Localized lesson content is overwriting or being appended to English content

[kathrynwp]

We've seen two instances so far where translated/localized content has been interacting unexpectedly with English content, and we're not sure how it's happening.

1 - In today's instance, a German quiz was being displayed at this URL, instead of the original English quiz:

https://learn.wordpress.org/quiz/introduction-to-wordpress-2/

(The German version of the quiz has since been re-translated back into English, so you'll see English there now.)

The German quiz was intended to belong to this German lesson (note the de in the slug):

https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/de-introduction-to-wordpress-2/

But somehow got connected to this English lesson:

https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/introduction-to-wordpress-2/

Notes/potential clues

• The English course to which the lesson belongs is published, while the German one is not.
• The German quiz URL was missing a -de at the beginning of its URL – not sure if that is expected.
• The German lesson is not assigned to any course.

2 - In an earlier case, a German version of the same lesson was being displayed in the list of lessons within an English course:

In that case, perhaps the lesson was accidentally assigned to the English course?

@devmuhib009 and @rfluethi – if you both have a chance to add any details you can remember about the steps you took around this particular lesson and quiz, that might be helpful in figuring out whether there is a Sensei issue that we need to look at. Thank you so much!

[devmuhib009]

Hi @kathrynwp
I tried to fix the quiz issue. But somehow the english and german quiz are connected somehow. If I make changes on german quiz that has slug de-introduction-to-wordpress-2, but it also being displayed on english version. I did not find any settings from where I can unlink this from english course. If you can advice me how to unlink, this will be a great help. Thanks

[kathrynwp]

@devmuhib009 Thanks for having a look at this.

But somehow the english and german quiz are connected somehow.

Right, that's the mystery – I don't know how that's possible, and so I don't know how to "unlink" them.

I think it would be very helpful if you or @rfluethi would please list out the exact steps you took to create this lesson and quiz. For example, was it a completely new lesson, or did the original get copied and then the translated text was input?

[rfluethi]

I opened the issue at LearnWP Content - Localization (view). Unfortunately, I misunderstood and only used it for the translation of the "Introduction to WordPress" lesson. The translation was done in a Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ihdMgbuqtOfB9Ayot5EjAr0jxxAEAtId80vk8mnEO0/edit#heading=h.20qitbpr5gk7 based on the transcript and quiz. After translating this lesson, it was reviewed by @BenjaminZekavica.

I was then informed that not just individual lessons but the entire learning path needs to be translated. Therefore, we decided to rename the issue and copy Ben's template (#2281) into the issue.

As a result, the issue got the wrong status "Preparing to Publish" instead of "Translation in Progress," where we should translate the remaining lessons. My suggestion was to delete the issue and open a new one to get the translation back into the correct process.

I haven't published or changed anything outside of GitHub and the Google Doc. Is there an action script in the background on GitHub that publishes something?

Unfortunately, I have been busy with work for the past four days and only noticed this morning that something went very wrong. I am incredibly sorry. I am not sure what I can do in the future to prevent such issues (besides reading the manual more carefully).

I would be very grateful for any advice, as I would like to continue contributing to the training team without causing such chaos.

[devmuhib009]

@kathrynwp, I copied the english lesson. After that I just replaced English texts with German texts. When @jonathanbossenger created the issue that my translation replaced the english version, I removed the course name from the German translation and it's now acting as stand alone lesson. I mean this German lesson is not linked with any course. But quiz is still linked to english course.

[kathrynwp]

Thanks, @devmuhib009 - when you say:

I removed the course name from the German translation

Could you possibly provide a screenshot showing exactly what you did here (where was this course name?) as it might provide a clue as to how the two languages got tied together.

[devmuhib009]

Here is the screenshot: https://share.cleanshot.com/vskr7cMD

[devmuhib009]

Hi @kathrynwp, I think I found the problem. I make a short video for better understanding.
https://share.cleanshot.com/d24H5kNj

[jonathanbossenger]

@kathrynwp let me know if you need me to try dive into the data to understand how lessons and quizzes are related at the data level, so we can understand better how and why this happens.

[kathrynwp]

@jonathanbossenger I think that would be great if you could dive in and take a look, as I'm still not sure whether this is a Sensei bug or just something about the localization workflow that needs to be tweaked. Thank you!