Wiki Loves Africa 2020/How to join

The call for pictures and the contest will run in ALL African countries and beyond.
The contest is open for all africans, diaspora, and actually anyone interested and willing to help ! Regardless of whether you are African or not, you are welcome to join!

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How to join

The contest is being discussed and organized primarily on Telegram. Please join here : https://t.me/joinchat/DS2I3BepmnMxK0-7HDVCLA

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 Wiki Loves Africa mailing list [1] for discussion and announcement
  • Why not also join the African mailing list [2] ?
  • Join the WLA Facebook group
• 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

See Wiki Loves Africa 2020/International Organising Committee Activities for more information about who does what

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