should the 'French site' default to french for everything?

[annamorphism]

I think it's a little weird that when you open the site and click on the French half of the site, the names come up in French but the site itself is still English ("More facets coming", "Instrument list", "showing XXX entries...") I know we have these separate for a reason, but I don't think it would be obvious to a French user why only half the contents look translated. ...

[dchiller]

I'm not sure whether this is doable given how things are implemented (I could look more) but I wonder if there's a way to have the "instrument name language" be set to the "site language" automatically where there is overlap, even though the content is coming from different places (google's api vs our database/wikidata)

[kunfang98927]

The solution now is:

• For "Site Language", we continue to use Google Translate, but block the instrument labels to avoid them being translated.
• For "Instrument Name Language", we will use the yellow drop-down menu to control the language.

[annamorphism]

thanks @kunfang98927 . I guess my question is very particular to what happens when you go from the landing page to the instruments--I think I would expect that after I've hit a button called "commencer" that sets ?language=french, I wouldn't then get to a page where all the buttons (i.e. the site language) are in English again. (I mean, I recognize what we are trying to do here and why these aspects are controlled separately, but I think people would be more likely to expect this to change the "site language"). I like @dchiller 's suggestion, though I don't know if it's feasible...

[annamorphism]

actually come to think of it, if you ARE looking at the site in French already, the home page looks like this:

There's no way of knowing that the left "Commencer" takes you to a French site with English labels.

but the right one gets you French with French labels: