Internationalization

Get Open Food Facts to work well in your country

• Find your country (or create it) in Country Support

Old design considerations

Sub-sites for countries

Old design (before January 10th 2014)

One sub-domain per language.

e.g.

• fr.openfoodfacts.org -> products with French as main language
• en.openfoodfacts.org -> products with English as main language

Current design (after January 10th 2014)

One sub-domain per country + one "world" sub-domain.

e.g.

• fr.openfoodfacts.org -> products distributed in France
• us.openfoodfacts.org -> products distributed in the United States
• world.openfoodfacts.org -> all products

Transition from languages sub-domains to countries sub-domaines

Assigning countries to products - done Jan 10th 2014

• a new field was added for countries in November 2013
  • auto-populated using the ip address of the creator of products
• for all existing products without a country, added one country - Jan 10th 2014
  • using the place of purchase field if specified and recognized (countries + some popular cities)
  • using the ip address of the creator of the product

world + country sub-domains - in progress since Jan 10th 2014

• sub-domains map to countries instead of languages - done Jan 10th 2014
• redirect en.openfoodfacts.org to world.openfoodfacts.org
• fix links pointing to [language].openfoodfacts.org instead of [country].openfoodfacts.org
• generate list of countries with number of products to put on first page of openfoodfacts.org

lists of tags (e.g. brands, categories, labels etc.) per country

• compute lists
• display lists

nutrition facts stats per category and per domain

• compute data
• display data

number of products per-country for each tag

e.g. for a given category or brand, list the number of products per country

• compute data
• display data in a list
• display data on a map
  • e.g. using GeoJSON + Leaflet
    • https://p2pu.org/en/groups/online-maps-with-leaflet/content/geojson-in-leafletjs/

Taxonomies

Features

• A global hierarchy / taxonomy for each type of data field (categories, brands, labels, countries etc.)
• Translations for every language of each field value
• Multiple synonyms for each field value in each language

Design and definition

Global taxonomies

Translation work

• Get the strings to translate in a po file, so that we can use standard translation tools (GetText, PoEdit, Launchpad, Pootle)
• Get external translators on board (the Launchpad team could translate everything within weeks in many languages)