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?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
French
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?
@Adoscam: Thank you for submitting your request. Before we can progress it, we need additional information because the request template was not completely filled.
From looking at the landing, this doesn't look like a campaign for improving articles but for organizing events. Is that correct?
You didn't mention the target language(s). French only?
Country would be France only, not French nor French-language countries, right?
The link to the banner is not very clear to me. Do you mean this banner code? It's made in Wiki code but we need it in HTML/CSS/JavaScript; however, I think that I am capable of converting it.
Lastly, you are requesting a campaign of more than 14 days duration. Please note that according to the new CentralNotice guidelines these campaigns require community communication. Please link to a notification of the French community where you also link to this request.
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Any
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 - We plan to distribute a survey to capture the challenges faced by new Toolforge users during their tools' set up process. Users with this profile are not active in (or generally haven't joined yet) public communication channels or mailing lists, and we don't have express permission from them to be contacted. If CN admins could recommend a more suitable communication channel, we'll of course evaluate the option.
The survey will help us gather initial feedback about these users' experience, and recruit them for future in-depth interviews to validate a UI-based solution we've been working on. All in all, the goal is to collect insights to inform the design requirements of a proof of concept (Phabricator task: T381266)
Metrics - We'd like to get at least 10 valid responses to the survey and recruit a minimum of 5 participants from the same target group to participate in future usability testing sessions.
Google forms can't be a landing page for a banner. Per CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines#Banner_requirements, "Wikimedia Domains Only — Banners must link only to Wikimedia Foundation or Affiliate-controlled websites, except when using officially approved surveys (see below). They should not include trademarks owned by for-profit entities." Also, please reach out to your colleague's at the Foundation to agree on the usage of CN for survey's. Ciell (talk) 20:37, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Non-fundraising campaigns need to be checked, approved and activated by volunteer CN admins, too. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)23:41, 3 December 2024 (UTC) PS: The request template should be filled at some point.[reply]
Thanks for the helpful comments! The request was updated: I added further details regarding our goals and reflected latest decisions (e.g., use of LimeSurvey, change in campaign dates). Conversations with CN coordinators and survey specialists are taking place internally to validate the request or – in lack of approval – find suggestions for alternative channels aligned with our limitations. SSanchez-WMF (talk) 21:28, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Once your CN coordinators have created both the banner as well as the campaign in line with the mentioned guidelines, volunteer CN admins can take a look. The campaign duration looks reasonable and WWikitech is a project which rarely receives banners, so once we hear that the survey itself has been approved, we should be able to give our approval as volunteer CN admins as well.
Thanks @Johannnes89 and all for helping to guide this! I'll be working with @SSanchez-WMF to help on the survey side, and I agree this seems like a good candidate for a wikitech banner after discussing off-wiki with Sarai :). I assume this request may stay open into January as the team works to get all the components together (in case it's affecting the CN admins' workflows, no action needed for now). - TAndic (WMF) (talk) 19:51, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
DE AT CH
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Thanks for submitting the request so early! I don't see an issue with volunteer CentralNotice admin approval as required by CentralNotice/Usage guidelines#Policies for Affiliates and WMF Staff. I want to point out though (as mentioned last time [1]), that I would expect WMDE CentralNotice admins to create both campaign and banner, instead of relying on volunteers (which is also what the CentralNotice guidelines ask for). Best --Johannnes89 (talk) 17:59, 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 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]
@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) and can be activated. Thank you! --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 17:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
as this is a long lasting competition, please used intervalls
2025年01月07日 → 2025年01月31日
2025年07月01日 → 2025年07月15日
2025年09月01日 → 2025年10月05日
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]
@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]
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?
Mexico
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 - Throughout the month of February, we invite participants from diverse regions to capture and share images of women in science, contributing to the Wikimedia Commons repository. The photographs can depict researchers, professors, students in laboratories, engineers in the field, and any woman engaging in scientific activities. This collection aims to showcase the diversity and impact of women in science, enriching both Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia projects.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - Standard banner, with this logo on the left side and this logo on the right side. Text centered: "#NosotrasenlaCiencia ¡Celebremos la diversidad de las científicas, tus contribuciones ayudan a visibilizar su trabajo!"
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Slovakia
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Taxpayers in Slovakia may ask that 2% of their income tax be distributed to an NGO of their choosing. WMSK would like to give their supporters this option. Thank you.
Metrics - No metrics are needed.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
is it possible to only show the banner on, let's say, 5th refresh on the projects? We don't want to spam the users with the banner on every page, if possible; if not, showing on every page is fine.
this banner is almost definitely not dark mode compatible - can someone help me with that?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users, Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
no specific country target, all projects in the Ukrainian language
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Wikimedia Ukraine’s largest project in the education field right now is the article contest "Wikipedia for School", which encourages teachers and other educational specialists to improve coverage of school curriculum topics on Ukrainian Wikipedia.
Metrics - 50 participants, 250 articles improved
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged in users & anonymous users
What countries will your campaign target?
no specific country target, all projects in the Ukrainian language
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - From December 10 to January 10, the Ukrainian Wikipedia is hosting a marathon called "(Un)known Women in Wikipedia" dedicated to improving and creating articles about prominent women. Its goal is to highlight and show the world the achievements of women and their role in history.
Metrics - 400 articles created, 60 participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
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 and Anonymus
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: So starting on 11 December would be fine with you? Then we can create the campaign. The community approval reads funny but in favour of the campaign. ;) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)13:38, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Althair: No, it's not necessary. But I've already said that the other option is to find an agreement with Cftoro (WMCL) whether or not the two campaigns can run at the same time. We as CN admins cannot make the decisions for your two campaigns here, we can just tell you that there is a conflict and the options how to solve them. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:55, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(削除) ::@DerHexer: Given that in the next few days eswiki will reach two million articles, it would be possible to reform the banner like this:
(削除ここまで)
@Althair: Is the Spanish community okay with the text change? Wouldn't it make more sense to make a SiteNotice on Spanish Wikipedia so that it can be seen by all visitors, not only the target group of this banner? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)09:49, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry @DerHexer:, I undid the change wrong yesterday, it's not necessary.
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 - Senior Month is our yearly campaign targeting seniors (or their relatives). We do want to promote the courses and give the people easy ability to sign up for the courses.
Metrics - Number of seniors that sign up for a course
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Janbery: Thanks for providing the banner source. However, we cannot activate the campaign when the source code does not include a close option. I tried to add it myself from the standard banner but failed. Please ping me with an updated version of your code. Nevertheless, I created the campaign and banner (as of now; preview). Please note that for community campaigns longer than 2 weeks, local community approval is required as per the new CN guidelines. Therefore, please add a link to the notification of the local community about the campaign, thanks in advance. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:57, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the comment, @DerHexer. I have edited the banner code to include a closing button. Could you please confirm that it works now? I will update you with the banner runtime issue shortly. All the best, janbery (talk) 15:25, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Janbery: Yes, it worked for me, I just used the more common JavaScript call for closing the banner. I'm not sure if that has different effects. — For me, it looks good now and I could activate the campaign after you have informed the community. What is meant with the banner runtime issue? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)12:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both groups
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany / Baden-Württemberg
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Das ist ne Menge Text. Idealerweise wärs weniger (nur zum Vergleich: So sieht unser Template aus [6]). Aber wie bereits in der Vergangenheit (z.B. [7][8]) lässt sich das auch mit viel Text umsetzen. --Johannnes89 (talk) 20:14, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Leserättin ich habe die Kampagne [9] und das Banner [10] (Vorschau [11]) erstellt. Bitte kontrolliere, ob alles wie gewünscht aussieht und eingestellt wird, bevor ich es einschalte. Bitte beachte, dass unangemeldete User das Banner vermutlich kaum sehen werden, weil die Banner der laufenden Fundraising-Kampagne priorisiert ausgespielt werden. Johannnes89 (talk) 07:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note that I've split the campaign into two (second campaign [12], second banner [13]) in order to be able to increase visibility for logged-in users in the first campaign (logged-out users still have less priority than the fundraising campaign which is currently running). Johannnes89 (talk) 18:29, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Multiple Languages (Uzbek, Kazakh, Russian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Persian)
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?
@Darafsh: Hey, sorry for being a bit late on this one. Please note some information:
According to the new CN guidelines, we kindly ask you to submit the request at least 14 days in advance. It is fine with this campaign.
Because the campaign is longer than 14 days, we need to ask you to communicate it to the affected communities beforehand (not needed for campaigns up to 14 days). However, since this is a well-known event, I make an exception here. Nevertheless, if you want to communicate it now that the campaign will happen and a link to the request page, I don't mind. ;)
The banner text you provided is English only. However, you requested it to be available in Uzbek, Kazakh, Russian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Persian. — Before we can activate the campaign, please have the translation ready (you can submit them here, just change the languages). The same is required for the landing page, but I could see that this is already marked for translation and many languages ready; thank you! — Usually, I would add a link to the banner where people can add more translation, but I won't do this now because the number of target languages is limited.
I also had to change the banner design from upright to landscape mode because of the standard banner which is designed like that (because of the widescreen desktop PC's), and I made the full banner clickable, not just the one link in the center. I hope that's fine with you.
I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign (as long as the translation are available, I can approve them as soon as they are here). Best, —DerHexer(Talk)13:07, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @DerHexer, Thank you so much for your help. We have translated the message into the targeted languages, and the changes you made are approved. Please proceed with enabling the campaign.Thanks again Darafsh (talk) 16:43, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Darafsh: Thanks, I marked the translation as published and enabled the banner. @Красный: No, it doesn't work like that in the banner source code (wiki markup is not possible). ;) But with the link to the Cyrillic version I could adjust the banner accordingly. @Both: Let me know when you have other logos, like a version in Farsi, etc. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)22:49, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
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 #SheSaid drive, part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative, celebrates women leaders by focusing on enhancing their visibility through the creation and improvement of Wikiquote entries related to them.
Metrics - We will measure the metrics by the number of articles created and improved on WikiQuopte for each participating language.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Type of grant - On Wiki in Africa side, the campaign is funded by an annual grant. Some other groups are likely to use their annual support grant too. During the last year, a dozen of groups applied for a rapid grant to support that project and this is likely to be the same this year.
Great to have SheSaid back, and happy to help set up the campaign and banner.
Like last year, we will only enable the campaign for those languages in which the banner + landing page has translations. Can you please supply me with a list of these before the expressed starting date of the campaign? I will try and create a preview of the banner for you to check out over the weekend. Ciell (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
campaign for the banners on Wikipedia (very restricted diet, will show 3 times every 28 days per user per project)
I am proposing the Wikipedia banner to start on Sept 2nd, because the WLM banners will also already go live on the 1st. Does that make sense to you? Ciell (talk) 18:49, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Over the weekend I have been working to improve the SheSaid banners by shortening the participant pipeline (number of clicks they need to engage with the landing page). By creating individual campaigns and banners for all languages, the engagement is now much more direct. For this I reviewed all the languages and landing pages you have listed on the Meta page and collected them here in one overview with the information I need for the banners, and noticed that 5 languages do not have a landing page for SheSaid 2024: I have decided to not target these languages anymore, since I assume these are not really participating? No landing page means no available information for participants. For the 4 languages that I, after a month of running the translatable banner, don't have a local language version on the banner text available, they are still receiving the general banner they saw previously, but will still be send to Meta where the participant will have to look up their project manually (instead of being directed to their Wikiquote directly).
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. Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (talk) 08:24, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
