CentralNotice
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CentralNotice is a MediaWiki extension used by Wikimedia projects to display large, site-wide banner messages for announcements, fundraising, and global campaigns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CentralNotice canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1745826 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CentralNotice Context triple: [Meta-Wiki, supportsFeature, CentralNotice]
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A.
Central News
Central News is a regional television news program produced by Central Independent Television (ITV Central) in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Wikinews
Wikinews is a free, collaboratively written online news source that is part of the Wikimedia family of projects.
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C.
Notification Center
Notification Center is a macOS feature that consolidates and displays system and app alerts, banners, and widgets in a unified sidebar for quick access.
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D.
News On AIR
News On AIR is All India Radio’s official mobile application that provides live radio streaming, news updates, and programs from AIR and Doordarshan.
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E.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CentralNotice Target entity description: CentralNotice is a MediaWiki extension used by Wikimedia projects to display large, site-wide banner messages for announcements, fundraising, and global campaigns.
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A.
Central News
Central News is a regional television news program produced by Central Independent Television (ITV Central) in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Wikinews
Wikinews is a free, collaboratively written online news source that is part of the Wikimedia family of projects.
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C.
Notification Center
Notification Center is a macOS feature that consolidates and displays system and app alerts, banners, and widgets in a unified sidebar for quick access.
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D.
News On AIR
News On AIR is All India Radio’s official mobile application that provides live radio streaming, news updates, and programs from AIR and Doordarshan.
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E.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
MediaWiki extension
ⓘ
software component ⓘ |
| category |
MediaWiki extensions
ⓘ
surface form:
MediaWiki advertising and notices extensions
Wikimedia fundraising infrastructure ⓘ |
| codeRepository | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CentralNotice ⓘ |
| configurationInterface |
Special:CentralNotice
ⓘ
Special:CentralNoticeBanners ⓘ Special:CentralNoticeCampaigns ⓘ Special:CentralNoticeLogs ⓘ |
| dependsOn |
MediaWiki
ⓘ
surface form:
MediaWiki core
|
| deployedOn | Wikimedia production cluster ⓘ |
| developedFor | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationOn | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralNotice ⓘ |
| hasPhabricatorTag | CentralNotice self-link ⓘ |
| implements |
A/B testing for banners
ⓘ
campaign management for banners ⓘ device targeting of banners ⓘ geotargeting of banners ⓘ impression logging ⓘ language targeting of banners ⓘ project targeting of banners ⓘ site-wide banner delivery ⓘ |
| introducedAs | replacement for older site notice mechanisms ⓘ |
| isFreeSoftware | true ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| loggingBackend | EventLogging (historically) ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| nameSpace | MediaWiki extension namespace ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | PHP ⓘ |
| repository | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/repos/mediawiki/extensions/CentralNotice ⓘ |
| sourceAvailable | true ⓘ |
| supports |
anonymous user targeting
ⓘ
banner priority configuration ⓘ banner scheduling ⓘ banner translation ⓘ community notifications ⓘ fundraising campaigns ⓘ global Wikimedia campaigns ⓘ logged-in user targeting ⓘ site-wide announcements ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Wikidata
ⓘ
Wikimedia Commons ⓘ Wikimedia ecosystem ⓘ
surface form:
Wikimedia projects
Wikipedia ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Wikimedia Foundation fundraising banners
ⓘ
Wikimedia-wide election notices ⓘ global maintenance and outage notices ⓘ policy and terms-of-use announcements ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: CentralNotice Description of subject: CentralNotice is a MediaWiki extension used by Wikimedia projects to display large, site-wide banner messages for announcements, fundraising, and global campaigns.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.