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<h2>Tor Website Translation Guidelines</h2>
<hr />
<p>
If you want to help translate the Tor website and documentation into
other languages, here are some guidelines to help you do this as
efficiently as possible.
</p>
<p>
If you would like to help translate other Tor project related information,
please visit our <a href="<page translation-overview>">Translation Overview</a>
for a clear overview of what needs translation help. If you're stuck, please
contact us via email: <tt>tor-translation AT torproject.org</tt>.
</p>
<p>
To get an idea how
current our translations are, we have created a page with the current
<a href="<page translation-status>">translation status</a>.</p>
<p>
Note that even if you can't translate many pages for your language,
a few pages will still be helpful.
Also, rather than just translating each page word
by word, please try to translate the ideas so they make the most sense
in your language.</p>
<ol>
<li>Look in <a
href="<svnwebsite>en/"><svnwebsite>en/</a>
for a set of ".wml" files. The most important ones to
translate are listed as "high priority", "medium priority",
and "low priority" on the
<a href="<page translation-status>">translation status</a> page.
You can look at <a
href="<svnwebsite>de/"><svnwebsite>de/</a>
for examples of the desired translation formats.</li>
<li>The first line in the translated file should be<br />
\# Based-On-Revision: 13000<br />
where 13000 is the revision number of the original English page. This
lets you easily spot when a page gets out of date. The revision number