Template talk:Wikipedia ads/Archive 1

QX&Z?

Why is it called QXZ? Is it because these three are the rarest letters in the english language? I don't know what the significance of that might be but am I right? --Valley2city^₪‽ 04:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

It looks like it was made by User:Qxz Chridd 03:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Originally in userspace, at User:Qxz/ad.css. Rename it if it's an issue – Gurch 04:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the ads

Hi, I was wondering if you're allowed to advertise articles that need help in addition to WikiProjects.Philippe Auguste (talk) 01:53, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: which idiot came up with that idea?

I did, and I think it makes sense to allow users to pick the ads they feel are most important. If anyone is interested the coding is pretty simple, and can be seen here. Λυδαcιτγ 02:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

And now, you see, five months later there are nearly 100 ads, but because you insisted on copying-and-pasting it, you still have the version with only 11 ads two of which are now broken links :) – Gurch 23:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Having only 11 is exactly the point - in my opinion, only 11 are worth showing. Which ones are broken? Λυδαcιτγ 05:08, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

MOTD

REquesting Motd banner/ad: available? c'mon, we've fished a good one.Kfc1864Cuba Libre!My name is Maximus Caesar Zabidus 06:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Is it?c'mon, we've fished a good one. Me Page Talk to me 00:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Will do this tomorrow. Miranda 08:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Ad list

Hi, The list of ads should probably be turned to numbers so that people can find the ad they want to look at quickly. eg. The wikiproject Austraia banner has #46 so the listing would have 46 too. Does anyone want to change it? Chicken-7 12:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Changed; you might have been looking for Template:Wikipedia ads/All – Gurch 19:01, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

New ad

Hi, I've created an ad for WikiProject user warnings, and have added it to the Template:Wikipedia ads/All page, but I'm a bit confused as to handle the rest of adding it. I was trying to make it easier for you guys, but oh well... sorry about that. Thanks for adding it! (note, I removed the image so it didn't take up space) --HAL2008 talk18:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I have already added the ad to the appropriate page. Miranda 02:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I saw! I was just removing the image from the page so it didn't take up space, and adding a "thank you" there. Seriously, thanks a lot! --HAL2008 talk Contributions 02:42, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

New ad - filename collision

I just created an ad for WP:FOOTBALL and uploaded it as commons:Image:Qxz-ad63.gif however there seems to be an unused ad in wikispace at Image:Qxz-ad63.gif already. Should I rename and re-upload? Foxhill 14:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Tag the version you uploaded for deletion, and re-upload it as Image:Qxz-ad64.gif. Number 63 isn't in use because there's a sourcing issue that hasn't been settled yet and it may have to be deleted, but if it is, we can just fill the gap in later; the order of numbering doesn't matter – Gurch 17:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I've re-uploaded it under the new name, you just need to tag the other one for deletion. Thanks – Gurch 17:08, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Done, thanks for your help! Foxhill 17:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Wait a minute!

Isn't Wikipedia against Ads? -Yancyfry

That's for commercial (IE. External, paid, etc), as they would be annoying and possibly compromize the neutralicy of the place. These are solely internal, dealing with internal user projects, etc. 68.39.174.238 15:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Project deleted

WikiProject User Help has been deleted. Please update the list. —Andrew Hampe ^Talk 15:34, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

the ad for WikiProject Antarctica Highways

I really don't see the benefit behind this - the project is only kept for its humorous value - not the value to the encyclopedia. master son^{T - C} 15:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Sister project

Sister project ads are allowed? Like Wikiquote? --Aphaia 12:09, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes -- 86.142.251.120 22:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Banners/Buttons for Fundraiser 2007

How do you guys feel about helping with buttons and banners that people should/could use on their blog or other places in the web (user profiles of social networking websites etc., own websites etc.)? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you! --SabineCretella 16:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

No. I'd rather create free content if it's all the same with you – Gurch 21:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Arguments

Can we get an arg that sets it to grab the next ad in line instead of the current one? I only ask because it occurred to me that people probably look at the top of a talk page no more often than the bottom, and that they often see both - might as well cover both angles, but it's silly to have the same ad show up twice. That said, if it's too many clocks for the Wikimedia project, I guess the practice should just be avoided altogether. MrZaius^talk 18:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind. Doesn't work all that well anyway, when associated with an add comment button or when not seen by an editor appending a comment to a talk page. That said, it might be interesting to see if an expanded version of this template could put one copy where explicitly placed and, if "|footer" is thrown by the editor inserting the ads, it appends the next ad to the bottom of the rendered page. Not sure how to do it, but some code used to jump around in the page exists in the GPS coordinate templates, albeit the other way around. MrZaius^talk 10:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

List of ads

Is there anywhere that shows/lists all the ads created to date? John Carter 19:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

They're listed on the template page at Template:Wikipedia ads#Current ads, click the [show] button in the 'Wikipedia ads: Overview' box. 84.68.125.254 20:27, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

solution to "breakage" problem

It is possible to "break" many high use templates such as this one. Why not have a temporary copy for "test" edits? Important: The temporary version would not be a sandbox, it would be a place for experienced developers to test actually planned edits to the template, it would not be just so new users can play with super complex code. Is this idea practical?-- Thinboy00 ^talk/_contribs 01:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Uh... we already have them, they're called templates X1 through X9 and user sandboxes – Gurch 05:21, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, please do not refer to this as a "high-use template". This is not a "high-use template". This template is used on a few hundred userpages. This template is not used on two million pages including several hundred thousand articles, like, say, {{!}} is. That is a "high-use template" – Gurch 05:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmm

So, I was informed that the Wikiproject Soft Drinks needs members. I am not sure what to think of this, but abject disgust comes to mind. This was a good idea when the number were limited to serious project-wide backlogs. I see this driving into the dust at breakneck speed. Squee23 19:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

... well, it DOES need members. Is there a problem with that? – Gurch 00:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, it was never limited to serious project-wide backlogs. The first one is about barnstars – Gurch 13:48, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Questions

Does a wiki ad NEED to advertise a wikiproject? or can it also advertise articles?Philippe Auguste 23:36, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

No, it doesn't have to advertise a WikiProject. If you look at the existing ads, you will see that there are many which don't. Some point to portals, others to policies and guidelines, others to help pages, others to different Wikimedia projects. There aren't any that point to articles at the moment, and I'm not sure why such a thing would be desired (it would probably just attract vandalism), but there's no reason why it isn't possible – Gurch 05:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Biography ad

Ad #7 about the biography assessment drive needs removing and replaceing because it's long over (5 months over). It might be replace by a new bio ad or just anothr ad but there's definitly no need for it. it just takes up space--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 19:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Done – Gurch 09:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

specific ad scripting

Is there a way to only display certain ads on the list? I'm part of several projects right now and it would be nice for me to only display ads of the ones I'm a part of (hoping I'm not coming across as a complete douch3bag when you read this...) Is there a way to do this? Thanks a lot! Happy editing! - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 04:42, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Do you grok the way I modified the code here? Λυδαcιτγ 05:48, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Alternatively you can use the ad parameter, (this saves having to copy and modify the whole template). To view just one ad, use for example {{Wikipedia ads|ad=50}}. To choose randomly between more than one, use a {{#switch:}} statement; for example to choose between ads 6, 25, 67 and 92, use

{{Wikipedia ads|ad={{#switch:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 4}}|0=6|1=25|2=67|3=92}}}}

– Gurch 13:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Alinement

Could a parameter to allow the box to be put on the left or right be added? As this would be useful for some user pages. --Nate1481( ^t/_c) 17:16, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Gif images

Why can I only see the first frame the GIF images??? I've tried in Firefox and IE but none of those show then correctly. Armando.O^{talk • Ev} 23:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Try clearing your cache. Miranda 09:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject:Canada

Why is the ad for this bigger than all the others? If a user, such as me, has the ads template in a certain sized place on their userpage, chances are, when it comes to this ad, that it won't fit properly, as just happened with my page, which resulted in the page size being expanded so it had to scroll horizontally. Should all the ads not be the same size? Jack 00:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Ads should be 468 by 60, due to the banner parameter. I have asked Nat to resize his. Miranda 10:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if I can change it cause I no longer have the program needed to make the necessary changes... Avec nat...Le Wikipédia Prends Des Forces! 12:16, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, delete it and have someone to make you a replacement. Cheers. Miranda 12:22, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Resized – Gurch 17:04, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Proscription of commercial ads

Where is the caveat? It needs to be highlighted or we'll find this template used by stealth for commercial promotions on WP. Tony (talk) 13:33, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

There are probably quite a few people watching each addition to this template. I think it would be obvious if someone tried to insert a commercial ad into the rotation. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 19:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I still think there should be explicit proscriptions on the page. Tony (talk) 01:12, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Would you care to propose the wording? --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 01:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

First sentence on the page is "This template displays web banner-style advertisements, almost all of which are animated, for various Wikipedia maintenance collaborations, WikiProjects, policies, guidelines, processes and practises, such as barnstars, featured articles and edit summaries". Anything that fits that description is welcome; anything that doesn't isn't. Rest assured that any attempts to introduce anything inappropriate into this template will be quickly reverted – Gurch 06:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I myself know that at least 3 people are actively monitoring what's going on with Wikipedia Ads (plus myself), so uh... *ahem* don't try anything stupid.  :-) Our "Be Bold" policy does not involve nudity. (Considering many of the Wikipedians around here, I'd think that's a blessing.) - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 12:36, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad it's being monitored, but I don't see why you don't cover yourselves more explicitly on the page. Tony (talk) 13:50, 2 December 2007 (UTC) Or maybe I'm misunderstanding this template: thought it was a mechanism any WPian could use in isolation on WP. Maybe not. Tony (talk) 13:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I prefer when people read. Referring to this template's main description: "This template displays web banner-style advertisements, almost all of which are animated, for various Wikipedia maintenance collaborations, WikiProjects, policies, guidelines, processes and practises, such as barnstars, featured articles and edit summaries." It's not for whatever you feel like putting up as an ad.  :-) I think that quote I just pasted is pretty explicit. In fact, most of these ads are solely for WikiProjects anyways, so I don't see what the problem is... -_- - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 01:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

You don't have to be rude. I still think it needs to explicitly say what it's not for. I won't return the rudeness to you. Tony (talk) 02:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I thank you for your gentle approach of response. Seriously, sarcasm aside, I don't think we need to, but if you would like to take on that responsibility of strengthening their description, please feel free to do so and propose it on this page. One of the admins will look at it and most likely (if it's good) it'll get adopted after public consensus or something. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 02:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Huh? Since when do administrators need to be involved. Edit it yourself if you want to change something – Gurch 19:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

What...wow and this is just how people act when they make one ad. Sheesh. Miranda 01:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I hope that comment wasn't directed towards me. Was it something I said? - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 01:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

James, Tony thought you were rude because you were bolding text. Also, admins don't have to approve ads or content of the project. Wouldn't that be stupid and bureaucratic if admins have to approve ads? I think so. Miranda 06:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

While we're on the subject of rudeness, my name is Jameson (like the whiskey). Don't worry, no offense taken. Anyways, I interpreted Tony's comment as in complete freedom to post any type of ad, which unless I was either overthinking or just being paranoid, Tony was hinting that people should post non-approved material, as in adult images and so forth, on to Wikipedia Ads. My response what directed at Tony, that if a WPian were to upload non-approved images to the ads, that any one of the WPians who often work on this ad project like you and Gurch, would revert the changes immediately. I apologize if I misinterpreted his response, but my feelings were genuine. Anyways, good luck in your ad project. It looks great! (Oh, I made the ad because I have been continuously expanding the Universities WikiProject in general. I'm not interested in desperately trying to get recognition.) - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 07:32, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

• No, I thought "I prefer when people read.", presumably aimed at me, was offensive. And as for saying that "Tony was hinting that people should post non-approved material, as in adult images and so forth, on to Wikipedia Ads", hello, where did I say that. Now do not twist my words: my concern is that ads may slip in without people noticing, and that there should be an explicit caveat against it. Tony (talk) 08:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

There is. If someone tries to add commercial content to this template, I will revert it, have the image deleted, yell at them, break their userpage, moan about them on IRC, launch non-personal attacks in their vague direction, send their personal details to Wikipedia Review, fabricate evidence that their account is a sockpuppet and send it to a secret mailing list, have them checkusered, banned and all their edits oversighted, and then feed them to Miranda. Trust me, there is no need to worry – Gurch 12:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

See? We're in safe hands. :-) - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 16:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Community ad?

I am against calling this thing 'Wikipedia ads', it gives a wrong impression. How about 'Community announcement', 'Community ads', 'Community rotation', 'Community announcement service'. Well, they're not very good examples, but I really believe that Wikipedia ads gives off a poor impression. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 04:23, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Because all of those suggestions contain the word "community" – Gurch 10:21, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Indeed they do, well done. (Sorry :) ) I did say they're poor examples, but "Wikipedia ads" gave me quite a start when I first encountered them. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 11:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

...they're ads, and they're on Wikipedia... – Gurch 09:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but it sounds too commercial, I for a second thought Wikipedia instigated some advertisement programme before I came to my senses and looked into these 'Wikipedia ads' further. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 05:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Suggested move: Wikipedia ads to Wiki banners. They don't go everywhere that the notion "wikipedia" goes, they are limited to the wiki. And "ad"is pretty generic; they aren't icons, images, text teasers on twitter or in someone's sig; they are banners. (similarly the sitelogo isn't an ad, it's a logo. A "you have new messages" colored stripe isn't an ad, it's an alert.) 18.85.46.174 (talk) 01:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

How about Wikipedian ads? Aren't they aimed at Wikipedians? --Goldfndr (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Bug (or my bad)

The 'file' link for 114, which I just added, goes here, rather then where it should, here. I don't know whether this is my fault or a bug so I'm posting it up here. Also, out of curiosity, why is it when you use the |ad= attribute to display only one ad, 'Show another' disappears? I wouldn't mind it if I were using the attribute, and don't see any need for it to not appear. Perhaps another attribute that lets one choose whether it appears or not? +Hexagon1 ^(t) 04:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I will fix the template. The "ad" attribute is used when you only want to display a particular ad. That fixes the template on that ad so it can't show any other. In such cases "show another" wouldn't do much – Gurch 10:20, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Ad #117

Ad #117 is not an actual ad that conforms with our current ads system. In fact, there is no PNG or GIF involved. Should I revert the changes? - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 06:10, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Which randomizer?

I see that this uses a type of randomizer that is different from {{Rand}}. Why is this? Soxred93 | talk bot 00:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I didn't design the script, so I really don't know. But my guess is because rand is so predictable. I mean try using the rand function in excel to predict cards. :D - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 02:27, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

However, if you quickly click "show another" whenever you reload the page, you see that it seems to follow chronological order, somewhat (such as 4...25...45...56...58...59...64...65...69...72...etc.). Soxred93 | talk bot 05:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, the randomisation function here is hilarious, it gave me a big laugh! It is based on current number of edits, which is a very "Wikipedian" thing to base it on. And the funny thing is that it is really good! I ran some tests, and here at the English Wikipedia there are about 2 edits per second (at least right now at this time of day) so it is better than using seconds. Of course, on other language Wikipedias with less than 1 edit per second you should use seconds instead. The two magic words I am talking about is {{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} and {{#time:U}} (seconds). I would not trust using {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} since on most OSs that one doesn't vary properly in the lower numbers. On some OSs it jumps an even 100 steps at a time. Then we would just show two of the adds in this template.

I also took a look at the {{rand}} template and it is really good too. It uses several such magic words together. But the current randomiser used here is more than good enough so no reason to change to {{rand}}.

And I see no disadvantage in that the current randomiser steps through the adds in chronological order. That is, since the {{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} counter increases with about 2 per second and if you reload the page after say 10 seconds you will get an add with about 20 higher number each time you reload. Note "about 20 higher", it can be an uneven number too.

--David Göthberg (talk) 07:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for alternative wiki-ads

___

Featured portals included here

</noinclude>
Criminal justice

is one of the {{Featured portals number}} featured portals on Wikipedia!

Click to see a list of all featured portals

What do you think of this alternative wiki-ad? It's the same width as a userbox, and the content is scripted (so not just a single image). Using a script for rendering the advertisement might seem difficult for some, but there are some interesting possibilities, like using magic words in the text, or transclude a template that gives recent information (or even a featured image) about the project for which the ad is made, making it more dynamic (in terms of content). Freestyle 15:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Not to be the douchebag who spoils your proposal (it's not a bad proposal), but I think the system we already have at the moment is a really good system. Standardizing ads to one size, one type (well, one static format and one animated format), etc as it is right now is working fine. Perhaps you could revise your ad that fits our current standards and re-submit it? - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 02:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I see what you mean. I agree with you that the current system works very nice, although I personaly don't like the width of the ads because they are sometimes difficult to merge nicely into a standard userpage lay-out (with userboxes on the right), that's why I came up with the width of 240px. I changed the ad on the right to just give an example of what I mean: this ad shows a different featured portal everytime it's loaded and shows the actual number of featured portals. ( to have it updated). I think this type of ad might coexist with the current one, rather than be merged into this format. But I guess I'll just keep this one on the shelf for now. Freestyle 09:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Again, it does look really nice. It does. I purged the page five times just to see some of the ads. Here are a couple of problems I see with having an ad being 240px. At the moment, Wikipedia Ads are designed to fit on top of a page like a project banner being on top of a top page. Oh, an even better example: one of those little banners on top of every Wikipedia page when Wikimedia Foundation had their fundraising events. They were designed to make a point without being too intrusive. A userbox width is fine, but the height of the image then becomes an issue because then if you have an image 240px in width and 360px (arbitrary number) in height and you use a simple <center> script, you'll have two things happen:

1. If <center> is not used (as in saying |center or something in the [[Image]] script), text wrapping will warp, and affect page layouts, userbox placements, article presentation, and ultimately - user friendliness overall.
2. If it's just <center>, then most likely some users will have a big blank on both sides of the articles and user pages. It just looks weird having all of that unused space.

You might want to review a couple user pages of people using Wikipedia Ads and see how they do the ad placement in relation to the rest of the pages in addition to some Wikipedia pages where WP Ads are being displayed as well. My user page would be one example that would be affected, since we also need to make sure the bottom links that identifies the file name and project information must be placed.

After that, logistics. You'll need to develop a script where users can freely add new ads without understanding completely what Wikipedia syntaxes we have and still be able to upload an ad for their WikiProject and be able to do what we do right now (|118 Qxblahblahblah-118.png WikiProject Foobar) and that's it.

If you can figure out all of these, I'm pretty sure adapting to your revised system wouldn't be a bad idea. Sorry if it looks like I'm shooting down your ideas with fifty billion problems.  :-) - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 10:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

External Pages

Would there be a way to place these ads on an external page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Efreak (talk • contribs) 20:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Ad #117 is no longer a Wikipedia webspace page

WikiProject Invertibrates (User:Jourdy288/Wikiproject_Aquatic_Inverts) is a Userspace page, is Ad#117 still able to be used in this case? - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 03:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I need help...

Could someone help me do a step by step with Gimp and Microsoft Gif Animator. I want to do an ad for my wikiproject, but when I open Gimp the whole thing looks like greek to me. Thanks. Lighthead ^þ 23:03, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

ad10 - article creation and improvement drive has closed

ACID has closed - see Wikipedia talk:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive/Closure discussion and Wikipedia talk:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive So I shall remove the ad. It doesn't reflect well on the ads template if a user is directed to a page marked 'historical' I also marked the ad image Image:Qxz-ad10.gif historical, so it can be revived if needed. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh dear. I can't see how to turn off Ad 10. Could an accomplished template coder have a look at this please? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:51, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Displaying more then one banner

Is there a way to display 2 banners on the same page without duplicate ads showing up yet with both cycling through the entire list of banners? PeetMoss (talk) 12:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

For the second one, change this code:

{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 139}}

To this:

{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 139 + 1 mod 139}}

Note that it appears 5 times. Λυδαcιτγ 03:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Also note that this will break the second ad 1 in 139 times. Λυδαcιτγ 03:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Just do this:

{{Wikipedia ads|ad={{#expr:({{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}) mod 139}}}}
{{Wikipedia ads|ad={{#expr:({{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} + 1) mod 139}}}}

which gives

Wikipedia ads	file info – #121

Wikipedia ads	file info – #122

Gurchzilla (talk) 12:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Add #73 broken

Just had it come up on my user page message "<imagemap>: image is invalid or non-existent" --Nate1481(^t/_c) 10:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Open slots

Slots 44 and 84 are open for new ads, since the old ones were removed. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

list of all ads

Is there a way to make the list of all current ads display in a picture-gallery format? The current version with the authorship information is too small for me to see what the ads actually say, unless I click on them. Bwrs (talk) 19:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Sample

The template that shows the adds needs fixed. I can hardly see what they look like. --Oh no, it's Alien joe! 15:26, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Idea

An ad for Wikiproject: Crowded house would be cool. Yea, with line like:

• Are you "Locked out?"
• Do you always take the "Weather with you"?
• Then join Wikiproject: Crowded house!

--Oh no, it's Alien joe! 15:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ad number 84

Looking through the list of ads, I notice that no ad exists for number 84. Does anyone know why this is? --OZOO 11:42, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

For one thing, the deletion log says that 1984 is still copyrighted. I followed the trail through commons:Image:Ingsoc_logotype.jpg to the deletion of WikiProject Totalitarianism. It appears 84 pointed to this project and was deleted in March. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 16:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

This may not have been deleted correctly, as it still attempts to display, coming up with "Error: image is invalid or non-existent". Could someone remove this ad from the rotation, please? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 08:14, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I see that the rotation has <!-- |84= --> on there, which means it should no longer come up on the rotation. Perhaps the problem is that there is no loop that recalculates the random number if equals a deleted ad. Don't know if that'll help, but it's a start. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 09:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Request

I would like someone to add Image:Qxz-ad151.png with a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle Sports. I tried to add it, but it resulted into a failure. Could someone do it? --CG was here. (T - C - S - E) 01:13, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

 Done See how that works. See also, my changes. Cheers, Jeremyb (talk) 07:21, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject "Wikipedia ads" ?

Do you have any WikiProject related to "Wikipedia ads" ? --MMXX (talk) 10:19, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Do we need one? :) I think at the moment we have people making ads who request ads being made as well as people as well as myself who are making the ads for the projects I belong to. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 09:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

these ads are incredibly annoying

especially the animated ones. Why does anyone want Wikipedia pages (even user pages) to look like some schlocky dotcom site? I've been gone from Wikipedia for a while (they didn't exist when I left), and they really make it look like this place is going to thd dogs. Blecccch!!!! 76.197.56.242 (talk) 05:55, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Please read the information regarding Wikipedia Ads. If you sign into your account, there is an option to turn off these ads for your account while signed in. The idea of Wikipedia Ads is not necessarily to commercialize the service, more like an active banner to attract more user participation to improve Wikipedia in certain areas. Also, they don't appear in normal articles, usually they only appear in certain Wikipedia namespace pages and user/user talk pages. I'm sure does not interfere with normal encyclopedia operations. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 07:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ads and FF3 incompatibility or vandalism?

It seems that the ads are linking to random/incorrect projects/pages (ex organized labor ad --> vandalism page and sign signature ad --> wikiproject:Nickelodeon.) It might be Firefox 3's fault (I know FF3 does this weird thing with the tables on wikipedia, and IE doesn't render cite template correctly) but I'm not sure, I usually use FF2 on another computer.ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 22:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I'd do a quick check to make sure the ads are pointing to the right WikiProjects. However, I've been using FF3 since Minefield alphas and I haven't had that problem yet. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 08:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

It's happening to me too with FF3, seemingly on the WP:London Transport one which is pointing to WP:F1. Looking over the code with my inexpert eye, the only possible error I can see is that the mod counts at the top of the template don't match - with {{#tag:imagemap|Image:Qxz-ad{{{ad|{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 154}}}}} and {{#switch:{{{ad|{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 152}}}}} both appearing. I would imagine that these are supposed to be the same value? Nanonic (talk) 09:21, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh and the bit |4|5|8|10|17|21|39|97|114|147|151=png|75=PNG|152=PNG|gif}} is probably wrong as |75=PNG|152=PNG| could most likely be combined as |75|152=PNG| Nanonic (talk) 09:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

We have horizontal ads...

...so why not vertical ads? They would be formatted in 125x468 pixels.

Thoughts? BoL (Talk) 04:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't think that would look good. 75.172.58.99 (talk) 04:10, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

We had a similar suggestion last year. Consensus was that it would not be compatible with most Wikipedia namespace pages and it would also clutter up userpages (everyone would have to dedicate a corner to the ad instead of a couple lines. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 04:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Not working correctly.

I click on an ad for origami but it brings me to external links and the Scottish isles brings me to Xbox! Is this just me or is this happening to anybody else? Ric36 (talk) 19:42, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

See the FF3/vandalism discussion above. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 21:31, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Turning it off

Could this be wrapped in some sort of div so that people who don't want to see it don't have to? --kingboyk 23:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

table.qxz-ads {display: none;}

Bawolff 02:58, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Excuse me for being an idiot, but where do I put that code? :) --kingboyk 10:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Kingboyk/monobook.css (or whatever skin you're using) – Gurch 21:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Um... I can't turn these ads off. I've added the above code to my CSS file, but they still appear on User:Misza13. I can't figure it out, but for some reason the class "qxz-ads" is being stripped off when it is being written. Any idea why? ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 10:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

You need to purge your browsers cache (ctrl + f5 for firefox). – Jerry^teps 23:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Please remove Image:Qxz-ad10.png

Anybody who knows how this mechanism works, please remove Image:Qxz-ad10.png from it, as I've had to delete it as a copyvio. It contained copyrighted cartoon art. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:38, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done and thanks! miranda 15:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Crosswiki wikiads?

Hiya, a discussion has arisen on simple: Wikipedia about how to get more editors over there (we've about 20 regulars) and a question arose regarding wikiads. Can they, should they, be allowed from one wiki to another? fr33kman -s- 02:19, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Ad

Any chance of adding Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Ad to the rotation? See Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Ad MfD. -- Suntag ☼ 10:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Links

The links for the ads seemes to be incorrect. For example, London transport system links to Wikiproject Medicine. Could you fix this? Vinson 01:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Done, once again caused by incomplete updating when adding a new ad. Nanonic (talk) 04:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Updating template

I've just updated the tmplate page to include File:Qxz-ad163.gif. Hopefully I haven't cocked anything up! (apologies if I have..) Anyway, when editing that page there's a note saying that there are five instances of "mod ###" that have to be updated. But there were six of these included, not five. I wanted to update it to reflect that, but I dunno if it's meant to say that etc, first time I've done this. Just wanted to bring this to the attention of someone. :) londonsista ^Prod 17:51, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Just added an ad, may have an issue...

Hey folks - just a quick message - following a bit of thickness on my part, I misunderstood the image naming rules and added an ad (Image:WP-HSF-Ad1.gif) without giving it a standard name. Is that going to muck things up? :-( Sorry... Colds7ream (talk) 20:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Update - corrected. Apologies for that... Colds7ream (talk) 21:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Parameters

Who does it work?

I know you start with

{{wikipedia ads}}

but what do you do next?

Do you do this:

{{wikipedia ads|ad number=4}}

Any help? --Bo98 (talk) 15:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

If you're trying to only display a single ad, the parameter instruction on the template page says to use |ad=number so

{{wikipedia ads|ad=4}}

would work, as an alternative you could link to the image directly using

<center>[[Image:Qxz-ad52.gif]]</center> for example. Nanonic (talk) 15:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Of course, the alternative above would would have clicking the image link directly to the image page rather than the intended project, so if you want to maintain the link it's obviously the first option you would use. :) Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 16:02, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Bo98 (talk) 10:30, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Customizable ads

There is a lot of ads, someones may not be of the like af a user to show, but still want to show more than one and not all together, but one by one in the random style. So... How can I customize the script so it show only the ads that I want?? (more than one)
I really wish somebody can help me with this. - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  03:10, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

#173

I have just had ad #173 appear in my userpage with this error 'Error: image is invalid or non-existent'. The ad must still be in the system - Nz26 | Talk | Contribs | Email 07:26, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Also just had #167 appear which when you click file info it says it doesn't exist - nz26 Talk | Contribs | Email | Editor Review 08:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I just fixed #167. Svick (talk) 12:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

#187

Ad #187 points to non-existent page User:WikiProject_Azerbaijan, instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject Azerbaijan. Can someone please fix that? Grandmaster 08:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I just fixed it. Svick (talk) 11:47, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Grandmaster 07:41, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

#173

Ad #173 produces the following: "Error: image is invalid or non-existent." Kingturtle (talk) 14:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

It's because there is no ad numbered 173. If nobody is against, I'll move the ad with highest number to 173 (and make appropriate changes to this template and list of ads). Svick (talk) 12:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

 Fixed Svick (talk) 19:33, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Commons ads!

Can someone please make same template in Wikimedia Commons for Commons related ads.   ■ MMXX^talk  18:29, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Rewritten version

I created a new version of this template (in a subpage of my user page). It has few advantages and (as far as I can tell) one disadvantage from this template editor's point of view when compared to current version. It should look exctly the same from user's point of view. It can also act as a replacement for {{wikipedia-adnavbox}} with parameter navbox=yes.

Advantages:

• When adding new ad, you enter filename, link and author, add number of the new ad to the list of active ads and increase counter, compared to entering it twice (main template and navbox) and increasing counter on six places in current version.
• Ads can be easily deleted (requires renaming of ad image in current version).
• Ad images can have arbitrary names.

Disadvantage:

• Signature of the creator of the ad can't contain | nor = that aren't iside link or template call. They have to be replaced by {{!}} and {{=}} respectively.

Examples:

User:Svick/ads

Do you think I should deploy it? Svick (talk) 14:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Nobody was against, so I updated this template and documentation to my rewritten version. Svick (talk) 13:01, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Multiple selective adds?

Does the field "ad number=" support multiple numbers so that I can select multiple adds but not all? If not, can such a feature be added? That would be a great feature so that wikipedians could be selective about the adds displayed on their talk page. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 20:27, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

No, the parameter ad currently accepts only one ad number. I'll try to implement your suggestion, probably tomorrow, but it may be tricky. In the meantime you can use something like the code below that toggles between ads 174 and 175:

{{wikipedia ads |ad={{#switch:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 2}} |0=174 |1=175}} }}

Wikipedia ads	file info – #175

Svick (talk) 21:48, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done. It was easier than I thought. See the documentation. Svick (talk) 09:00, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for your quick resolution! -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 12:31, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Template has been vandalized

Every page that has an ad on it has "wink,wink!" to the left of the ad. I tried to figure out how to get rid of it but couldn't. J04n(talk page) 00:02, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Benp123456789 did the change here. He also vandalised Template:Vandalism information here, but it was already reverted. Thanks for pointing this out. Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 00:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

how does it do random?

How is this template able to display random ads? I am trying to make a template that could use that kind of functionality andyzweb (talk) 03:40, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

To generate “random” number between $0$ and $n-1$, it uses code like {{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod n}} (n has to be a number and it can use parameters, parser functions and templates). It's far from random – if you purge the page that uses such code quick enough, you'll notice that it grows from $0$ to $n-1$, and then starts from $0$ again, but it's good enough here. Svick (talk) 04:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion

What if the ads had a message with the ad the prevent misleading the reader:

Below is an ad. The user may or may not have any affiliation whatsoever with the ad's subject.

Wikipedia ads	file info – show another – #174

Does it sound good? —Coastergeekperson04^{'s talk}@May/24/09 03:50

most users are used to seeing ads on other websites, where they are not related either.-- DasRakel  〒  21:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

These things are hideous

Do people really think these ads look good or actually benefit Wikipedia? I'd delete them all if I could. Every time I wave come across one of these ads on a page, I thought it was atrocious looking.Jason Quinn (talk) 00:58, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Those ads are meant only for user pages and users can have pretty much anything there, as long as it doesn't break rules. If you want, you are welcome to make the ads look better. Svick (talk) 01:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

And you are also welcome to hide them using the instructions given. Nanonic (talk) 02:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. These are extremely ugly and are evocative of Geocities-like web design. The point is that users should elect not to use them in the first place. It's an opinion, sure, but a good one, I think. the point of my post was just to point this out to make people think twice before using them. If the "under-construction" days taught me anything, it's that people do not think twice about design and just do things because they can. Jason Quinn (talk) 15:54, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I have been seriously editing on Wikipedia for over two years, and today was the first time I saw one of these ads. I suspect they are great fun for the people who create them, and some are quite cute, like the one that uses the PackMan image. So, ignore them or leave the user page promptly if you think they are hideous, but I don't mind them at all. --DThomsen8 (talk) 20:50, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Non-Wikipedia ads

Someone has created a "You lost the Game" ad. I don't have any particular objection, but I thought that ads had to be for Wikiprojects, bots, etc. The Game doesn't have anything to do with Wikipedia other than having an article here, does it? strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 11:27, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. I removed the ad. Svick (talk) 13:50, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:CRYZOO Ad

WP:CRYZOO needs an editor who is willing (and able) to design an ad for our project. See this link for requirements and specifications (Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptozoology/Open tasks) --Gniniv (talk) 09:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Qxz-ad18.gif

File:Qxz-ad18.gif does not seem to be animating on some pages I view. On the file page, it animates, however in "File history" and on User talk:AxG/Editnotice it does not. -- [[ axg ◉ talk ]] 16:03, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

It animates fine for me on all the pages you mentioned. Maybe try to bypass your cache? Svick (talk) 20:47, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Dissolve list of ads

I'd say to dissolve the big list of ads by moving them to their respective WikiProjects. Users can then mention there how to use adds, similar to how they mention the usage of userbox templates. Lets keep this template just for the template and its documentation. That way, everyone can deal with ads at their respective venue, and only come here for the main template. Whad'ya say? Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 10:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

The list of ads is part of the template documentation, so users understand how to select a particular ad, and so designers of the template know what's currently being displayed. While it may be beneficial to have that information on WikiProject pages, it's beneficial to have it here too. Does its presence here do something detrimental? --Bsherr (talk) 14:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Nah nothing detrimental as such. Just thought it might be better somewhere else. But you have a point. Kind regards. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 14:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Random number suggestion

I suggest to use {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} instead, because it updates every secnd, not just the edit luck. Random number (1-1500): 922. SWFlash

I think it doesn't matter, because when you have an ad on a page, it changes only when the page is regenerated. Svick (talk) 15:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Ad #151

Ad #151 spells the last word wrong, it should be "Mariners". - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 22:52, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Banner Request

Hello, I was wondering if someone could make a banner ad for me for WP:VIRGINIA, the Virginia WikiProject. I would like it to feature the Virginia State Seal, which you can see here. Something kinda with the style of this banner ad, but I will leave that up to you. Just would like the seal featured. If someone can do that, please let me know. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Remove Blanks

What is the purpose of keeping the blanks? I understand that the ads that explicitly state the # in their name should be that number, but is there any reason that ones that don't specify a number can't be moved into the blank spots? MrKIA11 (talk) 03:17, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

The reason is that you can specify to show just one (or more) ads, based on their numbers. And if you deleted an ad permanently, it would shift numbering of all ads following it, which would mean it would show different ad than that you wanted. User<Svick>.Talk(); 22:15, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

I mean move the ads from the end into earlier blank spaces, not to shift all of them. But now that you say that you can specify specific ads, how about rather than adding new ads to end, and them to the blank spaces? MrKIA11 (talk) 23:25, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Okay, that could work, but what would be the point of doing that? It wouldn't make removing old ads any easier, unless you were forced to wait until a new one comes up, which doesn't make much sense. The only thing that would change would be that adding new ads would become even more complicated than it is now. User<Svick>.Talk(); 21:37, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Well since you can specify a certain ad, that did change my original thinking, but I was thinking that maybe we should also rename those ads which do not explicitly have their number in the file name so that the naming convention is consistent. MrKIA11 (talk) 22:15, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't see much reason for doing that. The images were numbered primarily because the original template required this naming. And the name contains Qxz, because the template was written by User:Qxz. I don't see a reason for consistency with something that doesn't make sense anymore. User<Svick>.Talk(); 22:39, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Ok. It's not as appealing of an idea anymore since individual ads can be specified, so I don't mind if it stays the way it is. MrKIA11 (talk) 19:17, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

2 iOS Task Force ads?

I also posted about this on the task force's talk page, but it looks like the discussion there is pretty inactive and I won't get a response for at least a month. The iOS Task Force has two WP ads, nummbers 177 and 210. Is this allowed, or should one of them be removed? —Preceding signed comment added by Airhogs777 (talk • contribs • wikia) 18:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Well, there are no hard rules, but I think it makes sense to have only one ad per project, so I have removed ad 177. User<Svick>.Talk(); 22:57, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Missing numbers

In the ads table, some numbers are missing with no clear distinction as to why. -- 575Revolve 23:00, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

That's because those ads were removed, for whatever reason. Do you think this requires an explanation on the doc page? User<Svick>.Talk(); 23:15, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Disney

I love this, but would you like to put in an AD for WikiProject Disney? StormContent (talk) 19:19, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

If you create one, I would add it to the template (or you could do it yourself). User<Svick>.Talk(); 20:27, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

New ad

Hi, there seems to be a problem with the new ad (233) i added for WikiProject Punk music. The file is Qxz-ad233.gif.

This has messed up the template (with red text) and shows red text in place on ad like in the box below:

[[{{Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{"}}}|468pxl|link={{{Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{"}}}]]

Wikipedia ads [{{fullurl:{{{Expression error:Unrecognised punctuation character "{"}}}}} file info] – #{{{1}}}

I cannot figure out how to fix this. - Benzband (talk) 10:25, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

mmh, either you already fixed it, or I do not see the problem as you can see below:

Wikipedia ads	file info – #233

If the error still exists, please point me/the helpers to the correct place. Regards, mabdul 11:35, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. :) You're right, some things seem to have been fixed (like the template). But this, for example, has something wrong:

{{wikipedia ad exists|collapsed=no|show=233}}

Before this actually happened on the template as well as on the ads (but not on ads by themselves). Now all i can find is this. - Benzband (talk) 12:10, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

{{wikipedia ad exists|collapsed=no|show=232}} {{wikipedia ad exists|collapsed=yes|show=233}}

Heh, this is not your fault, as you can see, I changed the ad and the error still remains, and if I set to collapsed to yes, the error is gone. So I will dig now into the problem with the original template code. mabdul 12:11, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh that was easy: {{Wikipedia ad exists|233|collapsed=yes}} is the correct markup... mabdul 12:14, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

So, your "code" should work now also, since I add the parameter |show=. mabdul 12:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

OK, well thanks for helping out. For a while i thought i'd done something stupid.  :) - Benzband (talk) 12:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

how to make a new ad?

i want to make an ad, and i ma having big difficulty on that, please can you tell me how to make an ad thank you. 19:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oscar45596524 (talk • contribs)

Template:Wikipedia ads#Adding new ad

W (talk) 23:25, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Duplicate WikiProject Video games

I noticed WikiProject Video games has two ads... surely it's enough to have six video game-related ads without having the same project twice? ··gracefool☺ 13:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Can someone make an ad for WikiProject Usability

I want to promote Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability and the needs of the reader. I don't have the skills to make a swish looking ad so I would like to get someone to do it for me. I quite like these images:

Or maybe a gif of a book with turning pages to make a smaller file size? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

WP:QXZ

The shortcut WP:QXZ, which links to this template, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 January 8#Wikipedia:QXZ where you are invited to comment. Particularly welcome would be someone who can enlighten the discussion regarding the meaning of "QXZ". Thryduulf (talk) 00:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Support for your own ideas and images

Hi could you remove allt he files on the codes and replace them with codes which allow you too add your own image and text please 178.211.43.51 (talk) 11:15, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Ad rotation not working

I've tried the ad rotation thing multiple times now, and it always just shows the second ad, no matter what you press. öBrambleberry of RiverClan 15:55, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Remove #183?

Maybe we should remove ad #183 (DottyQuoteBot) as the bot is now inactive? George8211^{what did I break now?} 22:55, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

done, feel free to revert my edits if I screwed something up. Frietjes (talk) 17:52, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Ad choice no longer being acknowledged

Hello! I noticed that recently my add banner has been showing ads which I did not select. I see that recently Snaevar made big changes, and Andyrom75 changed something and Pjoef did also. Do any of you know what might have changed to make the banner quit noting user choice and just start rotating everything? Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:35, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Bluerasberry, the first field/value is the number of ads you want to display. I've changed it on your talk page to 11. You are now showing 11 ads: |14|21|44|60|65|71|104|135|193|211|216. Just check if it's okay. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 17:53, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

It does not function. I think it is a problem with the module/code at Module:Wikipedia ads. Snaevar probably could help. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 18:21, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for tweaking my userpage, Pjoef. As you say, though, the personal ad selection option is not functioning whereas it was before. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:47, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Snaevar, it gets the args.ad name/identifier: {{wikipedia ads|ad=2}} produces:

Wikipedia ads	file info – #2

It is correct, but not very useful.
The following is theoretically a workaround:

if tonumber(args[1]) ~= nil then
  a = {}
  for i = 1, tonumber(args[1]) do
    if tonumber(args[i+1]) ~= nil then
      a[i] = tonumber(args[i+1])
    end
  end
  argad = a[math.random(1, tonumber(args[1]))]
  ad2show = adslist[3*argad-2]
end

The total number of ads must necessarily be passed as the first argument tonumber(args[1]), strictly followed by the ad[s] number[s] passed as integer[s] tonumber(args[i+1]). The idea is to store the ads numbers within a new array/table (a = {}) and then to make a random token to keep the ad number. We can also scan all the arguments passed to the module in search for numbers (integers in this case):

a = {}
for i = 1, 400 do
  j = 0
  if tonumber(args[i]) ~= nil then
    j = j + 1
    a[j] = tonumber(args[i])
  end
end
argad = a[math.random(1, j)]
ad2show = adslist[3*argad-2]

But, the total number of ads is ignored and the for loop is heavier. We can achieve about the same results by using while exp do block end and repeat block until exp. Another way is to introduce ad1 ... adn names/identifiers. Hope this help. Happy editing! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:26, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

I did manage to reproduce the bug Blue Rasberry mentioned and I have made an edit that should fix that problem. At least I can no longer reproduce this bug on Template:Wikipedia ads/testcases after said fix. Try to purge the page where you saw that bug and see if that fixes it, if not, then leave another message.--Snaevar (talk) 15:10, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

It seems to run fine. Thank you! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 17:18, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

On a related note...

@Snaevar: I had set it to cycle through all the ads with {{Wikipedia ads}} but it just gives me the same one, (#52, origami ads), even if I purge the page.
Purging the sandbox copy works fine; I think having the code in a module and purging the template page doesn't update the math.random calculation, so it sticks with the last number (purging the module doesn't work either).
Anyone have a fix? Meteor sandwich yum (talk • contribs) 05:17, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

I would suggest asking at WT:LUA. Frietjes (talk) 20:15, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

That is probably just an cache/job queue issue. It should resolve itself within a few days. Either way, I will keep an eye on it.--Snaevar (talk) 17:10, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you both! It runs fine now! Meteor sandwich yum (talk • contribs) 01:39, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Problem

I noticed #34 (editing team) doesn't display. There's no image on the list but the entry still exists on the module. I'm neither brave enough nor foolish enough to change it myself. Chris Troutman (talk) 08:20, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

The editing team ad is number 11, and ad number 34 did not exist when you wrote your message. Does asking for ad number 11 solve your issue ? --Snaevar (talk) 09:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

No. Apparently #34 exists now, so that resolves the issue. Chris Troutman (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Errors caused by recent rewrite

@Mr. Stradivarius: The recent rewrite to this module seems to have caused a lot of script errors to appear. At [1], pretty much everything with timestamp 2014-11-10T16:51:35Z or later is caused by this module. Can you see what might have happened here? Thanks, Jackmcbarn (talk) 06:01, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

@Jackmcbarn: Yep, this is because I made using an invalid ad number to be a script error, whereas before it just output a blank ad. I've actually already started work on changing that code, though, because it puts too many pages into Category:Pages with script errors. Instead I'm planning to output a wikitext warning and add the pages to Category:Wikipedia ads templates with errors, with the category filtered through Module:Category handler's blacklist. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:07, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Change in Dimensions

I have deployed Wikipedia ads template on my userpage, But the size of this ad is small, I wish to reconfigure this ad so that it fits to my profile(increasing height & width). How can this be accomplished? ( !dea4u  05:37, 6 November 2014 (UTC))

added |width=, but keep in mind that the images used for these ads is fixed, so making it larger will not look the best since the images will be stretched beyond their native resolution. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

• Thank you Frietjes for adding code |width=, Is there any way whereby resolution of images could also be adjusted in base template {{Wikipedia ads}}( !dea4u  07:08, 12 November 2014 (UTC))

@!dea4u: No, this would require uploading new versions of all the ad images, which is obviously not practical. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:20, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Request to make an ad

At WT:WikiProject Ancient Egypt#Wikipedia ad for this WikiProject no one seems to be able to make a banner style ad. I am placing it here where it will be more visible. Please follow the suggestions outlined there, and make an ad if you can :)  Eat me, I'm a red bean (talk · contribs) 04:42, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Discussion: Remove ad #236 ? World Heritage

Greetings, Today I noticed that Wikipedia:Wikipedia for World Heritage wikiproject is inactive. Wondering if their ad #236 should be removed? On my talk page this ad is included with template {{Wikipedia ads generic}}. Posting here for discussion. Regards,  JoeHebda (talk)  15:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I would leave it there. It may attract people to it and get it going again. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:30, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

New ad

Can you add this to the end? Lua doesnt accept it for me for some reason.

	{
		id = 254,
		image = "Qxz-ad254.gif"
		link = "Modem",
		author = "[[User:GameBoy232|GameBoy232]]"
	},

C:\userpages\GameBoy232.html (C:\userpages\talkpage.html) 01:42, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

@GameBoy232:  Done You were missing a comma at the end of the "image" line. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:53, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Ad 167

Ad 167 brings up File:Qxz-ad167.gif, or a gif with the text Don't be a X, where X is the cycling through numerous different names for penis, with a link to the Meta essay m:Don't be a dick (which has since been moved to don't be a jerk). Now don't get be wrong, I am not anti profanity, however since this is a random ad generator, if one doesn't select an ad, than occasionally a user's page will be bringing up Don't be a dick, schlong, joystick, wee-wee, etc. on their user page (which I am sure that most people don't realize when they add the template). It seems to me that if we are going to be providing an ad template that includes multiple names for penis in large text, that should be done on a opt in basis, not by default. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 03:03, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Speaking of which, I'm considering to make a replacement for it that will hopefully be tamer than the previous one, without naughty talks, yet still conveying the message it's supposed to be, but I'm wondering if it will work out or not. WindVee 17:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

 Done Mmkay, the previous Wiki ad in question is replaced with the new one now, I hope everyone will enjoy it. WindVee 05:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Making selected ads pop up at random time?

Well, I've been starting to add Wikipedia ads in my user page, and I was expecting it to generate different ads that I have picked at random time. However, every time I refreshed the page without editing anything, for some reason, I just got the same ad. I'm wondering how to make it really random without having to click "show another" and all? Thanks. WindVee 15:11, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

@WindVee: You need to purge the page's cache to do this. If you want this to happen automatically you could use a script hosted somewhere off-wiki (i.e. a bot) to purge the page for you at some given time interval. There's nothing you can do on-wiki to make it happen, though. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:00, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Add donate to Wikimedia "ad"?

Should we add a Donate to Wikimedia advert with a link to WMF:Donate? UpsandDowns1234 (🗨) 04:21, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@UpsandDowns1234: Sure, sounds like a great idea. Basically, if you make an advert that's promoting something related to Wikipedia, and it isn't totally outrageous or offensive, then it can go in. The hard part is finding someone to make them. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:22, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Cycling

"Can be cycled manually by clicking 'show another' ". But clicking brings up another page "Clear the cache of this page" and asks for a click Yes and says "Purging a page clears the cache and forces the most current revision to appear". Such requirements encourage a Back Button usage and foil the cycling of ads. Can the cycling be done without this "clearing the cache" ? Rgdboer (talk) 02:42, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

@Rgdboer: No - the cycling works by the module showing an advert at random each time. The advert only stays the same most of the time because of MediaWiki's caching system. So a new advert is shown if and only if the cache is cleared. The confirmation screen is a new thing, though - until recently the page was purged straight after clicking the link, without having to wait for confirmation. I don't know if there's anything we can do to get the old behaviour back. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:57, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying that.Rgdboer (talk) 00:47, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Greetings Rgdboer and Mr. Stradivarius, To get a new ad to show, I just click on my browser "Reload/refresh" button and it changes the ad without asking for the purge question. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 14:16, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: I just tested this on my user page, and just pressing the refresh button on my browser resulted in the same ad being displayed each time, even if I press Shift at the same time, which on Firefox bypasses the browser cache. This makes sense, because the caching on WMF wikis happens server-side. There are some things you can do to disable the server-side cache, though. For example, if you transclude the recent changes feed by using {{Special:RecentChanges}} then the page you transclude it on won't be cached. Perhaps the page you tested does something similar. Which page did you try it on? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:30, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Woops! Mr. Stradivarius, You are correct. The browser "page refresh" button does not change the ad. Where I tested was on my user Talk page. What does work somewhat better is from the top toolbar, "More" then "Purge" to cycle the ads. That purge shortcut of Alt Shift - * is kind of aweful (IMO) to type each time... — JoeHebda • (talk) 14:55, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

New Ad

Hi, can I have an ad that says: "UserboxMaker35: Userbox Designer and Maker." and put it in green lettering? --UserboxMaker35 (talk) 17:10, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 20 April 2018

Please add {{subst:tfd}}, then change the |link= to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 April 19, per a nomination by Kirbyaddict99 {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 17:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: Kirbyaddict99 has been blocked as a sock and the nomination struck under WP:SOCKSTRIKE since this request was made. It no longer seems appropriate. Cabayi (talk) 06:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Get rid of WP:HAU ad

It's been marked historical — pythoncoder  (talk | contribs) 23:13, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done I came here to make the same comment. but since it's been almost 10 months and no reply just doing it. --Jeremyb (talk) 00:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 6 November 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved (closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 (talk) 05:57, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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• Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox → Template:Wikipedia ads/navbox

– Clearly related to Template:Wikipedia ads, so should be a subtemplate of it -- also match name with module * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:48, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

• Support per nom. --Gonnym (talk) 07:00, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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Parameter issue

For me, the parameters do not work, can someone help me please? User:Test919,733,084/sandbox Test919,733,084 (talk) 02:43, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Dubious sponsorship

Several ads are sponsored (authored) by indefinitely blocked users. Should the ads be removed? They are: 111, 254 and 255. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:15, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

The ads themselves don't serve as advertisements for their respective creators, so I don't think this is a valid WP:DENY issue. You suggest a damnatio memoriae against policy. 111 advertises Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography, which is a legit use of the template. The other two are pretty meaningless praises of wiki versus older modems. If the latter two both went away, I'd be fine with it. Chris Troutman (talk) 16:28, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate the Latin, but did not make a suggestion either way, just raised the question. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:54, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Hey

Can one advertise another wiki such as wikipedia Hindu. Tbiw (talk) 09:08, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Tbiw, Yeah you'd just need to make or get someone to make an ad for it. βӪᑸᙥӴ • Talk • Contribs 15:56, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Why?

What is the point of this? I hate it. 157.131.250.246 (talk) 13:54, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

The point is to raise awareness of different aspects of Wikipedia, like WikiProjects, rules, and guidelines. If you dislike the ads, you can disable them as explained in the documentation. βӪᑸᙥӴ • Talk • Contribs 15:56, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 7 December 2021

i want to add an advertisement BeeDoubleuroolerl554 (talk) 02:45, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:04, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 23 January 2022

I want to ad an advertisement Copperwidth (talk) 08:54, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 August 2022

I have recently created a wikipedia advertisement for WikiProject Netherlands, and I would very much like it to be added it to the list of template: wikipedia ads. So therefore I request that the text seen under this message is to be added before the very last closing curly bracket on the module page as per instruction.

{
		id = 285,
		image = "Wikiproject NL wikipedia ad.gif",
		link = "Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands",
		author = "[[User:Realmartcraft|Realmartcraft]]"
	}

Realmartcraft (talk) 13:49, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 06:25, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 28 February 2022

I just created an advertisement about HotCat. Can I put my .gif file in the module please? I'd really love it if you do. and also, I do request that the text seen under this message should be added before the very last closing curly bracket in the module page as per and by instruction. Mr. Vinyl Raccon (talk) 02:53, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mr. Vinyl Raccon:  Done. The code {{wikipedia ads|286}} will now display your ad, like this:

Wikipedia ads	file info – #286

Also, next time, you should leave |answered=no in the {{edit extended-protected}} template, otherwise admins might not notice your edit request. As you had set it to |answered=yes, the template assumed that an editor had already dealt with your request, and so it removed it from Category:Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected edit requests. That category is how editors are made aware of new edit requests. I only noticed your request because this page happened to be on my watchlist. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:28, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Ad 168

This ad "shows" the freenode IRC channel for the English Wikipedia, even though the channels have moved to libera.chat. It should probably be updated. Best regards, Vukky ^Talk_Guestbook 21:04, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia ad for Arbcom

Would somebody like to create a Wikipedia ad for Arbcom? 2601:647:5800:1A1F:B45D:61AC:E323:660D (talk) 16:56, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Possible Wikipedia Ad variant: Sidebar

A sample sidebar ad for Wikipedia Ads

I've been thinking, we have Wikipedia Ad banners. But what if someone would rather have the ads as a sidebar on their userpage instead of a banner style? We could have an option for regular ads or sidebars for people to add to their userpages. I was thinking the ads could be in dimensions of 150x300. I included an image here as a rough sample for sidebar ads. I viewed the Lua code for the current ads, and it would be relatively simple to create another module or a sub-page of the current ads code page and simply edit the code to integrate a different gallery of ads instead of the current banner-style ads. UPDATE: I created the module and documentation. It is at Module:Wikipedia ads sidebar. There are still minor issues and bugs, however. Urban Versis 32 (talk) 23:57, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

{{Wikipedia ad exists}}

FYI Template:Wikipedia ad exists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.247.17 (talk) 03:27, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Change the wording of ad #10

The speedy deletion one (#10) says that you should delete non-notable pages with CSD. This is only true if it is an advertisement for a non-notable person or company. Most non-notable pages or BLPs without advertisement should go to articles for deletion, or proposed deletion if there is a significant chance that the page can be improved. Capsulecap ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:22, 28 May 2022 (UTC)