To improve community access to central notice through a clear and transparent process.
To improve best practice and ensure greater consistency in campaign implementation.
To improve communication around campaigns. Creating clear forums for feedback on campaigns, providing metrics back to campaigns and also a clear method for assessing community consensus for campaigns relating to advocacy.
To reduce potential clashes between campaigns
Requests must be made, at minimum, 14 days in advance of any campaign
Step #4 : Add it to the calendar and check for conflicting campaigns in your period for language/geotargeting. Contact the organizers of the other campaigns to solve them!
Step #5 : Notify target projects and geographic affiliates. Add edit diff links to request.
Step #6 : CN Admin & Community feedback [14 days]
Advocacy/Payments: WMF Legal Review [21 days])
Step #7 : Approval/rejection
Step #8 : CN Admin sets up campaign (recommended to allow for up 3 days)
Step #9 : Campaign enabled
List of currently active volunteer CentralNotice administrators:
For normal requests, a central notice admin will close the discussion. In the areas of advocacy, the stewards team may be called upon to assess consensus.
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both Logged In and Anonymous users. Users from small wikis with 20-25 active editors and 1-2 admins.
What countries will your campaign target?
Multiple Countries (TBD)
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 - Hi! As part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan for next year, several teams are involved in an experiment to test an intervention (WE 2.1.1) aimed at engaging native speakers from small wikis in improving vital content on their wikis. This experiment is connected to the Language Onboarding and Development initiative and aligns with the vital knowledge objective in the annual plan. See T391045.
As part of the experiment, we would like to invite native speakers of small wikis through a CentralNotice banner to contribute to SuggestedEdits and other Growth features. This is inspired by the Yoruba community’s Recruit Readers as Writers experiment. The goal is to assess whether this approach attracts new native speakers and whether they use these editing tools to improve vital content.
Regarding the CentralNotice banner: we would like to launch multiple variations of the same banner on 5 to 10 small wikis with 20–25 active editors and 1–2 admins. We also want to launch the banner on a high-traffic Wikipedia in the regions where the small wikis are accessed. We are still working on the list of wikis and hope to have it ready soon.
This experiment aims to target both registered and non-registered users. We plan to use Event Registration feature (available via Extension:CampaignEvents) as a landing page for the call to action in the Central Notice banner for ~5 wikis and Newcomer homepage for remaining ~5 wikis. In this first stage, we want to test whether the banner helps attract new contributors from big wikis to small wikis, whether new users interact with the banner, and compare the results of the two call-to-action approaches. If the experiment proves successful, we plan to test additional features, such as Content Translation, in upcoming quarters.
Metrics - Through this approach, we aim to test whether it attracts new native speakers and whether they use the editing tools to improve vital content. Some of the metrics we will be considering include: number of accounts created, edits made, number of contributors using Growth features, number of interactions with the banner, editors retained X days later, etc.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - Some examples of the banner we are considering can be found in this public document. Please note that designs are not final and are for reference only.
As the project coordinator and WMF staff member, I have requested access to CentralNotice admin rights from Trust and Safety (T&S) so I can deploy and remove the banner myself.
Thanks for submitting the CentralNotice request! Quoting from my statement in phab:T398646#11011265: Event Registration is always fine. I can live with comparing it to Special:Homepage for registered users. I don't think using Special.Hompage as a "landing page" for unregistered users (who are then redirected to Special:UserLogin) is a good idea -> no explanation why ther'e suddenly asked to log in given they've been able to read (and edit?) without an account until they clicked on the banner + they need to figure out themselves to use the "join wikipedia" button to create an account if they don't have one. --Johannnes89 (talk) 22:17, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89Thanks for your comment! Based on your suggestions, if we go with the following two scenarios and test each on around four wikis, would that be okay?
Scenario A: Call to Action – Event Registration
All users are shown an event registration page that provides information on how to create an account, log in, and edit using the newcomer tool.
Scenario B: Call to Action – Newcomer Homepage
When registered users click on a call to action, they are shown the newcomer homepage or a message prompting them to enable it in their user preferences. Non-registered users are directed to create an account. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89 @derhexer @Ciell: Also, I wanted to add to the message above, as per the experiment plan, we would like to launch the banner on August 15th and approach the selected wikis in the first two weeks to obtain their approval. It would be super helpful to get your go-ahead, but only if you think the proposed workflows make sense. Thank you! SSethi (WMF) (talk) 19:16, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still not so happy that non-registered users would be forwarded to a registration page without any explanation why that has happened and why we want them to register. — I assume that this scenario could still generate more registrations than the other one, but it wouldn't prove whether it's a useful way of guiding users through our platform. Nevertheless, an A/B test sounds better than just having scenario B. What do other CN admins think? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)09:58, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @Johannnes89 and @DerHexer for your comments! The concerns you’ve shared around the lack of context for non-logged-in users make sense. I discussed with the team, and our understanding is that there isn’t much evidence supporting the effectiveness of the landing pages, so this A/B test can help us gather that. Hope this makes sense and that we can proceed, if the A/B test looks good to you all. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both (Logged In users, Anonymous Users)
What countries will your campaign target?
BR - PT - AO (Angola) - MZ (Mo?ambique) - GW (Guiné-Bissau) - TIM (Timor-Leste) - GQ (Guiné Equatorial) - MO (Macau) - CV (Cabo Verde) e ST (S?o Tomé e Príncipe)
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 Mais Negros, Negras e Negres em Teoria da História na Wiki 2025 event will feature three cycles of thematic training workshops on Portuguese Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata. It is part of a series of activities that will take place throughout 2025 within the scope of the Mais História da História na Wiki Project. The project aims to encourage the involvement of current and new editors in Wikimedia projects, especially in the academic environment. All who identify with or sympathize with the proposed themes are welcome to support open science and the construction of collaborative knowledge in editing topics related to gender and race studies and the epistemology of the Global South.
Metrics - Number of organizers; number of participants; number of editors; others
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Como equilibrar as histórias sobre pessoas negras e brancas nos projetos wikimedia? Clique aqui para se inscrever nas oficinas A atividade acontecerá entre os dias 02 e 16 de outubro de 2025
Hello all! As I have pointed out to Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+) on this discussion, neolanguage is not allowed on Wikipedia in Portuguese's main space. This banner request should not be approved unless community consensus is reached to allow it or unless the text on the banner does not include neolanguage. The project proposing the banner has been involved in a recent conflict with the community on this subject [1][2], and I fear this banner will spark further escalation. Thanks. --JPeschanski (WMB) (talk) 22:22, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oi @JPeschanski (WMB)Obrigada pela preocupa??o. Contudo, em momento algum falamos que o banner conterá neolinguagem, inclusive n?o temos proposta de banner ainda. Temos apenas o título de um evento, que n?o tem nenhum problema dentro dos parametros da Wikipédia. Inclusive, a página do evento será no Meta também, já estamos rascunhando, em breve também estará aqui no pedido. Estou respondendo isso pois a Danielly já foi muito atacada na Wikipédia em português por escrever um TCC sobre linguagem neutra e tá sem condi??es psicológicas de responder. Abra?os, Flávia Varella (talk) 18:44, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
é justamente por isso, Flávia. O isso de neolinguagens vem sendo uma fonte de conflitos dentro da comunidade, sem nenhum proveito oriundo dessas discuss?es. Criar um banner e uma atividade que utiliza neolinguagem n?o ajuda nesse debate, cria animosidades e termina por prejudicar o próprio propósito da atividade, que é melhorar a qualidade dos artigos da Wikipédia. Inclusive, se um membro da sua equipe está sem condi??es psicológicas de participar dessa discuss?o, talvez seja um indicativo que esse tipo de discuss?o definitivamente n?o é saudável. ━ AlbertoleoncioWho, me?09:28, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
De fato, @Albertoleoncio, n?o é saudável, mas n?o pelo debate em si, e sim pela forma como a comunidade, muitas vezes, minimiza ou ignora manifesta??es de linguagem misógina e sexista dirigidas a mulheres. Isso gera a sensa??o de que nossas preocupa??es n?o s?o levadas a sério. Os exemplos mencionados por @JPeschanski (WMB) s?o claros, e a falta de a??o nesses casos é preocupante. O que aconteceu com a Danielly é um reflexo disso e levanta questionamentos sobre a aplica??o do Código de Conduta na Wikipédia em português. Ela n?o foi alvo de críticas por usar linguagem neutra ou inclusiva em verbetes, mas simplesmente por pesquisar o tema em seu TCC, o que torna a situa??o ainda mais grave.
Diante disso, acredito que o problema n?o está em promover um evento voltado a quem valoriza uma perspectiva de direitos humanos, mas sim na necessidade urgente de enfrentar a misoginia presente na comunidade, garantindo que haja medidas efetivas para lidar com essas quest?es. Abra?os e agrade?o seu comentário aqui Flávia Varella (talk) 13:41, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Eu também estou preocupada, n?o só como observadora, mas como alguém que já foi alvo desses ataques. No entanto, parece que essa dimens?o raramente entra no horizonte da comunidade, infelizmente. O que mais me incomoda é como o foco acaba sempre recaindo sobre a vítima—suas rea??es, sua resistência, sua capacidade de seguir em frente—quando, na verdade, deveríamos estar questionando e cobrando quem perpetra esses ataques. A invers?o desse olhar é urgente: o problema n?o é quem sofre a violência, mas quem a pratica e como a comunidade lida com isso. Flávia Varella (talk) 13:45, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Description -Wiki Loves Automaten is a photograph initiative for the Dutch language communities to document different types of vending machines in the public space.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
All (except countries with fundraising banners)
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 - After a hiatus of 5 years a group of volunteers has proposed a new online edition of Wikicite in hybrid format: one day in-person, focused on Switzerland, followed by two days online.
The main goal is to reconnect with former participants and revitalize an event whose themes are now more relevant than ever. To ensure wider visibility, we propose displaying the banner for one month, with an impression diet to avoid being intrusive while maintaining a longer time window to reach a broader audience.
This extended timeframe is essential, as the event is designed to be inclusive of multiple time zones—from New Zealand to the Americas—ensuring participation from a globally distributed community.
Metrics - Number of participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
The request comes from the Wikicite community. I have also seen that there is no banner in August, so it would be easy to manage. The request is for one month and will be for a wide audience but setting an appropriate impression diet to don't be invasive. I can take care of it as I will do for itWikicon's banner. --Ilario (talk) 21:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ilario: Please keep in mind that according to the CN guidelines, global campaigns have several requirements: This campaign is scheduled to run longer than two weeks so that all targeted communities should be notified in advance. As this does not make sense, please shorten the campaign to a maximum of two weeks which should be a sufficient time span for an event invitation anyway. — Furthermore, banner text and landingpage should be marked as translatable as early as possible and should be translated into the main languages. Since this event is English only, it could be sufficient to have that information available in multiple languages in the banner and the landingpage in English only. But without that no global campaign could be approved or should be enabled. — It's great to see WikiCite back and in Switzerland! :) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:17, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer no problem. I confirm that 14 days are good. It will be one month only for Wikidata (as the organization is done by people and for people of the Wikidata community) and for Switzerland only. The banner will be translatable and translated in the main languages (English, French, German and Italian) as usually is done for banner I manage. Ilario (talk) 21:28, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I will shift the start for some days to cover also the days of the event, so from 1st August to 31th August. Only for two weeks as global campaign. --Ilario (talk) 07:11, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Promoting Wiki Loves Film in the Czech Republic, series of online and in person editathons. The event is intended for both experienced Wikipedians as well as those who have never edited Wikipedia before.
Metrics - pages created and edited, number of participants, new users registred
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Multiple Languages as for WLS 2024 (it, en, es, fr, sr, uz)
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?
Italy, Switzerland, France, Serbia, Uganda, Uzbekistan
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?
The seventh edition of Wiki Loves Sport is organized to improve and extend content related to diversity in sport in the Wikimedia projects in general, and for the events it covers in particular. Given the gaps which is our topic of interest, the campaign is mainly focused on content concerning missing or underrepresented groups (women and para athelets), but as Wikimedians, we appreciate any sports-related content that logged in users want to add in any language of the Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Commons).
@Darafsh The request was done 1 week ago, put it into the calendar, but missed to add it to the main page of the request. I will switch to the period 4 - 24 August. Thank you Camelia (talk) 07:55, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Camelia.boban: I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Please notice that I have shortened the campaign to 14 days because more days require approval from each of the targeted communities as per the CentralNotice guidelines. The banner text is translatable, please provide all targeted languages here. I had to change the text (colour) a little, I hope that is fine as well. Please check everything, approve and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:39, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Camelia.boban: I activated the translations in fr, it, es: sr and uz have not yet been entered, so you may want to send the translators another reminder (giving it's just one sentence you need from them). Ciell (talk) 08:26, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
Global
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - This campaign is for Wikimania 2025 registration for both onsite and online participants. We do look forward in having a larger audience through this global registration. While the ticketing platform will be opened on 27 May with comms on more targeted channels, and we would like to schedule CentralNotice starting 9 June to help us control the flow of traffic to the platform and ensure everything is working well before the larger push. The early call to action will make editors aware of the conference, if they are not aware yet, and decide to attend in person.
Metrics - Number of event registration
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
So we would like to have this banner rotation from June 09th 2025 to July 13th 2025. If 5 days rotation works we would be very glad.
Hello, @Ciell, please will you be able to help fast track this request as registration opens soon and we need some time to get some translators to translate this banner.
I'm not sure if a five day cycle is a good idea. This will lead to 10-12 banner impressions per user in the requested time period. If I don't want to register after 5-6 impressions, I shouldn't be bothered with the banner again in my opinion. A seven day cycle would lead to 8 impressions which should be enough. Johannnes89 (talk) 09:40, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Joris Darlington Quarshie I've adjusted the cycle and enabled the campaign. It is currently set to June 16, do I understand you correctly that you would like to start asap? I (or any other CN admin seeing this) could change the date to today once you've confirmed that you want to start immediately. Johannnes89 (talk) 06:18, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've un-enabled the banner on request from Elena. As it turns out, we may sell out soon for the in-person event, and we'll be waiting for the traffic to stabilize to decide how to best frame this banner. We're likely to re-enable later this month to promote online registration. Best, RAdimer-WMF (talk) 19:12, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Now that the onsite registration has been sold out, we will like to have the central notice banner rotate live for online registration from July 14th throughout the event. Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 07:18, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Joris Darlington Quarshie: I think we should run this for a week, and re-enable a couple days before Wikimania up to the first day.
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, Anonymous Users)
What countries will your campaign target?
BR - PT - AO (Angola) - MZ (Mo?ambique) - GW (Guiné-Bissau) - TIM (Timor-Leste) - GQ (Guiné Equatorial) - MO (Macau) - CV (Cabo Verde) e ST (S?o Tomé e Príncipe)
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 Mais Diversidade em Teoria da História na Wiki 2025 is a competition on Portuguese Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata. It is part of a series of activities that will take place throughout 2025 within the scope of the More History of History on Wiki project. The project aims to encourage the involvement of current and new editors in Wikimedia projects, especially in the academic environment. All who identify with or sympathize with the proposed themes are welcome to support open science and the construction of collaborative knowledge in editing topics related to gender and race studies and the epistemology of the Global South.
Metrics - number of articles created/edited; number of items created/edited; number of images transferred; number of organizers; number of editors; others
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?
Login users only
What countries will your campaign target?
World
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 Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) is an annual campaign where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking images. This is to promote the use of digital media files collected from various WP photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages. Thousands of images have been donated and contributed to Wikipedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging
Metrics - Metrics are tracked using the hashtag tool.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@T Cells: I have reused the banner from 2024 which is different from the requested one for 2025. Furthermore, like last year I only targeted those countries which signed up for the competition. Please ensure that the local contacts inform their local communities before the start of the campaign. Usually, any campaigns running for more than two weeks have to have this proven and have to provide as many translations as possible. Since this is a returning campaign, I will just encourage you all to do that and have created the campaign and banner (preview). Check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)15:50, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
According to the banner allocation (example) it is running. Are you/the person who doesn't see it in a targeted country, project and language edition in the target group? —DerHexer(Talk)07:36, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Bangladesh, India (West Bengal only)
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - The Bengali Wiktionary already contains a significant number of entries, but many of them are not yet up to standard. In addition, many important words are still missing. Wiktionary Entry Contest 2025 (a follow-up to the "Contest 2024") is an initiative aimed at creating new entries and improving existing ones on the Bengali Wiktionary. The main goal of this contest is to enrich the Bengali lexicon and help build a reliable, high-quality dictionary. We need a CN banner to promote the contest.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
17th July 2025 → 31th July 2025 and 1th October 2025 → 31th October 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All projects
What languages will you be targeting?
Czech
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Czech Republic
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Czech Wiki Photo 2025 is a photocontest focusing on photographers living in the Czech Republic. Through this activity we would like to attract new users and engage active members of our community.
Metrics - number of files uploaded, numbers of articles in which those files were used, number of Newikipedists
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
1 March 2025 (several shorter sub-campaigns) → 1 August 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All
What languages will you be targeting?
en, fr, es
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged-in users (bulk of sub-campaigns)
What countries will your campaign target?
countries in North America
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Hi Pharos, I had to disable both campaigns that were live since yesterday for WCNA.
Per the phabricator:T388080 ticket, please ensure these and all of your future banners are compatible with the Mediawiki dark-mode settings.
Also, please make sure to specify the campaign type in the drop down in the campaign settings to allow people to filter through their preferences the types of campaigns they see.
Don't forget to list your campaign in the calendar and coordinate with others that might be targeting the same country/projects/languages. Currently the banner for International Women's Days is also running in the USA.
@Ciell, @Pharos I'm sorry, but the new "dark-mode" supported banner has low contrast ratio (2.66:1) and fails WCAG 2.0 standard of at least 3:1 for web accessibility. The background grey has to brighten up to #CCCCC at the minimum to create sufficient contrast. OhanaUnitedTalk page18:10, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, in Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/WCNA2025Maylaunch, I hesitantly suggest these tweaks to the CSS, to make it (and future copies) work better in dark-mode (and a font-size increase so it works better in both modes) (disclaimer: I'm not a CSS, Codex, nor CentNotice expert [just enthused amateur], so please do test!). Ping @Pharos: FYI.
Change line#5 from background: #CCCCCC; to background: var(--background-color-interactive--active, #c8ccd1);
Change line#34 from font-size: 13px; to font-size: 16px;
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany, only the region of Berlin
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Leading up to the campaign in 2024 where we already established a small community, we want to find more people for a monthly Meetup for young wikipedians in Berlin to establish a bigger community of active users.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Headline (bold): Teile dein Wissen in der Wikipedia!
Normal text:
for geographic-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und m?chtest regelm??ig Informationen über die von dir besuchten Orte in der Wikipedia erg?nzen? Dann komm am 07.08., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu ?Jugend editiert“!
for history-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und fasziniert von Geschichte? Erg?nze fehlende Informationen zu historischen Ereignissen und komm am 07.08., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu ?Jugend editiert“!
for sport-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und vermisst einige Informationen über deinen Lieblingssportler/-in in der Wikipedia? Dann komm am 07.08., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu ?Jugend editiert“!
for tech-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und begeistert von Technologie? Erg?nze regelm??ig Artikel zu innovativen Entwicklungen! Sei dabei bei ?Jugend editiert“ am 07.08. um 18 Uhr in Berlin!
for art-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und liebst Kunst in all ihren Facetten? Schreibe über deine Lieblingskünstler/-innen und -werke bei ?Jugend editiert“ am 07.08. um 18 Uhr in Berlin!
for music-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und m?chtest regelm??ig über die neuesten Titel deiner Lieblingsinterpreten schreiben? Dann komm am 07.08., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu ?Jugend editiert“!
for science-related articles:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und interessiert an Wissenschaft und Forschung? Bringe regelm??ig dein Wissen ein und komm am 07.08., um 18 Uhr, zu ?Jugend editiert“ in Berlin!
for other topics:
Du bist unter 26 Jahre alt und m?chtest regelm??ig mit Anderen Artikel zu deinen Lieblingsthemen schreiben? Dann komm am 07.08., 18 Uhr, in Berlin zu ?Jugend editiert“!
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both groups
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany / Baden-Württemberg
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
24.03.2025 → 31.03.2025 and 11.08.2025 → 18.08.2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia, Commons
What languages will you be targeting?
German
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
The campaign targets Logged In Users. There will be two different banners which target different groups: One banner targets users from one edit up to the level of flagged revisions, the other banner will target user who have reached the flagged revision rights in de WO
What countries will your campaign target?
Germany
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - WMDE offers editors of Wikipedia a range of support. This includes but is not limited to trainings, funding for their own projects, organising of events and so on. This support is not known by quite a few volunteers of the German Wikipedia. With this campaign, we want to make people aware of the WMDE community portal. The community portal presents the different aspects of Wikimedia Deutschland's work
Depending on the targeting, users receive a different landing page. The banner, which is aimed at inexperienced users, refers to learning offers from both WMDE and the community. The banner for experienced users refers to a page in the community portal that presents the various training courses.
Metrics -
We hope that the WMDE Community Portal site will become more popular. It is therefore of interest to us that the “News” page in the portal in particular is observed by more users.We will also track whether the campaign has a (positive) influence on the editing behavior of users who we refer to as occasional editors. The tracking is secured by our in-house data unit.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - The banners have already been created and implemented. Our own CN Admins can start the campaign if the campaign has been green lit by a volunteer admin:
The campaign will be announced on the German Wikipedia in the course of next week. This will also allow the community to submit objections or communicate requests for changes.
The link to the communication will then be added here.
would you mind looking over this CN application? Ideally, neither Johannes89 nor theHexer will be involved in this request, as it means mixing their roles as volunteers and employees. Thank you! Merle von Wittich (WMDE) (talk) 11:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All affiliates need a volunteer CN admin (like me), to sign off on their CentralNotice camapigns. A CentralNotice is the banner (front-end visual) + the campaign (technical settings): therefore, if your FunTech Team is going to create the campaigns themselves, I'd like to see the campaign and the technical settings before you enable. Ciell (talk) 17:53, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciell I would not mind If you would create the campaign, but at the moment I am not sure if this is last approved version of the banners; to my understanding there have been some code changes after the first implementation. Therefore I am still waiting for this info. – So let me either get back to you either with the campaign settings of the FunTech Team or the go ahead, that you can create the campaign :) Merle von Wittich (WMDE) (talk) 07:47, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not 'big' for coding: if you'd like a full review I can ask another CN admin to do that. But because you choose to run a customized banner it is your responsibility to test it across all platforms. I just want to see the final banner and the campaign settings - I can do this myself if you prefer, but might not have time available before the weekend. Ciell (talk) 15:43, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have no expectations that you will check the banners :) I realize that this is within our scope! - Unfortunately, I still don't know whether the current banners have been implemented. - At the moment I'm still hoping that WMDE/I will make progress here by 24.03. and that you can then release the campaign for the planned run (last minute).
With every hour that passes, I assume that we will have to postpone the campaign period.
@Merle von Wittich (WMDE) one more question: I notice your fun-team has set up the campaign including a sample rate of 1 for legacy hiding and impressions. I have never come across a sample rate like this, and learned (the hard way) that WMF sometimes uses history logging samples at a rate of 0,01%. Is your team sure a sample rate of 1 makes sense, and does WMF agree with it being used like this? Ciell (talk) 13:31, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciell: Actually, this is something we set for all of the fundraising campaigns we run and it's part of the "muscle memory" when setting up the campaign. It dates back to a Central Notice introduction I received when I started working at WMDE in 2011. Thinking about it now, I'm sure we don't need to set a sampling rate at all, so I'll disable it. We measure banner interaction (and also banner display) using Event Platform. Kai Nissen (WMDE) (talk) 17:25, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining @Kai Nissen (WMDE)! Interesting that you received information about this during the onboarding almost 14 years ago: the Help:CentralNotice does not mention the 'special features' options, and I sometimes feel a bit in the dark on how the can be used. The small paragraph about banner history logging was only added recently. I'd love to learn more about this, if you ever have the time to write your experience down. Ciell (talk) 19:03, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have created the campaign and modified the banner for the second iteration. Similar settings, set to run from 11 August (14 UTC) to 18 August (22 UTC). With the approval of the campaign above, I have enabled the campaign again. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 14:52, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
March 2025 (up to 30 days for each event) → November 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All
What languages will you be targeting?
en (possibly fr, es)
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Both
What countries will your campaign target?
subnational regions in US
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged-in users with less than 100 edits
What countries will your campaign target?
All
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
We'd like to continue the campaign from last year (request). The banner will only be running for two days before the first Wednesday of each month, and will be targeted to users with less than 100 edits.
Requests must be made, at minimum, 14 days in advance of any campaign
For normal requests, a central notice admin will close the discussion. In the areas of advocacy, the stewards team may be called upon to assess consensus.
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