Is there a *purely textual* way to limit sentence searches by target and destination language? I looked at the Sphinx search server instructions, but I don't know what our particular parameters are and I don't think I can guess them.

It'd sure help with the Tatoeba search engine on Mycroft.

/** Adoption of contentious sentences **/

There has come up the issue of whether it's reasonable to adopt contentious sentences. Seeing how it didn't relate to the sentence where it was brought up[1] but still might be of relevance to the community, I figured I'd bring this to the wall rather than restrict its scope to a private message.

My view is that one shouldn't feel obliged to leave a sentence an orphan just because someone disagrees on its correctness. Nor should one consider it disingenuous if someone else adopts a sentence one doesn't agree with. Just as it's not considered necessary to orphan a sentence that someone finds fault with until the matter is resolved, it is fine to adopt an orphan being discussed. Owning a sentence doesn't mean one gets to overrule consensus or ignore evidence.

Furthermore, this hasn't been a problem in my experience. Discussions sometimes take a while when people are passionate or get entrenched in their position, but things tend to sort themselves out eventually. When a need to change the sentence is demonstrated and supported by broad consensus, the owner simply modifies the sentence or orphans it to allow someone else to adopt it.

In the rare occasion where an owner simply ignores the request, a moderator usually takes care of it after a couple of weeks without any further problems.

[1] http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/303422

Typing in "@NNC" should automatically call up "@Needs Native Check" so I don't have to type it the long way all the time because I'm lazy and a butt.

Le nombre de traductions augmentant, il devient extrêmement fastidieux de prévenir tous les traducteurs dans toutes leurs langues lorsque l'on effectue un changement sur une phrase qu'ils ont traduite.
De plus, avec la nouvelle possibilité de limiter les langues visibles, on ne se rend plus forcément compte des traductions concernées par un changement.
Je suggère donc que soit mis en place un mécanisme d'alerte automatique vers tous les propriétaires de phrases liées, dans leurs langues respectives, chaque fois qu'une phrase est modifiée.

Is there a policy/guideline on Tatoeba about rude words, foul language in the collected sentences? And what about words related to sexuality, which are not necessarily rude?

Now we have 15 languages with more than 10000 sentences
and polish has reached 30000 sentences

Request:

Could you add an option to ignore orphan sentences on this page:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...ndom_sentences

Hat jemand eine bessere Idee als "vertrauenswürdiger Nutzer" wie man "trusted user" übersetzen könnte? Was mir an "vertrauenswürdig" nicht gefällt, ist, dass jemand sehr wohl des Vertrauens würdig sein kann, ohne dass Trang/die Tatoeba-Gemeinschaft es schon gemerkt hat, und er den "trusted user"-Status bekommen hat.
Aber ein deutsches Wort, das die Sache wie "trusted" vom Standpunkt von demjenigen aus sieht, der das Vertrauen schenkt, fällt mir leider nicht ein...

Suggestion:

When adding a sentence, auto-tag it "not for safe search" if the submission form detects curse words.

Two suggestions from me, hopefully not too demanding:

1) Adding a default translation language for each user upon login.

Every time I log in, the suggested language is auto-detect; auto-detection works Ok but not perfectly, especially for shorter sentences, and I have to change the language every time, which is something of a nuisance. Furthermore, even if my language is remembered after the first page, whenever I open a page on Tatoeba from an external page such as http://bit.ly/tatoeback which I often use the language gets reset back to auto-detect.

2) Adding some sort of keyboard navigation on the site.

Yesterday I translated a couple hundred sentences and now I have some pain in the right shoulder, since each time I complete a sentence I have to reach for the mouse, scroll down till the next sentence, click on the 'translate' button above it, then move back to the keyboard and start typing. If there's some way to automatically start translating the next sentence on the page - sorta like in Excel where pressing 'enter' sends you to the next cell - I'd appreciate it tremendously, yup :)


Ok I know next to nothing about making websites so I'm not quite sure how feasible these suggestions actually are but I'd be very thankful if the admins consider them. Cheers! :)