Hello tatoeba community. This project is a great tool for multiple purposes, unquestionably the most common of which being a reliable source for those in need of example sentences for their foreign language studies.
I'm not very much familiar with the project and how things go on, but as my short experience has revealed there are a few points that needs to be made clear. You can consider it partially a suggestion or a question.

Like any other use I guess, I use the search area above to find some sentences which are related to my keywords. Those keywords are sometimes (for some languages) very very tricky. Let's say I search for a verb to find sentences that contains this verb. Yet in the search results there are a lot more than that: some nouns which look like this verb but have nothing to do with it, another verb which looks like my verb when conjugated for a speacial tense, person etc.

At this point, the question is: is it really a good idea to keep a sentence as a simple text in the database? Wouldn't it be better if we create a metadata (more developed than tags) for each sentence. By doing so we can use this database more efficiently and define the relations between languages more clearly. It will also help us to maintain more developed search facilities.

Just to be more clear I'm giving a very simple example. When I add a sentence in German:
"Meine Geschichte ist zu grotesk, um eine Lüge zu sein."
I should add an extra information about the verb for instance: The verb is "ist" and the infinitive form is "sein"
So when a user wants to see a sentence which contains the verb "sein", s/he can find it. Otherwise s/he will search for "sein" and many other irrelevant sentences will come up, like:
"Ich liebe seine Schwester" As one can see; this "sein-e" is not what we are looking for.

Long story short, the badly organized example of mine above is just a little demonstration of how metadata added sentence storage will help users find what they are looking for.
I'm not quite sure if this is the right place for such a suggestion/question, but here it is.

I think there should be a way to see which user attached a certain tag to a sentence. For example, it would be useful in order to know whether somebody put an "OK" tag to a sentence which isn't in his native language, or if he put it to a sentence he wrote himself.

I realise there are few sentences in English featuring the word "straddle".
Could natives please create a few ? Thanks.

sentences_detailed.csv seems to be incomplete, still

accounting for arcticmonkey's leaving and the reduced number of active moderators (specially for German, a language with more than 100000 sentences), I was thinking to propose al_ex_an_der and Pfirsichbaeumchen as new moderators, if they or any of us have no complaints
what do you think? also do you have anyone else in mind?

Possible spammer.
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629462
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629459
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629457
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629454
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629450
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629449
http://tatoeba.org/tur/sentences/show/1629448

I'm plannig to add a *typography* feature to my *MarkEdit* userscript and i would want to have some feedback about my plans:

In essence i would like to make something similar to [smarty pants][1], which is from the same author as [markdown][2]. The script replaces ASCII simplifications, that look similar to the real typographic symbols but aren't always available, with the corresponding proper unicode symbol, e.g. "--" would be replaced by a en-dash ("–") and "---" with a em-dash.

As we don't have unicode problems on Tatoeba, plus these typographic symbols are important for thesentences themselves, I will not implement it like the markdown code, but like the replace while typing feature that many desktop word processors have: e.g. when you type "(c)" there should be a popup that asks you if you mean to write the copyright symbol.

In the end i should be able to write {"Qu'est-ce que c'est_?"} and the script turns it to {« Qu‘est-ce que c‘est ? »} (without the curly brakets) if i'm in french mode (which is at the same time the "flag" for the sentence) or {"was ist los?"} with {„Was ist los?“}. It should handle the quotation marks, the apostrophe, non-breaking spaces (like {20_kg}), some special characters like {~n} should get {ñ}, {^2} converts to a superscript 2 etc.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/
[2]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

I would like to ask the opinion of the contributors about whether I could become an advanced contributor. I think Tatoeba has a lot to offer but also needs a lot of work on its infrastructure, like joining the correct links, checking the sentences, managing the tags and so on, additionally to the regular sentence adding and translating.
I don't always have the ideas I need to post new sentences (I tend to only want to add sentences that are relevant to the language I write them in, since trivial sentences are in a more than satisfying number already - that's why I don't add tons of sentences and mostly translate them instead of inserting ex novo entries), but I most likely have the time to check sentences and directly link correct translations to each other and categorise them with the right tags, in addition to checking my native language sentences changing the tags as needed, and all this kind of work.
When I'll solve my health issues I'll be glad to contribute with some audio when possible.
I sent a private message about this to sysko some time ago, but he probably has too much to do on his own to bother about this, so I'll publicly ask the opinion of the project members as a whole, as it should be.

Saluton, mi pensas ke Tatoeba povus esti bonega studa helpilo - ekz. mi havas grupon de frazoj el mia nova leciono en mia indigxena kaj studata lingvo. Mi entajpas ilin en Tatoeba kaj en "studada" modo mi povus esti vidi frazon nur en unu lingvo. Poste mi prononcas gxin lauxte, mi povus klaki la butonon kaj la traduko estus montrata. Ankaux havi grupojn de frazojn rilataj al diversaj temoj estus ege bone (eble povas uzi tagojn por tio, sed mi ne scias detalojn).

Hello, I think Tatoeba could be a great learning tool - e.g. I have a set of sentences from the new lesson in my native and studied language. I input these to Tatoeba and in "learning" mode I would be able to see a sentence only one language. After I say it aloud, I could click the button and the translation would be displayed. Also great thing would be to have sets of sentences which relate to a specific topics (I think it is partly done by tags, but dont know the details).

An die anderen Vertreter der deutschen Sprache:

Vergeßt nicht, hin und wieder ein paar verwaiste deutsche Sätze zu adoptieren. Es scheint, daß der Berg überhaupt nicht kleiner wird.