[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Wed May 21 00:40:05 UTC 2014

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version 42
Author: harmony
Date:   2014-05-21T00:06:57+00:00

   one more

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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 Tor 0.2.4.22 is out
 -------------------
 
-A new version of Tor stable branch was released [1] on May 16th:
+A new version of the Tor stable branch was released [1] on May 16th:
 “Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing keys
 that may have been affected by the OpenSSL ‘heartbleed’ bug, choosing a

version 41
Author: harmony
Date:   2014-05-21T00:03:26+00:00

   language tweaks

--- version 40
+++ version 41
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 Tor 0.2.4.22 is out
 -------------------
 
-A new version of Tor stable branch has been released [1] on May 16th:
+A new version of Tor stable branch was released [1] on May 16th:
 “Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing keys
 that may have been affected by the OpenSSL ‘heartbleed’ bug, choosing a
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 For more details, look at the full changelog [2]. The source is
 available at the usual location [3]. Packages should be coming shortly,
-when not already available [4].
+if not already available [4].
 
    [1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-May/032956.html
    [2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob_plain/2ee56e4c2:/ChangeLog
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@
 Digital Restrictions Management and Firefox
 -------------------------------------------
 
-Mozilla’s decisions to support playing media with digital
-restrictions [5] in Firefox by implementing W3C EME specification has
-raised a good amount of controversy. Paul Crable wanted to know [6] what
+Mozilla’s decision to support playing media with digital
+restrictions [5] in Firefox by implementing the W3C EME specification has
+raised a fair amount of controversy. Paul Crable wanted to know [6] what
 it meant for the Tor Browser.
 
-Mike Perry answered [7] that, “simply removing the DRM will be trivial,
+Mike Perry answered [7] that “simply removing the DRM will be trivial,
 and it will be high on our list of tasks”.
 
 But he also explained his worries regarding a “per-device unique
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 userbase.”
 
 “It seems that neither Mozilla nor Google have fully thought through the
-social effects of giving a unique device-id to arbitrary websites” as
+social effects of giving a unique device-id to arbitrary websites”, as
 Mike concludes.
 
    [5]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/
@@ -121,24 +121,25 @@
 
 Shawn Nock proved us once more that talking to ISP is key to run Tor
 relays on high-speed links. Shawn’s exit node was abruptly shut down by
-its provider [21] on May 15th. After a well-crafted plea explaining how
-Tor was important, the provider restored the service [22] on the very
+its provider [21] on May 15th. After a well-crafted plea explaining why
+Tor is important, the provider restored the service [22] on the very
 same day!
 
   [21]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-May/004553.html
   [22]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-May/004555.html
 
-Although, dope457 reported that their provider is now giving them
-troubles as an operator of a non-exit relays [23] due to a high amount
-of traffic on the DNS port (53). A port used by a recently setup Tor
-relay [24], as pointed out [25] by Roman Mamedov.
+However, dope457 reported that their provider is now giving them trouble
+for being the operator of a non-exit relay [23], due to a large amount
+of traffic on the DNS port (53), which is being used as the ORPort by a
+recently-established Tor relay [24], as pointed out [25] by Roman
+Mamedov.
 
   [23]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-May/004562.html
   [24]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/44EFAF942314F756FC7EA50292D5B383E568A9BD
   [25]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-May/004563.html
 
-Now that ICANN is “selling” top-level domain name, Anders Andersson
-raised worries [26] about the .onion extension used by Tor. Fortunately,
+Now that ICANN is “selling” top-level domain names, Anders Andersson
+raised concerns [26] about the .onion extension used by Tor. Fortunately,
 RFC6761 [27] defines a process regarding special-use domain names. Last
 November, Christian Grothoff, Matthias Wachs, Hellekin O. Wolf, and
 Jacob Appelbaum submitted a request to reserve several TLDs used in
@@ -182,9 +183,9 @@
   [35]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tails
   [36]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/whonix
 
-Blue_Pyro uses Orweb on the mobile phone and wants to save images from
-web sites [37]. Abel of Guardian recommended two options. First a user
-can use Firefox mobile with privacy enhanced options [38] or one can try
+Blue_Pyro uses Orweb on a mobile phone and wants to save images from
+websites [37]. Abel of Guardian recommended two options: first, a user
+can use Firefox mobile with privacy enhanced options [38], or one can try
 Orfox [39], a development version of a Firefox-based browser.
 
   [37]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/1753/88
@@ -196,8 +197,8 @@
 
 Stem [40] is a Python controller library for Tor. It comes with
 tutorials and generally has pretty good test coverage. The newly-added
-example scripts, however, don’t have unit tests, yet. Damian Johnson
-suggests ways for adding unit tests for example scripts in [41]. If you
+example scripts, however, don’t yet have unit tests. Damian Johnson
+suggested ways to add unit tests for example scripts [41]; if you
 want to help out, learn how to get started [42], start writing unit
 tests for the example scripts, and then comment on the ticket.
 



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