CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Africa 2024

Wiki Loves Africa 2024

Anthere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 21:41, 27 November 2023 (UTC))[reply]

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?

1 March 2024 → 30th April 2024

Which projects will you be targeting?

all projects

What languages will you be targeting?

En, Fr, Pt, Ar, African languages (to be specified a bit later...)

Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?

Logged In users and Anonymous Users

What countries will your campaign target?

Only african countries

Banner/Campaign Diet:

To be determined by Central Notice admin

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - Call for participation to Wiki Loves Africa 2024.

The banner is to promote the Wiki Loves Africa photo campaign. It is a call for participation. It is pretty much unchanged compared to previous years. The contest is open for 2 months. We run the banner only in Africa (though the contest is open everywhere). Every year, 90% or so of our participants are new (and some are retained there after !), so running the banner for IP addresses is very important as it serves as recruitment system for new participants. The contest runs over all African countries. In some countries (around 30), local teams will organize activities. They are very much in ask for the banners (both because it helps promote the contest in countries where wikipedia is not very well known) and because it makes them feel we take them seriously (and we do of course...).

Metrics -

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

Banners - We'd like to have the banner similar to previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, etc. with a scrolling banner + logo + linked text.

Left: Wiki Loves Africa Logo
Background colour: #714361

Behind and center: Rolling banner photos

Right: theme logo + call to action text
Africa Creates!
Now Open! Enter your photos, video and audio in the annual celebration of Africa!
Text colour: #714361 Background: #fffff

text only – png

Theme logo

Here is a mock up of the visual:

A mock up of the central notice banner for Wiki Loves Africa 2024 with theme logo

Here is a mock up of the visual if using the theme logo is not possible:

Landing Page - Wiki Loves Africa 2024 competition portal on Commons

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - GFS - Wiki in Africa

Link to grant - Wikimedia Community Fund: Wiki in Africa Multi-Year General Support 2023-25

Discussion

Anthere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact
OtuNwachinemere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), secondary contact

Central Notice admin comments

I had a go at this, but it looks like it's still * a bit* out of my league. Happy to have another CN admin take over. :) Ciell (talk) 19:41, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Anthere and OtuNwachinemere: Can you please provide an SVG version of c:File:Logo + puzzle.svg without white space left and right? This would help us to build the banner. Other than that, Ciell's version looks pretty good to me. Thanks, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DerHexer@Ciell: Apologies for the delay - you should find the c:File:Logo + puzzle.svg updated with no whitespace included. Please can you proceed. I agree, if we can fix that left logo, then we are good to go!! Thank you, as always, Islahaddow (talk) 11:29, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That looks way better! :-D Ciell (talk) 13:17, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've created the campaign and attached the banner. As soon as you approve it, we can enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:07, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DerHexer - thank you for this. Could you please let me have a link to a visual of the banner. I cannot find a visual on the two links you shared. Perhaps my brain fog is getting the better of me ;-). Thanks again for this monumental work! Islahaddow (talk) 07:43, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DerHexer: to be clear, the 'preview' on the Banner page doesn't seem to work. Hence the problem. Thanks again, Islahaddow (talk) 07:45, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Islahaddow: It's the same link as in Ciell's first message in this section which is why I didn't link it again. —DerHexer (Talk) 07:49, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is perfect!! Let's go with it. Thank you @DerHexer and @Ciell - so appreciate the help! Islahaddow (talk) 10:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems generally good to me. I have checked countries and it seems we are missing ZW (compared to last year). DerHexer ?

Last year languages were more numerous, this year only en, fr, ar and pt. Which seems fine by me. Anthere (talk) 13:25, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Anthere: I've added ZW and enabled the campaign. “En, Fr, Pt, Ar, African languages (to be specified a bit later...)” is not specific enough so that I could add some more languages. Just let me know what else has to be added. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:47, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Thanks ! We will sort out a list of specific local languages a bit later. Anthere (talk) 13:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it running well so far? —DerHexer (Talk) 12:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]