A geonotice is a notice on Special:Watchlist that is displayed only to users who are physically located in some subset of the Earth. The configuration page of geonotices is on Wikipedia:Geonotice/list.json. View the active geonotices and the regions they cover on Wikipedia:Geonotice/Map.
The purpose of geonotices is to announce events that would be of great interest to people in a specific region, but that would not be interesting to most of our readers. The use of targeted messages allows us to scale our communication better; rather than flooding people with multiple messages or avoiding messages entirely, we can display messages only to the people who are most likely to find them useful.
Example uses for targeted messages are: to announce upcoming Wikipedia meetups and local events, for local chapter activities and to advertise mailing lists focused on geographical areas.
Geonotices requested here are only displayed on the watchlist on the English Wikipedia. If you want to target users of all Wikimedia Foundation wikis in a particular geographical area, you can go to meta:CentralNotice to request a geotargeted banner.
No data or personal information is gathered from users to make this notice possible, nor does this notice share any user's personal information with outsiders.
Geonotices are a type of watchlist notice, a type of top of page message similar to a MediaWiki:Sitenotice, MediaWiki:Anonnotice or MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages notice.
The current implementation works by loading the user's latitude and longitude from geoiplookup.wikimedia.org and using a small bit of JavaScript (Geonotice-core.js and Geonotice-list.js) to determine whether or not to display a notice to the user. The location detection is IP address-based, using a lookup system described at wikitech:Geolocation. Currently, MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition specifies the geonotices to be listed at MediaWiki:Gadget-geonotice-list.js (IAdmin-protected), which is turn is updated automatically by User:MusikBot II by synchronizing from Wikipedia:Geonotice/list.json (Sysop-protected).
The "hide" button that is displayed with each message will persistently dismiss that particular message. You can also disable all Geonotices by disabling the Geonotice gadget in your preferences. Geonotices will also be hidden if you have opted to hide all watchlist notices.
Geonotices are currently a candidate to be integrated into MediaWiki proper. One significant open question is how best to allow users to specify the locations of interest for a message. Right now, the location range must be hard-coded in the the JavaScript itself.
This is a low-volume request page. If you're an admin and you want to put up a geonotice, feel free to read the guidance on this page and update Wikipedia:Geonotice/list.json yourself. |
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=== [[Related page name (e.g. meetup page)]] === <syntaxhighlight lang="json"> "begin" : "18 September 2019 00:00 UTC", "end" : "25 September 2019 00:00 UTC", "corners" : [[45, -90], [52, -100]], "text" : "Replace this with your message. You can add [[Wikipedia:Meetup|Wikilinks]] or [https://en.wikipedia.org external links]." </syntaxhighlight> '''Discussion''' * ''User requesting:'' ~~~~
Locations
"country": "US"
instead of the "corners":
specification. The geonotice tool uses ISO 3166 Country Codes. This method is generally more reliable.Messages
Date range
Notify geonotice maintainers
Add new requests to the top of this list. Please include coordinates where possible, as this will speed up processing. Note that this page is quite low-traffic - if you've had no response after a day or two, or if it's urgent, please poke the administrators.
"begin" : "8 July 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "11 July 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[38.85,-120.5], [36.6, -123.5]],
"text" : "[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco|Join]] Wikipedians in San Francisco on July 11 for co-working and a presentation about writing Wikipedia-like articles with AI!"
@The wub and Redrose64: sorry for another somewhat rushed request about this one (jumping in for e_mln_e here). Thanks in advance! Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:04, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
"begin" : "1 June 2024 09:00 UTC",
"end" : "13 June 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[38.85,-120.5], [36.6, -123.5]],
"text" : "[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco|Join]] Bay Area Wikipedians for co-working and lightning talks on May 16!"
Discussion
"begin" : "3 May 2024 09:00 UTC",
"end" : "16 May 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[-122.82,37.29], [-121.82,38.1]],
"text" : "[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco|Join]] Bay Area Wikipedians for co-working and lightning talks on May 16!"
Discussion
"begin" : "12 May 2024 09:00 UTC",
"end" : "16 May 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[38.1,-121.82], [37.29, -122.82]],
"text" : "[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco|Join]] Bay Area Wikipedians for co-working and lightning talks on May 16!"
"begin" : "23 April 2024 09:00 UTC",
"end" : "8 June 2024 16:00 UTC",
"corners" : [[49, -5], [51, -1]],
"text" : "[[Wikipedia:Meetup/Exeter|Join]] the first Exeter Wikimeet on 8th June for a casual chat!"
Discussion
"begin" : "26 March 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "08 April 2024 00:00 UTC",
"corners" : [[45, -73], [41, -80]],
"text" : "Wikimedians in Upstate New York are invited to watch the total eclipse on April 8 at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Rochester,_NY/Eclipse_2024|University of Rochester]]."
"begin" : ""06 April 2024 00:00 UTC"",
"end" : "04 May 202024 12:00 UTC",
"corners" : westlimit=-5.1; southlimit=52.16; eastlimit=1.87; northlimit=54.4
"text" : "All are welcome at the [[meta:Meetup/Leeds/6|Leeds, UK meetup]] on '''Saturday, 4th May'''. Join other Wikipedians for a coffee and a chat!"
Discussion
"begin" : "06 March 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "12 March 2024 23:00 UTC",
"corners" : [[47.4394, -122.095551], [47.773647, -122.432694]], <!--DublinCore from boundingbox.klokantech.com: westlimit=-122.432694; southlimit=47.4394; eastlimit=-122.095551; northlimit=47.773647-->
"text" : "You are invited to the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Seattle articles edit-a-thon, Tuesday, March 12 2024 3pm – 7pm (PDT)|Seattle articles edit-a-thon]], Tuesday, March 12 2024 3pm – 7pm. This event is in-person at the [[Seattle Public Library University Branch]]."
Discussion
"begin" : "03 March 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "10 March 2024 18:00 UTC",
"corners" : [[44.8677, -123.3448], [46.2009, -122.2245]], <!--DublinCore from boundingbox.klokantech.com: westlimit=-123.3448; southlimit=44.8677; eastlimit=-122.2245; northlimit=46.2009-->
"text" : "You are invited to International Women’s Day [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Jewish Women Artists 2024|Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists]] on Sunday 3/10. This event is both online and in-person at OJMCHE in Portland, Oregon."
Discussion
"begin" : "26 January 2024 02:30 UTC",
"end" : "4 February 2024 18:00 UTC",
"corners" : [[33.7529, -84.3218], [37.3681, -75.4001]],
"text" : "Celebrate Wikipedia's 23rd birthday at '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Wikipedia Day 2024|Wikipedia Day 2024 in NC]]'''! Stop by the Chapel Hill Public Library Sunday 2/4, 11am - 1pm."
Discussion
"begin" : "3 February 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "17 February 2024 00:00 UTC",
"corners" : [[35.0064, -114.1308], [32.5295, -121.0038]],
"text" : "Everyone is invited to a '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/Los Angeles/February 2024|Los Angeles]]''' edit-a-thon at the [[West Hollywood Library]]."
Discussion
"begin" : "29 April 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "20 May 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[35.0064, -114.1308], [32.5295, -121.0038]],
"text" : "Everyone is invited to a '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/May 2024|Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month]]''' edit-a-thon at the [[San Diego Central Library]]."
Discussion
"begin" : "1 April 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "22 April 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[35.0064, -114.1308], [32.5295, -121.0038]],
"text" : "Everyone is invited to a '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2024|National Volunteer Month]]''' edit-a-thon at the [[San Diego Central Library]]. Students seeking community service hours for school requirements will receive two hours for participation."
Discussion
"begin" : "4 March 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "25 March 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[35.0064, -114.1308], [32.5295, -121.0038]],
"text" : "Everyone is invited to a '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/March 2024|Women's History Month]]''' edit-a-thon at the [[San Diego Central Library]]."
Discussion
"begin" : "5 February 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "26 February 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[35.0064, -114.1308], [32.5295, -121.0038]],
"text" : "Everyone is invited to a '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/February 2024|Black History Month]]''' edit-a-thon at the [[San Diego Central Library]]."
Discussion
"begin" : "8 January 2024 00:00 UTC",
"end" : "29 January 2024 23:59 UTC",
"corners" : [[35.8001, -114.1308], [32.5295, -121.6602]],
"text" : "Everyone is invited to a '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/January 2024|Fred Korematsu Day eve]]''' edit-a-thon at the [[San Diego Central Library]]."
Discussion