Reviews and corrections

Reviewers wanted

We seek independent Chadian historians, language reviewers and cultural reviewers to validate collections: historical chronology and sources, pronunciation and spellings, oral histories and community-specific descriptions. Chadian Arabic, Ngambay, Sara and the archive’s other languages. A name appears on Team only after written agreement and a documented review. Recruitment remains people-work off-site — write to us or go through Support / volunteering.

Open roles

• Independent Chadian historian — chronology, sources and wording on History / People / Places dossiers.
• Language reviewer (native speaker) — pronunciation, spellings, proper names and voices already published.
• Collection cultural reviewer — one major collection (Team seats) after a documented review.

Process (no invented names)

1) Contact via Write to us or Support / volunteering. 2) Written agreement on scope and independence (no hidden commercial interest). 3) Documented review (notes, sources, corrections). 4) Name published on Team only after those steps. While a seat is empty, the archive shows “open seat — to be named”. The site does not contact anyone on your behalf.

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Unverified information

These points are already labelled on their pages. They stay here so they can be found at a glance. Nothing on this list is presented as an established fact.

• To verify

  Pronunciation of the two voices

  almi (Chadian Arabic, Ahmat Mahamat Tahir) and màn (Ngambay, Abderamane Abakar Brahim): Commons licence and provenance checked; pronunciation and transcription not yet reviewed by a native speaker on the team.

• Gap

  Audio slots still empty

  Greetings (remainder), numbers 1–10, song or proverb: no file. No generated voice is offered instead.

• Gap

  Food: 9 sourced recipes

  Bouillie, daraba, boule, kisra, grilled fish, peanut sauce, karkanji, tamarind, charmout. The “recipes wanted” call stays open. No recipe is invented to fill the collection.

• Pending

  Named cultural reviewers: seats open

  Each major collection (People, History, Languages, Music, Food, Festivals, Places, Digital museum, Provinces, Voices, Crafts) shows a cultural-reviewer seat. No name is invented: seats stay “open seat — to be named” until a documented review by a real person.

• Pending

  Governance: offices awaiting confirmation

  Six functions are published. Florent Mando Yves: founder and executive director, developer (BCS). Ndjekornom Victoire: digital team (B. Software Engineering). Scientific board, country researchers and editorial team stay “awaiting confirmation” until written agreement. No legal entity.

• Gap

  Musicians: biographies and portraits still to deepen

  The directory has 71 sourced names. Genre, notice, birthplace, sung languages, discography and milestones appear when a source gives them; the rest stay “to document”. Two portraits have a Commons licence (Mounira CC0, AfrotroniX CC BY-SA); Sultan and Ngone Saar have a photo whose permission is still to confirm. Other cards have no official portrait. Artists correct their card via Contribute.

• Pending

  Translations other than French

  Four statuses, the same on the homepage, Sources and the editorial policy. Fully translated and human-reviewed: French only. Machine-translated, awaiting review: the other twelve interface languages (English and Arabic first). Menu-only: a page banner, not a language status. Community contributions: Sara, Ngambay via Contribute and the language centre. All 13 languages have 100% translatable coverage (automatic measure): a page is never presented as “fully translated”.

• Pending

  Spelling of Chadian Arabic

  The phrasebook keeps the cited source’s spelling (N’Djamena variety). Alignment with the SIL Chad booklet (Heath, 2024) will come at review.

• Gap

  Festivals without a sourced photograph

  Christmas, Eid al-Fitr and Tabaski: no matching Chadian still under a free licence (Commons CC/PD). The cards stay without a photo. Independence keeps Abakar B’s parade (CC0). A cathedral, a 1955 Friday prayer or a chiefs’ court do not stand in for these festivals.

• Gap

  Portraits without a sourced photograph

  Gabri, Karo, Bulala, Bidiyo, Hausa, Tunjur, Tama, Mesmedje, Teda, Kreda: no matching freely licensed photograph. The slots stay empty.

• To verify

  Language inventory

  This is not a census of the 123 or 144 languages. Ethnologue, SIL, Glottolog and Wikipedia disagree; the page says so. Spellings and language names remain those of the cited sources.

• Gap

  Incomplete province pages

  Each province has 12 sections. Sourced facts are reused; the rest stay “to document” (food, dance, ceremonies, crafts). No invented fill.

• Gap

  Figures: a sample, not a dictionary

  Heads of state since 1960, plus five sourced notes (film, science, law, climate, sport). Writers and musicians stay on their pages. No invented portraits, no living sultans or chiefs named here. Offer a sourced note via Contribute.

• To verify

  Communes and chiefs in office

  The number of communes after 2024 and the consolidated list of cantons still need an official text. Living chiefs are not named. The 23 provinces (2018), 120 departments and 454 sub-prefectures (2024) are those of the cited sources.

• To verify

  Coordinates still indicative

  Ennedi and Ounianga follow UNESCO; Zakouma, African Parks; Lake Chad, the LCBC. Towns, the Gaoui museum and provincial seats remain indicative markers, often after Wikipedia, pending an official Chadian gazetteer.

• Gap

  Museum: clothing, manuscripts, National Museum

  Two Florent deposits (Gaoui pottery and houses) plus the already sourced instrument gallery. No clothing, manuscript or National Museum object under a free licence. No piece is invented to fill the museum.

• Gap

  No named artisan

  The directory stays empty until written agreement exists. Gaoui pottery, Dary Festival stalls and Hausa crafts are cited without a named workshop. No commission, no brokered sale.

• Gap

  No legal entity or dedicated account yet

  Airtel Money and UBA donations are received on personal accounts. Any amount is welcome now, from Chad, the diaspora and anywhere in the world. A dedicated Tchad Ma Culture account will open once registration is complete. Transparency covers every gift received. No annual budget published yet.

• Gap

  CAMES: diplomas, not a university ranking

  The 10 universities, 6 institutes and 4 ENS come from MESRSFP tables. CAMES recognises diplomas and grades teacher-researchers. The répertoire is not filtered here line by line for all of Chad. Private sector: seven sourced HEIs, including HEC-Tchad with eight CAMES licences (press, 2023); the others without a verified répertoire row. The ministry announced 75 private HEIs in October 2026; this page is not that list. Unofficial mentions (Faya, Bol, Bongor) and tutelage outside MESRSFP (ENAM, ENASTIC, ISSED) stay off the page.

Corrections log

No correction has been published yet. When a page changes after feedback (name, spelling, date, credit, withdrawal), the entry appears here: date, page, summary. Request a correction via “Write to us”.

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Project notes

What the project has published or reviewed, by date. This is not a blog: only the changes that matter for trust in the archive.

1. 7 November 2026 — Language coverage and musicians. Four statuses aligned on the homepage, Sources and the editorial policy: translated and reviewed (French), machine translation awaiting review, menu-only (page banner), community contributions (Sara, Ngambay). The musician directory shows biography, birthplace, languages, discography, milestones and photo permission, with labelled gaps and artist-submitted correction.
2. 7 November 2026 — Identity and governance. Team page: six-function chart. Florent Mando Yves is founder and executive director, developer (BCS). Ndjekornom Victoire sits on the digital team (B. Software Engineering). Board, researchers and editorial stay empty until written agreement. Contributors via Contribute, with no public roster. No invented legal entity.
3. 7 November 2026 — Museum, crafts, language centre. Three spaces opened with labelled gaps: digital museum (Gaoui deposits), empty artisan directory, language centre (existing voices, no invented proverb). UNESCO/LCBC/African Parks coordinates on the map. Donation transparency: no legal entity yet; any amount is welcome, from anywhere; a dedicated account will follow registration.
4. 26 October 2026 — Public register. This page opened: items still to review, corrections log, project notes, technical measurements. Language switching keeps path, query and hash. The donations report is linked from the footer.
5. 24 October 2026 — Two Commons voices. almi (shu) and màn (sba) online, published by the speakers on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Food still at 9 sourced recipes.
6. 20 October 2026 — Languages and contrast. Review of /langues/ (123 Ethnologue/SIL languages, people and languages counted separately). Gold and terracotta text darkened for contrast. Accessibility page reviewed; no WCAG AA claim.
7. 18 October 2026 — Review dates. Review dates visible on long dossiers, editorial policy, methodology, sources. Empty slots left empty.

Responsibilities and licences

Editorial direction (Florent Mando Yves) is accountable for the dossiers. Identifiable sources are on Sources. Photographs carry author and licence; an empty slot is not filled with an invented image. Contribute collects separately the right to share, the agreement of recognisable people, and agreement to be contacted. Donations: purpose on Support, funded actions on the report. Nothing is published without review.

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Technical measurements

Lighthouse on the local production preview, mobile and desktop. An accessibility score of 100 is not a WCAG AA statement. Mobile LCP stays slow (JS and home image). SEO 92 comes from robots.txt being unreachable on this static preview (502), not from a production sitemap fault. Some photo originals exceed 1 MB; the site serves lighter WebP files.