Facebook Announces Crowd-Sourced Translation Tools Now Available for Developers

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Justin Smith•Jul 23rd, 2008

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that Facebook’s Translations application will be made available for developers to crowdsource translating their apps into any language around the world. We’ll have more details soon.

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3 Responses to “Facebook Announces Crowd-Sourced Translation Tools Now Available for Developers”

1. Jamie says:
   July 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 pm

   the translation tool new version has been there for profile redesign users translating e.g. english GB or welsh and such since Sunday! just the dropdown only has ‘Facebook’

2. Chris says:
   July 23rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm

   there is an admin area within the translations app now and new fbml tags

   http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Translating_Platform_Applications

3. Inside Facebook » Tutorial: Translating Your Applications Using Facebook’s Crowd-sourced Translation Service says:
   July 27th, 2008 at 8:45 am

   [...] of the big announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference last week was the launch of access to Facebook’s translation tool for third party developers. The tool itself was developed by Facebook to translate the main site [...]