Facebook Releases Site in Polish
PALO ALTO, California /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook today announced another step towards enabling anyone in the
world to communicate and share information with the people they know,
regardless where they live or what language they speak, by releasing the site
in Polish. Current users who want to view Facebook in Polish can change their
language preference from their account settings, and beginning today, any
person who goes to http://www.facebook.com from Poland will see the site in
Polish.
"We're really excited to bring Polish-speaking users the ability to
access Facebook in their native language," said Matt Cohler, Vice President
of Product Management. "We currently have a growing number of users in Poland
and we look forward to making it even easier for them to connect and share
information with family and friends with our translation application."
More than 450 Polish-speaking users on Facebook chose to be part of the
effort to translate the site from English to Polish. Users who added the
Facebook translation application were allowed to submit translations inline
while browsing the site. The community then approved all translations through
a voting system.
Many translators are motivated by the impact of their contribution to
making the site available to millions who speak their language. The leading
Polish-speaking translator was responsible for 800 of the winning sentences,
a significant percentage of the entire site.
Facebook users can now also access the mobile site in their supported
language through any mobile device with Web capabilities. To sign up for
Facebook, users can go to www.facebook.com or visit m.facebook.com from any
mobile device with Internet access.
Source: Facebook
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