Translations

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Thanks a lot for your interest in translating Open Food Facts (website interface, mobile applications) in new languages and/or improving the existing translations!

Translation workflow

• We use 2 tools to add translations to Open Food Facts: this wiki and Crowdin.
• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org Start translating
• For wiki based translations: You can log in on the wiki (first login on Open Food Facts and you can then login on the wiki automatically) and edit the wiki pages to add/correct translations.

Also: Please join your local channel on Slack and the #translation channel so that we can coordinate.

Pages to translate (in order of impact)

High Priority Translations

• Translations - Web app - Mobile apps
• Translations - Names of nutrients
• Translations - Slogan

Taxonomies to Translate

Taxonomies ?

Taxonomies make Open Food Facts work like magic. They are our way to organize information and automatically make sense of products. This will enable :

• Suggestions in your language, to make contribution faster
• Autodetection of categories, enabling worldwide comparison between food.
• Multilingual products automatically translated to your language (if the item in the taxonomy is translated to your language)

High priority taxonomies (ranked)

• Global labels taxonomy
• Global states taxonomy (easy and short one)
• Global categories taxonomy
• Global countries taxonomy
• Global additives taxonomy
• Global allergens taxonomy

Other taxonomies

• Global labels taxonomy logos

Draft taxonomies

• Global ingredients taxonomy
• Global brands and companies taxonomy

Example taxonomy

• Test taxonomy showing the basic taxonomy definition features

Less important

• Translations - Code of conduct

• Translations - Marketing (posters, logos…)
• Translations - Data
• Translations - Missions

So you've translated everything ?

There's more at https://en.wiki.openbeautyfacts.org/Translations :-)

Pages for special operations that could be localized

• Translations - Vending machines

Advanced Country Support

Let Open Food Facts better handle specifities of various countries and areas, such as labels, specific foods…

• Country Support

Draft Taxonomies

• Global packaging taxonomy
• Global Religious Certification taxonomy
• Global Food Preparation taxonomy (related to Project:Microwave)
• Global IGP taxonomy

Old, for reference only

• Translations - Front page

News / Announcements etc.

• January 2014 - Open Food Facts is getting global

Join the discussion on the #Translation slack channel #translation

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