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 [14 days], potential rejection of the request
Advocacy/Payments: WMF Legal Review [21 days])
Step #7 : CN Admin sets up campaign (recommended to allow for up 3 days)
Step #8 : Final approval of the campaign and banner settings by volunteer CN Admin and requester
Step #9 : Campaign enabled by CN Admin
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.
Commons (commons.wikimedia.org) as its the primary upload destination. * May consider expanding to other Indian languages after this month.
What languages will you be targeting?
English, Hindi, and other Indian languages
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
What countries will your campaign target?
India
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 banner will be used to notify contributors of the opportunity to upload images in the Wiki Loves Birds India 2025 campaign.
Metrics - Banner impressions, landing page views, number of participants and outreach dashboard
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
hi @Soylacarli thanks for the message . Banner is looking good please go ahead , i confirm . Please enable these additional Indian languages also - Tamil , Odia, Assamese , Kannada . thanks :) Irvin calicut (talk) 06:59, 25 November 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?
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 choice. Wikimedians of Slovakia would like to give their supporters this option and inform about it through the use of banners. Thank you.
Metrics - No metrics are needed. We will not be able to know who decided to give their 2% to WMSK based on this ad. During spring 2026 we also expect to run banners for the Wikipedia 25th anniversary event.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Jetam2: I know that this is not the first campaign of this kind, as I handled last year's campaign, too. However, two things are uncommon for me: the very long duration of the campaign (that was even increased by a month this year), and that you are also targeting logged-in users—which is usually not done in fundraising campaigns because we usally don't want to ask our volunteers for two kinds of participation (but I know that the tax deducation model is slightly different). Is it fine as is? Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:55, 21 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: I think it would be good to have it longer since people take time to do their taxes. I would just display it less often. If only shorter is possible, then start at 01-JAN and finish 31-MAR.--Jetam2 (talk) 12:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Central Notice admin comments
@Jetam2: You know best when the tax income happens in Slovakia, so I have implemented the full duration to the campaign but set the cookie for a month before another cycle gets started. I have reused the banner from last year because the text and link seem to be the same. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:12, 27 November 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-out
What countries will your campaign target?
India, South Africa
Banner/Campaign Diet:
South Africa: Turn on Dec 14 at 22:01 UTC; Off Dec 19 at 21:59 UTC
India: Turn on Dec 14 at 18:31 UTC; Off Dec 19 at 18:29 UTC
Maximum impressions any individual will see: 3
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - The Communications and Product teams at the Wikimedia Foundation are looking to do a small central notice banner test to drive downloads of the Wikipedia app on English Wikipedia, fr two countries. It will include simple banners in English and will look to target both logged in and logged out users on mobile, in support of our Foundation's APP goals to further engage Wikipedia readers and editors. The timing will be from December 15 to December 21. We will be sending people directly to Google Play and Apple App stores so that they can download the app directly onto their phone. Central notice admins are okay with us sending people to the Google and Apple stores, and the campaign will socialized with the English community.
Metrics - We will be measuring internally how many people are clicking on the banner, and how many downloads of the app we receive.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - They will be set up as an A/B/C test for each OS, and each country. For each country, each banner is shown to 33% os users.
Side note: I created one campaign per OS for each country, based on the previous Japanese campaign. I spent some time reading the documentation, trying to figure out if one single campaign would have worked with all the different banners (banner bucketing versus OS). When my research time got closer to the time needed to create a campaign, I decided to create a separated campaign. Do you think one unique campaign would work?
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-out
What countries will your campaign target?
Japan
Banner/Campaign Diet:
Turn on Dec 14 at 15:01 UTC
Off Dec 16 at 14:59 UTC
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - The Communications and Product teams at the Wikimedia Foundation are looking to do a small central notice banner test to drive downloads of the Wikipedia app on Japanese Wikipedia. It will include simple banners in Japanses and will look to target both logged in and logged out users on mobile, in support of our Foundation's APP goals to further engage Wikipedia readers and editors. Japanese reasers were previously A/B/C tested, in May 2025. We have selected one banner, and we will now run the selected one. This banner will be sending people directly to Google Play and Apple App stores so that they can download the app directly onto their phone. Central notice admins are okay with us sending people to the Google and Apple stores, and the campaign will socialized with the English community.
Metrics - We will be measuring internally how many people are clicking on the banner, and how many downloads of the app we receive.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - We have one banner for iOS and one for Android.
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 - December 1, 2025 - January 11, 2026, Ukrainian Wikiquotes will host the sixth "She Said" marathon as part of the international #SheSaid campaign, dedicated to creating and improving articles about outstanding women. The goal of the event is to highlight and show the world the achievements of women and their role in history.
Metrics - 100 articles created, 20 participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners -
Допоможіть зберегти й поширити цитати жінок. Додавайте нові статті у кампанії «Це сказала вона 2025» і зробіть жіночі голоси видимішими!
@Ciell: I have created the banner. Does it look as intended? — Next time we meet, I can show you how to create it with the current system; it's really super easy copy and paste into the standard banner. :) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:34, 21 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Thanks @DerHexer! I can't remember having received the recording of the presentation we had in September, nor a link to the new tool. It would be great to get the link!
@OlenaVinsent (WMUA), here is a preview of your banner. Please let us know if anything should change. Normally, 6 weeks is too long of a runtime for a banner, but since you are only requesting the banner to be shown on Ukrainian Wikiquote I don't see a problem here. Is the community okay with it as well? Ciell (talk) 18:51, 26 November 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?
Romania
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 @Strainu: Thanks for the request! Just a couple of quick notes: there’s currently a Wiki Science Competition banner running in Romania, but it only targets enwiki. I don’t think your request conflicts with that, but for future campaigns it would be great to coordinate with the organizers beforehand so there aren’t overlapping banners for the same country. Also, I can’t use the banner image you uploaded directly, since CentralNotice banners must be built in HTML/CSS to ensure responsiveness and accessibility (see the guidelines here).
You have two options:
Provide the banner in HTML/CSS format, or
I can create it using the standard banner template, which allows for a simple design (like this for WSC).
Thanks for heads up, it was a last-minute idea to use CentralNotice. You can use the same banner as for the other request, it's all good. Strainu (talk) 14:18, 19 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Hi @Strainu: here’s the campaign and the banner (preview). Please review the text, I don’t speak Romanian :) If everything looks good, please ping me so I can enable the campaign. Also, just a quick reminder that banners should be requested at least 14 days in advance and usually run for no longer than two weeks. Since this is a long-established campaign, I’ve set it to run from November 25 to December 15. Best,--Soylacarli (talk) 20:24, 20 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@Soylacarli let's use the following text (a bit shorter, the banner is too high on mobile): Participă la Concursul Wiki Science România 15 noiembrie – 15 decembrie (also corrected the end date). The rest looks good. Thanks again! Strainu (talk) 20:36, 20 November 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 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, several teams are involved in an experiment (WE 2.1.5) aimed at surfacing content gap contribution opportunities to engage native speakers in small wikis. This experiment is connected to the Language Onboarding and Development initiative and aligns with the Vital Knowledge objective in the annual plan. See T405298.
This builds on a previous experiment from the last quarter, where we used Growth features. Results from that experiment are now published here: Research: Engage native speakers to improve vital content in small language Wikipedias. The results show positive signs, so we are now planning to explore further with a more focused and longer experiment involving two smaller wiki communities. This experiment will make use of the Content Translation tool, and we plan to run the banner for one month.
Metrics - Measured three months after the experiment concludes:
Average monthly pageviews on content pages of small wikis
Average monthly number of active editors
Total edits by users from the experiment to vital articles via Section/Content translation tool
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@DerHexer I have the banner here Special:CentralNoticeBanners/Edit/WMF VKD IN. So far, we have heard from the Telugu community, and we are getting ready to deploy on their wiki in the region where Telugu is spoken in India. I am yet to create a campaign for that. Would you like to review that too before launch? I can set it up quickly in the next couple of days. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 27 November 2025 (UTC)reply
I wanted to update that the requirements for the CN banner launch are still pending as of today. Since we have now entered December, which is generally a quieter month for launching new projects and campaigns, we are considering postponing the banner launch until January. Just giving a heads-up here. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 00:16, 3 December 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer Thanks for the ping! As of today, this is in the plan, but it may take a bit more planning since we’ll be starting from scratch and are considering involving one or two additional communities in the experiment. Once I have an updated timeline, I’ll share it here. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 5 January 2026 (UTC)reply
Hello @DerHexer! We’ve decided not to use a CN banner for this experiment in this quarter, and instead try out a few alternate approaches. Apologies for the back-and-forth here, and thank you so much for taking the time to guide me through the process. We can consider this request closed for now. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 06:27, 11 February 2026 (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?
Czechia
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?
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 8 to January 11, 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?
@OlenaVinsent (WMUA): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). This banner has no problem with dark mode, as far as I can see. But please notice that you are requesting a banner duration for more than 14 days which requires a local announcement first with no strong objections. As soon as this is done, please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:20, 19 November 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?
Registered users with a certain number of edits – 500 edits and more
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 January 15 to 25, Ukraine will host the annual Wikimarathon — a large-scale campaign dedicated to Wikipedia's birthday, which is celebrated on January 15. We invite you to become the organizer of a local event — from a small meeting to an open public event.
Metrics - 20 local organizers who will hold events for 200 people
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@OlenaVinsent (WMUA): I have created the campaign and banner. As you can see in the preview, the text is not visible when you change to dark mode. Please check other colors for your banner text and ping me so that I can change it. Please check everything else and approve it so that I can enable the campaign afterwards. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer Thank you very much for creating the campaign and the banner! I have changed the banner text colour to a darker turquoise (#009CA3), which should hopefully work better in dark mode. If it is still not readable enough, I’d be grateful for your advice on which colour would work best. OlenaVinsent (WMUA) (talk) 20:46, 24 November 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?
CH and LI
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 University of Zurich and Wikimedia CH are currently conducting a study on Science Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). As Wikipedia is one of the world’s most trusted and widely used sources of reliable knowledge, the study surveys Wikipedians alongside scientists, communicators, journalists, and influencers to analyze how they perceive and use AI in their work in Switzerland. Link to the research: Research:Science_Communication_in_the_Age_of_Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
Metrics - Users answering the survey
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Landing page, survey and banner are in preparation but I have already started the process of approval of the survey for the privacy. Please wait until we kindly ask you for your check. --Ilario (talk) 17:12, 6 October 2025 (UTC)reply
@Ilario and I coordinated to review the survey materials and it is now approved on my side :) (reminding as always that I am just one step of approval for surveys and CN admins have the final decision from here unless I can be helpful in some way)
A note for documentation: some questions are a little different from our usual recommendations; this is because the survey is a part of a larger study by the University researchers, and they need to keep them the same as other surveys for comparability purposes. All questions, including demographic questions, are optional and include both the ability to respond "Prefer not to say" or not select anything at all if the respondent chooses.
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 - Wiki Loves Children 2025 is an annual event about children. It will take place on Bengali Wikipedia, focusing on improving content related to child safety, rights, health, and development. We need promotional banners to support and spread awareness of this initiative.
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
According to the CentralNotice/Usage guidelines, campaigns should run for a maximum of two weeks, so I have adjusted the end date to 15 December 2025. Please let me know if the current schedule (1–15 December) works for you.
@Darafsh Thanks for creating the campaign and banner. However, I had already created both yesterday; I just didn’t mention it here because the banner needed a small adjustment.
Regarding the schedule, Wiki Loves/contest banners typically run for the full contest period—at most one month—based on community consensus. All previous Bangla WikiConnect banners have also followed this one-month duration.
I wasn’t aware that you had already created the campaign and banner, my apologies for the duplication. Regarding the schedule, I’m fully fine with keeping the original one-month period.
Haha, it's nice to see the first edit conflict of CentralNotice admins! ;D It's great to see more activity in this area here thanks to you and others. :) — I would not say that each Wiki Loves campaign should be allowed to run for a month, but this one is established and could get an exception. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)17:23, 19 November 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 and Anonymous Users
What countries will your campaign target?
LAC countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - 16 Days of Activism is a regional editing campaign on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata to improve access to information on women's rights and gender-based violence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Metrics - Number of articles edited and created
Number of images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
Number of Wikidata items created or improved
Number of participants registered on the campaign page
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Banners - phrase: Súmate a la campaña 16 días de activismo y haz tu aporte contra la violencia de género
Muchas gracias, @Soylacarli. ¡Está genial! Lo único que hay que cambiar es que la campaña no alcanza a España. Es para países de América Latina de habla hispana. Con ese cambio, doy el OK. Saludos, Paula (WDU) (talk) 18:12, 14 November 2025 (UTC)reply
All (viewed from the territory of Ukraine or in the Ukrainian language)
What languages will you be targeting?
Ukrainian
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
Logged In users
What countries will your campaign target?
All countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Science Photo Competition 2025 in Ukrainian Wikipedia will be a new edition of several earlier contests for scientific photos in Ukraine. Having a CentralNotice banner is an important aspect for the success of the contest and thus for closing content gaps on Ukrainian science.
Metrics - 500 photos from 70 participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
This contest is part of the international competition (see the international request), but we've agreed with international organizers that we would submit a separate 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?
All users
What countries will your campaign target?
Mainly countries with national competitions, but a moderate campaign in the rest of the world, if people want to access the international prizes.
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Wiki Science Competition has taken place once every two years since 2015 and within the same timeframe.
Metrics - The main target group is people studying and/or working in higher education institutions. We are especially interested in people who have never uploaded files, but could add quality content. The banner is intended to be minimalist, and the main metric is the number of files uploaded per country.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
There are two sets of countries. Actively participating countries, which request a more intense campaign, and the rest of the world category. Almost all countries run the competition from November 1st to December 15th and would need banner impressions, especially in the start and end sections of the competition. The international upload form will function until the end of the year. It is not a problem if there are some other banners, as two months should be a sufficient time period for the rest of the countries to have at least some banner impressions during this time.
Countries that need special attention are Argentina, Ireland, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria, South Africa, the USA, and Uzbekistan, as they have more limited possibilities of using other banners. Actively participating countries also include Albania, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and Poland. Chile has already collected images, Bangladesh is doing it now, and India has a separate campaign request just like Australia and New Zealand. We would make separate requests for Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Malaysia, Mongolia, and Ukraine, as they start later.
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Type of grant - International prizes are provided by a joint agreement of WMEE and WMCH, national competitions are managed by local commitees
Link to grant -
Discussion
Countries starting on November 1st, that do not have a separate CentralNotice request, are: Albania, Argentina, Greece, Ireland, Kosovo, Nigeria, South Africa, USA, and Uzbekistan. Countries mostly solving it via Sitenotice are Estonia and Finland, but they do not mind some banners on lower rate (as people from those countries also use other language versions and may not notice the Sitenotice banner in local wiki).
Countries that would be separate from this main request;
Some details are still changing as the competition official start is approaching and countries update their information. So for now the main goal is to inform that this thing is coming. By the time when someone would be starting to set up the campaign, we would have all the details. We would also create a few more requests for countries that would use different start and end times. And if needed, could create even more requests.
The campaign could run on normal priority with the period around the competition start and competition end on medium-high priority. We do not mind if there are some other campaigns running in that time period as well (there is always something). What is important is that this has good visibility at the start and at the end week and something in between. Especially in countries that have their own local competition.
It would be good to have a little bit of banner impressions on some other countries as well, as a) we are collecting images from all countries and b) as science is international, then it is not rare that a person originating from country x studies at country y and does research in country z. That would help to get a lot more participants if there were some banner impressions in countries where we have not managed to find a local organizer. Not to mention, there are some countries that have actively participated in the past, but are skipping this year for some reason (like Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Indonesia, North Macedonia, Portugal, Thailand), where there might be interested participants. And there are some other bigger countries (like Canada, Germany, Mexico, the UK) where a lot of files could be submitted just with the help of the banner alone. Kruusamägi (talk) 20:50, 17 October 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: there are currently multiple open requests, including 3 WSC requests that are targeting a start date of November 1st. As you dealt with the WSC request last time, I ask from you (but feel free to involve another administrator if you are busy), might it be possible to move forward with the WSC banner requests? Kruusamägi (talk) 00:32, 1 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Yeah, I have been on the road for the past two weeks. I will take a look at the requests this week, having set up most of them by Thursday at the latest. Any other CN admin can help here, of course. :) —DerHexer(Talk)18:46, 3 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Central Notice admin comments
@Kruusamägi: Please fill out this table in exactly this format so that we can handle your request by copying most of the stuff for each campaign separately. The way you have provided it last year (and this year again), has been an inacceptable overload of work on the CentralNotice admins. —DerHexer(Talk)18:25, 4 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer:Thanks for the ping! I was handling the AU & NZ campaign request just now, so I didn't see your note until after I had already created the banner and campaign. I’ve added it to the table below so everything for the Wiki Science Competition is centralized.--Soylacarli (talk) 20:01, 4 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: There have been two and a half weeks to comment on this, but no-one has not even bothered (and there are many other open requests that seem rather abandoned). And you could not reasonably expect me to know how you specifically (or anyone else) want it here, especially as this has not been specified in clear manner in any previous years. So please, don't act surpised if you do not like the result. And there is a separate page that has all this info, but well, I will then copy it here as well.
I split the table to two to make it clearer which countries go together, making it easier to avoid mistakes. I did not add the countries that cover it by local banner. I start with the countries that have already started collecting images and add later countries that start on November 15th (as there is more time with them anyway). Kruusamägi (talk) 11:15, 5 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Well, as you know, we are all volunteers here. :) I took a break for exactly these 2.5 weeks. And I can fully understand why other CN admins either didn't want to or were not fully skilled to work on such a complex request. The shortage on CN admins is well known and has been tackled by WMF and volunteer CNAs with trainings in the past year. We see some progress, but the number of requests is increasing, some of them very complex. Furthermore, a few procedures have changed since the new usage guidelines. — In any case, thank you for helping out with structuring the request so that it will maybe only take us 2 instead of 5 hours to create all the different campaigns and banners (different dates, links or other targets require us to create separate campaigns; and we cannot copy campaigns which is well known but hasn't been tackled by WMF developers). Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:21, 5 November 2025 (UTC)reply
And yet, at the same time, those big requests are even more important to deal with, as they affect many countries and a lot more people :P
All the big international campaigns are a bit of a mess. If there are 20+ countries participating (we have 24 countries + "international" cat for the rest of the world), then that means a lot of differences + information keeps changing. Even now there is one update: Bangladesh extended image collecting until November 12th (so this might still need attention). But it is highly likely that there would be many more similar updates.
I have never really understood why WMF doesn't just put staff on this, as this is a highly technical and time-sensitive task. And it does come as a surprise to me that the technical tools for that are so lacking -- like no copying, for real, there should be a massive number of recurring campaigns (as I can't access the stuff you have, so I don't know how that works and what exactly do you need or what options there are).
When this thing has been dealt with, then I will add some more countries that start later. But now the campaign is running in multiple countries, and they need a banner first. Kruusamägi (talk) 21:10, 6 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@Kruusamägi: Welcome to my world. ;) I'm telling these things to WMF for the past 10+ years. We've got some more support last and this year, but that stopped. We can only try the best we can do. — That means that I have created all the campaigns asked for in the tables (we cannot connect a country and a landing page for technical reasons; each one requires a new campaign that we cannot clone :) ). Please check each of them thorougly, approve them in the column and ping me when you have completed some or all so that I can enable these. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:15, 7 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately I have not managed to review any banners as it seems to hint I do not have the permission. Or is there anything specific I should do?
@Kruusamägi: Thanks for the checks and approvals! I have enabled all campaigns from the table. Please ping me when you add more campaigns there that you want us to create. (I will be on the road from Thursday to Tuesday, but will try to help out when I have a bit of time.) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:13, 11 November 2025 (UTC)reply
The request as it's summarized in the table below has been fully handled, we just wait for some approvals before we can enable one or the other campaign. Future help with additional requests on this page is appreciated, of course. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:55, 10 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: I added table 3 for countries that start later. In the last set there are 3 waves of start times. Currently, the countries listed have the campaign already underway. Then, more countries will join, and on December 1st, the last countries will start. Some countries were also changing their start dates, and there were some issues with upload forms. That is why we wanted to start with the banner campaign a bit later. Kruusamägi (talk) 00:32, 19 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@Kruusamägi: Okay. I have created the three campaigns in the third table, please check and approve them. The fourth campaign will likely be handled by my colleague. — Just ping me for the remaining campaigns when they are ready. I should be available until mid-December on a daily base from now. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:43, 19 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Currently the WMF fundraising banner campaign is also running and we are experiencing some problems with our data collection on the banners (Phab task). In order to figure out what is going on we will need to take the banners for the Wiki Science competition out for logged out users. I hope this is ok and apologies for this. I will be in touch once we know for how long (hopefully not long) they will be down. Thank you so much for your understanding. Best JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 2 December 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: all good to go. Also, a Finnish competition might need a small boost. Something similar to the Estonian banner (i.e people would see banner if they are from Finland, but visiting English Wikipedia). So I added this as well. Kruusamägi (talk) 22:52, 2 December 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: there is now also one for the United Kingdom (they will start on December 10th). And there is competition ongoing in Kazakhstan, but they have not yet provided any information about banner. And some countries might ask for deadline extensions. Kruusamägi (talk) 23:12, 8 December 2025 (UTC)reply
Hi all,
Can you hold on the UK one until we have figured out what is going on with our data (with regards to fundraising). It is fine to enable it for logged in users but not for logged out users at this stage. I will let you know once we know more. Thank you so much! Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 05:57, 9 December 2025 (UTC)reply
Sigh, I am pretty sure that it was enabled. Maybe it changed when I extended the duration. But due to the bug, we cannot see in the logs what was changed. I have enabled it (again). Thanks for the ping! —DerHexer(Talk)11:48, 29 December 2025 (UTC)reply
It's a very annoying bug, I noticed it as well!
And I also noticed several CN campaign where end times were of when I did CN-administrative work this weekend... strange!
Uzbek: Ilmiy fotosuratlar tanlovida ishtirok eting va sovrinlarga ega bo‘ling! Russian: Конкурс научных фотографий: участвуйте и выигрывайте призы! Karakalpak: Ilimiy fotosúwretler tańlawında qatnasıń hám sıylıqlarǵa iye bolıń!
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 500+ edits and 6+ months registration date
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 - Active dewiki community members will be notified about The Wikipedia Library and how they can make use of it.
Metrics - ca. 1,500 landing page impressions planned
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?
Both users.
What countries will your campaign target?
Australia, New Zealand, surrounding islands
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 banner will be used to notify potential contributors located in Australia and New Zealand of the opportunity to upload images in the Wiki Science Competition 2025 for Australia and New Zealand. This competition runs from 01 November 2025 to 15 December 2025.
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Type of grant - Supported by Wikimedia Australia & Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
Link to grant -
Discussion
Hi,
I have a brief question about the request. Is this targeting logged in or logged out users? As of the start of December we will run the annual fundraising banner campaign on English Wikipedia in both Australia and New Zealand for logged out users. If your campaign is also targeting logged out users, they will be seeing around 10 fundraising banners before they will see the science competition banners for the last two weeks of your campaign. Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:02, 27 October 2025 (UTC)reply
I apologise for the confusion. When I submitted the request, I set the banner to be active for a two-week period to avoid the December fundraising campaigns. However, I can no longer see these dates displayed in the request.
Hi @AlphaLemur: can you please clarify this questions? I don't know why they are not showing in the settings.
What is the campaign duration?
Which projects will you be targeting?
What languages will you be targeting?
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?
Thank you for your questions @Soylacarli I am puzzled too!
What is the campaign duration? - Monday 17 November, to Sunday 30 November
Which projects will you be targeting? - Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
What languages will you be targeting? - English
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? - Both users. Preferably the campaign is geolocated to users in Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, surrounding islands)
Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly? - No.
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 & 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 - Wikipedia Asian Month is an annual online event that occurs in November and which aims to promote Asian content on Wikipedia. Since 2015, each participating community has run a local online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on the Wikipedia site of their own language promoting the creation or improvement of the Wikipedia content about Asia except their own country.
Metrics - number of participants, number of artiles edited and created, number of newcommers
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Type of grant - N/A
Link to grant - N/A
Discussion
We are aware that this banner conflicts with Czechoslovakia 2025 Competition. Wikipedia Asian Month banner should be less prominent (impression diet) during the conflicting period. Given the fact that according to current policy banners should last for 14 days only, the duration is requested for the second half of the month, therefore the request is also given in the requested minimal time advance. Aktron (talk) 07:56, 1 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Central Notice admin comments
Hi @Aktron! Thanks for the request and for noting the overlap with other campaigns. Since you are fine with using an impression diet during the conflicting period, we can accommodate that.
I also noticed that the banner proposal is currently written in wikitext. CentralNotice banners need to be built in HTML/CSS, as they must remain responsive and accessible across devices (especially mobile).
You have two options:
Provide the banner in HTML/CSS format, or
If you prefer, I can convert it into an HTML/CSS CentralNotice banner using the standard template (with the two images you included).
Hi, we found yesterday, that there is a global banner for Asian month 2025 also for the Czech Wikipedia, hovever there was a mistake in the year, so the banner was switched off due that mistake. After later discussion we have decided that banner for the Wikipedia Asian months running for the entire month of November (according to the global campaign and lasting of Asian Month 2025 on Czech Wiki). It will be very helpful also for the support of the whole global activity. Czech editors were one of the most active community in Asian months in recent years, but we have feedback, that some of them didn´t know about it, so banner is very supportive for the enlaregment of the number of the articles about Asia on Czech Wikipedia. Thank you for understanding. We have already talked with Martin Urbanec about it. KKDAII (talk) 09:34, 9 November 2025 (UTC)reply
15-11-2025: 15th November 2025 → 18-12-2025: 18th December 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
All
What languages will you be targeting?
Arabic
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?
All countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Active Arabic community members will be notified about The Wiktionary training sessions and competition .
Metrics - number of participants, number of artiles edited and created, number of newcommers
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?
All users, since we want both experienced users that add the bulk of the articles but maybe also new users that can be onboarded into wikipedia
What countries will your campaign target?
All countries; since its the Spanish-speaking wikipedia, users should be able to contribute from all countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description - Wikipedia Asian Month 2025
Metrics - Article counts improve from the historic table here. This was also the metric last year, and we saw a really big increase in newcomers compared to previous editions, which for me was a great success!
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Type of grant - None that I am aware of
Link to grant - None that I am aware of
Discussion
Central Notice admin comments
Hi! This is my only my second proposal for a banner, so, please, feel free to tell me how to improve it in any way :`p
In Spanish Wikipedia, I have been organizing the local edition of the Asian Month for the past 3 years. The contest had been loosing and loosing in popularity for years, but last year, we were able to get a lot of new contributors, probably in part thanks to the banner!
I think getting a banner again could greatly improve discovery of this event, which offers a soft, cute landing for new users, and an interesting objective for more experienced users.
Thanks for your time!
EDIT: I forgot to put the request on the queue and calendar :+ so I modified a little bit the date. Sorry for the problems!
Hola @Marion Moseby: Como la campaña está propuesta para durar más de dos semanas, y de acuerdo a las políticas de CentralNotice, es necesario informar a la comunidad de Wikipedia en español sobre la campaña y el banner. Puedes hacerlo dejando un mensaje en el Café de eswiki y compartiendo el enlace aquí. Además, ¿quieres que el banner se muestre a todos los países, o prefieres enfocarlo en países hispanohablantes? En ese caso es más probable que las personas puedan participar efectivamente en el concurso. Avísame para configurarlo de la mejor forma. Sobre el banner: no es necesario copiar toda la plantilla técnica. Si lo prefieres, puedes simplemente decir “un banner simple con esta imagen y este texto” y nosotros podemos crearlo usando la plantilla estándar de CentralNotice. Quedo atenta, cuando tengas el enlace al Café y la aclaración sobre la geolocalización, sigo con la configuración. Saludos --Soylacarli (talk) 20:12, 4 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Hola @Soylacarli! Que rabia que no me ha notificado la wiki, te tenía que haber respondido antes. La alerta ya está en el café, no me deja enlazar la sección pero está en la Zona de Noticias
Respecto a lo de los paises, yo lo mostraría en todos, asumiendo que si leen en español podrían editar en ese idioma; pero, si prefieres poner solo los hispanos, por mí no es problema.
Por último, sobre el banner, siéntete libre de ponerlo como mejor consideres; solo he copiado el que hice para el año pasado, aunque tampoco fue mucho trabajo jeje.
Hola @Soylacarli! He visto que ya habéis activado el banner (¡muchísimas gracias!). Sin embargo, el texto, como lo habéis (creo jeje) copiado de la en:wiki, contiene info sobre unas postales que, en un principio, es:wiki hace tiempo que no reparte. No se si podrías actualizar el texto para eliminar dicha referencia, ya sea usando el del banner que adjunté en la request o lo que creáis más conveniente.
Hi @Marion Moseby, I'm writing in English so that @DerHexer can follow as well. We have a bit of a conflict with this request, the global organizers of Wikipedia Asian Month already requested a banner, and eswiki was included in that global campaign. That’s the banner you’re currently seeing, and the text was the one submitted by the global organizers. For future cases, it would be great if organizers could coordinate earlier to avoid overlapping requests. If I enabled this campaign it would be two banners of the same campaign in the same dates. Please note that the global campaign on eswiki will run until December 31. Maybe @DerHexer can suggest another solution? Best, Soylacarli (talk) 14:19, 10 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Hi all! Thanks for the heads-up @Soylacarli; while I realized there was a banner for the English edition on the Asian Month on the CentralNotice/Request page, I didn't click on it to see it was multi-lingual 😅
I thus see two options:
Either we keep that campaign, and update the banner text to remove mentions to postcards, or
if their organizer @Betty2407 is OK, we can remove es:wiki from there and keep the banner I proposed here for es:wiki only
I favour the second approach, since it would also tailor the running time a bit more to the timing on es:wiki, where I expect little activity after the end of november, leaving more space for other campaigns. Both are fine for me in any case, and sorry for the miscommunication; I am just a small editor, so I didn't even think of checking that other campaign first 🤓
Dear @Marion Mosebyand @Soylacarli, Apologies for the inconvenience caused. Due to requests from some organizers to have the CN application submitted by the global team, I have applied for all the languages that have registered.
I would like to know if this issue can now be resolved directly through this link, using the existing banner and translate the text into the content you wish to use.
If this approach doesn’t work, I’d like to find a simpler method that doesn’t cause too much trouble for the CN administrators. Could we ask the @Soylacarli for suggestions? Thanks for all CN administrators' help... Betty2407 (talk) 01:39, 11 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@Marion Moseby, Soylacarli, and Betty2407: I have removed es from the global campaign. Sorry that I didn't check if subcampaigns had been proposed that could overlap with the global campaign. Per my experiences, local campaigns are usually more effective than adjustments to a global campaign. That's why I recommend (also per Marion's wish) that this campaign will be created for the eswiki community. I'm happy to help, but I think that Soylacarli was already on it. :) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)16:28, 11 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Hola @Soylacarli! La campaña me deja verla, y los parámetros parecen correctos. Sin embargo, no me deja ver el banner (puede ser q sea solo para admins?), aunque me fio de tí jeje
Qué extraño, se debiese poder ver el preview. Bueno de todas formas el banner tiene el mismo código que me pasaste, así es que es el mismo :). Voy activándola entonces para que ya aparezca a los demás. Saludos, Soylacarli (talk) 16:03, 12 November 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 of logged in users and anonymous users
What countries will your campaign target?
All countries
Banner/Campaign Diet:
To be determined by Central Notice admin
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
Description -
Metrics - To notify all visitors to Wikipedia about Wikipedia Asian Month and encourage their involvement.
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Hi there, not sure the best way/place to mention this but I think there might be a typo in the banner - "Contribute in Wikipedia Asian Month and get postcard!" seems to be missing an "a" between "get" and "postcard". Sorry if this should have been posted somewhere else!
Hi,
I have a question about this campaign. I see that you are targeting logged in and logged our users. In your list of participating countries you list English Wikipedia. Can you specify which countries you are targeting there? We run the annual English Wikipedia banner fundraising campaign throughout December in Australia, Canada (also on French Wikipedia there), Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US (also on Spanish Wikipedia there) and non logged in readers will be seeing about 10 fundraising banners before they will see your banners. Best, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 07:06, 27 October 2025 (UTC)reply
Dear @JBrungs (WMF), Thank you. This campaign is aimed at all contributors to the English Wikipedia, so it's not targeted at any specific country. If the banner appears after the fundraising banners, that's fine. Your kind reminder is appreciated. Betty2407 (talk) 00:13, 28 October 2025 (UTC)reply
Dear @User:DerHexer, As the WAM campaign is approaching, could you please let me know if any CN administrator will handle this request? Additionally, if there is anything I can improve in my application, please feel free to share your feedback, as this is my first time applying for it. Thank you for your understanding. Betty2407 (talk) 06:46, 31 October 2025 (UTC)reply
Hi, I have been on the road for the past two weeks. I will take a look at the requests this week, having set up most of them by Thursday at the latest. Any other CN admin can help here, of course. :) —DerHexer(Talk)18:47, 3 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexer: sorry for bothering - could you please reconfigure the Ukrainian banner? On Ukrainian Wikipedia we'll have the Asia Month from November 25th to December 25th, so this one is too early. And also we'll need the text changed (currently it's "Цей листопад — Місяць Азії у Вікіпедії <br/> Беріть участь у конкурсі й отримуйте листівки з Азії."; should be "Триває Місяць Азії у Вікіпедії <br/> Беріть участь у конкурсі й отримуйте книги про Азію.") Thanks! --AntonProtsiuk (WMUA) (talk) 11:26, 8 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@AntonProtsiuk (WMUA): How should I have known this? ;) On Wikipedia Asian Month 2025/Join an Event there is no information on different dates for the Wikipedia Asian Month. Anyway, I have removed uk.wikipedia.org from the global campaign and changed the text. So either ping me around 25 November so that I can re-add it or ask for a separate campaign. Because in this global campaign, the dates are fixed and cannot be changed for individual languages/projects. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)11:32, 8 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Dear @AntonProtsiuk (WMUA) Apologies, I applied for the banner period from November 1 to December 31 for all languages, in order to align with the global framework. I believe you can adjust the content here.
@DerHexer: Sorry to bother you again. Would it be possible to add one more language: Gorontalo (gor)? I noticed that the organizers there have not added their page here, so it was missed from being displayed on CN. Thanks again. ···🌸Rachmat04·☕️13:32, 8 November 2025 (UTC)reply
The "Help with translations" link points to 2021 and should be updated to the current year to ensure translators work on the correct banner. --Saroj (talk) 18:06, 8 November 2025 (UTC)reply
I didn't know that, but yes, now I can confirm: с 1 по 30 ноября = from 1 to 30 November So this banner should be deleted from Russian Wikipedia now. Shabe (talk) 11:07, 5 December 2025 (UTC)reply
I have just removed Hungary and the Hungarian language as well, as the campaign ended on 30 November. Please let me know if you disagree or have any comments on this. Samat (talk) 15:09, 10 December 2025 (UTC)reply
Central Notice admin comments
@Betty2407: It's no fun to select 54 languages to the campaign and add 54 links to the banners (5 displays per month). ;D But I made it! You can find the campaign and banner (German preview example) there. Please help out with coording banner translations as soon as possible. I am not sure that all landing pages are fully ready yet, please also ensure that. Other than that the campaign is ready, waiting for your checks, approval and a ping for me so that I can enable the global campaign. Please note that if sub-campaigns need other means of banners, they have to request it separately. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)13:37, 7 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Dear @DerHexer, Appreciate the kind support and the hard efforts that you do for this WAM's request! I will reach out for the translation. Please enable the global campaign. Thank you. Betty2407 (talk) 09:11, 8 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Dear @DerHexer thank you very much for it, it was a huge work! And thank you @Betty2407 for this idea with global campaign banner.
However on Czech Wikipedia we use exact days in banner and we found yesterday there was the year 2020 - it was during our annual Wikiconference and there was not too much space think about it - only about the mistake, so the banner for the Czech Wikipedia was switched off yesterday, but we enlarged our own request for the Asian Month 2025 according the global campaign and duration of the Asian Month on Czech Wikipedia. Hope, it will be confirmed and put on as soon as possible. KKDAII (talk) 10:21, 9 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Hi @Betty2407, just a quick note so we can avoid this situation next year. This year, we had your global request for the campaign, but there were also separate local requests for cswiki and eswiki, both of which were already covered in your banner targeting those languages. It would be great to coordinate this in advance next time, so that local communities requesting their own banners don’t overlap with the global one. Thank you!--Soylacarli (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Yep, can we have on cs.wiki the banner merged to the global one (just like the Spanish one) - except with the errorneous translation that was mentioning the "2020" year? Thanks. Aktron (talk) 21:26, 13 November 2025 (UTC)reply
@Aktron: There is no Czech translation for the current global banner (link). Maybe an old translation from the cloning of the banner is loading right now. Please add a Czech text and ping me so that I can publish it and override previous texts. Then I can add cswiki to the global campaign; meanwhile, I have already disabled that campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)10:43, 21 November 2025 (UTC)reply
Currently the WMF fundraising banner campaign is also running and we are experiencing some problems with our data collection on the banners (Phab task). In order to figure out what is going on we will need to take the banners for the Wiki Asia Month out for logged out users. I hope this is ok and apologies for this. I will be in touch once we know for how long (hopefully not long) they will be down. Thank you so much for your understanding. Best JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 15:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)reply
The campaign has been disabled per request of the main organizer. It's time for the lessons learned for this campaign, I'm happy to provide my feedback so that it will get easier next time for everyone. :) For me, it was fine, no worries. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:15, 11 December 2025 (UTC)reply
1 November 2025 - 15 December 2025 (full contest duration) for logged-in editors 1-7 November 2025 (first week) and 9-15 December 2025 (last week) only for anonymous/non-logged-in users
Which projects will you be targeting?
Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)
Note: Initially targeting Commons only, as it is the primary upload platform for the competition. We may consider expanding to other Wikipedias or Wikidata in future editions based on community feedback and this year's participation metrics.
What languages will you be targeting?
English, Hindi, and other Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi - translations in progress)
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 (with different campaign durations as specified above)
What countries will your campaign target?
India
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?
Sub-heading: Photograph, upload, and share India’s scientific discoveries, research, equipment, and innovations. Participate from 1 November to 15 December 2025.
Announcement diffs will be linked here once posted:
Commons Village Pump: [Diff to be added]
English Wikipedia Village Pump: [Diff to be added if applicable]
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Type of grant -
Link to grant -
Discussion
Central Notice admin comments
@Dev Jadiya: A few remarks before we can create the campaign:
A banner campaign running for 1.5 months is very uncommons. Please check out the usage guidelines that recommend campaigns not running for more than two weeks. Any campaign running longer definitely has to be announced in the targeted projects, here probably c:Commons:Village pump should be the right place. This is especially important for campaigns reaching millions of readers. — Please consider reducing the campaign duration, especially for non-registered users. Maybe two windows make sense: A week for the start of the competition and another week before it concludes.
Does it make sense to only target the Commons community? Wouldn't you reach a wider audience on Wikipedia, for example? (Of course, this needs further announcements.)
When you target more than one language, you have to have the banner and landing page available in all targeted languages. In this request, only an English banner text was mentioned. Please add the other languages here. — For the landing page which is only available in English as of now, please get it marked for translation and provide the texts at least in the major languages with support of the local translation admins and through the translators' noticeboard.
Dear @DerHexer, Thanks for your detailed feedback.
We can move with two weeks windows as it will be align with guidelines and a week for start and another before it concludes will suit well.
Yes our plan is to share with as many audience and it would be great it you could extend it to wikipedia also.
I have put the landing page translation request in translation community check. Meanwhile, I will also provide some of the banner translation in this page.
Also a new village pump discussion has been added Link.
I believe these updates address all the points you raised. Please let me know if any further clarifications or modifications are needed.
@Dev Jadiya: I have created the campaign and banner (English, Hindi, Awadhi preview) for the logged-in campaign (cookie reset after a month), as well as the campaign and banner (English, Hindi, Awadhi preview) for the non-registered users, starting tomorrow for one week because of the delay in creating the campaign. Please make sure that the landing page will be marked for translation and translated as soon as possible. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)18:09, 6 November 2025 (UTC)reply
30 October 2025 → 13 November 2025, AND 23 November 2025 → 07 December 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia, Commons
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 - Competition Czechoslovakia is one of the annual competitions hosted by Wikimedia Czech Republic. It is focused both on experienced editors and people who never edited before. During the challenge, we teach Wikipedia users who are interested in the topic how to edit. People can also upload photos to participate.
Metrics - Number of articles and pictures uploaded, number of participants; qualitative: jury will pick the articles that are "articles of the highest quality, particularly beneficial for Wikipedia".
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@DerHexer: Hi there! I think I can take this one. @Tadeáš Bednarz (WMCZ) is the new Programs for editors coordinator at WMCZ, as I moved to the WMF. Tadeáš is still in the process of onboarding, the plan is that he will handle the banner requests in the future himself. Best, janbery (talk) 10:37, 20 October 2025 (UTC)reply
1st November 2025 → 8th November 2025; 22nd November 2025 → 29th November 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
Wikipedia
What languages will you be targeting?
One Language (Polish)
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?
Poland
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 - A grassroots editing campaign involving the addition of sources to articles that have been without sources for over a decade and often contain templates requesting sources. Many of them have no footnotes, bibliographies or even external links.
Metrics - The number of participants
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
@Ada Jakubowska (WMPL): I have created the campaign and banner (preview). Please note that new campaigns running longer than two weeks have to be announced to the local community and don't have to get objected. I assume that it should be no problem to do that, otherwise you can shorten the campaign duration for the first and last week, for example. Up to you. Other than that it looks good to me. Please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign as soon as you have clarified the duration. Best, —DerHexer(Talk)19:21, 15 October 2025 (UTC)reply
@DerHexerthe banner looks fine. After consideration, we have decided that your proposed campaign dates in the first and last week of November will be totally enough. Thank you for the idea! I have already changed the dates in the application and in the calendar. Ada Jakubowska (WMPL) (talk) 08:27, 16 October 2025 (UTC)reply
I have changed the date according to the first timespan and enabled the campaign. However, we cannot set two such timespans so that I either have to keep it in mind or you ping me before the second one so that I can change the dates again. I am sure that we will make it. ;) Best, —DerHexer(Talk)08:52, 16 October 2025 (UTC)reply
Wikiquote & Wikipedia (see here for the banner diets)
What languages will you be targeting?
all that have signed up (and have a landing page, etc)
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
What 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?
Banners -
SVG version:
PNG version:
font: Lato Bold
Colourː #662D91
text [line 1]: #SheSaid 2025
text [line 2]: 1st September - 31st December 2025
text [line 2]: Give Her A Voiceǃ
logo:
@Afeq I have recreated your image the best I can. A few remarks with the banner preview:
Per usage guidelines, I can't include bit.ly links in the banner, since it's a third party service. It feels a bit redundant to have in the banner anyway imho, when one click also leads them to the correct plage, don't you think? Also as a suggestion, more in general since I know you'll also be designing handout materials: you could consider to use Wikimedia's own url shortner w.wiki instead, to keep things in our own domains.
I have yet to learn how to create a second text box as the one you have on the right. If we remove the link, per the previous comment, it's only the "Join now!" that is left: is this also covered by "give her a voice", or maybe we can combine them "Give her a voice - join now!"
Perfect @Afek91: I have created banner in 6 languages to go live tomorrow, 0.00 UTC. As last year, the languages listed on Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid 2025/CentralNotice that don't have a completed translation, or had no or a problematic landing page, will not go live. I left my notes in the table there. If there's something that needs updating, please ping me here! Ciell (talk) 19:37, 4 September 2025 (UTC)reply
@Ciell: Thoughts on changing the color scheme to a more standard one? At the very least I'd recommend we change the white text, as it is not accessible. Thinking mostly about the "we recommend that you avoid overly distracting designs" part of the new guidelines. The bright yellow and purple is quite distracting in light mode, and in dark mode is really experience-breaking. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 02:13, 5 September 2025 (UTC)reply
@Afek91 with regards to Vermont's concern above, would it be okay for you if I for instance change the color of the banner to a light yellow, and the white text to a dark grey? Ciell (talk) 15:39, 5 September 2025 (UTC)reply
@Vermont fyi, I expect @Afek91 back in office tomorrow, but if she doesn't respond I'll change the colors in the banner per my proposal. SheSaid has a new design and color palette every year, that they use for their swag and prints as well, which I why I hope they can agree or give alternatives to the issue you raise. Ciell (talk) 18:05, 7 September 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 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?
Description - Invitation to WP working group wiki:wo:men (WP:WWO) on 19 December 2025 (15-18 Uhr) in Stadtbibliothek in Stuttgart
Metrics - Landing page is called, new people participate in our meeting(s)
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
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?
Description - This is an event notice for local c:Category:Wikicurious US events being held in 2025.
Metrics - edit-a-thon quantitative and qualitative evaluations
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 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?
Description -
Metrics -
What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
Type of grant -
Link to grant -
Discussion
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.
Візьміть участь у конкурсі наукових зображень та змагайтеся за призи до 20 грудня!
Візьміть участь у конкурсі наукових зображень та змагайтеся за призи до 20 грудня!
Enabled Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:29, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
– I understand that we should've clarified our dates at the global list page). AntonProtsiuk (WMUA) (talk) 11:38, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
