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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.

About Open Food Facts team / blog / Come and discuss on Open Food Facts' Slack / GitHub Log in To edit and contribute to pages, first log in on Open Food Facts with your account and then come back here and refresh the page: you will then be automatically signed in. Contributing How to help: there are different ways (improving the database, community management, software development...) Projects homepage: projects synthesised (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 Environment Teams Development / Communication / Local Communities / Moderation Contacts Chat on Slack / Facebook Global Page - French Group / Twitter (Global, FR, DE…) / Blog / Forum Help the project get local Translations (Website, Categories, Marketing assets…) for information, corrections and improvements. Internationalization & Global taxonomies Help market the project Communication / Raw blog / Images and presentations Public Relations (presskit, social media and media monitoring) Presentation Kit Help technically Overview of all the things you can help technically on Misc. Legal & Terms of use FAQ / Press Mission ideas

News 2022-12-19 - As part of our latest operation "Plein pot sur les emballages", we invite all food producers to share their data on packaging: number, shape, material, recyclability, weight... We want it all! More detail (FR only) 2022-12-16 - Open Food Facts did a small presentation during les entretiens du nouveau monde industriel conference in Paris, during a round table about alimentation and knowledge modeling. Video (in french) is here. 2022-12-14 - Save the date: our Operation "Plein pot sur les emballages" (food packaging data collection), in partnership with the ADEME (the French Agency for Ecological Transition), will be launched on the 12th January at the Académie du Climat, in Paris, with a citizen collection workshop ("scan party"🤳🥫 - 2 hrs). To participate, please register : Event page & Facebook event page. 2022-12-12 - Want to meet face-to-face? Don't miss this occasion then: our “Welcome & Tutorial” community monthly meet-up will be this Thursday 15th December from 18-19h CEST time. On the program: 👋 30 minutes of connecting as a community, followed by 👨‍🏫 30 minutes of tutorial on Data Quality tools (by Charles). Link to call: meet.google.com/qcc-gkea-mqa. Feel free to join either/or/both as your schedule allows it. See you there ! 2022-12-10 - Join the monthly meeting about Internationalisation on Wed 14th of Nov at 18:00 (CET). See public events calendar. Next one will be held on Jan the 18th. 2022-12-08 - 📝 Two new insightful articles on our Blog: Presenting Open Food Facts at Events (Capitole du Libre recap) & Using Open Food Facts as a Stock Tracking App in Germany (a testimonial from an app that reuses our database). 2022-12-06 - The latest version AGRIBALYSE 3.1 has been deployed in Open Food Facts. AGRIBALYSE provides references data on the environmental impacts of food products through a database built according to the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology. 2022-12-05 - Taxonomy editor is deployed on staging (since Friday). This is still a draft, but you are welcome to try, and report bugs, blockers or propose enhancements. Older news... Upcoming Events: to list meetups, conferences and other events that we could participate in Product lists 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. Food-specific projects What's in my yogurt? / Beers (best practices), Wine & Spirits Project:Petfood / Mapping fast food Data reuse Reusing Open Food Facts Data: where? how? Open Food Facts and Science: what? who? how? API (new version - currently hangs with Firefox - Help with the doc) Location (Food establishments & Made Near Me) On-going Projects 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 Projects Re-design Food archeology: Add VERY old products to Open Food Facts :-) Accessibility (Blindness,…) Community portal Contribute back Diets Structured Data (Wikidata linking) Gamifying OFF Experiments: Microwaves, AR and 3D 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