What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #14

UPDATES

• The (un)linking feature has been added to the new design. Thanks to TRANG for the implementation and to everyone who gave their feedback.
• The "Activity timeline" has been moved from the "Contribute" menu to the stats block. Thanks to gillux for the modification and to all the people who discussed the reorganization of the stats block. 
• The language level bars displayed on the "Languages of members" page have been fixed. Thanks to sabretou for reporting the issue and to rumpelstilzchen for fixing it.

ON THE WALL

• sharptoothed shared some stats graphs https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34985 https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34999
• jegaevi volunteered for recording Hungarian sentences and opened a public list for people to add sentences to record https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35001
• Eremon discussed about orphan sentences and Tatoeba ways of contributing in general https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/34987
• pastelite wondered what we should do when one sentence can have several translations https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35002
• mramosch discussed about audio and a personal initiative to increase the number of audio recordings https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/35013

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 19 400 sentences have been added this week.
• On pastelite's request, Isan has been added to the list of supported languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isan_language
• On fj_nambala's request, Tonga (Zambezi) has been added to the list of supported languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga_language_(Zambia_and_Zimbabwe)
• Thanks to MarijnKP's efforts, Gronings is now available as a U.I. language.
• And as usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

---

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.

---

Fun fact: With around 10 to 12 million native speakers, Haitian Creole is the most-widely spoken creole language in terms of native speakers, and is recognized as an official language of Haiti.


Original wall post on Tatoeba

What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #13

UPDATES

• gillux has been working on helping translators better translate the website interface. Notes giving context have been added, and ambiguous strings split in order to more easily identify where and how string are used on the website. Thanks to him for this huge work.
• A bug preventing the removal of a sentence from the favorites list has been corrected. Thanks to deniko for reporting and gillux for fixing it.
• Thanks to rumpelstilzchen for addressing an issue with overly long tag names, preventing warning messages to be displayed when they shouldn't.
• gillux did a lot of code cleaning this week. It will be invisible to most of us, but it's always good for developers, new and old, to work in a clean environment. Thanks to him for all that.

ON THE WALL

• sabretou proposed an update of the flags for Gulf Arabic, Arabic, Dutton World Speedwords, Old Spanish, and Sanskrit https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34867
• deniko provided some interesting data about sentence "clouds" https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34822

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 18 808 sentences have been added this week.
• On shekitten's request, Nyungar has been added, bringing the number of supported languages to 359 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyungar_language
• Kurdish (Kurdî) is now available as interface language.
• And as usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

---

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.

---

Fun fact: "Pteronophobia" is the fear of feathers. Some people are afraid of heights, some of being tickled by feathers. That's a tough world.


Original wall post on Tatoeba

What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #12

UPDATES

• It is now possible to download transcriptions. Similarly to other downloads, you can choose to export only the language you're interested in, among those available (Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Uzbek). Thanks to gillux for implementing this feature asked by Lemmi (on GitHub).
• Lists can now be downloaded into three different formats: raw text (.txt), the default, Tab-separated (.tsv), and as a file that can directly be used with the Shtooka recorder. This should give more liberty to all users that use lists for offline work :) Thanks to gillux for implementing the feature.
• The "Contribute Menu" now has a "Add vocabulary request" submenu. Thanks to danail-georgiev (on GitHub) for adding it, on AlanF_US's suggestion.
• The "Delete" and "Download" actions of a list page have been moved to the header, where the name of the list is written (only in the new design). Thanks to gillux for the modification.
• rumpelstilzchen added some admin feature to deal with licensing issues. Thanks to him for the work.

ON THE WALL

• shekitten proposed a change to the Yiddish flag https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34753
• Aiji asked corpus maintainers for their feedback about their proofreading habit. If you're a corpus maintainer, please let an answer there :) https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34783
• Ibdx provided a list of words that don't appear much in Tatoeba's sentences although they are often searched by others https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34793
• sharptoothed shared his usual Stats, Graphs & Charts https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34808

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 14 466 sentences have been added this week.
• On shekitten's request, Syriac has been added https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language
• On Taam's request, North Frisian has been added https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Frisian_language
  
  This brings the number of supported languages to 358! Thanks to Ricardo14 and gillux for coordinating this.
• And as usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

---

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.

---

Fun fact: Trying to find interesting, not commonly known, fun facts is difficult.


Original wall post on Tatoeba

What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #11

UPDATES

• Transcriptions have been added to the new design. Thanks to TRANG for her work. 
• The "Contact user" button has been moved out the side menu of profile pages. Those pages will be reworked, but until then, that should help us to contact each other more easily. Thanks to Ricardo14 for the idea and gillux for the modification.
• AndiPersti continued his work to properly sanitize characters in Tatoeba's contributions, solving some issues due to special characters (or more precisely, prevent these issues from happening). Thanks to him for his work. 
• A bug where a reply to a message on the wall wasn't nested to the correct level until we refreshed the page has been corrected. Thanks to AlanF_US for reporting and Aiji for solving the issue. 
• And as usual, thanks to all our developers who added some correction, optimization and all the little things that we don't see but have their importance :)

ON THE WALL

• Thanuir asked for example sentences using the words "good-man" and "good-wife" and discussed how compound words are handled on Tatoeba https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34707
• Ibdx discussed about adding more sentences containing words whose meanings are often looked for and built a list of words that are often searched https://tatoeba.org/fra/wall/show_message/34645

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 16 048 sentences have been added this week.
• On Julien_PDC's request, Old French has been added to Tatoeba, bringing the number of languages to 356! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French
  As usual, thanks to Ricardo14 and gillux for coordinating this.
• And as usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

---

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.

---

Fun fact: JoMo, Esperantist and polyglot, accomplished the first Guiness Record for a multilingual concert, where he sang 22 songs in 22 languages.


Original wall post on Tatoeba