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EveryTradition

About EveryTradition

EveryTradition is a free guide to the traditions of the world: how people marry, name a child, mourn, greet a guest, lay the table and mark the turn of the year, in every country and city. It has pages on 826 traditions so far, and 15,453 more are on the list to be written. An everytradition is something handed down; the name is meant for the customs that families and communities pass from one generation to the next.

The aim is simple: anyone should be able to look up a tradition and come away knowing what it is, where it is kept, by whom, how, when and why.

How it is arranged

Every tradition is filed by region, country and city; by kind (spiritual, celebration, life-cycle, food, dress, arts and the rest); by meal (breakfast to feasts and fasts); by concept (weddings, birth, funerals, new year and more, each compared across countries); by faith; and by spice. The calendar and the days of the week tie traditions to the days they belong to, and the glossary explains the words. EveryTradition is about customs, not recipes: for dishes and cuisines, see Thali, our world food guide.

Pictures and drawings

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, each credited beside it. Where there is no free photo, the page shows a pattern drawn by EveryTradition from the kind of tradition and its region. Those drawings are patterns, not pictures of the tradition. No image on EveryTradition is made by an AI image generator.

What is live

Today around the world is rebuilt continually: which festivals are on, what the holiday lists record for this date, which countries are at breakfast, lunch or dinner right now, and a tradition of the day. New pages are written every day, and every page is re-read against its sources over time.

How a page is made

Names and facts come from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The text is written afresh with AI assistance from those sources only: the facts are kept, the wording is ours. Every page is compared with its source article, and a page that repeats a run of the article's words is rewritten or held back. Each page names its source and links to it and to its licence. A page is published only if it has enough to say; anything that falls short waits for a person to review it.

Care

Traditions are living and often sacred. EveryTradition describes them as the people who keep them would describe them, does not mock or sensationalise them, gives no medical advice, and attributes contested claims. Many customs are claimed by more than one place or community; where that is so, the page says so. If a page about your tradition is wrong, write to us and we will fix it.

Who is behind it

EveryTradition is published by ClearTrust, a company that measures traffic quality for the advertising industry. ClearTrust pays for EveryTradition and keeps it free. EveryTradition is part of the ClearTrust IVT-Free Publication Network. IVT stands for invalid traffic: visits from bots and other fakes, which the network's sites are screened for. Editorial decisions are not for sale: sponsored placements are always labelled.

Get in touch

To suggest a tradition, correct a page or ask a question, write to heirloom@cleartrust.cc.

The weekly EveryTradition

Every week: one tradition from somewhere new, what is being celebrated around the world this week, and one idea explained.