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An old article isn't updated if uploaded for translation into another language (bug or feature?)
If an article has previously been uploaded for translation into a language(L1), when it is uploaded again for translation into a different language its contents do not change even if the original site's content has changed.
This also happens even if the article has not yet been uploaded but the user has only seen the preview. It keeps a snapshot of the last time it was uploaded, and doesn't refresh despite changes to the original source.
For example, article one contains:
If
there is
one does not know 'how to correct the sentence' but is certain the sentence is incorrect.
Article two, uploaded several months later contains :
If
there is
one does not know 'how to correct the sentence' but is certain the sentence is incorrect.
Yet this sentence was corrected in the source article ICG several months before article 2 was added:
If
one
does not know how to correct a sentence but is certain the sentence is incorrect, and has already followed IRA1.
I'm certain this behaviour was designed to increase efficiency and decrease bandwidth usage for articles already uploaded, but it may cause these types of problems. Especially since by its very nature wikipedia is a resource that is constantly changing.
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Thanks for pointing this out, it's not the intended behavior. What's happening is that we use a third-party service to simplify the page (removing ads and other irrelevant elements) before importing it into our system. This service is returning old cached results for your URL. I've asked them to fix this, but I'm not sure how long it will take.
This does not happen for Wikipedia articles, because for Wikipedia we have our own custom parser and don't use the third-party service.
Thanks for the response. I'm just wondering if you have any plans to address the fact that Wikipedia itself changes often. Are there any plans for a system for Duolingo to obtain a fresh copy of a wikipedia's article periodically (every month or so)?
P.S. I'll move it to troubleshooting since it is unintended behaviour.
Hmm, yes it is kind of hard to explain. But I'll try to simplify it. If Yogi, the bear wrote in a wiki article:
I'm smarter than the average b
or
e. (Version 1)
This article was uploaded to wikipedia, and then to Duolingo.
Yogi Bear later realizes and corrects the sentence to:
I'm smarter than the average b
ea
r. (Version 2)
Duolingo will only have Version 1, even if that article is uploaded again into another language.
I am happy to read this because I have been thinking in the last half an hour that I am crazy :) I was trying to upload some "wikihow" articles on our new "Turkish immersion", but what I see on wikihow and on duolingo were totally different. Now it makes sense. Hopefully they change this.
for example: https://www.duolingo.com/translation/9d2493029e9af5b7b07f92342dc195ad http://www.wikihow.com/Learn-a-New-Language-Fast