Wiki Loves Africa 2024: Get Social!![edit]

On this page you will find Social Media Guidelines to help you to create some noise on social media about Wiki Loves Africa 2024.

This is one part of the Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Communications Hub for Organisers.

Use these other pages to ...

Use the 2024 Africa Creates theme materials and messaging.

Use the Media Toolkit to engage with the press and partners about your Wiki Loves Africa 2024 activities and events.

Talk about the Wiki Loves Africa contest and use the brand materials.

Check out the Social Media Guidelines.

Find some interesting design tools and tricks.

Social media guidelines[edit]

It is exciting to support WikiLovesAfrica and show people what is happening with the competition in your country! There is an international communications team for the duration of the competition, but we would love your support wherever possible!

Below are some ways you can do just that!

Keep updated via the Wiki Loves Africa 2024 socials[edit]

Like and/or follow Wiki Loves Africa 2024 on the following Communications Platforms

Communications Platforms[edit]

Share our posts[edit]

Keep an eye on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds to quote or share our posts. The more organic reach we get the more we will be rewarded with so every share counts.

Comment on our posts[edit]

Comment and tag on the comments of a post. Any words of encouragement or tagging a friend or organization on the comments feed will also help Wiki Loves Africa to be seen by more people, more often.

Make your own posts[edit]

We realise you may want to personalize your call to enter or mention your own events happening locally, but please make sure you note the following:

Use the theme 2024 Theme Branding - logos and colour palettes.
Include the hashtag #wikilovesafrica on all your posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
The shortlink to the info page and entry is bit.ly/EnterWLA2024 photographs you post on Social Media
Make sure that the photos you use are big enough, and do not distort or pixelate
When writing a post about a local event, please include the location or country in your post (this can be done straight away or as a hashtag) – this will cause less confusion when people repost or share your post with their individual accounts
There are standard headers for Facebook and Twitter as well as a standard Instagram post that you are welcome to use. Please find them in the Social Media templates section below (to come)
Be sure to include these bits of info – not necessarily all at once but over a few posts.
- The competition is open to anyone, anywhere but the subject matter Climate & Weather must represent something that took place in Africa or relates to African culture.
- You can enter as many times as you like
- All work entered is subject to a Creative Commons licence
- The competition runs from 1st March – 30th April