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Re: Help translate OpenFoodFacts, the wikipedia of food.

 

Hello Pierre,

   The Open Food Facts project is interesting. I have added translations
for Tamil. All the best for your efforts.

Thanks and Regards,
Rajkumar



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Pierre Slamich <pierre.slamich@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks for the amazing response. I'm just amazed by how many languages we
> could get in barely 4 days for the Android app.
> To respond to several mails I got:
> If your language does not have a localized domain yet, you can send a mail
> to contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and contribute food in the English version
> meanwhile.
> For the website and food categories translations, you first need to create
> an account (http://en.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/user.pl) to be able to edit
> the page (http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Translations).
> We also need country correspondants and volunteers who can help us with
> the specifics (special food that only exists in your country, potentially
> useful government data, internationalization stuff we need to be aware of…)
>
> Thanks again,
> Pierre
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Rajaa Gutknecht <myown1981@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> Arabic done. Good luck!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Pierre Slamich <pierre.slamich@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm not wearing my usual Ubuntu Translators hat, but rather my
>>> OpenFoodFacts hat.
>>> OpenFoodFacts is a mobile crowdsourcing projet aiming to create a free
>>> (as in beer ^^) global database of food (and beer ^^) products, with
>>> ingredients, additives and nutrition info.
>>> You can have a look at www.openfoodfacts.org
>>>
>>> We currently manage translations on a wiki (
>>> http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Translations) for the website, food
>>> taxonomies…
>>> I'm currently trying to standardize the translation process for the
>>> project, and we have a first simple translation up on Launchpad for the
>>> Android app.
>>>
>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/openfoodfacts/
>>>
>>> I'd be grateful if you could help us translate the app in as many
>>> languages as possible.
>>> We're also looking for both technical and non-technical contributors, in
>>> as many countries as possible. It goes from translating the taxonomies on
>>> the wiki, to contributing local food products using your mobile phone, to
>>> helping us with development.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Pierre
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> *Rajaa Gutknecht*
>> *Open Source Mobile Software Translator. Academic Writings
>> Verified-Proofreader.*
>>
>
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