Quick Submit Login Newsletter Sign Up close menu open menu Participedia en EN - English FR - French DE - German ES - Spanish ZH - Chinese IT - Italian PT - Portuguese NL - Dutch On an entry page there are three fields that are filled with user-generated free form text. We call these ‘Open Text’ fields, and they are the Title, Brief Description and Narrative. The rest of the fields are either numbers, dates, or fixed options—we call these ‘Fixed Data’ fields.
When an entry is published for the first time, we machine-translate the Open Text fields into all of the other supported languages. From this point on, the Open Text fields exist as fully separate (i.e. “forked”) versions for each language, while the Fixed Data fields are synchronized between all languages. If you change a Fixed Data field while viewing the site in any language, that change will be seen on the entry page for all languages. However, if you change the Title, Brief Description or Narrative tex
Please click the floating ‘edit’ button located at the bottom right of the page to add information or improve machine-translations for any entry.