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Repair instructions are most useful when you can understand them. iFixit supports multiple site languages, and repair content can begin in any supported language—not only English.

Use the language menu in the site header to choose the language you want to browse. You can change it from any iFixit page.

The language attached to a guide or wiki identifies its source language. Other language versions are translations of that source.

iFixit is a wiki. Community members can translate and improve guides and wikis directly on iFixit. New contributors' edits may enter the Patrol queue, where an experienced community member reviews them before they become the verified version.

You don't need to translate a whole page from scratch to help. Correcting one unsafe instruction, one mistranslated repair term, or one confusing sentence makes that repair more useful.

Use Translate Missing to find guides and wikis that need translation. The list uses your current browsing language by default; use the page's language dropdown to choose another available language. Read the iFixit Translator Guidelines before contributing. The following guides explain the manual workflows:

• How to Manually Translate Guides
• How to Manually Translate Wikis

iFixit also publishes clearly labelled automated translations so repair knowledge can reach more people sooner. These versions are a starting point for community review. The label does not mean that a bilingual person has checked every instruction.

When you see an automated-translation notice, compare important instructions with the source. Pay special attention to warnings, actions, omitted text, numbers, measurements, directions, tool and part names, and links.

1. Choose a language you read fluently.
2. Open a page identified as an automated translation.
3. Compare it with the source-language version.
4. Correct meaning before style. Check warnings, actions, omissions, quantities, technical terms, and links first.
5. Read the finished target-language page on its own. It should sound natural and be safe to follow.
6. Save your correction. You don’t need to review the entire page before saving a useful improvement.

Small, well-researched corrections are valuable.

Your corrections are preserved while the corresponding source content remains unchanged. If the source is updated, the existing translation—including community improvements—is used as context for the new version, but affected passages may need to change too.

• Create a manual translation when content doesn't yet exist in your language.
• Proofread an existing automated translation when the language version is already live.
• Use Crowdin to translate iFixit's interface—menus, buttons, messages, and other site text—rather than guide or wiki content.

If iFixit doesn't offer the language you need, your browser may be able to translate the page. Browser translation is separate from an iFixit language version and may contain errors. Check warnings, quantities, directions, and technical terms against the source before following repair instructions.

For translation questions, email translate@ifixit.com.