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Better support of multi lang (Metadata) #210

Open kelson42 opened 3 months ago

kelson42 commented 3 months ago

We advert the TED files as multilingual... but ZIM metadata are English only. This is an attempt to find a solution to that problem.

kelson42 commented 3 months ago

On TED side would we have translated versions of ZIM "Title" and " Description"?

benoit74 commented 3 months ago

Which metadata are you referring to? ZIM metadata?

If yes, then none of the ZIM metadata comes from TED, they are configured/created by us.

benoit74 commented 3 months ago

And AFAIK, it has already been decided that ZIM metadata are localized to main language and not translated

Popolechien commented 3 months ago

I think that the error is in advertising these TED talks as multilingual (as opposite to PhET, where the content is equally available in a number of languages via a simple toggle). These TED conferences have subtitles, which is an entirely different proposition then if they were, in fact, dubbed in several languages.

The mul tag must be deprecated, and we should instead allow for individual languages to be selected in the zimfarm.

kelson42 commented 3 months ago

And AFAIK, it has already been decided that ZIM metadata are localized to main language and not translated

It has been decided that we use the main language for the metadata AND there is no way to specify localised metadata.

kelson42 commented 3 months ago

The mul tag must be deprecated, and we should instead allow for individual languages to be selected in the zimfarm.

There is no "mul" tag AFAIK and Zimfarm issue should be made on ZIMfarm. Not sure to fully understand this remark, but indeed ZIM farm language filtering does not work fine with multilang recipes.

Popolechien commented 3 months ago

I suspect that we're discussing different issues, would be better addressed by a direct discussion.

benoit74 commented 3 months ago

We've agree orally that this issue is solved with #207, #208 and #212.

At a higher level, we need to progress on https://github.com/openzim/overview/issues/38.

Since this is all tracked on other issues, I propose to close this.