Tor
Take a look at the summary of our June 2017 Tor Project AMA (Ask Me Anything)
About
"Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security."
Website: https://www.torproject.org/
Translate Tor
Localized Resources
Tor Support Portal
Tor Brochure
(Arabic, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
Localization Resources
Getting up to speed on Tor's past, present, and future
Glossaries
Tor Project Community Team Glossary
Tor Project Metrics Team Glossary
Tor Project Network Team Glossary
Style Guide
Spanish
Tone:
- When addressing the user, use the 2nd person informal pronoun "tú".
Tor Project
To release a localized version of Tor Browser, Mozilla's Firefox Extended Support Release must first be available. You can contribute to Mozilla Firefox translations through Mozilla's localization platform Pontoon.
Tor Browser Essentials
These resources are required for a Tor Browser "minimum viable product" release and should be translated first:
- Torbutton - aboutDialog.dtd
- Torbutton - aboutTBUpdate.dtd
- Torbutton - about:tor homepage
- Torbutton - brand.dtd
- Torbutton - brand.properties
- Tor button - browseronboardingproperties
- Torbutton - torbutton.dtd
- Torbutton - torbutton.properties
- Tor Launcher - network-settings.dtd
- Tor Launcher - progress
Tor Browser Supplemental
These resources are not absolutely required for a Tor Browser release, but they are highly valuable for maximum Tor Browser usability and publicity:
- BridgeDB - bridgedb.pot
- HTTPS Everywhere - ssl-observatory.dtd
- HTTPS Everywhere - https-everywhere.properties
- Tor Misc - animation-titles.pot
- Tor Misc - tor-and-https.pot
- Tor Misc - ExoneraTor.properties
- TorCheck - TorCheck.pot
- Release_tweets.md
Tails
This operating system includes Tor Browser and other privacy-preserving features and apps:
- Tails - liveusb-creator.pot
- Tails - mat-gui.pot
- Tails Misc - tails.pot
- Tails - onioncircuits.pot
- Tails - openpgp-applet.pot
- Tails - tails-greeter-2.pot
- Tails - tails-iuk.pot
- Tails - tails-perl5lib.pot
- Tails - tails-persistence-setup.pot
- Tails - whisperback.pot
- TorBirdy - torbirdy.dtd
- TorBirdy - torbirdy.properties
Miscellaneous Resources
Exonerator is a website that lets anyone check if a particular IP address was Tor relay.
- Exonerator.properties
Tor Project Support & Community Portal
The Tor Project Support & Community Portal project can accept translations from languages that Tor Browser cannot support (due to Mozilla ESR limitations listed above.)
- donate-messages.pot
- support-portal-contents.pot (see #Tor Support Portal below)
- tbmanual-contents.pot
- Tor Misc - Tor_animation.srt
Tor Support Portal
Translation & Review Priorities: Arabic, Chinese (Simp.), Korean, Persian, Russian
Support Portal Translation & Review Progress
- Want to see translations in context before they are released? The Staging site has unreleased and updated translations available for testing.
Localization-Related Tickets
#25575 Server space request (175 GB total) for hosting Tor Browser downloads
#20628 More locales for Tor Browser
- New Tor locales Auto-updated page with newly translated locales.
#22710 produce an "all locales" nightly build of Tor Browser
#17400 Decide how to use the multi-lingual Tor Browser in the alpha/release series
Contact
IRC: You can find the Tor team on irc.oftc.net in one of the following channels depending on your topic:
- #tor-l10n: For localization related questions.
- #tor: For general Tor questions and support. For users of Tor.
- #tor-project: Discussion related to events, outreach and translation.
- #tor-dev: For those interested in Tor development.
- #tor-south: Global South Initiative channel.