diff --git a/doc/development/i18n/merging_translations.md b/doc/development/i18n/merging_translations.md
index 553820733e7ce7cdf28db963f7658dee09cd1e1f..9eb3817d2b446b58fe904641a87d0cb73b1b47c5 100644
--- a/doc/development/i18n/merging_translations.md
+++ b/doc/development/i18n/merging_translations.md
@@ -78,3 +78,9 @@ recreate it with the following steps:
 1. Select the `gitlab-org/gitlab` repository.
 1. In `Select Branches for Translation`, select `master`.
 1. Ensure the `Service Branch Name` is `master-i18n`.
+
+## Manually update the translation levels
+
+Currently, we don't have an automated way to pull the translation levels from CrowdIn in order to display this information in the language selection dropdown. 
+
+Therefore, the translation levels are hard-coded in the `TRANSLATION_LEVELS` constant in [`i18n.rb`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/i18n.rb) and need to be regularly updated.