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Wikipedia Asian Month 2025

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Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration?
  • 1st November 2025 → 31st December 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • Wikipedia
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?
  • 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?

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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?

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Banners - Like Wikipedia Asian Month 2021.
Text1: Join Wikipedia Asian Month this November and December!
Text2: Contribute in Wikipedia Asian Month and get postcard!
Image: File:Wikipedia Asian Month Logo.svg

Landing Page - Please refer to this page or local landing pages as listed here.
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Type of grant - General Support Fund

Link to grant - Please take a look on this Page

Discussion

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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
Dear @DerHexer, Thank you very much for your reply and assistance. :) Betty2407 (talk) 05:07, 4 November 2025 (UTC)reply

Central Notice admin comments

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  • @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
    Enabled. —DerHexer (Talk) 09:40, 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
    Dear @Soylacarli, Thank you for the kind reminder, and sorry for the inconvenience caused. I will take steps to ensure this issue doesn't happen again next year. Betty2407 (talk) 01:44, 11 November 2025 (UTC)reply
    Dear @Soylacarli, I’d also like to kindly ask if it would still be possible to revise the Text2 to "Contribute in Wikipedia Asian Month and get a postcard!"? Thank you! Betty2407 (talk) 02:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)reply
    I handled this one. —DerHexer (Talk) 23:02, 11 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
    Hi @Betty2407 and @DerHexer,
    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