What's New on Tatoeba? - Your biweekly recap #20

What's New on Tatoeba will be published biweekly until the end of August.

EVENT

It's been now one month since our Kodoeba event started.

• As far as the internal code goes:

• Our participants have solved five issues, and seven others are on their way. You can find the details on GitHub.
• Alexs has asked for feedback about the tags: https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35555. Be sure to share your thoughts if you'd like to see the tags in Tatoeba become more useful!

• As for the external projects:
• lbdx has updated Tatominer: https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35527.
• The other projects are starting to take shape, it's still too early to showcase anything. We'll have to wait until mid or end of July.

UPDATES

• The search has been improved for languages using Arabic scripts, Indonesian and Tagalog. Many thanks to Yorwba.
• The number of messages in the private messages has been localized, thanks to Ricardo14.
• There's now a reset icon in the inputs of the advanced search. Thanks to Roverandom789133 for adding this.
• We no longer unnecessarily store IPs in our contributions logs. Thanks to jpear1 for cleaning this up.

ON THE WALL

• Trang has been working on making the landing page responsive: https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35464
• gillux has asked which sentences would be a good candidate to print on a Tatoeba T-shirt or mug: https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35547
• tommg has announced the release of his language learning app that uses Tatoeba's data: https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35512

LANGUAGES

• Rircardo14 posted some updatea about the progress of the translation of our UI: https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35518.
  
• A new UI language has been enabled on the dev website: Serbian.
• As usual, thanks to all the members who helped to translate the website!

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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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What's New on Tatoeba? - Your biweekly recap #19

What's New on Tatoeba will be published biweekly until the end of August

EVENT

Kodoeba, Tatoeba's first coding event, has started at the beginning of June! 27 participants joined us to improve Tatoeba in one or another way. A big thank you and a warm welcome to all of them! We will regularly hear of their work in this column.

UPDATES

• The way to add tag has been modified to include the number of tagged sentences and make the suggestions case-insensitive. This was one of many issues related to tags that we want to take care of in the more or less near future. Thanks to alexs, rumpelstilzchen, and all the people who helped solving this.
• Using a single quote in the search input used to make the search string disappeared. Thanks to gillux for correcting this bug.
• The pages showing sentences using a specific tag now display the most-recently tagged sentences first. Thanks to bakananbanjin (a participant of Kodoeba) for taking care of this.

ON THE WALL

• CK started a discussion about the use of the question mark in searches https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/3543
• sharptoothed gave charts about the most translated sentences on Tatoeba https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35483
• orion17 started a discussion about adding sentences using spoken language and how to handle them https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35452

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 36 611 sentences added the last two weeks.
• Tatoeba now supports 367 languages: Nuosu has been added on ljradio's request, and Drents has been added on MarijnKp's request
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuosu_language
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%C3%A8ents_dialects
• As usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

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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: Emojicode is a programming language using emojis as its syntax.


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Tatoeba scheduled maintenance on Sunday June 7, 2am to 5am UTC

This Sunday (June 7) at 2am UTC, there will be scheduled maintenance for a maximum of 3 hours. Tatoeba will be unavailable during this time. We will be using this time to upgrade our systems, which will allow us to implement new features in the future. For what it’s worth, Tatodev will remain online.

Kodoeba #1 - Participants

Kodoeba is about to start and we are happy to present you our 27 participants!

We have 13 participants who will be working on an external project, that is a project which will be using Tatoeba's data.

We have 14 participants who working on internal code, which means they will be contributing the source code of the tatoeba.org website.

External projects

• arademaker and Cristiananc - Exploring Tatoeba for wordnet expansion and evaluation.
• diegohn - Flashcard app with Tatoeba sentences.
• hugokawamata - Native mobile app that teaches Japanese holistically by providing context at every stage of learning and by teaching multiple aspects of the language at once.
• jacopofar - Online cloze deletion tool focused on grammar.
• jjmountain - Translation game for Japanese students learning English.
• jonnyk - Web app to create flashcards in bulk using Tatoeba sentences.
• Jpec - Implementation of exercise with dialogs in mobile app for learning Japanese.
• lbdx - Improve tool listing unrepresented words in Tatoeba and develop Python library to easily download and process the Tatoeba corpus.
• quielin and adaycito - Mobile Tatoeba Viewer.
• sideral - Multilingual semantic sentence search.
• xiuyuan - Web app for searching Chinese sentences via hanzi, pinyin or English.

We will try to update you weekly on the progress of the various projects.

Internal code

• alexs
• aotbc
• blackslate
• fishda
• ftumsh
• polkadotazn
• jpear1
• lingzz_langzz
• mimzivvimzi
• Niji
• nummer_001
• Ricardo14
• Roverandom789133
• tigerw119

You can follow the the internal code activity by checking our pull requests as each participant will be solving issues by submitting pull requests.

We wish everyone happy coding!

What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #18

UPDATES

• gillux reworked and improved the code related to the search feature. You want see any difference but it will allow developers to more easily improve the search feature, something I'm sure a lot of people can't wait to see happening. That's a huge work so let's give a warm round of applause to gillux. 
• The space to type a sentence is now multiline on all designs, making it easier to contribute long sentences. Thanks to Ricardo14 for adding this.
• A settings allowing users that can choose the license of their contributions to choose the default license has been added. If you'd like to contribute under CC0, you can refer to this article https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/articles/show/cc0-contributions

ON THE WALL

• sharptoothed and CK created some charts about the most used languages on Tatoeba https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35208
• Ricardo14 gave and impressive list of resources to learn languages https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35244
• CK updated his list of native speakers with contributions https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35315

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 18 424 sentences have been added this week.
• On Kimogol's request, Rendille has been added to Tatoeba, bringing the number of supported languages to 365 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendille_language
• As usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

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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: Lake Malawi, located between Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique, has more fish species than any other freshwater system on earth.


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What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #17

UPDATES

• Thanks to Trang, and everyone's feedback, the review feature is now available on the new sentence design. Cheers to her!
• The wiki now have a Turkish version. At this time, it only has one article, the quick start guide. Feel free to expand it if you can write Turkish!
• rumpelstilzchen did some minor optimizations to make hopefully Tatoeba run a little bit faster. Let us know if you feel the difference!
• The language "Chinese (Jin)" has been renamed to "Jin Chinese" for consistency with other Chinese languages. (It was already translated like that in some languages.) Thanks to Yorwba for reporting the issue.
• The shadow behind non-rectangular flags now correctly follows the shape of the flag instead. This improvement makes flags like Marathi look much better. Thanks to sabretou for the suggestion and speedysera (a new contributor on Github) for the implementation.
• Yorwba significantly improved the tool that converts between traditional and simplified characters and Pinyin.

ON THE WALL

• Trang asked to test the review feature in the new sentence design.
• mramosch asked for stats on German corpus about which languages sentences are translated from, if an.
• sacredceltic shared an interesting video about the difficulty of translating the word "you".
• radubradu asked how to find words to translate in Romanian.
• CK created a tutorial video about searching on Tatoeba.

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 19 369 sentences have been added this week.
• On shekitten's request, Phoenician and Jewish Palestinian Aramaic have been added to Tatoeba, bringing the number of supported languages to 364!
• As usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website. 

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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 and check the instructions on the wiki.

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Fun fact: there are many more children throughout the world who have been and continue to be educated through a second or a later-acquired language than there are children educated exclusively via the first language.

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What's New on Tatoeba? - Your weekly recap #16

UPDATES

• This week, several issues have been discussed and regular updates will come again next week.

ON THE WALL

• TRANG asked some help to test the review feature in new sentence design https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35102
• TRANG asked some feedback about the Previous/Random/Next buttons on the sentence page https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35130
• The Terms of Use have been translated to Kabyle. Thanks to our Kabyle translators. The terms of use are now available in five languages.
• aucampia started a discussion about CC0 sentences https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/35118

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LANGUAGES

• 16 923 sentences have been added this week.
• On bhupendergiri's request, Newari has been added to Tatoeba, bringing the number of supported languages to 362 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newar_language
• As usual, thanks to all the members who helped translating the website.

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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: South Africa has 11 official languages.


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