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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. One of the first steps you can take is to create your user page. There, you can showcase your contributions, and it's even possible to start conversation with other users.

🍊 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

• Projects homepage: All projects synthesized (ongoing projects, future projects, past ones...)
• ♿️ Accessibility
• 🕹️ Gamifying Open Food Facts
• 🤳 Barcodes (Non Standard Barcodes, Blacklist, False positives, Countries)
• 🏫 Public data
• 🎯 Roadmap
• 🥗🧬 Ingredients ontology
• 🧪 Food additives
• 🕰️ Product versions and history
• ☕️ Javascript frontend to Open Food Facts
• 🎨 Re-design
• Contribute back
• Diets
• Structured Data (Wikidata linking)
• Food archeology: Add VERY old products 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

• "Category deep-dives": ex: What's in my yogurt? / 🍺 Beers (best practices), 🍷Wine & Spirits - Mapping fast food
• 🐾 OpenPetFoodFacts / 🧴Open Beauty Facts / 📸 Open Products Facts

📰 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