[OLAC-credits] Help with mystery credits

[John Hostage]

You can get an idea of what Wolof looks like from the Wikipedia article on the Wolof language or other pages that can be found by googling.  "níolen di vone" doesn't seem to look like it.  A Google search for those words only brings up catalog records for that film, so what are the chances that will come up again?

As for the language dropdown, maybe after "We think this film or video is in ..." add "but what is the language of the credit?"  The trouble is, some people won't read stuff no matter what you do.

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From: olac-credits-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu [mailto:olac-credits-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of Kelley McGrath
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 23:42
To: olac-credits at lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: [OLAC-credits] Help with mystery credits

Thanks, Ana and Helen and everybody who replied off list.

It seems that talavadya is an Indian percussion instrument or percussion ensemble.
http://www.laya.worldbreak.com/talavadya.htm

In "Robert de Nesle, Paris níolen di vone," Robert de Nesle is listed as a producer on IMDb. Thus far no one has a lead on "Paris níolen di vone." I could try to get a copy of the movie, as Helen suggested, and see if that sheds any light. IMDb says that the film is in French and Wolof. Does anybody know what Wolof looks like?

I got one reply reply that said that although the title is Portuguese, "realization" is in Spanish. It is not uncommon for the film to be in one language and the credits and even title in another. I think we have French-language credits on almost every language of film in the dataset.

This reminds me of an ongoing problem that perhaps some of you could help me with. The language dropdown on the form is meant to be for the language of the role or function in the credit. So if you have a film that is in Arabic and the title is in Arabic, but the credit is "un film de Marianne Khoury" then I want people to choose French in the dropdown because "un film de" is in French. However, many people seem to think that the dropdown is for the language of the film or (from what I can tell) for the language of the name. Does anyone have any ideas about how the form or instructions could be tweaked to make it clearer to people what they're supposed to do?

Thanks!

Kelley
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