Draft · 8 November 2026

Terms

omalaka is a free, non-commercial project to help people learn Namibian languages and to build open data for translation tools in those languages.

Using omalaka

  • omalaka is free. Accounts are for people aged 13 and over.
  • Be respectful. No hateful, abusive or sexual content, and nothing about real private people.
  • We may remove contributions or accounts that break these terms, and we may change or stop the service.
  • omalaka is provided as it is, without guarantees.

Contributing (version 2026-11-08b)

Before your first contribution you agree to the following:

  1. Write everything yourself, in your own words.
  2. Don't copy from newspapers, books, websites, the Bible or other religious texts, or apps — even if you translate them. The only exception: the English sentences omalaka gives you to translate, which are open data.
  3. Don't use Google Translate, ChatGPT or any other machine translation or AI.
  4. What you write becomes open data under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0): anyone may use it, also for translation tools, as long as they credit the contributors.
  5. You are credited by the name you choose below, or as "Anonymous".
  6. Once your sentences are published in a dataset release, they can't be taken back out of copies others already have.

Contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Checked pairs are released as part of the open omalaka dataset, with everyone who wrote, translated and checked them listed as contributors.

Writer, translator and checkers of a sentence are always different people. Points and leaderboard places only count work that other speakers accepted.

Contact

[To be filled in: the person or organisation responsible.] info@omalaka.net

An Oshiwambo version of these terms will be written by a native speaker.