Delete Languages before uploading

[peteroatley]

Some websites have a problem with duplicated names in the language dropdown on the search page.

The cause of the problem isn't known but it could be to do with changes to the analysis languages in FLEx after the dictionary is first uploaded. It would be helpful to delete the language information when the dictionary is uploaded so that old information is not retained.

There is the possibility that the site owner has modified the language information on Webonary but we will wait and see if that is a problem.

The language information is found under Pages-> languages.

The problem can be solved by deleting the incorrect language but it isn't always easy to tell which languages need to be removed.

[phillip-hopper]

@peteroatley, the list of languages is not the "reversal" languages. In addition the the vernacular language, it contains the "definition or gloss languages". I'm not sure how that is compiled, but my first guess is that it is the language codes found in the data.

[peteroatley]

@phillip-hopper I test uploading and the languages are deleted which is great but for English the name of the reversal index has been used instead of the language name:

Can this be changed?

[phillip-hopper]

@peteroatley, I believe the only alternative to using the reversal name is to try to guess the name from the language code, like we are now doing for the analysis languages.

[peteroatley]

In the example above English and Spanish are the analysis languages and French is the vernacular language. I think it would be better to use the language code but we'll have to see how that works. Some dictionaries don't have a reversal index so using the language code is probably more reliable in some ways. I think we need FLEx to upload the vernacular and analysis language information to the WebonaryDictionaries collection.

When I did a test the first time I got "es" as the name for Spanish but after I changed it to "Spanish" subsequent uploads seemed to remember. I need to do more testing to confirm this.

If we only need to change the code to a name once when we create the dictionary that's fine but if it is going to revert each time can we create a look-up table or put a field in the options?

[phillip-hopper]

Use the language name from PHP instead of the one from Flex, whenever possible.