http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/2....ed-syntax.html

Sorry I forgot.. Thanks in advance...

I have the impression this same question had appeared so many times : )

Anyways, every pair of perfect duplicates eventually merges automatically, so there's no need to concern much about it.

Anyway, for a system to search for a duplicate, it requires that the duplicate be typed in the first place. Typing for search or for add takes the exact same amount of time...
Consequently, preventing duplicates or removing them later requires exactly the same human effort and produces the exact same result.
The only difference is that while they're there, duplicates risk being re-translated in languages they already have a translation in, triggering the same debates if the new translation is wrong...
But at the same time, when people see that a sentence is already translated, they tend to think that the job is finished, because they don't think, in the first place, that a sentence might have several translations in the same language, although Tatoeba supports that very well and that in the real world, a sentence almost always has multiple translations in any language. The translation of duplicates thus allows new translations that people didn't think about in the first place.
Eventually, holding a few duplicates for a limited period of time might seem unproductive at first glance, but it is actually creative.
A blessing in disguise...

Hi, hectorM
Go to the top of the page and open the "Browse" menu, then select "Browse by Language" then look on the right side of the page and it's self-explanatory.

These "native" stats are biased.

- They exclude very large contributors in planned languages such as Esperanto, for which some of them are native-like.
- They exclude dual-native contributors.
- They are based on contributors' own claims of being natives, even when they are not actually native and that shows.

A sentence may be linked to another sentence of the same language, if both have the same or a very similar meaning. If clearly different meanings are perceivable, the sentences should better be linked only to other languages. That's at least my opinion.

Oni povas ligi frazon kun frazo de la sama lingvo, se ambaŭ havas la saman aŭ tre similan signifon. Se percepteblas klare malsamaj signifoj, oni prefere ligu la frazojn nur kun aliaj lingvoj. Tio estas almenaŭ mia opinio.

This is debated. I agree with al_ex_an_der that sentences in the same language could be linked if they mean the same thing.
The advantage I see is translators can see different versions of the same sentence together.

Opponents of this will argue that you are still able to see them as indirect translations, but that is true only if you see them from the right language, since indirect translations are viewed only on the 2d level.

For example:

If sentence S1 means the same thing as S2 in a given language

When S1 is translated into Japanese and English
and when S2 is translated into Japanese and German

You can see S2 and S1 as direct translations from the Japanese translation.
You can see S2 as an indirect translation of S1 through Japanese from the English translation of S1
You can see S1 as an indirect translation of S2 through Japanese from the German translation of S2

But if if the German translation is translated in Italian, from that Italian sentence

You will see S2 as an indirect translation through German, but you won't see S1...

I also received the very same message, I back the idea of block this bot. It'd be a problem if this kind of "users" start to pop out of their lairs...

Is it difficult to add a captcha in the register? I hope it doesn't.

The same stuff appears in ''his/her'' comments to the sentences!

Ankaŭ mi ricevis ŝian/lian mesaĝon.

Le problème est que Tatoeba n'a pas de système de filtrage des inscriptions comme des captchas, qui permettent de filtrer les robots. C'est pourquoi, parmi les 8000 utilisateurs de Tatoeba, près de 6000 ont été créés par des robots.
Comme vous pouvez voir ici, leurs noms d'utilisateurs ont été créés par un algorithme : http://tatoeba.org/epo/users/all/page:408

I think they should be totally merged, not just linked. Simplified and traditional characters are just two orthographies for the same language.

Para las frases que son bruscas se puede poner la etiqueta "rude", y para las que son más educadas podrías poner "polite" = educado, para aprovechar las etiquetas que ya tenemos.