Chalo Chatu: Difference between revisions

|name = Chalo Chatu

|logo = Chalo Chatu logo.jpg

|logocaption =Chalo Chatu logo

|screenshot = Chalo Chatu screenshot Feb 2017.png

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|caption = Screen shot of Chalo Chatu website in Feb 2017

|url = [http://chalochatu.org Website]

|slogan = Preserving the [[History of Zambia| History]] and Pride of [[Zambia]].

|commercial = No

|type = Internet encyclopedia project

|registration = Optional<ref group=notes>Registration is required for certain tasks such as, creating pages on Chalo Chatu, editing pages , and uploading files.</ref>

|language = English

|content license =CC BY-SA 3.0 <ref name=chalo/>

|owner = [[Chalo Chatu Foundation]]

|author = [[Jason J Mulikita]]

|launch date = {{start date and age|2016|06|01}} (public)

|alexa = {{Increase}} 228,500 ({{as of|2016|09|05|alt=Sept 2016}})<ref name="alexa">{{cite web|url= http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chalochatu.org |title= Chalochatu.org Site Info | publisher= Alexa Internet |accessdate= 2014-10-12}}</ref><!--No longer updated monthly by OKBot.-->

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|current status = Active

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Chalo Chatu is a work-in-progress, with articles in various stages of completion. As articles develop, they tend to become more comprehensive and balanced. Quality also improves over time as misinformation and other errors are removed or repaired. Chalo Chatu is written collaboratively by largely volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access  and have an account with Chalo Chatu can write and make changes to Chalo Chatu articles, except in limited.cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism.  

The web site was opened on 1 June 2016 and has been active since then. The website was launched with the ".org" top-level domain denoting its non-commercial nature.  

{{Main article|Chalo Chatu:Contributing to Chalo Chatu}}

Chalo Chatu require that its editors and contributors provide identification but it does not rent or sell your information to third parties but the information is used to verify the identity of the users. After the verification process an account will then be created for that particular user that is if you want to add or edit a page on site. ChaloChatu has {{srlink|Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}}} articles, {{srlink|Special:ActiveUsers|{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}}} registered editors, and {{srlink|Special:ActiveUsers|{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}}} active editors.<ref group=notes>For a user to be considered [[Special:ActiveUsers|active]] in a given month, one or more actions have had to be made in said month.</ref> An editor is considered active if they have made one or more edits in the past thirty days.

Chabota Kanguya once argued that its only "a community ... a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers from Zambia or even the rest of the world"<ref name= Chalo3/>makes the bulk of contributions to Chalo Chatu and that the project is therefore "much like any traditional organization".

Chalo Chatu original articles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) unless otherwise noted."<ref name=chalo>{{cite web |url=http://chalochatu.org/Main_Page |title=Chalo Chatu:Main Page |publisher=Chalo Chatu|accessdate=9 November 2016}}</ref> The Chalo Chatu Foundation is not a licensor of content, but merely a hosting service for the contributors (and licensors) of the Chalochatu.org.

The main aim of the project is to document everything to-do with Zambia. With a stated aim of "preserving the [[History of Zambia| History]] and Pride of [[Zambia]]." The project is there to create a "new compendium of knowledge" based on the contributions of "intellectuals", defined as "educated, thinking people who read about Zambia and everything that is in it.

To support Chalo Chatu's rapidly growing website and vast information, Chalo Chatu uses a large server that comes with highly monthly and yearly costs.

Chalo Chatu isn't that popular as it new in Zambia. Chalo Chatu looking to steadily gain status as a general reference website for Zambian History.<ref name= Chalo3/> About 95% of search engine traffic to Chalo Chatu comes from Google a good portion of which is related to academic research and on its social media platforms.