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Discrepancies between a channel's language and the language of its content #3902
Description
Observed behavior
In its public details, a cheffed channel shows a 'Primary Language' pulled from the channel itself which differs from its 'Languages' which is aggregated from the channel content
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Expected behavior
This is manually correctable, but worth considering whether during channel publishing we should validate that the 'Primary Language' is one of the content languages.
Proposal
We could add the ability to update/validate the channel's 'primary' language in the publishing modal, giving only options as defined by content with those languages, and defaulting to the previous selection if content with that language still exists in the channel.
User-facing consequences
- How is the channel language used in Kolibri?
- Is making sure the channel's language accurately reflects the content something that's important beyond display on Studio?
Additional information
https://learningequality.slack.com/archives/C0LK8QS9J/p1671559303563319
Activity
rtibbles commentedon Jan 5, 2023
The channel language is used in filtering for import, so this is a fairly important piece of metadata. This feels like a validation failure first in ricecooker and then in the Studio internal API endpoints, where the only language of resources is Magyar, but the overall channel language is set to English.
bjester commentedon Jan 5, 2023
Yeah, I agree that we should validate this in ricecooker and its API endpoints. Although, @laurenlichtman raised a point about having some general validation on this during publishing, which could handle non-cheffed and private channels too. It does seem meaningful for all users, and would protect against this discrepancy beyond solely for our own purposes.
nucleogenesis commentedon May 20, 2024
This was discussed in a meeting today so I went and checked the latest cheffed PhET channels (not yet published but soon to be done).
PhET Interaktiv Simulyatsiyalar.pdf
akolson commentedon Jun 19, 2024
@bjester @rtibbles would the below be the intended direction to take for this task?
Also, as long as the previously selected language still exists in the content, it should be the one selected, else no selection?
akolson commentedon Jul 25, 2024
For context on next steps, see this thread