** Tag cleanup I **

Now that we've semi-hardened the set of tags that we have available, it's time to start sifting through these and get some order in place. As a first step, I've been going through the quotes. Mainly because they're easy to identify and constitute around a fifth of the tags. Also because there are a lot of duplicate tags that will allow us to substantially cut down the number of tags.

In the first batch, I've sent Trang a list of tags that need translating or standardising (with the "by " and "from " prefixes discussed earlier here on the wall and have already become a de facto standard). Non-English tags have furthermore been translated or transcribed into English/ASCII.

To pre-empt natural concerns: Yes, this is only temporary. No, none of the original tag names are lost. I'm keeping track of these. Once we get a system in place to handle the translations, we'll reinstate them. Those interested in translating tags can contact me via a private message or email.

Please refer to:
http://martin.swift.is/tatoeba/tags-cleanup.html
for a list of tags that are being renamed.

The next step is to merge duplicate quote tags. After that, I plan to continue to organise the tags at
http://martin.swift.is/tatoeba/tags.html
and try to figure out which tags are particularly useful, which ones useless. CK has also done considerable work on tags (beside the mountain of work he's contributed to Tatoeba on various other fronts) and those interested should have a look at his work at:
http://a4esl.com/temporary/tatoeba/

Thoughts and comments on this batch and other issues related to tags are welcome, either in this thread, a new one or private message -- whichever best fits the topic.