I don't know for the second sentence you've pointed, but the first one has been merged during the last "buggy" script. The current one can't fix the broken link. But I will see to make a one shot script, which will solve the "broken" links the buggy script made.

Same thing here.
Original sentence
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/104003
shown linked to
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/299689
which doesn't exist now.

My, somebody went to a lot of trouble. But the list got there first (and has 40 or so more sentences).
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/show/113/

Si elle n'existe pas déjà, je veux bien m'occuper de la version francophone. Pouvez-vous confirmer qu'elle n'existe pas déjà ?

I'm ready to do the job in Polish, we've got a lot of new contributors recently, just tell me how to do this (e-mail? google-docs?).

> The problem is clear too - it's much work.

Yeah, I think the original is too wordy. There should probably be a version cut down to the essentials that is about 1/5 the size of the full version.

"how to be a good contributor" --> "Kiel esti bona kontribuanto"
Mi Esperantigis la anglan version kaj sendis la adreson al Muiriel.
I did translate the English version into Esperanto and I sent the address to Muiriel.

Nun estas esperanta traduko de la gvidilo "Kiel bone kunlabori ĉe Tatoeba" (Trang metis la ligilon sur la reto), gratulon al GrizaLeono! La ligilo estas ĉi tie:
https://docs.google.com/documen...Y&hl=en&pli=1#
Disdonu la ĝoja mesaĝon :) !

There's now an esperanto version of the guide of the good contributor thanks to GrizaLeono:
https://docs.google.com/documen...Y&hl=en&pli=1#

Es gibt jetzt auch eine deutsche Version der Anleitung "Wie man ein guter Mitarbeiter wird.":
https://docs.google.com/documen...nEixs7UcNpC55Q

Ich kann nicht dafür garantieren, dass ich sprachlich immer die besten Lösungen gefunden habe - ich bin kein professioneller Übersetzer, aber inhaltlich könnt ihr euch darauf verlassen, da ich schon lange auf Tatoeba aktiv bin und die Regeln gut kenne.
Wenn ihr Fehler findet, könnt ihr mich gerne kontaktieren!

There is now a German version of the guide "How to be a good contributor.

Dans la structure de Tatoeba, les phrases ne doivent correspondre que 2 à 2 et plusieurs traductions d'une phrase dans la même langue sont admises.
Donc lorsque vous traduisez une phrase, vous ne devez pas tenir compte des autres traductions. Cela ne sert à rien parce que ça n'est pas la structure de Tatoeba, qui permet justement des relations multiples et diverses entre les phrases.
Les liens apparaissant en gris sont des traductions indirectes de la phrase située en tête. Il est normal qu'elles puissent diverger totalement de la phrase de tête, justement par les mécanismes que vous décrivez.
Tout ceci est expliqué en détail dans le guide du contributeur que je vous invite à consulter https://docs8.google.com/docume...YOPdQn4&hl=fr#

IMHO we should pay much more attention to links in general.

There is no information when someone deletes a link, there is no “Recent (Un)linking” page to see them… And no way to see the number of links to the sentences in certain language (it can be a way to motivate people to create new links to promote their language, not create endless duplicates).

IMHO, links are also very important.

Ahahahah, it's so funny! We spoke about this book at school exactly this morning. You should make a sentence on this funny event ^^

“This software” is Google language API. :)

If nothing has changed, Tatoeba uses it for language detection.

You can consider this as the official policies:

http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/09...espectful.html

I don't think there is much official policy yet, but if a user is disruptive _and_ useless I'm sure action would be taken in short order. Otherwise you have to weigh up their contributions against the risk that the feel of the Tatoeba community will be affected enough to discourage other people from taking part.

and what about the chirpings ?

My current position is that Tatoeba should not get involved in personal conflicts. Unfortunately, we cannot prevent them from happening, but all we can do is to remind people that this is not a warzone, this is not high school, and everyone has to make an effort to behave as a civilized human being.

A few good practices to remember are:
1) To NEVER reply to provocation with more provocation, even if it's tempting.
2) To ALWAYS solve personal conflicts in private, not in public.

We also have to understand that whenever tensions appear, everyone who is part of the conflict has their own responsibility for it. It really makes it easier to solve conflicts when people can, for once, forget about their ego, stop looking at others flaws and instead, look at their own mistakes and admit them.

At any rate, I don't want to threaten people with censorship or punishment, because this is not the solution. Tensions originate first of all from misunderstandings, so the only real solution is to lift up these misunderstandings... which requires an effort of communication.

The best thing moderators can do is point out to rule #14 of the contributors' guide (which I will reformulate to include more thoughts on good behavior).

If despite of everything, someone wants to continue insulting other members, well... Technically they can. But socially, they can't. Because by doing so, they will generate a terrible image of themselves, they will lose everyone's respect and they will be completely ignored since no one will want to waste time talking to them. I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to end up like that...

You. Are. Never. Alone.