Do tags have numerical IDs that can be attributed to language-specific labels? Perhaps tags can be translated in a node-and-link fashion like sentences are!

An IRC conversation generated this idea:

Let's have specialists in certain areas write sentences about those areas so they can be translated into different languages. It may not even be an official designation--just a way to encourage certain types of people to contribute.

Are all of the sentences tagged for length (14 to 16 words, 17 to 20 words, etc.) from the Tanaka Corpus?

I've seen a number of people (especially mods, admins, and trusted users) put on their profile a list of people that help them out with certain languages. How exactly does this buddy system work?

That's what I did all the time before I became a trusted user.

I've finished looking over and adopting sentences in CK's list of Tanaka Corpus sentences of 17-20 words. I don't know how many I adopted, but I rejected about 250 unadopted sentences for various reasons. You may find them in my new list, "Ignored English Sentences." Please feel free to search through it and adopt whatever you can save. After this, though, I'd like to focus more on writing sentences with words that aren't in Tatoeba yet. CK also has vocabulary lists for that purpose.

60,000 French phrases.

Vortarulo gave me an idea: why don't we use a script to turn

-- (two hyphens)

into

— (an em dash)?

Better yet, why don't we have special buttons along with the translation box for special characters like en and em dashes, smart quotes, etc?

Note to those in charge of organizing tags: "non-strandard orthography" is not exactly standard orthography.

It works in Firefox 4.* beta, but not in the stable 3.* versions.

Something to think about for the future, O my brothers and sisters: can we make the profile editing boxes a bit bigger?

When other people link me to a sentence to ask me if it's natural, my GUI language changes to whatever they were using, i.e. whatever was in the link. Perhaps if we set a preferred language, Tatoeba could automatically redirect these links to the language we set.

Is there any chance we can tag sentences by language/accent? Mine, for example, might be something like "audio:California English."

Technically, by posting a sentence (let alone under a Creative Commons license) we're asking everyone to translate it for us in real time. We're just short-staffed.

Maybe in the future Tatoeba's work will help them improve their detection algorithms.

I'd like to be able to edit comments. Otherwise, we commit egreigus typs lik this onesa or forget something important in a cultural note and we have to blow the whole thing off and start again or just let it stand.

How would we advertise these kinds of campaigns to our readers? Could we, say, put a Twitter feed on the front page?

A couple of ideas:

1. I haven't tried this, but Trang, it should be very simple for you to add the translated transcripts as subtitles in the original video. I know there are some tutorials for it. While you're at it, you probably want to translate your tags (and maybe add some more) as well.
2. Would anyone like to do an audio reading of the Tatoeba presentation in their native language and post it to YouTube as a video response?

Nobody owns it, so adopt it and change it. To do that, click on the icon with a green arrow pointing to a dude. That's the adopt icon. Then you can just click on the sentence and it should let you edit it.

If I want to make a note about how I translate a sentence, should I comment on the sentence in the source language, or the sentence in the target language?