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Swiss German, German, and Greek Language Update

This update adds three NutsNews languages across the web UI and article translation pipeline:

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Swiss German, German, and Greek Language Update

This update adds three NutsNews languages across the web UI and article translation pipeline:

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Swiss German, German, and Greek Language Update

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Swiss German, German, and Greek Language Update

Section titled “Swiss German, German, and Greek Language Update”

This update adds three NutsNews languages across the web UI and article translation pipeline:

  • de-CH — Swiss German / Swiss High German
  • de — German
  • el — Greek

What changed

Section titled “What changed”
  • Adds the three languages to the site language selector.
  • Localizes the home feed copy, search UI, footer, hero tagline, settings menu, contact page, about page, and privacy page.
  • Lets the web API load translated article titles and summaries from public.article_summaries for the new language codes.
  • Updates the Cloudflare Worker translation defaults to generate fr, ja, de-CH, de, and el summaries.
  • Updates the local AI /translate endpoint so it accepts and translates the new language codes.
  • Updates translation audit, diagnosis, backfill, offline regression, wrangler, and GitHub translation coverage defaults.
Section titled “Recommended Worker setting”
Terminal window
export ENABLED_SUMMARY_LANGUAGES="fr,ja,de-CH,de,el"

Backfill only the new languages

Section titled “Backfill only the new languages”

Dry run first:

Terminal window
LANGUAGE_CODES="de-CH,de,el" \
BACKFILL_SOURCE=public_feed_snapshot \
CANDIDATE_LIMIT=250 \
BACKFILL_LIMIT=30 \
DRY_RUN=1 \
node scripts/backfill_article_summaries.mjs

Run the backfill:

Terminal window
LANGUAGE_CODES="de-CH,de,el" \
BACKFILL_SOURCE=public_feed_snapshot \
CANDIDATE_LIMIT=250 \
BACKFILL_LIMIT=30 \
node scripts/backfill_article_summaries.mjs

Audit translations

Section titled “Audit translations”
Terminal window
LANGUAGE_CODES="fr,ja,de-CH,de,el" \
AUDIT_SOURCE=public_feed_snapshot \
AUDIT_LIMIT=100 \
node scripts/audit_article_translations.mjs