Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024/Results and best practices
This page exists as the sole and full report for Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024. It is being updated as the project rolls out and might not be final, as yet.
Contained herein, is a description of how Wiki Loves Africa 2023 was organised, the outcomes, and some of the important lessons discovered.
See also
- Results and best practices 2014
- Results and best practices 2015
- Results and best practices 2016
- Results and best practices 2017
- Results and best practices 2019
- Results and best practices 2020
- Results and best practices 2021
- Results and best practices 2022
- Results and best practices 2023
Summary[edit]
Main links
- Commons portal : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa
- Meta portal (for organizers) : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024
- Website : http://www.wikilovesafrica.net
- Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/
- Instagram handle : https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesafrica
- Twitter handle : https://twitter.com/wikilovesafrica
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvyE0yEt-BKgEUM5QlcQOwsMtpbWCbsnA
- Telegram : https://t.me/joinchat/FI9fz0pnPNiWbyyLr-YsFQ
- Mailing list : https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/african-wikimedians.lists.wikimedia.org/
Organizers, credits, and collaboration[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa is organized by Wiki in Africa, in collaboration with about 30 African based UserGroups and wikimedia communities and individuals. Most groups are funded by Wikimedia Foundation either through their own Annual Plan Grant (for example : m:Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) or through small (rapid) grants which are usually applied months prior to the contest (see category here - 27 requests in 2024).
In 2024, activities will be essentially coordinated through a global mailing list, direct emails, an active telegram channel, a couple of other channels for small focus activities, and a multilingual portal on meta.
Credits[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa at a project level is run by a small team. Being our 10th year, the competition team is well versed in the process of putting the competition together, but we must acknowledge that it is not possible to do this without the help of key people from within the community and we are endlessly grateful for their help in doing so.
For the first time since the contest was established, we introduced linguistic ambassadors into Wiki loves Africa with the aim of bridging the gap between local communities, organizers and the international organizing team as well as providiong general project support including translations and communication. The languages include: English, French and Arabic. A call was made for portuguese but there were no respondents despite an application deadline extension.
As with last year, some hands-on help came from within the African community, due to in part to easier communications via the telegram channel, targetted organisational support webinars various training sessions. We would like to thank the Wikimedia community across Africa (and beyond). This is as much their competition as it is ours and is intended as a platform for them to help build and sustain the growth of their communities through a celebration of local culture and experiences.