# How to find and replace all to translate discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-and-replace-all-to-translate-discourse/102607
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [November 23, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-and-replace-all-to-translate-discourse/102607 "2018-11-23T16:03:07Z")
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### Author: ![Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mahmoud_khalifa/32/117060_2.png) [@Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mahmoud_Khalifa)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-and-replace-all-to-translate-discourse/102607/1 "2018-11-23T16:03:07Z")

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Hello Dears,  
How can I translate Discourse by using find and replace? For example, find all instances of the word “topic” and replace them all with “موضوع”?

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### Author: ![robmc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmc/32/125900_2.png) [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-and-replace-all-to-translate-discourse/102607/2 "2018-11-23T16:18:55Z")

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To switch default language, you can run the wizard (`<your-url>/wizard`) and choose the language you want site strings to appear in

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### Author: ![Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mahmoud_khalifa/32/117060_2.png) [@Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mahmoud_Khalifa)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-and-replace-all-to-translate-discourse/102607/3 "2018-11-23T16:22:28Z")

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Yes, my site is translated into Arabic and is available, but I want to change some words. I suggest, for example, that I have much better translations for some words, so I want to re-translate those words using bulk find and replace.

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### Author: ![robmc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmc/32/125900_2.png) [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-and-replace-all-to-translate-discourse/102607/4 "2018-11-23T16:26:40Z")

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it would be better to contribute to the Arabic translation in transifex in that case - then they can benefit the wider community as well 🙂 and you don’t need to do anything specific to your site

maybe sign up to transifex and ping @j.jaffeux or @zogstrip to add you to the project? I think Arabic is close to 70% translated but you are not the first to mention it could be improved, so it could do with some extra helpers