** Important information **

We set up a development website at http://dev.tatoeba.org/. The goal of this website is to bring more interaction between the Tatoeba community and the developers, by allowing anybody to test out changes before they end up on http://tatoeba.org/ (“production website”).

The site dev.tatoeba.org is strictly for testing purposes. Its contents (sentences, comments, wall posts, private messages etc.) are duplicated from tatoeba.org from time to time, but everything you submit on it will be definitely lost. Feel free to use it as a playground. Currently, the only differences with tatoeba.org is that the search feature is disabled and it doesn’t send emails. Otherwise, everything should run exactly like on tatoeba.org (modulo ongoing developments). You can log in using the same credentials, giving your account was created before the last synchronization from tatoeba.org.

Whenever we want people to check new things out, we’ll post a message on the Wall with details. Here is the first one of them. We are currently testing the sentence merging process (deduplication script). Newly added sentences are not merged directly. Instead, we run a process that analyse all the existing sentences in the corpus and merge them in all at once. So what you can see on dev.taoteba.org is the result of merging duplicated sentences. Only exact duplicates are merged, and every merging operation is performed by a virtual user (I just called it Horus because I found that cool but we can give it any name). Horus merged 52177 sentences into 46183 sentences. You can compare sentences with the ones on tatoeba.org to see how they got merged. Please report any sentence that sounds strangely merged to you.

Finally, translations are updated from Transifex every ten minutes. It means you can translate something on Transifex, wait a bit and see how it renders on dev.tatoeba.org.

Edit: if possible, please post your comments regarding developments on dev.tatoeba.org on the Wall of tatoeba.org. Wall posts and comments on dev.tatoeba.org *will* be lost, and the mail notifications do not work.