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Wiki Loves Africa 2025

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Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration?
  • → 1 March 2025 → 30th April 2025
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?

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Description - Call for participation to Wiki Loves Africa 2025.

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 2025 → 30th April 2025

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

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Banners - We'd like to have the banner similar to previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020,2021,2023, 2024 etc. with a scrolling banner + logo + linked text.

Here is the mock-up of the visual:

 

Left: Wiki Loves Africa Logo
visual:

 

asset links:

Behind and center: Rolling banner photos

 
The rolling banner

Right: theme logo + call to action text
visual:

 

asset links:


Theme Text
Farm to Plate
Join Africa's largest open-licenced photo contest
Now Open!
Enter your photos, video, and audio
Text colour: #714361

Landing Page - Wiki Loves Africa 2025 competition portal on Commons
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Discussion

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Central Notice admin comments

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@Ciell and DerHexer: – this request now has the visuals for your banner creating pleasure! ;-) I hope I have uploaded all the elements in all the formats you need. Please, let me know if you have everything you need to get started on this. Thanks again for the supreme effort and support. Islahaddow (talk) 10:11, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Me again ... is there a way to measure how many hits the banners get? It would be good for us (and you guys) to see how much of our traffic comes through the central notice? Hope there is a simple answer. Thanks! Islahaddow (talk) 10:14, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Islahaddow, Ogalihillary, and Anthere: Please fill out the template at the top of the page first. Thanks in advance! Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:20, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just done so @DerHexer. Apologies. Did not know they had not been done. Islahaddow (talk) 10:21, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
March, that's good (sorry that I didn't know that at first place), and still some things needed for preparation. — I'm on my way to the w:en:Federal Network Agency for a VLOP stress test. But with that information I can prioritize it for the weekend, unless Ciell or anybody else wants to take it. ;) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:26, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciell and DerHexer: Consider this a gentle nudge. Please let me know where you are with this and where we can support. We are less than 2 weeks away. Thanks again for your help with this. Islahaddow (talk) 10:52, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think that I will find some time for that on the weekend at the German AdminCon. Ciell also must feel annoyed that I don't respond to her banner question. ;D Four weekends in a row, last week Steward Conference, and so on. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on this right now, but have to take a break at the German AdminCon now. — Please notice that there are three other global campaigns proposed for partly the same period: CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025, CentralNotice/Request/IWD 2025, CentralNotice/Request/Wikimania 2025 Program Proposals Application. Usually, it's on your end to find a good solution to avoid banner overkill. But Wiki Loves Africa is a long-established campaign so that it will get some kind of preference. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I responded most eleborative in the Wikimania Program Proposals one - balancing the IWD and WLA banners has in the past always been done by giving WLA the head start from March 1, and after a few days the IWD is enabled with more impressions, since it is up for only 6 days anyway.
I am sure we can fit in a third banner, I'll chime in where I can. Ciell (talk) 17:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ogalihillary, @Islahaddow, also a small remark: traditionally, we run WLA on Wikipedia/Commons/Wikivoyage, same as we do with WLM. Would that be sufficient for you for 2025 as well? Ciell (talk) 10:31, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Anthere, Ogalihillary, and Islahaddow: I have created the campaign and banner (desktop and mobile preview). Please note that in the mobile preview on a smartphone device, the WLA logo looks unexpected to me. Furthermore, the knobs (I don't know the English word) of the pieces puzzle between the center and left and right section look nice in the mockup but I am not capable of programming that into the banner. The given logos are not transparent either so that they could be put one on top of the other. If you need an improved version that looks closer to your mockup, please reach out to a designer yourself. For me, this version looks good enough to go. But please review everything, approve it and ping me so that I can enable the campaign with the recommendations of Ciell in mind. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:40, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Ciel :) Anthere (talk) 16:20, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @DerHexer you are a super star! I am happy for a flat (no knobs on either side) as long as there is more space round the logo. Is that possible? I can provide transparent versions of the logo if that would help? I have uploaded these options - do they make it easier to get the border around the logo and words?
Transparent logo for Central Notice banner
Transparent wording for Central Notice banner
let me know - and sorry for the delayed response. Islahaddow (talk) 15:09, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Islahaddow: I have changed the left logo but haven't changed the text—because it's a (translatable) text and not an image. ;) In all my previews there is enough space around the text. I would leave it as is. Are you okay with that? Then I could enable the campaign. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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