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Allow the onboarding script to perform language identification

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enhancement onboarding pipeline 2: extract
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Description

At a lower priority than all the other sub-tasks, the onboarding script should perform language identification at both the project and book level for each project. This is to help catch common configuration errors that exist in Paratext projects:

  • language codes not set correctly, perhaps due to copying the settings from a different project
  • different languages used for different books

We don't expect that the language identifier will know the minority languages, but it should output unknown for a language it doesn't recognize, rather than reporting the closest language that it does know.

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Start by locating the onboarding script and any existing language-identification entry points in the repository. Trace how project- and book-level language settings are read, then verify that recognized languages are reported accurately and unrecognized or minority languages produce unknown rather than a closest-language match.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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