Sources, checks and where the list stops
Sources
We read each place’s own website, or for municipal programmes the municipality’s own page, and note what it offers children: ages, the weekly timetable, prices and the period they cover, languages, trial classes and whether a parent must stay in the lesson.
The address, map position and opening hours may also come from the place’s Google Maps listing, and a club’s federation membership from the club list its federation publishes. A place without a website of its own can be listed from its Google listing alone when that listing plainly says it serves children; its page then shows only the address and opening hours.
For each fact we keep the page’s address, the day we read it and a short quote in the page’s own language. Other guide sites, news, course marketplaces, social networks and user reviews are never sources.
Source flags
Each source carries one of three flags: published by the place (its website, or the municipality’s page for its own programmes), Google listing (its entry on Google Maps), federation list (a sports federation’s list of member clubs).
On a place’s page each fact shows its flag and the day it was read, so you see at a glance where it comes from and how fresh it is.
Unpublished facts
When the pages we read lack a fact, the place’s page marks it as not published and the table shows a dash. The words describe our sources; they pass no judgement on the place.
Gaps are not filled by guessing. A school grade such as birinci sınıf, or a group formed by year of birth, is not turned into an age. A price keeps the period the place gives; the only sum we make is the ≈ per-lesson price, a package or course fee divided by the lessons inside it.
Class times, opening hours
The table has two columns of hours. Class times: the days and hours of a course, a care programme or a holiday programme day, as the place writes them. Opening hours: when the branch is open, often from the Google listing.
A branch can be open at an hour when no group of a given age meets. Rows with opening hours only drop below the line, under a heading that says so.
The after-school pages look at weekdays from 15:00 to 18:30: most of Ankara’s state primary schools finish their full day around three, private school buses drop children off a little later, and working parents collect them in the early evening. In schools on double shifts the morning group is home at lunchtime and can find the early afternoon with the time filter. A course counts when one of its groups starts in that span; a care programme counts when its hours, extended hours included, cover all of it.
What we leave unjudged
- No place, teacher, coach or programme receives a grade, a score or a rank.
- We do not visit places; every fact comes from a published source.
- We do not measure the quality of lessons, training or care.
- We cannot know whether a group has free places; ask the place.
- A price is shown the way the place printed it, period and date included; we do not phone to confirm it.
Places can correct us
If you run a listed place and a fact is wrong, missing or out of date, write to us through the suggestion and correction form, adding a link to the page that shows the right fact.
Corrections that the place’s own pages confirm go into the next update and are noted in the update record. A place that closes keeps its page, marked as closed, and leaves every table.
Whoever runs a place may also ask for it to leave the list: in the form choose «Ask for a place to be taken off the list» and leave a contact that shows your role. The place, its page and its records in the downloadable files are deleted within a month.
Dates and updates
We read each place’s sources again no later than 6 months after the previous reading. A price for a period that has ended stays on the place’s page with that period, but the filters and the summary line ignore it.
How the site pays its way
No place pays to be listed, and no payment alters a row or where it stands.
A place’s page may carry one link to Zartrace, a service openly marked as connected with this site. Clicks on the contact buttons are counted as totals, with no personal data.
Open data
The whole list can be downloaded as JSON, one record per place, or as CSV, one row per programme. Both files carry sources, flags, dates and the licence.
Neighbourhoods, distance and the map
Ankara’s nine central districts are divided into twenty-seven neighbourhoods that parents call by name: Çankaya alone has thirteen (Kızılay, Bahçelievler, Çayyolu, Ümitköy and others), Yenimahalle and Etimesgut three each, Keçiören and Gölbaşı two each, while Sincan, Mamak, Altındağ and Pursaklar are one neighbourhood apiece. Each is built from official mahalleler and stays inside its district. A branch in an outer district such as Polatlı, Kahramankazan or Akyurt is filed under that district. Neighbourhoods with only a few places have no page of their own yet; their places are in the full list.
Distance runs as the crow flies from the point you choose to the nearest branch, rounded to half a kilometre, so it knows nothing of the traffic on the Eskişehir or İstanbul roads. Your location is requested only when you press the button and never leaves your browser.
Points placed from an address are approximate. Map data and the district and mahalle boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL licence.