# Discourse setup - about page
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 25, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832 "2022-07-25T01:29:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Sherran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sherran)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/1 "2022-07-25T01:29:18Z")
Hi friends.
I am doing a new discourse setup and found that the About page (faqs, terms of service, and privacy) is in Chinese (also some default posts). It seems that the discourse is created under a Chinese network.
Is there any settings that help change the default language so they just turn into the English version?
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### Author:  [@Sherran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sherran)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/2 "2022-07-25T02:45:43Z")
and is there any way I can delete the official topics
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/3 "2022-07-25T06:21:47Z")
I think this topic may be useful:
> [@Update seeded categories and topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-seeded-categories-and-topics/111963):
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> Discourse ships with a couple of categories and topics, but they usually are in English. No matter what language your forum is using. That is going to change. Up until now configuring DISCOURSE\_DEFAULT\_LOCALE in app.yml was the only way to change that. And you had to do it before bootstrapping the container. Wizard Changing the default language in the wizard will automatically translate all seeded categories and topics as long as you didn’t already edit them manually. Manual update You can fi…
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### Author:  [@Sherran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sherran)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/4 "2022-07-25T07:07:28Z")
> [@Update seeded categories and topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-seeded-categories-and-topics/111963/1):
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> Up until now configuring `DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE` in `app.yml` was the only way to change that. And you had to do it before bootstrapping the container.
The seeded categories, FAQs, and terms of service come in Chinese and this really bothers me. That would be great work to translate all back into English.
What do you mean “before bootstrapping in the container”? The discourse page is created already and I am wondering if there still any way to deal with this problem.
> [@Update seeded categories and topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-seeded-categories-and-topics/111963/1):
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> You can find a new “Replace Text…” button in the “Admin \> Customize \> Text Content” section (`/admin/customize/site_texts`).
And it seems that this section is removed now?
Any place I can find the full documents of the latest faqs, terms of service, and privacy content in English so that I can copy and paste manually?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/5 "2022-07-25T07:22:25Z")
> [@Update seeded categories and topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-seeded-categories-and-topics/111963/1):
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> ## Wizard
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> Changing the default language in the wizard will automatically translate all seeded categories and topics as long as you didn’t already edit them manually.
Have you tried this? If you run `[YourSite]/wizard` and select the version of English you want it should translate it all for you. 👍 (and there’s no need to do all the wizard steps. Just ‘next’ and ‘finish’)
Not sure why your site is in Chinese by default though?
> [@Sherran](#):
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> And it seems that this section is removed now?
And, if you still need it, this is found here:
(I’ve moved these over to your #Support topic to keep it all together 👍)
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### Author:  [@Sherran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sherran)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/6 "2022-07-25T07:46:51Z")
Thanks a lot. The replace text button helps!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-about-page/233832/7 "2022-11-09T12:26:31Z")
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