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@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ You can view test coverage statistics by browsing the `coverage` directory.
 The tests are automatically run on Pull Requests and other commits with the
 results shown on [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website).
 
+## Static Analysis
+
+We also perform static analysis of our code. You can run the analysis yourself with:
+
+```
+bundle exec brakeman -q
+```
+
 ## Comments
 
 Sometimes it's not apparent from the code itself what it does, or,
@@ -62,6 +70,15 @@ only submit changes to the `en.yml` file. The other files are updated via
 [Translatewiki](https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenStreetMap) and should
 not be included in your pull request.
 
+### Nominatim prefixes
+
+I18n keys under the `geocoder.search_osm_nominatim` keyspace are managed by the
+Nominatim maintainers. From time to time they run stats over the Nominatim
+database, and update the list of available keys manually.
+
+Adding or removing keys to this list is therefore discouraged, but contributions
+to the descriptive texts are welcome.
+
 ## Code Documentation
 
 To generate the HTML documentation of the API/rails code, run the command