be difficult to act if there are issues with the banner or the campaign. --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 13:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Manfred Werner (WMAT): Banner is activated, thanks. There was a problem last year with the banner conflicting with coordinates at the upper right corner of a page (difficult to see, not clickable), which I thought, I have fixed by adding some extra empty space below the banner. But obviously this does not work. Do you have a better idea to fix this? best --Christian Philipp (WMAT) (talk) 10:03, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Martin Urbanec:@Vermont: Hi, as I am new to this and also that kind of CN admin who is here in the role of a representative of an affiliate, I need and would like to ask you to take a look at the two campaigns I have set up - if they are alright (also technically, I am not sure about the close button here) and can be activated. Thank you! --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 17:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me. I don't see a close button in the CN interface preview for some reason, but it works in the onwiki preview [13].
Restarting the banner cycle every week effectively means users will see the banner 12 times which seems a bit much to me. I suggest either limiting it to two impressions per cycle (= 8 total impressions in 3,5 weeks) or extending the cycle a bit, e.g. to 67435200 seconds (1.5 weeks -> 9 total impressions). Johannnes89 (talk) 11:49, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I have reduced the maximum impressions to two.
So, I am just asking again because I am new to this, what should be done now? Will someone activate the campaign?
Thanks, I've activated the campaign, giving my approval as a volunteer CN admin.
I suggest trying to ping volunteer CN admins again for the GLAM request (those without ties to WMF or affiliates like WMDE). Perhaps checking the different CN logs [14] helps finding someone active. The backlog at CNR suggests, that most volunteer CN admins are currently busy, but given that it's just about approving the banner + campaign you created, there should be somebody who can spend 5 minutes to do that. Johannnes89 (talk) 18:23, 6 January 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 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.
