AlanF_US is a CM of late so he can delete all those sentences himself, I believe.

It seems we're experiencing the same problem again. Is it high time to implement some kind of connection per second limitation on the Tatoeba web-server?

="するあたりで" should do the trick.

Спасибо, Амастан! :-)

Hi! Welcome to the Tatoeba Project.
This place is great indeed. I hope you'll enjoy being here. :-)

> Will contribute.
That's what we expect from Tatoeba members. Just make sure you're acquainted with http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/02...n-tatoeba.html first. :-)

Hello!
As far as I know, there's no Android application for Tatoeba yet. The project you found seems to belong to our admin, sysko. I think it worth sending him a PM on this topic.
Some time ago there was a message on the wall about Tatoeba application for iOS. Unfortunately, after the database crash all messages here were lost and still not recovered, and I haven't remembered the author's name. :'(

The point of view of a dilettante (me, in other words :-))

The problem about any legislation, including copyright legislation, is that it differs (dramatically sometimes) from country to country. General principles of copyright laws in sphere of literary and artistic works are outlined in Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works that sets the copyright expiration date, as far as I know, to at least 50 years since the author's death or since the first publication of the work if it happened after the author's death.
But, naturally, the copyright law is a very, very attractive way to make money directly from the air, so many countries extend this period. In Russia, for example, we have 70 years term and other countries may set even longer terms.
Another problem is that the expiration date may depend on particular publication date to meet the letter of the law that was active at that time. This may cause funny effects when the older works are still under the copyright protection while the newer ones are already in public domain.
The all mentioned above considers full works, but, apparently, Tatoeba uses only quotations. Copyright laws may allow this type of usage. For example, Russian laws permit free quotation of a copyrighted work without explicit notification/agreement of the legal owner in informational, scientific, educational and cultural purposes provided that the author name and the publication sources are mentioned. I suspect, other countries may have similar principles in their legislation.

My conclusion is the following: Tatoeba is an international project so it should meet all possible copyright laws to avoid being banned in some country for copyright violation. This means we either have to make a research before posting sentence from any potentially copyrighted sources, or to just avoid posting anything newer than, say, 150 years.

昇進おめでとうございます！＾＾

> we need a corpus maintainer to take care of the Japanese database

This is absolute, self-evident truth! bunbuku-san is a perfect candidate for this job, I think. I'm for her.
Also, if tommy_san will ever express his will to become a corpus maintainer, he has my vote, too.

I used to translate unadopted Japanese sentences I could understand. But then, after some alarming reports about the quality of those sentences Tommy and other Japanese members submitted, I decided to translate only the sentences created/owned by native speakers. That is, I avoid translating orphaned sentences and those owned by non-native speakers no matter how correct they look to me. As Tommy repeatedly pointed out in his messages, even grammatical Japanese sentences may still be absolutely unnatural and, thus, not just useless for a language learner (for a beginner, especially) but rather harmful. My Japanese level is simply not high enough to determine whether the sentence is good or not, so, as things now stand, I prefer to refrain from using/translating orphaned sentences and sentences owned by non-native speakers unless they tagged OK.

Thanks for the interesting story, Trang! :-)

Thanks, sysko! :-)

Some sentences (recently modified?) has become orphans. For example, I don't remember I've ever orphaned this sentence:
http://tatoeba.org/rus/sentences/show/1952204
I also saw many sentences that I've modified recently and I'm sure they had authors. For example,
http://tatoeba.org/rus/sentences/show/447887
http://tatoeba.org/rus/sentences/show/578446

It seems that some modifications still haven't been re-applied.
http://tatoeba.org/rus/sentences/show/1182429

> Navalny is the proof that letting your identity public when you blog is extremely dangerous in Russia.

No, he is not. I read the most his LiveJournal posts since 2008 and even sympathized him, as many of my friends did, in his corruption and theft disclosures. Everyone was saying, 'Look at that brave guy! He not only talks but does the real things against those dirty scumbags!' None of his posts were banned, none of his post caused his imprisonment. But, obviously, all his actions provoked the system to take retaliatory measures and it's turned out that this fighter for truth an his friends are not so innocent and clean.
So, should we consider a thief good only because he struggles against other thieves?

> And if they flee abroad, they deserve to be assassinated, preferably in a slow way, such as with ingestion of radioactive material...

Ah, that Litvinenko case. Sure, the bad Russians had no other means but Polonoum-210 to kill that stainless decent person. It was just necessary to use that substance so everyone will be certain about "the Russian trace" since Russia produces 97% of Po-210 in the world. And, of course, Putin was the one and only enemy of Litvinenko. Yep, the former FSS lieutenant colonel came against the system and the system had crucified him.
When you'll have enough free time, please think why there's still no official results of the Scotland Yard's investigation, why MI-6 officers are not allowed to comment this case and why even the most odious Russian oppositionists and human rights advocates consider Litivenko's anti-FSS and anti-Putin books and materials delirious. Unfortunately, for an obvious reason, we can't interrogate Boris Beresovsky on this case. But it seems he was the only person interested in Litvinenko death.

Oh, please, not Alexey Navalny, I beg you! He's just a good example of that if you're going to come against the powerful ones, you'd better made sure your reputation is clear as crystal first, or be certain that every little discreditable detail about you will be disclosed and used against you.
Anyway, if we talk about e-mail accounts, I assure you that Navalny has left it everywhere on the 'net including such resources as LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook and God-only-knows-what as well. The onlt reason we hasn't published it on Tatoeba is that he, probably, is not interested in participation in such a non-scandalous project. Or, wait a minute, are you hinting at that Tatoeba admins regularly supply the Bloody Gebnya with sensitive personal data of the members? :-)

С "повышением"! :-)

soweli_Elepanto was proposed as an advanced contributor at least twice within my memory and both times there were no objections. I think, he absolutely deserves to become an advanced contributor; he's got my placet. :-)

こんにちは、keikochan1998さん。
タトエバへようこぞ！＾＾