Tutorial: Translating Your Applications Using Facebook's Crowd-sourced Translation Service

One 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 and uses a crowd-sourcing model: users suggest translations in context of using the site, and the translations approved by the most votes actually go live. It’s proved highly successful as Facebook has been translated into over 60 languages, some of which within days of Facebook launching the translation in that language

Being able to offer applications in local languages has obvious appeal to application developers given the international growth of Facebook, so we decided to try it out and see how it works in practice.

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