About

Người Việt Nam ("The Vietnamese People") is an open reference on the history, culture and customs of Vietnam, written with verification and cited sources. It is a non-commercial project: no advertising, and no tracking of readers to sell data.

What we do

• We write articles on history, historical figures, places, festivals, customs, food and Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, together with a timeline, a map and a lunar calendar.
• Every article has a Sources section. Each source is given a reliability tier A, B or C, shown publicly so you can judge it yourself.
• We separate three kinds of content: documented history (backed by verifiable records), legend (told in folk tradition) and disputed (sources may read the matter differently). This label always appears at the top of an article.
• We publish an edit history: when an article gets a correction or a major update, the date and a description are shown at the end of the article.

How we work

Articles go through an editorial process: an author, an editor who reviews the sources and the text, and a subject-matter advisor for sensitive topics. We prefer books, academic research and official documents; open encyclopedias such as Wikipedia are used for reference only and are never the sole source of an article.

You can help

If you find a mistake, a missing detail or a topic worth writing about, use the Suggest an article / Report an error page. You need to log in and verify your email to send one. Every contribution gets a reference code so you can check its status.

Licence and citation

Text written by the project is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Text reused from open sources (for example Vietnamese Wikipedia) keeps its original licence and is credited in each article. Every image states its author and its own licence. See also the Terms of use.

Contact

For general questions, collaboration and content removal requests, see the Contact / Content removal page.