# How to automatically have FAQ and Categories "About" localized
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [10 באוגוסט, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444 "2018-08-10T21:30:53Z")
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444/1 "2018-08-10T21:30:53Z")
I’ve my forum instance in Spanish, but all the files generated like the TOS, FAQ, all the categories About topics are in english, is there any way to translate those files, maybe a `rake` task. Or I need to get to the server.es.yml file and start copying and pasting?
Did I do something wrong while I was setting up the Discourse?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 באוגוסט, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444/2 "2018-08-13T01:03:30Z")
`tos_topic` is definitely already translated to Spanish.
To update it I think the simplest way would be removing the link to the topic in the DB and doing a rebuild.
I agree it is not that great that we seed these topics before you have picked a locale. @gerhard we should think of a better long term solution here.
What we can do is glue a custom field to the topics we create so when you change locale, a rebuild brings in the correct topics.
So in `990_topics.rb`
1. When creating these topics we set the custom field of `topic_locale`.
2. IF we have SiteSetting.XYZ\_topic\_id, THEN look at custom field… IF it is there and locale does not match current locale, create a new topic.
This is not 100% ideal, cause there is a big delay (has to wait for a rebuild)
BUT if we triggered the same process on SiteSetting change it could be workable. I really dislike that SO MANY sites have TOS etc in the wrong language.
To work around:
```plaintext
./launcher enter app
rails c
SiteSetting.tos_topic_id = 0
SiteSetting.guidelines_topic_id = 0
SiteSetting.private_topic_id = 0
exit
exit
./launcher rebuild app
```
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [16 באוגוסט, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444/5 "2018-08-16T17:55:34Z")
I added a rake task as a first step. It’s now possible to update all seeded topics and categories by running the following commands:
```plaintext
./launcher enter app
rake i18n:reseed[locale]
```
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [24 באוגוסט, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444/6 "2018-08-24T07:30:12Z")
Just so this does not get lost, we should do “dialog” when you switch site settings for locales allowing mods to opt to update the various topics if they wish.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [18 במרץ, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444/7 "2019-03-18T21:51:47Z")
Completely solved by [Update seeded categories and topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-seeded-categories-and-topics/111963)
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [18 במרץ, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-have-faq-and-categories-about-localized/94444/8 "2019-03-18T21:52:06Z")