Over 2 million people around the world rely on Tor for private access to the open web everyday, and we want to make sure that Tor and our resources are localized for as many of our users as possible. That's why we need your help.
We are in the final stages of finalizing our new support portal, just one portal of many new sites to come in our website redesign.
In order to finish it, we need to translate it from English into more languages. At the very least, we want to translate it to Farsi, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, German, Korean, Turkish, Italian, Arabic, French, and Spanish. If you are knowledgeable about another language not listed here, we'd be grateful for your help as well.
If you can find a "FLOSS and privacy friendly" (Bernd's words) translation service that has an existing diverse user base, maybe Tor would like to hear about it.
Tor has used other translation services before and found that it didn't get much help if there weren't already many users on the platform. If the goal is to get as much help translating as possible, you go where the people are.
Well, at least you can now be sure that you won't get help from people who care for their privacy - which is kind of the target group of tor.
Tor users are here. If you link them to the translation site they will get there.
I've heard Tor plans to move to Weblate and leave Transifex, which is proprietary and tracks users. It's such a contradiction that Tor doesn't care much for their contributors privacy and work.
The assumption that 'users on the platform' and 'go where people are' is not correct for translation work. You want someone who is genuinely interested in Tor, so the person will dedicate time and knowledge to the project. Making a right choice on platform translation, consistent with privacy care, will keep the right people contributing. You don't need a thousand of one time/one string of inconsistent translation, you need a few people who care about what they are doing. Be open to contributors is not the same as use random data provided by one string contributors. This is the commercial web model, Tor!
Hi,
I will host an unconference 20-26 August and we want to do a group effort to translate Tor to Dutch, but I am also an open source privacy fan, so I am reluctant to use transifex as well. Any other solution you can suggest?
:)
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Registering on a site that…
Registering on a site that is ridden with trackers? No, thanks.
As noted on IRC we…
As noted on IRC we appreciate your feedback.
If you can find a "FLOSS and privacy friendly" (Bernd's words) translation service that has an existing diverse user base, maybe Tor would like to hear about it.
Tor has used other translation services before and found that it didn't get much help if there weren't already many users on the platform. If the goal is to get as much help translating as possible, you go where the people are.
Well, at least you can now…
Well, at least you can now be sure that you won't get help from people who care for their privacy - which is kind of the target group of tor.
Tor users are here. If you link them to the translation site they will get there.
I've heard Tor plans to move…
I've heard Tor plans to move to Weblate and leave Transifex, which is proprietary and tracks users. It's such a contradiction that Tor doesn't care much for their contributors privacy and work.
The assumption that 'users on the platform' and 'go where people are' is not correct for translation work. You want someone who is genuinely interested in Tor, so the person will dedicate time and knowledge to the project. Making a right choice on platform translation, consistent with privacy care, will keep the right people contributing. You don't need a thousand of one time/one string of inconsistent translation, you need a few people who care about what they are doing. Be open to contributors is not the same as use random data provided by one string contributors. This is the commercial web model, Tor!
Doesn't Mozilla use Pontoon…
Doesn't Mozilla use Pontoon?
https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon
Pretty sure that would be a better option.
Thankfully there's something…
Thankfully there's something called the Tor Browser that protects exactly against that type of thing.
I hope this blog is part of…
I hope this blog is part of the redesign thing because it really needs one. Previous version was much better.
Bernd: Feel free to submit…
Bernd:
Feel free to submit patches to the tor-dev mailing list with your translations, based on our repo https://git.torproject.org/project/web/support.git
The translation files are located on the i18n folder: https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/support.git/tree/i18n
Hi! Spreading the word in my…
Hi!
Spreading the word in my blog for reach spanish speakers that maybe can help and join the project:
- https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2018/08/02/colabora-en-traducir-el-…
Happy hacking
I can't wait for the…
I can't wait for the official web discussion forums to arrive!
I mean.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAH!
use google-translate, ne?
use google-translate, ne?
Hi, Sorry, I've deleted my…
Hi,
Sorry, I've deleted my Transifex account. Is there any Weblate instance ?
Hi, I will host an…
Hi,
I will host an unconference 20-26 August and we want to do a group effort to translate Tor to Dutch, but I am also an open source privacy fan, so I am reluctant to use transifex as well. Any other solution you can suggest?
:)
I organise a hackathon to…
I organise a hackathon to translate tor to Dutch next week. Is there any way to do it without transifex?
I asked to participate in…
I asked to participate in the translation to pt-br and I was not accepted yet :/
Welsh? ..Cymraeg I was…
I was wondering whether Welsh support has been addressed? Probably too niche a language, but surely a language where
are but 2 of the amazing words in WELSH!!