Dear WLE community!

This year in order to help our contest be more shared and inclusive for everyone, we're inviting experienced WLE volunteers to become regional ambassadors to help out the international organizing team.

The main responsibilities of the ambassadors are the help with translations and communications in order to reach out to more regions, where English is not so widespread.

So, meet some of our ambassadors!

• Georges Fodouop (French-speaking region) — is an ambassador of the Wikimedia Foundation's product team for francophone communities, also a member of the MCDC (Movement Charter Drafting Committee), and secretary of WikiFranca. He has worked on various Wikimedia projects across borders and is a co-founder of the Wikimedians of Cameroon user group. He was Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Wiki Loves Women project and has coordinated international projects such as Wiki Loves Earth, and Wiki Loves Africa and has facilitated French language training for numerous campaigns including #1Lib1Ref, AWiM.

• Mohammed Bachounda (Arabic-speaking region) — a volunteer on Wikipedia, organizes many activities for the Arab Wikimedia community, such as photo contests locally and in the Arab world, and the Wikipedia education program in Algeria. With a group of Algerians and Arabs, launched a wiki MOOC, to teach Wikipedia editing in Arabic, which 10,000 people have registered for. Organizer of the WikiArabia conference.

Also, we have other great people helping us with engagement across the globe and we would be glad to see more people from other regions! You are welcome to apply to represent your region and make your unique contribution to Wiki Loves Earth 2023! Feel free to contact us at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua. Here you can check the full international organizing team: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2023/Organizers.

If you have any questions regarding this, feel free to approach us.

Thank you and stay tuned for the WLE 2023 and upcoming updates!