Languages

To see which languages are supported by iFixit and chose the one you'd like to browse in, click and expand the Language Menu in the upper menu bar. You can change it anytime, anywhere on iFixit.

The language you select will be the default language for viewing and creating content on iFixit. When you create new content, this chosen language will be associated with something we call a Language ID.

It is important that the Language ID of the guide matches the actual language of the written text of the guide. This will ensure that your users are not confused by a mis-matched Language ID label and the actual text of the guide they're opening.

The Language ID will be noted in the corner of the guide thumbnail on that guide's category page (as long as that Language ID isn’t the one you’re currently browsing in).

When creating a Category, Item, or Wiki Page, the Language ID for that page is identified in the top-right corner of the page, level with the edit page tabs:

This will be the base language for this page—all other page translations will use the page Language ID as the comparative base language.

iFixit allows you to display content in multiple languages, either with completely customized manual side-by-side translation pages or quick and easy machine translation.

iFixit is a multilingual wiki so everyone can contribute to translate the platform’s content in the supported languages. We put together some Translator Guidelines and information about our Patrolling system so that you can learn more.

Category, Wiki, and Item pages can be manually translated to ensure accuracy and customization. When viewing a page in a translation language (a language different than the site default language), users will see a "Begin the Translation" tab a the top right corner of the subheader. This allows community members to translate the page using a side-by-side view with the original page language and the current language selected for viewing the site.

For detailed instructions on Manually Translating Guides view the following guide:

Please note: Manual guide translation is only available to the community in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and Dutch.

Manual Guide Translation allows community members to translate guide pages using the side-by-side view with the original guide language and current language selected for viewing. For detailed instructions on Manually Translating Guides view the following guide:

How to Manually Translate Guides

In addition, iFixit uses a community contribution program called Crowdin to allow our community to help manually translate the iFixit user interface. If you want to contribute, feel free to head there and get started!

If you are looking to translate your site into a language that’s currently not listed in our project in Crowdin, that’s probably because it ranks too low on the languages priority list that there would be any chance of it being activated on ifixit.com within the next couple of years.

We feel it would be kind of unfair to let volunteers invest their time into a translation that is not even sure to ever see the light of day. Our main goal is to reach as many people as possible with a content that they can understand to a point that they feel comfortable following for example a repair guide in that language, so that they can save their devices from being thrown away. Therefore, we focus on the languages that are widely understood first.

If you’re looking for an alternative to bring forward the repair potential of your area on our platform, we recommend creating repair guides for your country’s top brands in a currently supported language until the day we can eventually start translations into your language.

iFixit supports machine translations from Google Translate. A language icon is next to your profile image in the site header. Click on the language icon to expose the drop-down menu and view the languages supported by iFixit:

Select a language and watch your site interface instantly refresh in the new language!

You can choose to instantly translate your guide pages using the machine translation menu. Simply toggle the switch at the bottom of the language drop-down menu and watch your guide page refresh in your selected view language!

You can use the following guide to learn in more detail how to Machine Translate your Guide.

How to Machine Translate a Guide

For any additional question you might have about translating ifixit.com, feel free to contact our translation team at translate@ifixit.com , they'll be happy to help!