Important links
- How to be a good contributor in Tatoeba, by Trang
- Tatoeba.org: What You Can Do and How to Do It, by CK
- Submission policies - What kind of content do we want?, by Trang
- Moderators in Tatoeba, by Trang
- Warning: you are being disrespectful, by Trang
Adding new sentences
There are two ways to add new sentences.
- From the Contribute section
- By creating a new list, and going to edit page of that list.
Even if there is a large amount of sentences in Tatoeba, there is still a lot of vocabulary that is not covered. This is why we encourage you to add new sentences with new vocabulary, even if you do not know how to translate it into any language.
Translating sentences
Translating is one of the most important tasks in Tatoeba, since the main goal of the project is to gather sentences translated into several languages.
You can translate a sentence from pretty much everywhere. Just click on this icon 
whenever you see it.
Note that translations are limited to registered users. Click here to register.
Correcting mistakes
You can only correct mistakes in sentences that belong to you. If you see a mistake in someone else's sentence, you have the possibility to post a comment to notify the mistake.
In certain cases, the sentence do not have an owner. Read the paragraph below (on adopting sentences) to learn more.
Adopting sentences
When you add a sentence, this sentence "belongs" to you - only you can edit it. However, most of the sentences in Tatoeba come from a Japanese-English corpus called Tanaka Corpus. These sentences do not have any owner because they have been collected outside of Tatoeba.
If you see a mistake in an "orphan" sentence, you will not be able correct it because you are not the owner. This is why there is an "adopt" option (
). Once you adopt a sentence, you become its owner and therefore can edit it.
Adopting a sentence is also part the "quality process". You can find more information about it here: http://blog.tatoeba.org/2009/01/new-validation-system.html
Sentences lists
You can create lists of sentences in Tatoeba. By default the list is private, which means it can only be edited by the person who created it.
However it is also possible to let any member in Tatoeba add and remove sentences by setting a list as public.
Someday we will also introduce group lists, that only a restricted group of members can edit.