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The corpus is wrong somewhere. Everything at this scale is. Corrections from Yorùbá scholars, speakers and practitioners are actively wanted, and the routes for them are here.
The most valuable contribution and the easiest to make. Every document page carries a correction link. None of the items below is mandatory: a correction with no source still tells the project where to look.
The document
Which page, by title or URL.
The passage
Quote enough of it that it can be found unambiguously.
What is wrong
The error itself, and what the correct account is if you have one.
A source, where you have one
Anything a reader could check: a book and page, an article, an archive record, a transcription.
A correction that is accepted is applied, the document's revision note records it, and the contributor is credited by name unless they ask not to be. A correction that is not accepted gets a reply explaining why, which is a commitment about the reasoning and not about agreeing.
Distinct from a factual error, and taken at least as seriously.
If material on this site should not be public, because it is initiate-held, because it belongs to a lineage that has not consented to its publication, or because it is presented in a way that misrepresents a living practice, say so with "handling" in the subject.
Where a claim of this kind is substantiated, the material comes down while it is resolved, rather than staying up during the discussion. These are reviewed by a person, not a queue.
What the project commits to, and what it does not commit to yet.
Within 3 working days. This matches the fastest acknowledgement window published by the comparable archives below and is the one commitment that costs nothing to hold.
Immediate on acknowledgement, for any substantiated handling report. The material is withdrawn first and the discussion happens afterwards, which is the sequence every comparable archive operates.
Not yet committed to a published window. Comparable archives publish anything from 10 working days to 6 weeks. The project will not name a number until it has run enough reports to know what it can actually hit, and an unmet published window would be worse than an unpublished one.
Not yet committed to a published window. Factual corrections are applied as they are verified, and every one gets a reply, but no turnaround is promised until there is a monitored address and someone monitoring it.
For reference, the National Library of Scotland publishes a definitive reply within 20 working days; UCL Digital Collections completes an initial validity assessment within 10 working days with temporary removal in the meantime; Collections WA acknowledges within 3 business days with immediate temporary withdrawal, and decides within 10 business days.
In the order the corpus is short of it.
Proverbs with attribution
Òwe from named speakers with region and dialect recorded. The proverb collection is the project's largest active gap and the one with the tightest rights position.
Oríkì and oral literature
With the same attribution requirements: who performed it, where, and when.
Dialect and regional variation
Particularly outside the Ọ̀yọ́-standard register that dominates published sources.
Translation review
Anyone who reads Yorùbá and will check a three-layer translation block against the original.
Scholarly review of a section
Specialists willing to read one section against their own field and mark what is wrong.
Contributed material is credited. If it is contributed under an open licence, that is noted alongside it.