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== Introduction ==
 
== Introduction ==
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The guidelines presented here are based on my work on products added on the [https://nl.openfoodfacts.org/ OpenFoodFacts-page] for the Netherlands.
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If you feel like doing this for your country use this url: https://nl.openfoodfacts.org/entry-date/2022-09-27. Adapt the country prefix to your situation. And edit the date for the one you want to use.
  
 
== Products with no data ==
 
== Products with no data ==

Revision as of 07:31, 27 September 2022

Introduction

The guidelines presented here are based on my work on products added on the OpenFoodFacts-page for the Netherlands.

If you feel like doing this for your country use this url: https://nl.openfoodfacts.org/entry-date/2022-09-27. Adapt the country prefix to your situation. And edit the date for the one you want to use.

Products with no data

Quite often one sees products where no data at all has been entered, all fields are empty and there are no images. These products are mostly created by third party apps. They are due to a quirk in the api-calls. Whenever an api interrogates the database with a barcode number and the barcode is not present, the corresponding product is created.

We have no way to ascertain whether these empty products do really exist, or are even food products. Sometimes non-product barcodes can be seen, i.e. barcode lengths other than 8,12 or 13 numbers.

Having these empty products in the database has no value and thus they can be deleted. A user can always add them later again.

Products without images

For these products we can only check the fields that have been filled in and infer the data of other fields. Do not worry to make a mistake here, these can always be corrected.