Talk:CentralNotice/Calendar/Archive

Wiki loves monuments

@Multichill - really, Wikilovesmonuments for a MONTH? That's pretty extreme... Philippe (WMF) 04:00, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Philippe. Sound too much. Also to promote WP meetup during 20 days for anon and logged users? also sound too wider and need to be more limited and targeted.. --Itzike 21:38, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Effeietsanders already responded at my talk page, copy and paste: Multichill 16:22, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind remarks. As you probably know, Wiki Loves Monuments is a European contest to get more images of monumental buildings, which is aiming to get more people involved in the Wikimedia projects - first of all by uploading images and releasing in general under a free license. If we would limit ourselves to only logged in users, we would take away this strong outreach opportunity, which would definitely be a pity. If there is something we need these days in Wikimedia, it is more participation - and this contest is a great new way to attempt to realize that. It is not just about getting a lot of free images (which imho would be reason enough). We will however limit the CentralNotice reach to the participating countries - even though people from other countries who have visited participating countries, could also participate in the contests. Effeietsanders 18:45, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Just to make clear, I fully support running that banner also for anon. Just only not for a month. A week for anon and 10 days for logged I think can work and be efficient also --Itzike 19:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Itzike. Philippe (WMF) 08:23, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Concurrent notices

We now have 4 banners running, up to 3 in Egypt or 2 in the USA. I've set the Stewards' notice weigth to 100, so that it's shown 1/3 (1/2) of the time and not 1/12 (1/8). Given that there are two of those and they're pretty long, it might make sense to reduce the two Cairo University banners to 50 (100 in total). Nemo 10:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I've switched the steward banner back down to 25 for now. It was like that since we worked with the Election Committee so that they could get 25% on enWiki with the SOPA banner at 75%. For most countries and non English projects the steward banner will be at 100%. The other banners aren't really my purview though I'd say that a bit lower numbers doesn't really bother me for this particular banner since most steward candidates are going to be moving around the site enough to still see the banner many times. Jalexander 11:37, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

It might always have been 25 but it doesn't mean much if you don't know whether other banners will exist or not and have 25, 50 or 100. :-) Anyway, I personally don't care about having more stewards from en.wiki, I was just confused because the decision you've reported wasn't documented anywhere. Things will be different when it comes to vote, but SOPA banner will be over at that time I guess. Nemo 11:57, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

If it's ok, I'd rather leave the Cairo University banners as-is for now. We are hoping to get the required number of signups really soon, and many of them will perhaps happen this weekend. I'm happy to dial them back after that if that works. Thanks! Akhanna 12:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Arabic version of SOPA blackout warning notice

The Arabic text for the SOPA blackout warning notice (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=enwp_SOPA_GLOBAL_warning_edits&wpUserLanguage=all) has no relation whatsoever to SOPA. It is a request for Wikipedia Ambassadors. This should not be displayed to visitors.  --Lambiam 22:08, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

I have deleted that content for now. Probably happened because stuff was copied over from the Cairo University banners currently running in the middle east. In any case, the banner wasn't live on ar.wiki, so we are good. Thanks! Akhanna 03:17, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania program

We're going to run these banners for logged in and anon on March 8-18. The banners serve the dual purpose of advertising the call for participation and more generally, the dates & location of Wikimania. Depending on how it goes, we can change it to logged in only or maybe geotargeted anon + logged in users in a few days. Cheers. Aude (talk) 04:52, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for using a quite "standard" (i.e. best practice) banner for this. :-) Nemo 08:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Aude - Ten days, sitewide, seems fairly extensive for this purpose (not even inviting people to come, but inviting them to submit a presentation!). Might I suggest that they go to logged in only? I think ten days, sitewide, reaching nearly 125,000,000 people conservatively, is like using a cannon to kill a fly. However, I join Nemo in thanking you for the standard size (smallish) banner. Philippe (WMF) (talk) 04:42, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

We can change it to logged-in only probably tomorrow or Monday (+ maybe anon geotargeted to our region). 1-2 days of anon is more than enough :) On the otherhand, if you'd like to help us with finding sponsorships, that would be great. That's the area where we need the most reach and a few days of banner can help, possibly as a side-effect. Aude (talk) 05:09, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay, we've tweaked the banners to be:

• logged-in only for the program
• geolocated (US + Canada) anon for "Wikimania 2012 is July 12-15 in Washington, D.C." This generically covers program, registration, etc. for anyone interested.

For future banners (possibly registration in April or May), we'd like them to be further geolocated which I think can be done with picking US + Canada (+ a little JavaScript, using the geoiplookup thing). Cheers. Aude (talk) 15:08, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

POTY 2011

Would be someone so kind and tell me what has to be done to get banners for POTY running? There are also some on testwiki but each time I try to modify a campaign there, I get a server-error, while the extension seems to work. Thanks in advance. -- Rillke (talk) 08:01, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Last year POTY2010's notices were:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=potty2010
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=poty2010_round2
• MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-potty2010
• MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-poty2010 round2
• MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-poty2010 round2 1
• MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-poty2010 round2 2

--miya (talk) 09:22, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there. The error on the testwiki is something to do with 1.20wmf4, I will report this to the devs to let them know about it. Can you give me some dates as to when you would like the Central Notice to be put up (the Calendar entry is vague) - copying the banners will be nice and easy, and it looks like a nice banner that Mono's made (the one that goes on the bottom of the page). The Helpful One 13:57, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

The bug is already on bugzilla:37170. I just wanted to say that I can't test them properly. -- Rillke (talk) 14:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

I never liked these banners so two days will be enough for round 1, I think.

Voting for Round 1 started on about 2012-05-26 22:00 [UTC] (Saturday) and will not end before 2012-06-04 23:59 [UTC] (Monday)

Voting for Round 2 will start about 1 week after voting for Round 1 was closed and will run at least one week.

The start of Round 2 depends on whether Kalan's vote checking tool works properly. -- Rillke (talk) 14:22, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

If help with HTML or JavaScript should be required, I would be glad to help. -- Rillke (talk) 14:30, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

If the bug was fixed, please make the banners put up even today if possible. Thanks in advance.--miya (talk) 16:41, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

The sample of the banner is here: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?banner=Banner1 but if it had any problem, more simple version is also preferable - better than nothing. Thanks.--miya (talk) 07:41, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I  Oppose using CentralNotice for this. I think a watchlist notice or something less prominent would be better. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:30, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Why it was done all the years before? I have the feeling someone wants to torpedo our efforts. First Mono has quit without any notice, the questions on QUA are not answered and the promised voting extension was not written, and now this. That, indeed, makes me angry. But of course you could set up watchlist notes in >100 wikis; this would be appreciated. I am now trying to use GlobalMessageDelivery. Cheers -- Rillke (talk) 10:23, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure why it was done in past years. I'm not sure it's totally relevant.

I don't want to torpedo anyone's efforts (and I don't think anyone else wants to either). However, it's June and you're talking about a 2011 contest. That's already on the edge of silliness. I think mass-broadcasting this contest in June makes Wikimedia look stupid and disorganized. And even if it were December 2011 (when this contest should have been held), I'm not sure this particular contest is important enough to broadcast to every user in every language on every project. It's a silly "pick the best" contest, not a Board election or something of actual significance. --MZMcBride (talk) 17:53, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it is (a silly "pick the best" contest). Do you like Facebook? Lots of people like it; I don't. There are also silly like buttons. Verbose feedback is often substantially better.

On the other hand it's an acknowledgement to photographers who donate their work and their time to the public. And that's the reason why I say it's worth having this one time in the year.

About looking disorganized, would you say Wikimedia is properly organized? I just remember the rotate-mess. -- Rillke (talk) 21:01, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

MZMcBride, would you mind to send this message? -- Rillke (talk) 11:32, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Sending now. --MZMcBride (talk) 17:56, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Rillke (talk) 21:01, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Request

Hey, I requested a central notice on the calendar, but nothing seems to happen. Who should I approach for this? MADe (talk) 11:38, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello, the calendar is not a request page, did you read the CentralNotice guidelines? Nobody complained so you can assume people are fine with your "slot". You could ask help to those who are going to also take care of the other WLM banners (who are probably sysops here on Meta), or you can post a request on WM:RFH. It's more likely to succeed if you provide text and code for your banner. Thanks, Nemo 12:43, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Nemo, I did not really understand the CN-guidelines, so thanks for your help MADe (talk) 15:45, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Objection to using CentralNotice by the WMF for the readers survey

I want to draw attention to the fact that for the last few weeks a heated discussion has been held between several chapters and the WMF employee who is in charge of the survey. The sides have not reached agreement on the question that will be asked in the survey (the chapters asking to remove one question, the previous problematic results of which that Sue Gardener mentioned in the past and has even presented on stage - in Wikimania) So I would like to avoid the use of CentralNotice by the WMF for this purpose.

As we don’t have any rule, community or board decision as to who has full control and use of the CentralNotice to the WMF for messages, and as their request to run this survey is not a core part of the WMF which is essential to their activity (not like legal issues, fundraising, tech issues etc.) I don’t think they have the final decision whether to use the CentralNotice. Note that according to CenteralNotice Usage guidelines Banners need to "Be consensus-driven and respect our principles."

As the issue has been discussed for weeks, without reaching a consensus, I would like to solve the problem in the way most of the Wiki projects resolve disputes between two sides – voting. Voting if we run the survey in the way the foundation is demanding, or by the way the chapters asking to.

I'm just clarifying, everyone wants this survey to run, but from some unknown reason the WMF is insisting to have one question, which everyone agrees in the past is problematic, and from the readers voting we can understand little from the results, beside damaging the reputation of the chapters. The Chapters asked the WMF to remove this question and to have another survey that will also focus on this issue in the future, but they seem to oppose that, and the one man show that was taking part on mailing lists and meta seems to have the last word against community opinion. This does not seem like a real democracy to me. --Itzike (talk) 21:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

I dont understand why the WMF insists on keeping the question in the survey, and I can understand the fear that the data will be misused again, but its just a fear. Putting a halt on the survey via CentralNotice is not a good solution. That throws WMF project management of the survey project into chaos, which ultimately wastes donor money. Better to let the WMF run this survey, and refocus on a) analysis of the results, especially by getting raw data out of the WMF, and b) design a better survey that asks the questions the community wants included. There will be opportunity post-survey to ensure that the deductions made by this survey are appropriate. John Vandenberg (talk) 05:18, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

I don't know if this is a serious request even deserving of a response. Besides all the points about ownership, and the chain of control that brought this tool to Meta under partial community control, most of which I'm sure you aren't very aware of. WMF employees and contractors wrote this tool. WMF can very easily copy or move this to the foundation wiki without any control. It currently still resides here, it is certainly not going to become a bargaining chip in every minor disagreement for chapters, or anyone else, over something as ridiculous as a single question on a survey. It would be a joke to even consider future community centralnotice usage against a single question in a survey that may or may not affect chapters.

You will be hard pressed to find any support for this. I'm not sure which community you would be appealing to. Most community members from Meta aren't aware of this, let alone en.wp, and to assume they would side by you, is well...a giant leap to say the least. As a local admin here, I would ask that you please don't bring these minor quibbles, and political posturings to affect regular operations and things you have no claim over to begin with. Theo10011 (talk) 23:03, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

WMNL survey

I see that WMNL is planning a survey on 3 - 19 December. This is right in the middle of the fundraiser, which brings a few different disadvantages:

• People see a lot of banners already, so they will experience likely banner blindness.
• Because of the same banner overload people are probably less willing to actually do what is asked in the banner (spend time on a survey).
• If you want comparable results, and you want to run a second iteration, that will have to happen in the same time of the year.
• While only a small effect (only logged in users), it might have an impact on the fundraiser results in the Netherlands.

I'm not sure if there are very strong arguments to use this month (except that it looks nicer if it is done still in 2012), I didn't see any in the linked announcement. But if there are not very strong arguments, I would suggest to postpone the survey for a month or two, and run it in February 2013. Thanks for reconsidering the timeline!

I also didn't see a call for input to the community (this is the set of questions we'd like to send out) or a call for translation (English, Frysian?). If postponed, you might have an opportunity for that, too (maybe people have useful input - no guarantees). Effeietsanders (talk) 14:52, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Isn't the Dutch fundraiser scheduled for April next year under the latest plans?--Bence (talk) 15:27, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

That was my idea as well (that there would be no fundraiser in Nl in December). Zack Exley wrote in a recent message to Wikimedia-l that the end of year campaign would run only in 5 countries (US, CA, GB, AU & NZ). That's not to say that I won't take you other comments on board! --SRientjes (talk) 15:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

I also noticed this announcement after my question here - I didn't see that email yet. However, I guess the chances are reasonable that the time schedule might be returned to what we're used to for next years, so for repeat surveys it would still be tricky. So my preference would still be end of January / begin February, (also less interference with holidays) but it is less strong of a point than when you assume the Fundraiser will definitely be in December. Effeietsanders (talk) 00:10, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the POTY contest

Hi all, I'll address this in advance - the Commons Picture of the Year committee is planning to use CentralNotice to advertise two rounds for about two weeks. There will be two bursts for logged-in editors only and will be shown on all projects in appropriate languages. POTY is a great event and helps showcase the quality of Commons to Wikimedians and the world and results in more uploads/featured picture nominations.

Last year, CentralNotice was not used because of objections from Meta participants over timing. This year, the contest will be much earlier (January, not June). CentralNotice was used the year before last and the participation was more than doubled, without our recently introduced enhanced voting system. The banners will be non-intrusive and we are looking forward to improving our participation signficantly.  ℳono  04:00, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

WMNL new year's reception: some technical problems

Not sure whom to discuss this with, but the current banner for the WMNL New Year's reception (http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=nieuwjaarsborrel) has a technical problem. The 'Hide' button doesn't hide the banner but takes you to the linked page (the cross does work as expected, though). Because of this, an admin on the Dutch language Wikipedia has now explicitly hidden this banner for everyone there. Since I do not have any experience with this, I wonder if anyone who does have some skill with this could take a brief look at how to fix this. I also have the impression that the banner is being perceived by the community as being very large, but I'll first take that up with the sponsor, User:Spinster. Paul B (talk) 17:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC) (WMNL board member, but speaking only on behalf of myself here).

Update: it seems that we have had sufficient response from the Dutch Wikipedia anyway, so there's no hurry here. We'll probably leave it like this. Paul B (talk) 17:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for this, I've fixed the hide button so it should hide the banner correctly as expected. Thehelpfulone 17:44, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Cool, thanks :) Well, your username says it all. Paul B (talk) 23:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

According to CentralNotice/Usage guidelines there has to be "some sort of consensus" before non-standard banners are enabled (even if there wasn't a guideline on that, it should still be common sense, right?). There has not been any discussion prior to putting up this banner at the projects which are the most affected by this banner (nlwiki, nlbooks, nlwikt, etc.). MrBlueSky (talk) 02:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Banners

What size is good for a graphic banner style central notice? Is it best to make it a single banner image or is it fine to put multiple elements, images and wiki text, within a div or table? I'm trying to come up with something here for the January 15 Wikivoyage launch announcement central notice. We could really use help! Never done this before. --Rogerhc (talk) 17:59, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Help needed at Talk:Wikivoyage_2013/CentralNotice#Banner. Time is short--this is scheduled to go live January 15-17 and we need experienced admin help. Thanks! --Rogerhc (talk) 18:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Offered some thoughts and can help out if needed Jalexander (talk) 18:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

"Belarusian Wikipedias Day in Warsaw, Poland" banner for Belarusian Wikipedias

Hi, I'd like to run a banner for bewiki and be-x-oldwiki visitors (projects scope) from Poland and Belarus (geo scope). There is a workshop planned on February 16. What should I do so the banner appears ASAP? Community consensus reached (be-x-old, be). I've already prototyped the CentralNotice banner template in my local MediaWiki installation. Wizardist (talk) 20:10, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Philippines recruitment for two weeks

[1]: it's weird enough to send people to the account creation form, which 1) wrongly implies one must register to contribute, 2) hides the explanation page w:en:Wikipedia:Tambayan_Philippines/Get_started making everything most confusing. Most importantly, however, two weeks of anonymous banners for a WikiProject sounds very extreme. Was this discussed at least with the general en.wiki community (which is not the only wiki affected though)? They'll soon get crazy if any WikiProject can get two-weeks über-huge banners. --Nemo 11:19, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the project plan was announced in the village pump on EnWp ahead of time, as it is the only wiki showing the banners. --Haithams (talk) 17:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

• We have a similar request for a Canada project just now.[2] --Nemo 23:14, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
• I discovered, thanks to Asaf, that there is a report hidden in the mists of en.wiki: w:en:Wikipedia:Geo-targeted Editors Participation/report. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work well, as I predicted above. --Nemo 08:24, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Contribution month in Canada

Does it look good on this calendar? It should be added by tomorrow per Meta:Requests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat#CentralNotice_by_tomorrow_please.3F. πr² (t • c) 16:58, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Banner about financial contest on slovak Wikipedia

Can someone please make banner with these parameters:

• text: Deň finančnej gramotnosti: Uprav článok, pomôž Wikipédii a vyhraj!
• link: //sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:De%C5%88_finan%C4%8Dnej_gramotnosti
• from 8.9.2013 to 7.11.2013
• from 8.9.2013 to 30.9.2013 ratio between WLM banner and this one 6:1
• from 1.10.2013 to 7.11.2013 ratio 1 of 3 impressions
• projects: all
• language: sk
• both anonymous and logged in
• no geographical limits (or possible Slovakia)

It is based on discussion on Slovak Wikipedia's Village Pump. The banner is intended for Wikimedia Slovakia's Wikipedia contest with external partner. The main reason why I am asking there is (as I hope) possibility to set ratio between these 2 banners. --KuboF (talk) 20:29, 1 September 2013 (UTC) updated --KuboF (talk) 12:36, 2 September 2013 (UTC) update after our partner made the contest longer --KuboF (talk) 10:17, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

@KuboF and Benoit Rochon: I can personally do this, but I don't know how to do the ratio between WLM and this banner. Maybe User:Jalexander can do that. PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:02, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I can do this, but not the 6:1 ratio. Is that enough? PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it is enought. Thanks! --KuboF (talk) 18:49, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

@KuboF: does there need to be an image? If so, what? PiRSquared17 (talk) 19:29, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

@PiRSquared17: No image, thanks! --KuboF (talk) 20:23, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

@PiRSquared17: Is the banner implemented? I see no banner on skwiki. Thanks. --KuboF (talk) 15:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

@KuboF: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Translations/links&banner=FinancialContestSK&uselang=sk&force=1 ? PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

@PiRSquared17: The banner is visible only with URL-parameter forcing. But we need at least on Slovak Wikipedia banner for all users... --KuboF (talk) 15:44, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

@PiRSquared17 and Benoit Rochon: Now I founded that the banner works only for logged in. Can you please fix it that it work for anonymous too? Thanks. --KuboF (talk) 16:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

@KuboF: I'm not an expert with CentralNotice, but none of the other admins want to help you. Sorry for being so slow. Anyway, according to Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/FinancialContestSK, it is visible to anons. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:18, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

@KuboF: I increased the priority. Now is it working? Do you want it normal or high priority? PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

@PiRSquared17: Now it is working even for anons! Many thanks! --KuboF (talk) 16:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Bug 55635 - New mailing list for centralnotice admins

FYI --Nemo 23:42, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Banner for WM-AR Hackathon

Hi all!

I would like to publish a banner to promote the hackathon we are organizing in Buenos Aires. I have no idea how to program this so, although I created a code based on other banners.

Here are the parameters for the banner:

• link: //es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Hackat%C3%B3n_Wiki
• from November 11th to November 25th, 2013.
• only logged-in users.
• only in Argentina.
• text1: ¿Te interesa programar y desarrollar? Participá en el Hackatón Wiki,
• text2: este 30 de noviembre y 1 de diciembre en Buenos Aires.

Thanks, Osmar Valdebenito (WMAR) (talk) 14:48, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

non-relative protocol resource

Please remove "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Gray-gradient1.png" and replace it with "linear-gradient(to bottom, #FFFFFF 0%, #DDDDDD 90%)" from Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/wm_il_hackathon_2013_dec_01 since it breaks the protocol relative policy. eranroz (talk) 21:43, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

I just changed it to a protocol relative link (a css gradient would require more cruft to accomodate old browsers). Peter Coombe (WMF) (talk) 00:33, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed publicity for Wikimania 2014

Hi everyone, I'm organising Wikimania this year, which runs from 8-10th August in London, with a series of fringe events beginning in June. It'll be the biggest Wikimania yet by quite some way, and has a heavy emphasis on outreach and publicising some of the lesser known parts of Wikimedia; how the deeper community works, the upcoming design changes, how Wikimedia can be used in formal education, Wikidata, Wikimedians-in-Residence, etc. Significantly, the conference website itself will have a lot of outreach material on it, so it's not only interesting for people who actually attend, but we hope will be a great destination for people who, through finding out that a Wikimania conference exists, have just awoken to the size and cohesiveness of the community.

I don't want to abuse central notices, but they're definitely a pretty powerful tool for publicising this. Here's my proposed campaign:

Dates YYYY/MM/DD	Banner purpose	Projects	Language	Logged in or Anonymous	Geo-located to	Project sponsor	Comments from sponsor
Late March	Submissions close / earlybird registration opens	All	All	Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia	To encourage the community to get the (significantly cheaper) earlybird tickets, and submit their sessions.
Beginning of May	Announcing Wikimania	All	All	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia	To publicise Wikimania to the wider world (& sell tickets)
Mid July	Final tickets	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	UK	User:EdSaperia	To sell off the last of the tickets to local attendees
8-10 August	Streaming feeds	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia	To publicise the streams and videos of the talks as they go up

The foundation is investing a fairly hefty sum into this, so it would be a shame not to promote it well, and it's a really nice focus for outreach activity. Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. EdSaperia (talk) 09:22, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi EdSaperia. I'm already annoyed with the number of Wikimania-related notices scheduled through March 2014. I think what you're proposing is far too many. (cc: KTC) --MZMcBride (talk) 04:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, MZMcBride, the already scheduled notices are similar in number and content to previous years. In fact, the first 2 of 3 are using the same campaign so if the banner had already been closed the first time round, the cookie should still be there so that it wouldn't be showing this time round. -- KTC (talk) 10:21, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

KTC: What are your thoughts on the proposed banners listed above? Broadly, while Wikimania is a great event, it ultimately attracts about 1,000 people out of a movement that encompasses hundreds of thousands of users and millions of readers. The number of banners shown to these millions of people doesn't seem to be suitably proportionate. This talk page is also probably too obscure to get appropriate feedback. (cc: Jalexander, Nemo) --MZMcBride (talk) 23:06, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi MZMcBride, outreach is considered a key strategic goal for the movement, and Wikimania is a powerful tool to do that. Most readers aren't even aware that the community exists at all, and what better demonstration of it than publicising our largest community event? To do outreach we must necessarily show people things they are not looking for. EdSaperia (talk) 23:21, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, Ed, but this strikes me as a hugely disproportionate banner display. We're talking about a thousand or so people, and you're talking banner display to half a billion over the duration of several weeks. I could support, for instance, a worldwide campaign for all users (logged in and anon) for a day or two, max, but then subsetting it to logged in only, for the remaining week or so of a banner campaign. But you've asked for a massive carte blanche here. The language of the fact that we've "invested a fairly hefty sum" doesn't play well either - we've done banners every year, chasing that sum, and I'm not convinced there's a strong payoff for them. I'd like to see us learn from prior experiments, and not simply repeat them. Also, have you considered the clicks from a banner to your live stream, and what that would do to your servers? I made the mistake once of ordering a blog linked from a banner on the site... and Ryan Lane had to rebuild the blog server. Oops. You need one hell of a caching infrastructure to be able to handle that type of click count. Philippe (WMF) (talk) 05:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Oh no, sorry, I didn't mean for it to be up for weeks, that wasn't clear, it would just be a few days at a time, and with the "view once" option. This is more like what I meant:

Dates YYYY/MM/DD	Banner purpose	Projects	Language	Logged in or Anonymous	Geo-located to	Project sponsor	Comments from sponsor
25-31 March	Submissions close / earlybird registration opens	All	All	Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia	To encourage the community to get the (significantly cheaper) earlybird tickets, and submit their sessions.
3-4 May	Announcing Wikimania	All	All	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia	To publicise Wikimania to the wider world (& sell tickets)
26-27 July	Final tickets	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	UK	User:EdSaperia	To sell off the last of the tickets to local attendees
8-10 August	Streaming feeds	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia	To publicise the streams and videos of the talks as they go up.

Is that more reasonable? And I understand you can make it so that only a % of viewers see the banners, maybe we could do this to reduce traffic for the stream? Traditional complaint about the wikimania livestreaming has been that it's not worth doing because not enough people tune in to watch, so this seems like an opportunity to build capacity. EdSaperia (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

• If we're restricting the first 3 to 1 view or so then I'm not horribly against it (we can probably limit the % as well to avoid crowding out other banners while still allowing everyone to see it once, otherwise we get lots of people seeing blank banners which is less helpful). I'm still extremely against the idea of banners for the livestream however from both a technical and social viewpoint. I understand your desire to advertise those and I know that you received promises from the providers that they could deal with it but, to be honest, I don't think they know what they are getting into.

That is billions of banner views and potentially millions (or 10s of millions) of clicks (especially if you advertise someone like Jimmy in the banner). Some of the biggest sites in the world get taken down by influxes of traffic at that level (You may be able to withstand millions of views over a day but even 10-100k within 1 second could bring you down). I don't think I can over estimate how much pressure it can put on a site, our own sites can have issues with that many people at once when it isn't cached and caching is very difficult for a live stream event.

From a a social aspect I'm also uncomfortable, that is a giant hammer of advertising (think of it as $100s of millions of dollars worth) for relatively few people. I know that this is likely to be very frustrating but given that you are proposing running the streaming banner mostly on the English Wikipedia and other English projects I don't think that here (the Central Notice Calendar page on meta) is the right place to get permission. If you want to put up a banner like that (which will 'look' very much like advertising, and is very abnormal for what we normally run) I think you should go to the local communities themselves (on the appropriate project village pumps) to get permission from them. That wouldn't eliminate the technical issues (which, with my current understanding, will likely still cause me to be opposed) but I'd be much more comfortable on the social side with their blessing. Jalexander--WMF 22:22, 13 March 2014 (UTC) @MZMcBride: since you were involved earlier.

"Final tickets" looked long at two days, but it's only the UK. I'd kill "Streaming feeds" altogether. And I still think six days for "Submissions close" is a lot, but at least it's only logged-in users. Revised table below. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:55, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Dates (2014)	Banner purpose	Projects	Language	Logged in or Anonymous	Geo-located to	Project sponsor	Comments from sponsor
25–31 March	Submissions close / earlybird registration opens	All	All	Logged in	Worldwide	EdSaperia	To encourage the community to get the (significantly cheaper) earlybird tickets, and submit their sessions.
3–4 May	Announcing Wikimania 2014	All	All	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	EdSaperia	To publicise Wikimania to the wider world (& sell tickets)
26–27 July	Final tickets	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	UK	EdSaperia	To sell off the last of the tickets to local attendees

I actually disagree about the streaming feeds - I think they have a much greater potential audience than the others: Probably only a few hundred or maybe a thousand people will be in a position to submit presentations that have a chance to get accepted, probably only a few thousand people will have the means and interest to attend the conference in person, but there are surely tens of thousands who would be interested in watching presentations online. In any case you will have to agree that the action item in each case represents vastly differing amounts of effort (1. crafting a submission, 2. buying a ticket and spending days attending, 3. watching a video stream on your computer).

In general I fully share the concerns about banner overuse expressed by James and Philippe above, but if the video servers are really up for the traffic, I would support a banner notice about the streams at least for logged-in users. It's surely a bit of a novelty and an experiment; perhaps we should get some more opinions on e.g. Wikimedia Forum or Wikimania-l.

Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 01:12, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

I still disagree but if the community wants it I won't stand in the way (though I will want proof that the servers can actually handle it), I do however think this is a question for w:Wikipedia:Village_Pump and it's counterparts, not the relatively low watched Wikimedia Forum. Jalexander--WMF 01:15, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

I certainly take your concern about the server load on board. Regarding community consensus, I have posted the question in the forums you suggested: Wikipedia Village Pump, Wikimedia Forum. Let's see what people say. If you want me to ask anywhere else, feel free to suggest. EdSaperia (talk) 15:47, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

We are a bit behind schedule on opening registration, here's a revised proposal:

Dates YYYY/MM/DD	Banner purpose	Projects	Language	Logged in or Anonymous	Geo-located to	Project sponsor	Comments from sponsor
19-20 May	Announce Wikimania	All	All	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia
23-24 June	Promote Wikimania	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	UK	User:EdSaperia
21-22 July	Promote Wikimania	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	UK	User:EdSaperia	Dependent on ticket sales
8-10 August	Livestream	All	English	Anonymous & Logged in	Worldwide	User:EdSaperia

I'll have more info on our livestream capabilities soon. EdSaperia (talk) 13:35, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

ToU amendment banner

It just came to my attention that Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/ChangeToU2014_v1 is enabled for unregistered users too, which explains the flood of edits of questionable usefulness. Worse than that, I've not seen any request for translation nor notification. Jalexander, I suppose translators were invited to translate the banner privately/manually, how many days were they given to provide and review translations? The current translation to Italian, for instance, is atrocious and highly misleading.
It's wildly inappropriate to expose hundreds millions of unregistered users to unreviewed CentralNotice banners hastily translated (possibly with no advance warning) out of process, with no possibility for the translators to know about the need to review them even when they explicitly asked to be informed by subscribing to translators-l or notifications. Someone here really needs to start treating translators with a bit of respect. --Nemo 13:37, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Honestly I wish I could have given more time for translation, I was restricted by the time given me by the legal team and while they provided some paid translations to seed it at the start we needed to get the banner up to everyone per the ToU discussion rules. Since it had to go up right away I decided that the translation link on the banner was enough though it is obviously not the perfect answer since it is difficult to tell whether the translations given are correct or good when I don't speak the language. I tend to lean towards accepting any translations not obviously wrong in order to get something that isn't English up (and I make mistakes even then) but I'm very happy to stop approving changes if someone I trust, such as yourself, says a language is set. It apparently doesn't come across this way but I REALLY respect the translators who do an enormous amount of very difficult work, anything I can do to make their lives easier I want to do and I'm very open to things to do that though sometimes I'm restricted by other things as well. Jalexander--WMF 20:54, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiConference USA 2014

I have proposed use of CentralNotice to promote WikiConference USA 2014 in New York; see the calendar. I would like to use this for the banner. I am not a CentralNotice admin so someone please make sure I didn't screw up anything up. Let me know if there is anything that would prevent the banner from being put online on April 6 per the calendar. harej (talk) 22:42, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

I have to say, looking at what you have on the calendar, that's a REALLY long time for both anonymous and logged in users in the entire United States. I don't think you need more then 1 or 2 days for anonymous users (and not 10 days for logged in) and I'm not even 100% sure anonymous makes sense for the conference :-/... I can understand wanting to get it known but that's showing it to 100s of thousands of users, 99% of which aren't editors, for a conference which probably can have max 1000 people probably less? (especially since most of those users are all over the country and not very close to NY). I'm interested in other people's thoughts, perhaps I'm being too conservative but I'm very hesitant. Pinging a couple people I know have engaged here before @Jeremyb: ( WMNY so possibly engaged with the conference? Also done a fair bit with banners so may be able to help you set up for whatever is decided), @Philippe (WMF): @MZMcBride:. Jalexander--WMF 22:54, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

@Jalexander: Limiting the campaign to logged-in users only probably makes sense, given the objects of the conference. My concern is that I want to promote the banner well enough in advance of the deadline that people have time to (1) see it, (2) come up with an idea, (3) prepare a scholarship application or proposal, and (4) submit it. The conference is national in scope (and we are awarding scholarships) so the lack of proximity to New York is less of an issue. That aside I am happy to limit the duration of the campaign if it's consistent with best practices for CentralNotice. Pinging Pharos. harej (talk) 00:02, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it was I who referred James to put it on the calendar to begin with :) I haven't discussed this particular banner too much yet but I think I'd go for a longer time period and reduce the percent of page loads that are included. (instead of 100% for a short period. but maybe also 100% for a short period? don't know a lot about banner scheduling theories) Some people might not be active (or even using their computer at all) for a couple days. Among the kind of anons we want to attract are the ones that sit on Wikipedia jumping from page to page reading for extended periods. (vs. e.g. the people that use Wikipedia 3 minutes per week) And we also want the anons that are editing logged out. (my opinions, maybe someone else has more thoughts on who the audience should be) --Jeremyb (talk) 00:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

@Jeremyb: If we could target on that precise a level that would be great, but I have no idea how to do that. I think doing it for a longer period but not 100% of the page loads is a good balance. harej (talk) 00:48, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Honestly I don't think it deserves any time for anons (I think that's basically by definition far too many people for far too little benefit), but if you're going to do it I think it should be limited to no more then a day or two and as low as possible. That's just so many page views for the worth it gives and even if you might get a bit more from people who were not coming on those day(s) you spam more people then it's worth for those extras. For logged in users I think a week to 10 days is fine. I don't think it really needs more, even if not at 100%. @Jeremyb: are you planning to make the banner and put it up? Jalexander--WMF 23:37, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

@Pharos: Aye, I appreciate you're doing scholarships, which I think is good, and why I'm not completely against any banners at all but i just want to make sure we have a sense of balance here. How many scholarships (including travel) are you thinking about? I can't imagine it's more then 100 or so (maybe up to 200 if you have a larger grant) and the larger net we cast here based on time and visibility the more people we have who couldn't possibly go even if they wanted to and the more risk that it isn't a useful message for them (leading them to write banners off more and more). Jalexander--WMF 23:43, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

We've decided not to go forward with this form of outreach to anons, given that we can reach the Wikimedian community as logged-in users, and also more efficiently solicit other potential participants through academia, etc.--Pharos (talk) 05:54, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Pharos, that makes me a lot more comfortable. Jalexander--WMF 06:16, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiknic banner

I've proposed a banner for the Wiknic that will be held on July 6 and surrounding dates. The banner is in the same style as last year's banner. I apologize for the short notice. harej (talk) 03:58, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikimania banner not in compliance

Current banner

I find the current Wikimania banner to be ridiculously huge: there is no need for the logo to be so big, nor for the "find out more" to be on another line. Further, it's not listed on this page, therefore I urge any sysop or centralnotice admin to immediately disable it until repaired. --Nemo 08:09, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Apologies for missing it from this page, that was due to a miscommunication and I thought someone from the Wikimania team had done this (in fact they had, but the banner has been pushed back so long that it was now out of date). I've fixed this and added additional information. There also seems to be an issue with it not hiding after one page view, I'm going to disable until I can fix that. Peter Coombe (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 08:47, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Despite my best efforts the hiding after one page view still doesn't seem to be working. It's going to have to wait until the CN tech team are awake to help me debug this. I did take the time to reduce the size a bit [3]. Peter Coombe (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 10:19, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

@Pcoombe (WMF): you may want to test on aawikibooks but the 1 time show should work now. Jalexander--WMF 10:50, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

@Jalexander: yep. I'm an idiot. Thanks James! I've re-enabled the banner. Peter Coombe (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 11:56, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Banner about financial contest on slovak Wikipedia (2)

I ask to make banner with these parameters:

• text: Deň finančnej gramotnosti: Uprav článok, pomôž Wikipédii a vyhraj!
• link: //sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:De%C5%88_finan%C4%8Dnej_gramotnosti
• from 8.9.2014 to 7.11.2014
• projects: all
• language: sk
• both anonymous and logged in
• no geographical limits
• should be showed in 25% of views

The banner is intended for Wikimedia Slovakia's Wikipedia contest with external partner, same as the last year. Thanks in advance! --KuboF (talk) 17:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Added - campaign here --Glaisher (talk) 09:53, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Problems with Summer of Monuments banner and geocoordinates template on enwiki

Hi all (Harej in particular),

Dan just pointed out issues with the current Summer of Monuments banner (WSM_intro_A) on the English Wikipedia. He writes:

"check this out: http://i.imgur.com/CxWOOFz.png Two big problems:

• The banner is causing the title of the article to indent
• The banner is sitting under the coordinates float"

I'm just passing this on here and can't reproduce the problem myself under either Chromium or Firefox, although I too am interested in the resolution in general (I seem to recall that this wouldn't be the first time that the geocoordinates template and CN banners collide).

Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 21:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello Tbayer and Dan. Thank you for pointing out these issues. I had noticed article title indentation in an earlier version of the banner, but I fixed that before it launched. But maybe my fix only worked in my setup. Perhaps there's an issue with the banner in Monobook? I only tested in Vector. In any case, the banner should be offline now but we may want to fix it before we use the banners again in September. harej (talk) 04:29, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello again Tbayer and Dan. Now that September is coming up, we may have to look at the banners. First, is there a base template you'd recommend that is known not to cause problems with page titles or coordinates in Monobook? Secondly, looking at the code for WSM intro A and WSM intro B, is there anything obvious that would set off alarm bells? Thanks, harej (talk) 02:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

@Harej: After playing around with the CSS a bit, I found a solution to the first problem. It can be fixed by using this stylesheet. [4]. (preview) The second problem is due to the code at MediaWiki:Monobook.css for #coordinates. I haven't been able to find the exact problem but top: 0 seems to fix it but that's probably not a feasible solution to this. --Glaisher (talk) 15:11, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

@Glaisher: That doesn't seem to solve the problem for me. This is what it looks like in Chrome 37.0.2062.94 (OS X 10.9.4). harej (talk) 12:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

@Harej: I said that it solved the first problem (title indentation). I couldn't figure out a way to fix the coordinates problem without modifying the local css for coordinates at enwp. And the coordinates problem is present on other banners as well. [5] [6]. --Glaisher (talk) 17:39, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Glaisher. I have incorporated your code into our banner for September. If there is a fix to the other problem, please let me know as soon as possible. harej (talk) 04:01, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Board letter regarding super-protection and MediaViewer

Hi. Regarding this edit, this proposed notice has visibility that is wildly disproportionate to the importance of what's being advertised. And the proposer has a clear conflict of interest.

I don't believe any central notice is appropriate or warranted here. I'd like to read why anyone believes a week-long notice to all users (logged-in and logged-out) is a good idea. (cc: Peteforsyth) --MZMcBride (talk) 02:41, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback @MZMcBride:. I don't think COI typically disqualifies these -- I think there's probably usually a COI of some sort. But, for that reason I did not feel confident moving forward with it without some discussion or input -- so I'm glad you're bringing it up here. I initially wrote this letter thinking that it might gather 200 or so signatures, from people who felt that superprotect was a significant issue for the future of how the Wikimedia community operates, and that the implementation of Media Viewer deserved pointed commentary. With more than 750 signatures now, I am confident that the message resonates strongly. Several others have urged me to do a CN, which is the main impetus for being here. There is a CN currently running, published by WMF (also in a COI) which concerns the future software development of this feature. I believe this letter -- with the support it has already gathered -- is much more clearly justified for a CN than that discussion. However, I am open to a counterproposal of how/when/where it should run. -Pete F (talk) 03:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Linking this discussion where this idea was originally proposed. -Pete F (talk) 04:11, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Apparently there's already a CentralNotice notice about MediaViewer that links to Community Engagement (Product)/Media Viewer consultation. Sigh. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:20, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: Yes, that's what I'm saying. Can you expand on the sigh? -Pete F (talk) 22:51, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

We already run too many banners (I'm now being punished with one about Summer of Monuments). We don't need to invite the world to a "MediaViewer consultation."

There's plenty of actual development work that needs to be scoped out and planned. Perhaps you could help with that. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:54, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: OK. It wasn't my intent to increase something that's already viewed as a problem, and I see your point. If you have specific development issues where you think my help would be worthwhile, as always, let me know. It tends to be a rather confusing area for me, but a nudge in the right direction can help. -Pete F (talk) 13:03, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I agree that it's not necessary for the community to be as disproportionately aggressive as the WMF is, we can be better: I took the liberty to make the request for logged-in users only[7] and I think it would be reasonable to restrict the banner to users with at least 100 edits or so (if it's done). --Nemo 14:23, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments banners in US

@Harej: @Romaine: I don't particularly care which one is used though I do think it would be good to only use one banner rather then have both compete with each other. At the moment you seem to be going back and forth on having the US in the Wiki Loves Monuments campaign or not and while you may be talking off wiki I'm not seeing any comments here or in the edit/log comments so perhaps we make a decision here :). Jalexander--WMF 04:36, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

I posted a comment on Romaine's talk page clarifying the direction of the US contest. harej (talk) 04:39, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

It is not good to just remove a country without without telling me, because I don't know that and then I think I made a mistake and add a country to the list of which get the banner... On Commons is the United States listed as country participating in WLM. It seems that being in that list is not correct. Can you remove it there? Romaine (talk) 04:45, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

That is reasonable. I apologize for the edit war; I had not checked the log, and thought that a technical flaw—rather than a human—was causing the United States to keep being listed. In any case, on the Commons page I have moved the U.S. to the non-participation column. harej (talk) 04:50, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Great! :-) Romaine (talk) 05:24, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments/Summer of Monuments banner limiting

@Romaine:@Harej: I've noticed (since i'm getting what appears to be 100% while reading logged out) that we aren't really limiting banners right now, especially for logged out users. I think 100% for the whole month may be a bit over board and now that we have a specific 'limiting' feature that allow us to set a max % on a campaign without using more complicated math or blank banners I wonder if it would be good to set that on the WLM/SOM campaigns (perhaps at 25-50% ? ) so that we aren't flooding people completely. Thoughts? Jalexander--WMF 03:08, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello Jalexander, In 2013 we had a situation in what the banner was limited because of other reasons and immediately the number of uploads dropped significantly. There was a lot of criticism about that by a lot of national teams and others. Wiki Loves Monuments highly depends on this banner for the results and participation. I think there is consensus about how it is set up now and I do not want to change it without the agreement of the local teams, as this has directly influence on the results. Romaine (talk) 12:53, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

I agree with James. A month for all users is too long. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:29, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

I don't know if this is related, but the banner is re-appearing after having dismissed it, and upon trying to close it, it pops back up. I am all for exposure to our contest, but I think if you click the close button the banner should remain closed. Can someone look into this? harej (talk) 02:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

@Harej: try now. @Romaine: (and Harej) if we're not going to adjust the percentages (and actually even if we are) I want to try and gather more evidence that we can all use to judge the efficiency and reach of the banners. The data now is hard to get, scattered around and not necessarily easy to draw direct comparisons. For example fundraising loses clicks and donations very quickly to the point that switching the banner and doing small surges and then coming down is essential. On the other side I know that Legal has run banners for a month (starting at 100% then bumping down to 50 and 20) and had the same conversion rate the entire time. I'm going to try and gather some of that info on wiki here (perhaps this weekend or next week, this work week is pretty fully already) and it would be really nice to have some data from the WLM campaigns. I can get banner views from fundraising and probably get click rate as long as the banner goes to a WMF wiki page (using the views on the page, not perfect but good enough for banners this size) but it would be really useful to get some upload numbers. Perhaps numbers from an UploadWizard campaign, or a template, or even just the difference in daily uploads vs average daily uploads (or the higher of the 3)? Jalexander--WMF 03:30, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Also I must add that the banner of Wiki Loves Monuments is a different type of banner in how it serves the participants (in comparison with fundraising and other banners). We mostly don't expect participants to have photos ready for upload when we show the banner. Participants see earlier in the month that a contest is going on on Wikipedia, read about it, and go make photos in the days/weeks afterwards and tell others about it. Later they come back to Wikipedia to find that link to the contest to participate. Each year we see a significantly higher number of participants and uploads in the last week and days, rising every day. Setting the percentages lower, effectively makes it impossible or much more difficult to find the link to the contest back, and disables visitors from participating. Wiki Loves Monuments highly depends on the CentralNotice banner and the way it is shown. Romaine (talk) 13:53, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Videos für Wikipedia-Artikel vote on video competition

I have seen that this event is scheduled until the 12th October in the Calendar and I see it currently in Italian Wikipedia in Switzerland. It doesn't make sense to me to have a banner wrote in German in another language. Why there is no limitation for linguistic area or a translation in the language of the project? --Ilario (talk) 12:28, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

de: Wikipedia:Fotowettbewerbe/2014/Weihnachts-Fotowettbewerb

Hello,
I'm wondering if it would make sense/be possible to add a Message for the Christmas/Winter challenge (articles and photos) on the German Wikipedia (de: Wikipedia:Fotowettbewerbe/2014/Weihnachts-Fotowettbewerb, organised by Brücke and myself and sponsored by Wikimedia Deutschland and Österreich. I think it could be a German only message (as the challenge is only in German) geo-located to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Not sure if I'm at the correct place here (the only general messages I'm a bit familiar with are the Commons:MediaWiki:WatchlistNotices, where we can announce the photo challenges).
Best wishes, Anna reg (talk) 16:01, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Banner for March 2015

{{editprotected}} Please someone create a banner with these parameters:

• text: Wikipedia Lab in Thessaloniki!<br />Open editing workshops, starting Saturday 14 March 2015.
• link: http://blog.wikimedia.gr/2015/03/wikipedia-lab-thessaloniki/
• dates: 07-03-2015 to 14-03-2015
• projects: all
• language: el, wn
• both anonymous and logged in
• Geolocated to: GR (Greece)

The banner is intended for editing workshops done by Wikimedia Community User Group Greece. Thanks in advance! --Geraki ^T_L 08:58, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Geraki: Since the dates already passed I think this is not needed? Best if next time you request this at WM:RFH. Best regards. -- M\A 12:09, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, at the end I placed a request there. -Geraki ^T_L 13:01, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Election 2015 banner

Sorry for being a bit "rude", but the current banner (Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/Election2015_BoardSubmission) is shameful and especially not accessible. Try to zoom your webpage (CTRL and +) and you will see the text disappearing inside that weird dark blue bow... Someone should fix it as soon as possible. It is on the top of each page in every Wikipedia of the world... (!) --Lucas (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Lucas, honestly I'm happy to make changes to make it more accessible but I'm not entirely sure how to do so to help :-/. When I zoom in with (CTRL +) the text doesn't seem to do what you describe, could you explain more about exactly what you're seeing and perhaps your browser/operating system so that i can try and replicate? Obviously we try to make it pretty easy to close if issues like this are happening (by pressing the x in the top right hand corner) but so far I've heard more good things about the banner then bad things. If there are problems though then I want to find a way to address that, if you or anyone else have suggestions to tweak it to make it more accessible then please let me know. Jalexander--WMF 17:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I tried with Firefox, IE, Chrome and Opera last versions, the OS shouldn't be important in this case, I am using WIN 8.1, in any case.

Simply looking at the code, which is using pixels ("px") instead of fluid design (em, %, etc.) makes clear (or at least it should) what is the problem with this banner. Screen resolutions or zoom levels are not important as they should vary without interfere with the banner accessibility.

Please see the following screen-shots, obtained by simply zooming the page with the appropriate browser function: Firefox, IE, Chrome, Opera (probably the worst).

I am sorry if I cannot help right now in fixing the template, it is not a complex issue, but I definitely have work duties that need to be done soon. Thanks :-) --Lucas (talk) 20:02, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Ok, I see what you'er talking about now. It's still interesting because that is not happening on any of those browsers for me. On my screen by the time it wraps and overflows like that the interface itself is crumbling (the Edit button/view history button etc fall on top of the browser fall apart and are on top of the banner and content). What you are currently seeing is certainly not perfect but 'as designed' for most CN Banners failing with the text overflowing and hiding as it wraps rather then overflowing out into the screen. I've found over time that attempting to dynamically adjust the text size etc can have major issues on heavily translated CN banners especially rtl languages but it doesn't mean it's not possible. @Pcoombe (WMF): do you have any free time to take a look at the banner? You've had more recent experience and sadly I'm swamped right now (and had 3 hours sleep the past couple nights so need to get a nap soon if I want to stay sane). Jalexander--WMF 20:19, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Sorry @Jalexander-WMF:, I really don't have time to work on this right now. Peter Coombe (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 16:25, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

You could try something like [8] (Not really tested). Also there's been some complaints at commons (commons:Commons:Village_pump#Irregular_banner), that using js onclick instead of a normal link makes it so that people cannot ctrl+click to open in new window, see url in status bar, etc. Bawolff (talk) 21:50, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks @Bawolff: I had to adjust your changes a bit to make it work with rtl but it does look like it's better. Those are made. I also flipped the onclick to a full banner link. I like unclick for some of it's simplicity in other ways but I know that some people really prefer (understandably) to use right click etc and I don't care enough about onclick to challenge that :) Jalexander--WMF 02:17, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

it.wikivoyage

Ilario, non mi risulta che questa abnorme campagna mensile sia stata discussa da nessuna parte, prego disattivare finché non ci sia stata appropriata discussione da qualche parte. Problemi generali da discutere:

• Un mese non è accettabile.
• Non capisco chi vada in vacanza a luglio, questa cosa comincia a essere ridicola oltre che un insulto per il numero sempre maggiore di italiani e italofoni che non si possono permettere vacanze.
• Le statistiche persistono nel mostrare che le campagne non portano benefici. Non c'è alcun incremento nei contributi.

Configurazioni facili a cambiarsi (salvo discussione/necessità di diverso orientamento):

• Davvero si vuole fare su tutti i progetti? E in tutti i paesi?
• Degli utenti non registrati probabilmente si può fare a meno, è improbabile che contribuiscano. Non è chiaro se rientrino fra i destinatari del messaggio/della campagna.
• Il sitenotice di it.wiki avrebbe dovuto essere svuotato anticipatamente, non a posteriori. :/

--Nemo 07:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Nemo fino a che si tratta di pubblicizzare progetti minori non vedo problemi, invitiamo le persone a scrivere su un progetto come Wikivoyage non a donare soldi. Invece vedo un problema nella campagna 5x1000 che è durata 3 mesi e ce la siamo vista anche in Svizzera dove la gente veniva sul nostro sito di Wikimedia CH a cercare il 5x1000!!!! Il livello è messo a "normale" per cui se entrano banner urgenti nascondono questi. Quello della libertà di panorama, ad esempio, lo ha nascosto. Quindi non sarà un mese, sarà qualche settimana. Dove se ne era discusso? Quando è saltato fuori come un fungo quello del 5x1000 ma nessuno ha risposto, inoltre ne ha discusso la comunità di Wikivoyage. --Ilario (talk) 08:24, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Ilario, sulla campagna cinque per mille non mi esprimo, io non ho niente a che vedere con essa. Su questa campagna, però, vedo benissimo che fa solo danni senza alcun beneficio. Non solo è incredibilmente lunga rispetto a campagne simili, non solo non è stata né discussa né richiesta prima che tu la mettessi, non solo ha un testo insultante per chi le vacanze non se le può permettere, non solo è logorante, non solo è stata estesa a progetti e paesi che mai prima erano stati toccati da tale invadenza (cosí che devo eliminare il banner in 900 wiki): non solo tutto ciò, ma è anche del tutto inutile e uno spreco di risorse perché bnon consegue ALCUN risultato. Smettila di abusare i tuoi permessi in questo modo qui in Meta. Non è per questo che è stata creata questa funzione. --Nemo 12:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines, Wikivoyage è un progetto del movimento Wikimedia, mi è stato chiesto di mettere il banner, sulla wikipedia in italiano non ho visto opposizioni (a parte la tua), quindi siete pari e ad ogni modo un singolo non fa consenso. L'unica differenza a vantaggio di Wikivoyage è che in passato la comunità italiana ha sempre accettato il banner per un periodo di qualche mese in estate, quindi esiste un consenso che può essere considerato ricorrente. Sull'abuso direi che anche il mass mailing è un bell'abuso soprattutto se non se ne è mai stato discusso un invio massivo su una certa tematica. Quando sono stato a Wikimania ho chiesto in giro per il banner di Wikivoyage e non ho trovato opposizioni, al contrario il primo non italiano che ho incontrato mi ha parlato della campagna fatta durante le elezioni (lamentandosi). Sui risultati dobbiamo considerare anche l'aumento di visite, sono delle metriche prese in considerazione. Direi che l'abuso è nascondere il banner nel momento in cui la comunità non abbia chiesto il suo oscuramento perché al momento resta semplicemente una battaglia personale. Se vedo evidenza di un'opposizione della comunità al banner, mi rimangio tutto. --Ilario (talk) 15:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Limiting impressions on Wikimania 2015 registration announcement

@KTC: There has some concern from ops about the impact of the wm2015register campaign, it seems this campaign is set to deliver the maximum number of banners across all wikis. I'd like to make a suggestion, that you add "banner diet" code to the banner so that it's only shown once or twice to each unique viewer. This helps everyone by reducing so-called banner fatigue, annoyance to readers, and load on servers. Unfortunately, it's not a straightforward process to add this banner hiding code. To that end, I'd like to put you in touch with @Pcoombe (WMF): and fr-techwikimedia.org, who can hopefully help with this. Thanks! Awight (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Awight (WMF): in this case I merely implemented the request by the organising team as per the last couple of years. AFAIK, RecordImpression had not been an issue before with similar banners. Glaisher had already limited traffic to 50%. I have set "mw.centralNotice.onlySampleRI" to true as per new documentation. I have also added a very basic display counter to display the banner up to 2 times, but it's limited to the local project so it's 2 times per project rather than across Wikimedia wikis. The code work by CSS's "display:none" rather than not loading the banner in the first place. Something like this need to be a feature in CentralNotice itself. -- KTC (talk) 03:14, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for being so accommodating KTC. Adding these banner limiting features to CentralNotice itself is currently being worked on (we definitely want it for fundraising too, rather than having to rely on my flaky javascript!) Peter Coombe (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 10:40, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Recommendation for anonymous impressions vs. logged-in impressions

I have scheduled a banner for WikiConference USA starting 19 August. I want impressions for both anonymous and logged in users (anons are welcome to attend!), but I feel like I don't need as many impressions for anons. The length of the campaign is 19–31 August. Of that timespan, for how many does should the banner run for anons? harej (talk) 17:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Well, one day and dozens of registrations later... I think I'll keep it for just logged-in users for now. That was a fun day. If the registration numbers look too modest maybe I'll run another with-anons campaign later! harej (talk) 00:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for revising your campaign during its duration. For events, restricting to logged-in users is usually sensible. --Nemo 13:02, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia 15 campaign for three months

Hi. Re: this edit, three months seems pretty excessive. In general, I don't think Wikipedia's quinceañera is really a big deal. Advertising it to the world for even more than a few days in January is probably too much. (cc: Heatherawalls) --MZMcBride (talk) 07:28, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

+1. Unless there is some specific community demand and assessable goal for the campaign, a week is plenty. People usually celebrate birthdays for at most 24 hours. Nemo 07:33, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey ya'll. The planning process has just started -- I just wanted to add a little space in the case it is needed. heather walls (talk) 07:34, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Information: We have temporarily disabled the banner on Swedish (sv) Wikipedia. As noted above, a "birthday" lasts for 24 hours only, at least in Swedish translation and context. /NH 13:56, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

WMVE_aprendedesarrollarstartup Banner

Hi, I will be happy if the people involve with setting this banner will explain the idea why we need to advertise this event. This is non Wikimedian event, hosted by Google on external website (while we usually directing people only to Wikimedia sites), that cost money - and which relevant to start-ups. User:Matiia, User:Jseddon (WMF) --Itzike (talk) 15:36, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey Itzike, I didn't create the campaign, but made an adjustment to reduce potential banner fatigue and so limited the number of impressions. Currently there are no official rules as to how affiliates use banners. Currently it's down to the local affiliate to work in-conjunction with their associated language community which is pretty much the rule with sitenotice. Ideally some sort of indication of a consensus discussions but that's not always the case.It's something that I'm starting to work on with the community central notice administrators to improve the process of creating banners, establishing guidelines and best practices. The idea that as well as improving the framework. There are proper reviews of campaign requests as well as establishing when there should be an expectation shown for local consensus.

It terms of this banner. It was something that I noticed today and was somewhat concerned about. I don't know if this request came via request for help or not but Matiia might be able to assist there. Running such a banner for a month is probably a little excessive though. I do see that Wikimedia Venezuala are one of the Judges at the event. I'm not entirely convinced that merits the banner though. Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 16:58, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi. This banner was requested by the president of Wikimedia Venezuela and it will be shown for 15 days. Directing people to non-Wikimedia sites is okay, as long as we add a notice about it and as it's related to Wikimedia Venezuela, I think it's okay. Matiia (talk) 23:33, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

This isn't the first time we do an event hosted in an external site, that said, I know isn't the common norm, but we already have two events in the same dates (see here). Itzike, I don't know your knowledge of Spanish, but this particular event will be hosting two workshops so technically is a Wikimedia event. If you need some kind of proof from the organisers, please reach me at oscarwikimedia.org.ve and I will put you in touch with them. --Oscar_. (talk) · @ 05:48, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

MENA Artists Month banner

We'd like to put up a banner on participating Wikipedias for MENA Artists Month in May 2016, similar to the Wikipedia Asian Month in November 2015. This is a campaign being organized with the Guggenheim Museum and other partners, looking to highlight modern and contemporary artists associated with the Middle East and North Africa.--Pharos (talk) 19:58, 25 April 2016 (UTC)