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en/translation.wml  4) #include "head.wmi" TITLE="Translation guidelines"

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translation.html    8) <h2>Tor: Translation guidelines</h2>
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translation.html   11) <p>

translation.html   12) If you want to help translate the Tor website and documentation into

translation.html   13) other languages, here are some basic guidelines to help you do this

translation.html   14) as efficiently as possible.<br />

en/translation.wml 15) To get an idea how

en/translation.wml 16) current our translations are, we have created a page with the current
en/translation.wml 17) <a href="<page translation-status>">translation status</a>.</p>

translation.html   18) 
translation.html   19) <p>

translation.html   20) Note that we're interested in getting the complete website translated

translation.html   21) for each language, but even a few pages will still be helpful.

translation.html   22) </p>
translation.html   23) 
translation.html   24) <ol>

en/translation.wml 25) <li>Look in <a

en/translation.wml 26) href="<svnwebsite>en/"><svnwebsite>en/</a>

en/translation.wml 27) for a set of ".wml" files. The most important ones to

en/translation.wml 28) translate are <code>index.wml</code>, <code>overview.wml</code>,

en/translation.wml 29) <code>download*.wml</code>, <code>documentation.wml</code>,
en/translation.wml 30) <code>foot.wmi</code>, and <code>navigation.wmi</code>.

en/translation.wml 31) You are welcome to translate more pages than this if you would
en/translation.wml 32) like: the next set that would be useful are the ".wml" files in <a

en/translation.wml 33) href="<svnwebsite>docs/en/"><svnwebsite>docs/en/</a>.

en/translation.wml 34) You can look at <a

en/translation.wml 35) href="<svnwebsite>de/"><svnwebsite>de/</a>

en/translation.wml 36) for examples of the desired translation formats.</li>

en/translation.wml 37) 

en/translation.wml 38) #<li>File names should be changed from index.html to index.xx.html, where xx

en/translation.wml 39) #is your <a
en/translation.wml 40) #href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php">ISO 639</a>

en/translation.wml 41) #two letter language code.</li>

en/translation.wml 42) 

translation.html   43) <li>The first line in the translated file should be<br />

en/translation.wml 44) \# Based-On-Revision: 6000<br />
en/translation.wml 45) where 6000 is the revision number of the original page translated. This
en/translation.wml 46) lets you easily spot when a page gets out of date. The revision number
en/translation.wml 47) is found at

en/translation.wml 48) the top on each page -- it is created by SVN so be sure to

en/translation.wml 49) <a href="<page documentation>#Developers">checkout</a> the latest version
en/translation.wml 50) of the website.</li>

en/translation.wml 51) 

translation.html   52) <li>The second line in the translated file should be the email address of
translation.html   53) the translator:<br />

en/translation.wml 54) \# Last-Translator: abc at example.com<br />

en/translation.wml 55) so we can get ahold of you if the pages needs to be corrected or updated.
en/translation.wml 56) (Since the pages will be posted on the web and spammers will find them,
en/translation.wml 57) you may want to obfuscate your email address or use a separate one.)</li>

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en/translation.wml 59) <li>We would also like some translations for the diagrams on
en/translation.wml 60) <a href="<page overview>">the overview page</a>. You can just send us
en/translation.wml 61) the text that should go in the diagrams, and we'll take care of making
en/translation.wml 62) new versions of the pictures.</li>
en/translation.wml 63) 

translation.html   64) <li>Translated pages should link to the other translated pages.</li>

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en/translation.wml 66) <li>Translated pages should include a note in foot.wmi, translated to the

translation.html   67) appropriate language: "Neither the Tor developers nor EFF have reviewed
translation.html   68) this translation for accuracy and correctness. It may be out of date
translation.html   69) or wrong. The official Tor web site is the English version, available

en/translation.wml 70) at https://torproject.org/"</li>

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translation.html   72) <li>Use valid <a href="http://roselli.org/adrian/articles/character_charts.asp">character entities</a>.

translation.html   73) Even though most browsers display the characters correctly these days, we want
translation.html   74) to be on the safe side, so we don't get bug reports from people who can't

en/translation.wml 75) read the text. If you need to use a character set other than ISO-8859-1,
en/translation.wml 76) add something like <code>CHARSET="UTF-8"</code> to the end of the line
en/translation.wml 77) that starts with <code>#include "head.wmi"</code>.
en/translation.wml 78) </li>

translation.html   79) 
translation.html   80) <li>Keep your translation valid XHTML to minimize the work needed

en/translation.wml 81) before the page is committed to SVN. You can test your code at <a

translation.html   82) href="http://validator.w3.org/">validator.w3.org</a>.</li>

en/translation.wml 83) 
en/translation.wml 84) <li>When you have some pages ready, send them to the

en/translation.wml 85) <tt>tor-webmaster</tt> alias on the <a href="<page contact>">contact

en/translation.wml 86) page</a>.  (If you have changes to existing pages, please use the diff
en/translation.wml 87) tool to generate patch files, if possible.)  If you plan to stick
en/translation.wml 88) around and keep maintaining them, we'll

en/translation.wml 89) be happy to give you an SVN account to manage them directly.</li>

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