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Welcome to the Open Food Facts wiki!
This wiki is a collaborative space for contributors to the Open Food Facts project.
We can use it to share and discuss ideas about the project and its sub-projects, to implement them and to document them.
- How to help: there are different ways (improving the database, community management, software development...)
- Projects homepage: projects synthesized (ongoing projects, future projects, past ones...)
- Data fields explained, and how to fill them
- 🥗 Ingredients : projects, tools & how to help
- Products to be completed
- All states
- 🧽 Quality: how to help
- 👩💻 Software Development (Scroll down to the Help technically section)
- 📚 Documentation
- 🎨 Design
- 🏭 Help to get Producers' data
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence
- 🌱 How to contribute on the Environment
- 💸 Prices (Project:Open-Prices)
- 👩💻 Development
- 📢 Communication
- 🌐 Local Communities
- 🚨 Moderation
- Chat on Slack / Facebook Global Page - French Group / Twitter (Global, FR, DE…) / Blog / Forum
- Translations (Website, Categories, Marketing assets…) for information, corrections and improvements.
- 🌐 Internationalization & 🧬 Global taxonomies, Country Support (FIXME: deprecated, merge with LoCos), Local Communities
- Noteworthy Products: to link to the pages of special products. e.g. interesting or exotic codes.
- Products to check: products that have dubious data.
- Products to delete: products that are not food products.
- 🎨 Re-design
- Food archeology: Add VERY old products to Open Food Facts :-)
- ♿️ Accessibility (Blindness,…)
- Community portal
- Contribute back
- Diets
- Structured Data (Wikidata linking)
- 🕹️ Gamifying Open Food Facts
- Barcodes (Non Standard Barcodes, Blacklist, False positives, Countries)
- OCR
- Public data
- Roadmap
- 🇪🇺 Project:EU Project Citizen Observatories
- 🥗🧬 Ingredients ontology
- 🧪 Food additives
- Multilingual products
- Product versions and history
- Product issues dropdown list
- SvelteKit Frontend
- Server (Product Opener) (incl. Mobile web)
- 🤳🥫 Mobile Apps / Project Smoothie (The new Open Food Facts app, in Flutter)
- 🔎 Personalized Search
- 🧽 Data quality & Error detection
- Folksonomy Engine
✨ Latest Features
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-dart/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices-frontend/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
2024-10
2024-10-xx - OPEN FOOD FACTS PRO DAYS 2024 are taking place in Paris
2024-09
2024-09-25 - Open Food Facts participates in the NEC (Numérique en commun(s)) in Chambéry, France.
2024-09-21/22 - OPEN FOOD FACTS DAYS 2024 are taking place in Paris this weekend. Event wiki page here. Watch all the lightning talks from this year here.
2024-07
2024-07-05 - 🇧🇪 Carrefour Belgium imports data for the first in Open Food Facts → ±2500 products have been addedǃ
2024-06
2024-06-28 - 🇪🇺 Data Europa invited us to take part in a webinar about "'Stories from the Use Case Observatory". The replay is available here.
2024-06-20 - 🇪🇸 Carrefour Spain has automated the data transfert with Open Food Facts 🥳
2024-06-12 - Open Food Facts joined the OW2 conference to engage with other open source actors.
2024-06-01 - 🇪🇺 2 pages dedicated to Open Food Facts in the Use Case Observatory report, conducted by Data Europa - the official portal for European open data. The purpose of this research project: is to contribute to data.europa.eu’s broader goal of measuring the economic impact of open data across Europe over 3 years (2022–2025).
2024-05
2024-05-27 - 🙋♀️ The permanent team welcomes Mélanie, who will assist part time as an admin manager.
2024-05-21 - 🇪🇸 Manon and Charlotte (Open Food Facts Partnership Team) are participating in the 16th edition of EmpoderaLIVE, an international event on civic technologies in Malaga
2024-05-17 - 🚥 Nutri-Score V2 deployed on Open Food Facts.
2024-05-16 - ♿️ Global Accessibility Awareness Day activities at Open Food Facts.
2024-05-10 - 🛒🥫 Scan Party in Cayenne (French Guyana) organised by a public health nutritionist Vanessa Izeros, along with some young people. Read article here
2024-04
- 2024-04-15 - 🇫🇷 Manon & Alex from Open Food Facts participated in 2 episodes of the podcast Projets libres! by Walid François Nouh.
- 2024-04-07 - For 🔎 World Health Day 2024 (by the World Health Organisation), here's a few highlights of public health research Open Food Facts participated in (ENG article, en français).
- 2024-04-03 - Open Food Facts is taking part in the 🧑🌾🍽️ Journée de l'Alimentation at the Arches Citoyennes with other food actors. Open to public.
- 2024-04-01 - Achraf Elkhanjari took "A Deep Dive into the Open Food Facts Dataset" (Medium) and wrote an article about it. Enjoy !
- 2024-04-01 - Open Food Facts has its 1st Project Grantee, Marius. He will be leading the effort of creating a local community in Germany & the Nordic countries in 2024. Learn more about Marius in this article.
- Older news...
- Upcoming Events: to list meetups, conferences and other events that we could participate in
- Reusing Open Food Facts Data: where? how?
- 🔬 Open Food Facts and Science: what? who? how?
- API (new version - Help with the doc)
- 📍🏭Location (Food establishments & Made Near Me)
- 👩⚖️ Legal & Terms of use
- ❓ FAQ / Press
- 🕹️ Mission ideas