Allow Searching Through Multiple Lists

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Allow Searching Through Multiple Lists

If this wouldn't be difficult to do, it would definitely be useful.

This could be used for a series of lists like this.

At this time, it would only likely be useful for this set of OGTE lists, but if it were possible to do so, other members might think it were worthwhile to create similar lists.

This is how to find the lists on tatoeba.org.
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/of_user/CK/OGTE-Level?sort=name&direction=asc

This is a page with a little more explanation.
http://www.manythings.org/tatoeba/ogte.html

An example of usage.

In a search, a student who felt that he was at "OGTE-Level 06: Mid-elementary", wouldn't want only sentences from that list, but sentences from all other lists up to that point.

This could be done somewhat similar to the way multiple tags are sent via /sentences/search.
The difference would be that for tags, the search limits itself to finding sentences with all listed tags.
For lists, we would want to include sentences from any of the lists.

In other words, allow the following to be sent to include all the following lists.

&list=7407%2C7408%2C7409%2C7410%2C7411%2C7412

OGTE-Level 01: Alphabet (~50 headwords) = List #7407
OGTE-Level 02: Early-beginner (~100 headwords) = List #7408
OGTE-Level 03: Mid-beginner (~200 headwords) = List #7409
OGTE-Level 04: High-beginner (~300 headwords) = List #7410
OGTE-Level 05: Early-elementary (~400 headwords) = List #7411
OGTE-Level 06: Mid-elementary (~600 headwords) = List #7412

In addition to searching for a particular word or phrase, this type of search could also be used to find sentences not yet translated into one's native language.

The interface

Perhaps it would be best not to change the "advanced search" form at https://tatoeba.org/sentences/advanced_search, but just to make this a (documented, but otherwise hidden) possibility for teachers and geeky members to create URLs for their students or themselves.