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==How you can get involved==
==How you can get involved==
Anyone who is registered to the site can contribute to Chalo Chatu by clicking on the Edit tab in an article.


===Become a writer/contributor===
===Become a writer/contributor===

Revision as of 15:19, 10 July 2017

Chalo Chatu is a free online collaborative encyclopedia by the Chalo Chatu Foundation. Launched on 1 June 2016, the website aims to be a knowledge hub that will preserve the History and Pride of Zambia. We are a non-profit organisation and content on this website is contributed by volunteers.

Writers and contributors

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Documenting an entire nation is no easy task! Because of that, we have a number of passionate writers and contributors who have voluntarily come on board to gather information from various locations of the country.

Refer to the section below on how you too can contribute and help build this encyclopedia for this generation, and the generations to come.

How you can get involved

Anyone who is registered to the site can contribute to Chalo Chatu by clicking on the Edit tab in an article.

Become a writer/contributor

  1. Are you passionate about documenting Zambia? Good! You can join our team of volunteers and help this website grow. Simply request for an account and we will be happy to have you on board as a contributor!
  2. Or, if all you want to do is send us a piece of information that you feel would be of interest to society, feel free to e-mail it to us at contribute@chalochatu.org.

You can think of a topic to write about, or check through our list of wanted pages.

Editing Chalo Chatu pages

Chalo Chatu content is intended to be factual, notable, verifiable with cited external sources, and neutrally presented.

Chalo Chatu uses a simple yet powerful page layout to allow editors to concentrate on adding material rather than page design. Page aspects facilitated include:

  • sections and subsections —which follow a page's lead section introduction and (if specific conditions are met) a table of contents ,
  • references ,
  • images,
  • tables,
  • indentations
  • lists ,
  • links,
  • ISBNs ,
  • maths ,

formatting elements and most world alphabets and common symbols, most of which have simple formats that are deliberately very easy and intuitive.

Donations

Chalo Chatu is a highly-efficient non-profit project driven by a dedicated team of volunteers from all across Zambia. You can help support our efforts by making donations towards:

  • Technology: Servers, bandwidth, maintenance, development. To support our rapidly growing website and vast information, Chalo Chatu runs on a large server that comes with high monthly and yearly costs.
  • Projects: In order to research and gather information on various topics from all parts of the country, we incur logistical costs such as travel and internet bandwidth. The project currently does not have its own equipment and has been relying on individual volunteers to use their own equipment, such as computers and cameras, to gather information. This has, however, proven difficult for those that don't have their own.

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Contact us

For general enquiries and information, you can reach us by e-mail on bwanji@chalochatu.org

You can also connect with us on our social media channels:

Stay updated with our daily posts and conversations by following our hashtag #ChaloChatu on all our social media channels.