CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Africa 2023

Wiki Loves Africa 2023

Anthere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 18:24, 23 November 2022 (UTC))[reply]
OtuNwachinemere (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), secondary contact

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?

1 March 2022 → 30th April 2022

Which projects will you be targeting?

all projects

What languages will you be targeting?

all languages

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 2023.

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 (by popular support). 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 25), 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...). We changed the timeline just a tiny bit : 1 March 2023 → 30th April 2023

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.

Text:
The annual celebration of Africa is Open!
Climate & Weather
enter your photos, video, and audio
Text colour: #C4463B

Visual elements here:

scrolling banner photos

Here is a mock up of the visual:

mock up of design for central notice

Landing Page -
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 competition portal on Commons

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - GFS

Link to grant -

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

Discussion

@DerHexer: - just letting you know that all the visual elements you need should be in the right section above. Please let me know if you need more, in a different format, or a longer rolling banner (wasn't sure of the dimensions). Thank you!! Islahaddow (talk) 15:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@DerHexer: - pinging again in case you didn't see it. The deadline is coming closer!! Thanks Islahaddow (talk) 12:22, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Central Notice admin comments

@Anthere and Islahaddow: I've created the campaign (with Western Sahara) and banner (preview). Sadly, my CSS skills are not goop enough to flip the positions of text and logo. I tried but always messed up the mobile display. Either you find somebody to change it or we must go with this version. Please ping, approve, etc. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. As far as I am concerned... I find the logo on the left and text with link on the right more logical than the reverse... What do you think @Islahaddow: ? Anthere (talk) 23:27, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  I am super happy with it as it is! Please go ahead!! Thank you so much @DerHexer!! Islahaddow (talk) 09:11, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  Done. —DerHexer (Talk) 09:26, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]