[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Tue Sep 3 15:20:09 UTC 2013 

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== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2013/9 ==
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version 61
Author: karsten
Date:   2013-09-03T14:27:17+00:00

   Language fixes.

--- version 60
+++ version 61
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 bandwidth, and CPU load since 8/19.”
 
 It was reported on IRC that on some relays, only one circuit was
-successfully created out of four attempts. This unfortunately imply that
+successfully created out of four attempts. This unfortunately implies that
 clients retry to build more circuits, resulting in even more load on Tor
 relays.
 
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@
 “ntor” [5]. This new handshake is faster (especially on the relay side)
 than the original circuit extension handshake, “TAP”. Roger Dingledine
 came up with a patch to prioritize circuit creations using ntor over
-TAP [6]. Various observators reported that these overwhelming
+TAP [6]. Various observers reported that these overwhelming
 unidentified new clients were likely to be using Tor 0.2.3. Prioritizing
 ntor is then likely to make them less a burden for the network, and
 should help the network to function despite being overloaded by circuit
 creations.
 
-Sathya and Isis both reported the patch to work. Nick Mathewson pointed
+Sathya and Isis both reported the patch to work. Nick Mathewson pointed out
 a few issues in the current implementation [7] but overall it looks like
 a band-aid good enough for the time being.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 
 One tricky question with raising guard rotation period [12] is: “How do
 we keep clients properly balanced to match the guard capacities?” [13]
-It is also probably another signal for any Tails supporter that wish to
+It is also probably another signal for any Tails supporter that wishes to
 help implementing guard persistence [14].
 
 “I have plans for writing a blog post about the paper, to explain what
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 help speed much (or maybe at all).”
 
 The remaining configuration change that “probably has the biggest impact
-on performance“, according to Roger, excludes exit nodes from Danmark,
+on performance“, according to Roger, excludes exit nodes from Denmark,
 Ireland, United Kindgom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, China, Iran,
 Finland, and Norway. “Whether it improves or reduces performance [Roger]
 cannot say, though. Depends on a lot of complex variables around
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 followed by reports from George Kadianakis [21], Lunar [22], Arturo
 Filastò [23], Colin C. [24], Arlo Breault [25], Philipp Winter [26],
 Roger Dingledine [27], Karsten Loesing [28], and Isis Lovecruft [29].
-The later also catched up with June [30], and July [31].
+The latter also caught up with June [30], and July [31].
 
   [20] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-September/000314.html
   [21] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-September/000315.html
@@ -181,13 +181,13 @@
 page [32], or on the Tor Project’s Android page [33]. It looks like
 Orbot is currently inaccessible from the Google Play store in Iran.
 Please join the discussion on tor-talk [34] if you have input about the
-later.
+latter.
 
   [32] https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/
   [33] https://www.torproject.org/docs/android.html
   [34] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-August/029684.html
 
-All versions of the Tor Browser Bundle which includes tor 0.2.4.x has
+All versions of the Tor Browser Bundle which include tor 0.2.4.x have
 been reported to work in Iran. This includes the latest Pluggable
 Transport Bundle, the 3.0 alpha series, and the 2.4 beta series.  Follow
 our Farsi blog [35] for more Iran related news.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 Miscellaneous news
 ------------------
 
-The next Tails contributors meeting [36] will happen on IRC the
+The next Tails contributors meeting [36] will happen on IRC on
 September 4th at 8pm UTC (10pm CEST). “Every one interested in
 contributing to Tails is welcome” to join #tails-dev on the OFTC
 network.
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
 
 Yawning Angel has been “designing a UDP based protocol to serve as the
 bulk data transport for something along the lines of ‘obfs3, but over
-UDP’.” They are sollicitating feedback on their initial draft of the
+UDP’.” They are soliciting feedback on their initial draft of the
 Lightweight Obfuscated Datagram Protocol (LODP) [37].
 
   [37] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-August/005334.html

version 60
Author: lunar
Date:   2013-09-03T14:17:17+00:00

   fix contributors

--- version 59
+++ version 60
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
           | http://www.secure.edu.pl/
 
 This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, dope457, mttp,
-and bastik.
+malaparte, Nima, bastik, and Roger Dingledine.
 
 Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
 We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report

version 59
Author: lunar
Date:   2013-09-03T14:03:35+00:00

   typography

--- version 58
+++ version 59
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@
 A peek inside the Pirate Browser
 --------------------------------
 
-Torrent-sharing website The Pirate Bay started shipping a custom browser
-— the Pirate Browser — on August 10th. They advertised using Tor to
-circumvent censorship but unfortunately did not provide any source code
-for their project.
+Torrent-sharing website The Pirate Bay started shipping a custom
+browser — the Pirate Browser — on August 10th. They advertised using Tor
+to circumvent censorship but unfortunately did not provide any source
+code for their project.
 
 Matt Pagan examined the contents of the package [15] in order to get a
 better idea of what it was. He compared the contents of the Pirate

version 58
Author: lunar
Date:   2013-09-03T13:59:17+00:00

   fix release time

--- version 57
+++ version 58
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 '''Editor:''' Lunar
 
-'''Status:''' '''FROZEN'''. Changes should go to [wiki:TorWeeklyNews/2013/10 next week edition]. Expected release time 2013-09-04 13:00 UTC. ''
+'''Status:''' '''FROZEN'''. Changes should go to [wiki:TorWeeklyNews/2013/10 next week edition]. Expected release time 2013-09-04 10:00 UTC. ''
 
 '''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — September 4th, 2013
 



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