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Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025

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Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration?
  • 15 March 2025 → 26 March 2025 and 5 April 2025 → 15 April 2025
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • All Wikimedia Projects
What languages will you be targeting?
  • Multiple Language
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?

  • Algeria, Antarctica, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivory Coast, Egypt, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Maroc, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda.

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 - Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 is an annual global contest aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse customs and traditions observed during the month of Ramadan. The 2025 edition will focus on 32 countries, including Algeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria, and the United States, to capture the rich cultural practices, Islamic heritage, and biographies of significant Islamic figures. Contributions will span 26 languages across platforms like Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and Wikivoyage. Through online events and training sessions, WLR 2025 aims to engage diverse communities, fostering knowledge sharing and cultural appreciation.

Metrics -

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

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Banners - User:J ansari/Sendbox/2 (different landing pages linked for local language)

Landing Page - Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025
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Discussion

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@DerHexer, Johannnes89, and Martin Urbanec:, for you attention! Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 15:09, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Too late (just added to CNR yesterday), too long (six weeks, seriously?), a global campaign without ambassadors and without local communication, insufficient banner request with just a logo and no translated banner texts, and so on. I'm inclined to decline the request entirely but will take a closer look into it on the weekend, I'm on a train to the German AdminCon right now. In the meantime, you can already read CentralNotice/Usage guidelines. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:31, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @ZI Jony, we have several big campaigns requested to be run in the same time period, with overlapping targets with your campaign. I agree with DerHexer that 6 weeks exposure is not a suitable request. Also, is yours a writing or photography contest? Reading your grant request, and noticing your metrics are focusing on Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikivoyage, I would assume the former, and would like to propose to limit your CN campaign to those 3 projects, allowing more room for the Wiki Loves Africa photography contest CN campaign which will be running at the same time. And maybe we start light, and increase visibility (number of impressions) towards the end of the Ramadan for instance? Ciell (talk) 10:20, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
DerHexer and Ciell, Sorry for the late response! We really appreciate your suggestion. I'd suggest three times: in March, two times for one week each, and in April, during the last ten days of the campaign. I've updated the request page. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 16:22, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ZI Jony: if you'd like this campaign to go live, we'll need a few more details to create the banner and the campaign.
  • Currently, the banner is only available in 5 languages and the landing page in 11. If you'd like to target 28 languages, please list them and make sure both banner and landing page is available in those languages.
  • Please note that creating, and during the competition: managing, separate campaigns for all 28 languages is a lot of work. Some CN admins do this for global campaigns, but these campaigns in general will have a dedicated person on the team for doing so. Since you have one central landing page already, my proposal would be to create a multilingual banner (the language shown in the banner will depend on the user's preferred MediaWiki interface language) to work with.
  • Please also make sure to read the CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines#Customizing_Banner_Code,_Design_and_Styling on the topic of custom banners, where it reads: "Banners are made with HTML and CSS, not Wikitext." We can take your design in wikicode and transform it, but it might end up looking a bit different from your design.
Ciell (talk) 10:14, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Central Notice admin comments

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  • @J ansari, ZI Jony, and Ciell: I have created the campaign and multilingual banner (English preview, can be changed in the URL).
    • I have also transferred all current translations from User:J ansari/Sendbox/2 to the banner and marked them as published. However, I have only included these languages into the campaign settings, because I don't know what the other of the 26 languages might be. Furthermore, I have added a translation link into the banner itself. Please submit as many translations as possible to the banner here (there is no need to do that on the user subpage anymore) and landing page.
    • I can add more languages to the campaign at any time when you tell me which ones. For me, the campaign is ready to go, I have set the date for 10 to 16 March; let us know about the other dates.
  • All in all, please check everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable it. — And please, next time start preparations earlier and reach out to CentralNotice admins as soon as possible. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:04, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @DerHexer thanks for your work, please go ahead what you did looks good to me. Also, accommodate for March 24-30, and April 7-15. We will let you know if there are any concerns/updates from our end, and for the next time a central notice will be prepared and reached to the administrators in advance. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 05:14, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    DerHexer and Ciell, can we use language based local Wikipedia project page link? Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 06:20, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @ZI Jony: I have enabled the campaign, but be aware that the number of languages is limited because you didn't tell us the full list of 26 languages (and landing pages) yet. I have just noticed that the links are not leading to a global landing page which required translation. When you have individual landing pages on the local wikis, a translation of the landing page is not mandatory (but of course helpful). I have changed the banner accordingly. Please check it again. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:06, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    DerHexer, Instead of using {{{link}} can we use {{{link|//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2025}}} (unsure that will work or not)? Our targeted languages (Arabic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Dagbani, English, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Kashmiri, Luganda, Malay, Simple English, Tamil, Turkish, Yoruba, Swahili, Dutch, Kannada, Malayalam, French, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Estonian) and countries (Algeria, Antarctica, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Estonia, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Maroc, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom). Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 04:04, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @ZI Jony: The default language in the translatable banner is English whose link already is //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2025. It will only be overwritten when there is another local link set in the translation. That equals your proposal. I have added the languages, the countries were already set. Please ping me the day before the campaign start so that I can check if I can publish new translations. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:37, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    DerHexer, for your attention to start the campaign from tomorrow. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 12:35, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @ZI Jony, have you consulted all these language communities on all 15 Wikimedia projects, and in all 26 projects, to ask if they agree with you running an banner on their projects - for logged in and anonymous users? And why are you targeting countries in Europe but leaving out multiple MENA countries and languages? I am afraid you have not thought this through, and are underestimating the impact this has on these communities - I for one cannot remember the Dutch Village Pumps receiving messages about this. Your local teams list is still limited, your translations of the landing page (12 languages) and banner text (11 languages) is as well. I oppose the banner going live like this. (fyi @DerHexer) Ciell (talk) 19:46, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I second Ciell's concerns about the missing communication, translations and lists. There is still a bit of time for preparations for the second and third campaign window. Please let us know when you have made progress with it. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:34, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ciell and DerHexer, before we start working for Wiki Loves Ramadan, we conducted an community engagement survey, and our targeted countries and Wikis' are a result of that survey! However, I would suggest to run only those languages which have translated (even one message/link), this translation done by local users, and some local Wikipedia project page I've added based on Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Participants and Wikidata item. I believe that creating local Wiki project page, and link to participants page and Wikidata item can be considered as community agreed for the campaign! Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 19:07, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ciell and @DerHexer for your attention! Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 17:23, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @ZI Jony I am still not convinced you consulted the online communities. Could you please provide me with the link to where you consulted with for instance the Dutch, French and Estonian communities of Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikivoyage? Ciell (talk) 18:35, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ciell and DerHexer, I have updated campaign duration and countries, hope there will be no concern from your end to proceed. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 11:41, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I have now enabled the campaign on a limited diet. However, your preparations for using the CN banner for your project really need to improve if you would like to run a banner again in a next iteration.
    • I have limited your campaign to Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikivoyage, along the lines of the projects mentioned in your grant request. Running the banner on 'all projects' would not be suitable, as your event mainly focuses on article creation.
    • The banner will not be shown to not-logged in visitors. Your landing page and the events are insufficiently effective for newcomers - many events don't even seem to be linked.
    • I have taken the countries mentioned on Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Participants, and checked them against the already available translations for the banner text. Only these will be targeted. In the case where there is a mention on the meta page but no local information is available (Hausa for instance), the language is not included.
    When your are preparing your next campaign, please make sure to use outreach methods other than the CN banner to get local organizers active, before your event starts, and before you request the banner. CN banners are a way to powerful tool to serve multiple purposes, this deludes the call to action and makes the banner far less effective. Use social media, use mailing lists, use your personal network to get a great group of like-minded organizers together. Also, make sure you have an effective landing page: users that land on the page need to be addressed in their local language, and to find the place to go in one click. I would advice to outline an easy one-two-three step process for them to get active: make it very easy and inviting for them to join you in your effort.
    Wishing you a successful campaign, Ciell (talk) 09:30, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ciell, thank you for your wishes and suggestions that well noted. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 16:57, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ciell and DerHexer, could you please enable the banner again till 15 April 2025 (AoE)? Also include Hindi (HI) language as well. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 07:25, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Both done. —DerHexer (Talk) 20:46, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks! Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 08:09, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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