Facebook Launches Community-Driven Project to Add Foreign Language Support

Facebook Launches Community-Driven Project to Add Foreign Language Support

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Facebook is turning to their own platform and community to help translate the site into other languages. The company has launched an app called “Translations,” that is a community effort to make the site available in your language of choice. The goal, according to Facebook, is to make the site “available to everyone, everywhere, in all languages.”

The app asks users to translate more than 10,000 different phrases, and then asks others to vote on the translations for approval. Mauro Borione, who sent us word of the app, is one of those helping translate the site into Spanish. As you can see from the screenshot, there are already more than 800 translators involved and more than 15,000 translations users can vote on.

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Once you’ve added the app, you can enable “Translation Mode” which will let you submit translations for any page you are browsing.

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