User:Cnyirahabihirwe123/The Wiki Loves Africa 2023/How to participate

How to Participate

The Wiki Loves Africa contest 2023, is open for everyone Regardless of whether you are African or not, you are the most welcomed to join! 

If you are really interested, to get more info and join the WLA through: Facebook group for organizers

Here are some examples of the things you may do for a start:

• Let other people know about the contest. Your local community can include local Wikip/medians and aligned Open Movement members (enthusiasts from Creative Commons, Open Street Map, Open Data, OER, etc.). Relevant links to provide include
  • WLA on Meta,
  • WLA on Commons,
  • WLA on Twitter, and
  • WLA on Facebook.
  • Consider joining the African Wikimedians mailing list for discussion and announcement (WLAf does not have a specific mailing list)
• Fix pages on meta or Commons (improve the text, fix typos, translate...)
• Help us to translate the Site Notice into those languages (as well as other relevant texts)
• Help select the jury: suggest judges who might be interested in taking part in the international contest (perhaps a locally celebrated photographer, fashion designer, filmmaker or journalist). Volunteer yourself!
• Participate in writing press releases: Help on crafting a press release template, adapt it, and send it out to your media contacts. Write blogs.
• Help categorize and clean up uploaded photos on Commons during the contest
• Help use images and videos in relevant Wikipedia articles
• other suggestions ?

Open call for roles in the organizing team

Check the Facebook group for more information

Guidelines

Below are some actions to consider working on with your team. We really look forward to working with you on this project and getting some great results! May the best photo/video/audio win!

Here is some examples of the things you may do for a start:

• Let your community know about the contest. Your local community can include local Wikip/medians and aligned Open Movement members (enthusiasts from Creative Commons, Open Street Map, Open Data, OER, etc.). Relevant links to provide include WLA on Meta, WLA on Commons, WLA on Twitter and WLA on Facebook, and a Facebook group for organizers.
• Think about the events, meet ups and training sessions that you can do with your community during the contest. Make sure everyone knows about it (and they are included in the press release).
• Look for local partners: groups who might be key partners in spreading the word or hosting events.
• If you are interested in hosting events around the project then and need funding before the 1st of December 2018, submit a rapid grant Suggested guidelines are here.
• Join the African mailing list [1] (WLAf does not have a specific mailing list)
• Provide press contact: When you know who your press person is, put their name and contacts down on this page.
• Get together a list of media contacts in your country that you think will be interested in talking about the competition.
• Participate in press releases: Help craft a press release template, adapt this for your country, and send it out to your media contacts. Other marketing and communication tools will be written and template created, and we will share everything with you for you to adapt and translate.
• Help select the jury: suggest judges who might be interested in taking part in the international contest (perhaps a locally celebrated photographer, chef, filmmaker or journalist) .
• Decide on whether you wish to host a national round of judging and prizes - if you do, you will need to organise the judges and the prizes (we can give you guidance on how).
• Facebook has been set up - https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica - please like this page - we will repost your info.
• Twitter has been set up - http://twitter.com/WikiLovesAfrica - please follow and link your tweets about the competition to our handle.
• other suggestions ?

The following may be available (if people are willing to help)

1. a FAQ to answer general enquiries
2. a curated page to help organize events
3. A press release and FAQ for press (that you will need to localize for your country) and a list of talking points for you if the press contact you.
4. Digital communication material
   1. The digital version of a leaflet presenting the project for local printing and distribution (you will have to determine how many prints and where you want to distribute it).
   2. The digital version simple A2 Poster for local printing and distribution.
   3. The digital version of stickers, badges and bumper stickers (your team should decide what you need to print and how many).
   4. A simple T-shirt design (this is not essential given the small budget, but again, is up to your team to decide).
5. Upon request, a letter of accreditation for the team, that will help when approaching sponsors and partners to be involved. Please let us know if you need a letter like this.

Please let us know if there are other means of communication or channels you would like the competition to consider.

Communications

The materials below are intended for organizers to use and adapt as they see fit. Should there not be something that you feel would be vital, please contact [email protected] with your suggestions.

Social media guidelines

Thanks so much for your willingness to support and grow the message that WikiLovesAfrica’s 2023 competition is a GO! The global team has a dedicated social media manager for the duration of the competition but we would love you support wherever possible! Here are some ways you can do just that:

SHARE OUR POSTS

Keep an eye on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds and share our posts. The more organic reach we get the more we will be rewarded with so every share counts.

• on Twitter
• on Facebook
• on Instagram

COMMENT ON OUR POSTS

We really appreciate your comment and tag on the comments of a post on our social media. Any words of encouragement or tagging a friend or organization on the comments feed will also help us be seen by more people, more often.