Tor
Take a look at the summary of our June 2017 Tor Project AMA (Ask Me Anything)
 "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/ |
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Tor Project
The Tor Project project in Transifex contains the resources necessary to localize Tor Browser, Tor for Android and several other Tor-related services like Tails and HTTPS Everywhere.
| 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 (translate)
- Torbutton - aboutTBUpdate.dtd (translate)
- Torbutton - about:tor homepage (translate)
- Torbutton - brand.dtd (translate)
- Torbutton - brand.properties (translate)
- Tor button - browseronboardingproperties (translate)
- Tor button - securityLevel.properties (translate)
- Torbutton - torbutton.dtd (translate)
- Torbutton - torbutton.properties (translate)
- Tor Launcher - network-settings.dtd (translate)
- Tor Launcher - properties (translate)
- TBA - Tor Browser for Android (translate)
Tor Browser Localization Stats
- Check out Tor Project localization progress across languages!
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 (translate)
- The website at https://bridges.torproject.org
- 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 (translate)
- Small phrases to use on Twitter. Help us spread the word about Tor in your language!
Tor Project Web
The Tor Project Web project can accept translations from languages that Tor Browser cannot support (due to Mozilla ESR limitations listed above.)
The resources below are listed by priority. Please respect the order of the list and always keep the highest priority translations updated before starting a translation further down the list.
Please read the links section in the tor wiki doc before to see how to translate, and avoid many common errors. Thanks!
- Tor Browser User Manual (translate, preview, stats)
- A great resource for starting to understand privacy and for first-time users of Tor. Translations needed!
- Tor Support Portal (translate, preview, stats)
- FAQ with the basics about what Tor is and how to use it. Translations needed!
- Tor Project Animation (translate)
- Subtitles for the "How Tor Protects Your Privacy" video.
- Tor Project Homepage (translate, preview)
- Tor Community Portal (translate, preview)
- Tor Project Outreach Materials (translate)
- Collection of Tor user stories and how-to information for community outreach.
- Tor Project Donate Page (translate)
- Tor Project donations page.
Miscellaneous Content
Tails
This operating system includes Tor Browser and other privacy-preserving features and apps. It is based on Debian and offers many locales translated on Debian. But Tails in itself has a series of interfaces and messages to translate too.
- Tails Installer - the application to install Tails USB sticks translate
- Tails - mat-gui - the Metadata Anonimization Toolkit translate
- 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
The Tails website can be translated, see here for their experimental translation interface and here for their translation introduction
TorBirdy
This is an extension to use Thunderbird through the Tor network, and other privacy features.
- TorBirdy - torbirdy.dtd
- TorBirdy - torbirdy.properties
Exonerator
This is a website that lets anyone check if a particular IP address was Tor relay.
- Exonerator.properties
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
Voice & Tone:
- When addressing the user, use the 2nd person informal pronoun "tú".
Localized References
Tor Support Portal
Tor Brochure
(Arabic, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
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 area of interest:
- #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.
Mailing Lists
- Tor Localization: For Tor localization news, updates and discussion.
- Global South: For "Global South Initiative" news and updates and discussion focussed on the needs of Tor users living and working in the "Global South".