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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 synthesized (ongoing projects, future projects, past ones...)
• Data fields explained, and how to fill them
• 🥗 Ingredients : projects, tools & how to help
• Data completion : 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)

👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Teams

How can I join a specific team ? Fill out the Contributor Skill Pool.

• 👩‍💻 Development
• 📢 Communication
• 🌐 Local Communities
• 🚨 Moderation

📇 Contacts

• Chat on Slack / Follow and amplify our social media accounts / Blog / Forum

🌐 Help the project get local

• Translations (Website, Categories, Marketing assets…) for information, corrections and improvements.
• 🌐 Internationalization & 🧬 Global taxonomies, Country Support (FIXME: deprecated, merge with LoCos), Local Communities

📢 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

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.

Projects

• 🎨 Re-design
• Food archeology: Add VERY old products to Open Food Facts :-)
• ♿️ Accessibility
• Contribute back
• Diets
• Structured Data (Wikidata linking)
• 🕹️ Gamifying Open Food Facts
• 🤳 Barcodes (Non Standard Barcodes, Blacklist, False positives, Countries)
• 🏫 Public data
• 🎯 Roadmap
• 🇪🇺 Project:EU Project Citizen Observatories
• 🥗🧬 Ingredients ontology
• 🧪 Food additives
• 🕰️ Product versions and history
• ☕️ Javascript frontend to Open Food Facts

On-going Projects

• Server (Product Opener) (incl. Mobile web)
• 🤳🥫 Mobile Apps / Project Smoothie (The new Open Food Facts app, in Flutter)
• 🔎 Search-a-licious
• 🧽 Data quality & Error detection
• 🏷️ Folksonomy Engine

Food-specific projects

• What's in my yogurt? / 🍺 Beers (best practices), 🍷Wine & Spirits
• 🐾 Project:Petfood / Mapping fast food

📰 News

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

Data reuse

• Reusing Open Food Facts Data: where? how?
• 🔬 Open Food Facts and Science: what? who? how?
• API (new version - Help with the doc)
• 📍🏭 Location/Origins (Food establishments & Made Near Me)

Misc.

• 👩‍⚖️ Legal & Terms of use
• ❓ FAQ / Press