What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #5

UPDATES

• Correct red warning icon position so it doesn't overlap with the copy icon. Thanks to gillux for reporting and Aiji for the correction.
• Added an arrow on the side of sort criteria to indicate in what order sentences are displayed. This is the first step to a bigger redesign of the sort criteria. Expect more in the future :) Thanks to AlanF_US for reporting and AndiPersti for the implementation.
• Following last week update about cleaning Unicode characters, sentences are now normalized in a better way. Sentences already in the corpus were also normalized. Thanks to CK and TRANG for noticing the problem and AndiPersti (on GitHub) for the fix.
• Improved Pinyin transcriptions. Thanks to Yorwba for his work.
• Improved the flow between Transifex and the dev website. Following the huge contributions in translating the U.I. the last few weeks, thank you all for that, some problems have been taken care of. Thanks to small_snow, Aiji, TRANG, AndiPersti, and gillux for their contribution at some point (if I forgot someone, my apologies!)

ON THE WALL

• gillux asked a question about Mandarin Chinese and its automatic conversion. https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34206
• sharptoothed gave use his usual Stats & Graphs :) https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34209
• TRANG asked for help to test the new "Add to list" button functionality. A good step forward :) https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34213
• Ricardo mentioned that our Transifex project now has five more languages: Interlingue, Klingon, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Persian. That's awesome! https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34243
• Ricardo also wrote a thank you post to all the people who helped us translate Tatoeba in so many languages :) https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34227
• maaster was wondering about the new design of the user page. https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34242
• Raizin asked how he could change the license of original sentences. https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34249

CONTRIBUTIONS

16 203 sentences added this week (from one export to another). You can check daily activity on this page https://tatoeba.org/eng/contributions/activity_timeline

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If you'd like to help to the development of Tatoeba, report issues, or are just curious, have a look at the GitHub repository

If you want to help us translate the website to your language, you can join us on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/tatoeba/tatoeba_website/dashboard/ and check this article on the wiki https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/interface-translation

If you're especially happy with one of the updates, don't hesitate to personally thank our developers :) They're working in the shadow but they'll be glad to hear your feedback.

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Fun fact: Some languages have more than three genders. Masculine, feminine, neuter, animate, inanimate, etc. According to Wikipedia, Tuyuca, a language spoken by an ethnic group in South America, counts between 50 and 140 noun classes.


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What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #4

UPDATES

• The implementation of the new design continues, this time with the favorites and adoption features! Thanks to TRANG for her work.
• Improved cleaning of contributions by removing all Unicode whitespaces. Various Unicode characters are being used in contributions, posing unnecessary issues to duplicate detection and other potential script-oriented applications. Thanks to TRANG and CK for first reporting and to AndiPersti (on GitHub) for implementing the cleaning method.
• Improved consistency of settings and tooltips strings. Thanks to Aiji for the modifications.
• gillux implemented some optimization and correction of the code at the back of Tatoeba. Among other things, you may see the homepage load faster than before! Thanks to him for the work.
• gillux also improved the way furigana are generated and displayed on Japanese sentences.
• Yorwba wrote a script to have language names displayed in the interface language even if they are not translated on Transifex yet! Thanks to him for the work.

ON THE WALL

• Ricardo opened another discussion about the translation of Tatoeba's interface. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34147
• CK gave various stats and URLs to search for sentences. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34126 https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34154 https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34157
• Thanuir asked for some French sentences about the adjective "borné" in a mathematical context. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34167
• Ricardo asked for some French sentences about traveling. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34171
• Ergulis was wondering how a sentence becomes an orphan. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34196

CONTRIBUTIONS

20 218 sentences added this week (from one export to another). You can check daily activity on this page https://tatoeba.org/eng/contributions/activity_timeline

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If you'd like to help to the development of Tatoeba, report issues, or are just curious, have a look at the GitHub repository

If you want to help us translate the website to your language, you can join us on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/tatoeba/tatoeba_website/dashboard/ and check this article on the wiki https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/interface-translation

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Fun fact: In the Oxford English Dictionary, the letter "E" accounts for about 11% of the letters. The least frequent one is "Q".


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What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #3

UPDATES

• Renamed the "Collection" feature to "Review". The feature doesn't change, but as discussed on this Wall, that name should give a better feeling of what the feature is really about. Thanks to everybody who participated in the discussion and Aiji for the modifications.
• Following the return of the "native" indicator last week, the page for orphan sentences became inaccessible. Thanks to Guybrush88 for reporting and AndiPersti (on GitHub) for fixing the issue.
• Corrected the fact that some strings reserved to the admin were not translatable. Thanks to Guybrush88 for reporting and Aiji for adding them.
• Yorwba implemented a solution to stop furigana from interfering with copying (Japanese sentences). Thanks to him for the work.
• Set the number of sentences displayed on the user's sentences page to the number decided in your settings. 100 sentences used to be displayed, ignoring the "Number of sentences per page" setting. Thanks to AlanF_US for reporting and Aiji for correcting the problem.
• Modified "Hide random sentence on the homepage" setting to "Show random sentence on the homepage". This is part of changes to increase consistency on the website. Expect some more changes of the sort in the following updates. Thanks to declanmalone (on GitHub), TRANG, and CK for discussing the issue and Aiji for implementing the modification.　
• AndiPersti did some cleaning in the code, preventing future possible errors. He also worked on improving the way Google returns localized versions of the site, making it so that English versions are not always returned first. Thanks to him for the work.

ON THE WALL

• sharptoothed gave us a list of the 250 most translated sentences, as well as the list of the most translated sentence per language. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34090
• DostKaplan opened a discussion about the search syntax. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34102
• CK wrote a page providing 10 English words per day. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34110
• Ricardo talked about translating Tatoeba to different languages, and asked for your help. Please have a look at his message, or at the links at the bottom of this recap :) https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34119

CONTRIBUTIONS

29 178 sentences added this week (from one export to another). You can check daily activity on this page https://tatoeba.org/eng/contributions/activity_timeline

Gillux performed another UX test. You can have a look and give us your opinion :) Also, don't hesitate to perform similar experiment on your friends or other persons you know! https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/ux-test-3 

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If you'd like to help to the development of Tatoeba, or are just curious, have a look at the GitHub repository

If you want to help us translate the website to your language, you can join us on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/tatoeba/tatoeba_website/dashboard/ and check this article on the wiki https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/interface-translation

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Fun fact: In Papua New Guinea, there are 851 known languages, of which 11 now have no speakers. That's still 840 languages, and that's more than 10% of the languages spoken in the world.


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What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap

UPDATES

• The "native" information is back! Sentences owned by users with a native-like level are once again identifiable. In the old design "(native)" is displayed next to the username. In the new design a star is displayed next to the sentence. You can activate the option from your Settings page. Thanks to Guybrush88 for the original report and to AndiPersti (on GitHub) for fixing the issue and adding the functionality to the new design.
• Corrected a problem when "An internal error has occurred" was thrown on pages listing sentences in Kirundi, Yiddish, Luxembourgish, and maybe other languages. Thanks to drinii and Luiaard for reporting the issue, and AndiPersti for fixing it. 
• TRANG did some tuning inside the code. We won't see a difference in our experience this time, but anyway, thanks to her for the work. 
• AndiPersti provided some optimization to the code, reducing the number of queries needed for some database access as well as their complexity. Thanks to him for the work.
• Added a check to prevent errors in the "Latest contributions" page in a fresh developer environment. Thanks to AlanF_US for reporting and danail-georgiev (on GitHub) for the implementation.

ON THE WALL

• sharptoothed provided his usual Stats & Graphs. Have a look! https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34039#message_34039
• sharptoothed also provided a new visualization of Tatoeba as graphs. That's quite something! https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34049#message_34049
• TRANG opened a discussion about renaming the "collection" feature and what would be a good name. If you haven't yet, give your opinion :) https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34023#message_34023
• CK provided a page to select sentences using English verbs. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34058#message_34058
• Pandaa started a thread concerning new users. How to welcome them and help them contributing, among other things. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34059#message_34059
• gillux performed a new UX test and gave his feedback. If you feel like performing your own on some new users, don't hesitate :) https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34072#message_34072
• TRANG announced that gillux will work once again as official staff of Tatoeba for the next two months and later again this year. Let's hope for some good features and code improvement :)  https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34077#message_34077
• bandeirante asked what people think about sentences that are said to be impossible to translate. https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34083#message_34083

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Requested by shekitten, Old Spanish was added to Tatoeba. You can check some information about Old Spanish language on this wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish_language
• Requested by lovermann, Mingrelian was added to Tatoeba. You can check some information about Mingrelian language on this wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingrelian_language
• Requested by soliloquist, Chagatai was added to Tatoeba. You can check some information about Chagatai language on this wikipegia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagatai_language

Thanks to sabretou, soliloquist, and Ricardo14 for taking care of these requests.

15 667 sentences added this week (from one export to another). You can check daily activity on this page https://tatoeba.org/eng/contributions/activity_timeline/2020/02

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If you'd like to help to the development of Tatoeba, or are just curious, have a look at the GitHub repository

If you want to help us translate the website to your language, you can join us on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/tatoeba/tatoeba_website/dashboard/ and check this article on the wiki https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/interface-translation

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Fun fact: Did you know that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland?


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