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Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a tool that you can keep on your bookmarks bar that performs an action when you click on it. Advanced contributors can use bookmarklets to link sentences that are not already indirectly linked.

To install a bookmarklet, use the drag-and-drop instructions below, or build it from scratch: create a bookmark from any web page, set the "Location" or "URL" field to the bookmarklet string, and change the name as desired.

See the Wikipedia page on bookmarklets or this short introduction for more details on bookmarklets in general. See this page for more details on Tatoeba bookmarklets, as well as their contents.

Drag-and-drop to Your Bookmarks Toolbar

  • If your bookmarks/favorites toolbar is not displayed already, open it by right-clicking in the toolbar area and checking "Bookmarks Toolbar" or "Favorites Toolbar". Then go to Tools for Tatoeba.org Members and drag one or more bookmarklets from the top of the page to your bookmarks toolbar.

Sample Workflow

Let's say that you have copied the "Link to this sentence - A" bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, and now you're working from a list of sentences that have not been translated from language A to language B. You see that two sentences on the page, sentence 1 and sentence 2, have the same translation in language B. (This happens frequently, for instance, when translating from a language whose verb forms change according to the gender of the subject into a language whose verb forms do not.) You can use a procedure like this: (1) Translate sentence 1 into language B without leaving the page. (2) Right-click on the green bent arrow next to it and copy the URL ("Copy Link Location" in Mozilla Firefox, "Copy shortcut" in Internet Explorer, "Copy link address" in Google Chrome). (3) Right-click on the round blue "i" icon next to sentence 2 and select "Open in new tab" or "Open in new window". (4) In that new tab or window, click on the "Link to this sentence" bookmarklet. When prompted for a URL or ID, paste in the one you copied in step 2 and hit Enter. (5) If all went well, you will see the link you wanted to create and a message saying that the sentences have been successfully linked. (Otherwise, you will see an error message.)

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