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Is it difficult to implement auto-search of duplicates before adding a new sentence?
Stackoverflow has a feature like this: before your question is posted, existing questions are searched by their content for resemblance and if any are found they are displayed for the user.
On Tatoeba, a list of duplicates could be shown for the user with the option to link an existing sentence instead of adding a new one which (s)he has just written.
Sorry if this question was asked here before, I don't know how to search the Wall.
There is no real search for Wall, and quite a lot of Wall messages disappeared in the past due to a server crash.
The auto-search was suggested several times before, but a normal auto-search (that will not just count duplicates, but also near-duplicates) is likely to require better hardware.
Also, Tatoeba has not enough programmers. If you are a programmer and want to help implementing this feature, please contact AlanF_US (also, see http://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/sho...#message_18575 and http://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/sho...#message_18631 ).
duplicates will eventually get merged, and typing a sentence for search or for insert takes the same time anyway...