Real money, honestly capped
Harvests: funded campaigns that pay for accepted work.
A harvest is a capped pot of real money — a grant disbursement or a sponsor’s gift — tied to one language. Every contribution the community accepts scoops a fixed stipend from the pot until it runs dry. No promises beyond what’s already in the bank, and coins stay what they’ve always been: recognition, never currency.
No harvest is open right now
Harvests open when funding lands — a dataset grant, a diaspora association’s sponsorship, a research partner. When one opens for your language, contributing works exactly like it does today; accepted work simply gets paid. Meanwhile, every contribution still earns coins, badges and leaderboard standing.
How a harvest works
A funder fills a pot
A research grant, a diaspora association or a sponsor puts real money behind one language. The pot size and the stipend per item are published before a single naira is promised.
You contribute as usual
Write, record or digitize in the harvest's language. Nothing changes about how you contribute — the same peer review that publishes your work decides what gets paid.
Accepted work scoops a stipend
The moment reviewers accept your contribution, a fixed stipend is reserved for you from the pot. It shows on your profile, gets paid by bank transfer, and every payout is logged on the transparency ledger.
Why fixed pots, not coin cash-outs
An open-ended “content pays cash” promise attracts spam and collapses the day the money runs short. A harvest is the opposite: the budget is public before it opens, payment is gated on the same peer review that protects the dataset, and when the pot is empty it says so. Coins never convert — the transparency ledger holds us to it.
Want to fund one?
If you represent a grant programme, a research lab, a company or a community association that wants a language documented, a harvest turns your budget into named, credited, openly licensed data — with every stipend traceable. Start on the support page or reach us on the about page.