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There are several ways how you can help[edit]

Category Help options
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Easy Vote | Review | Spread | Follow | Testing | Screenshots | Videos | Marketing | Archival
Intermediate Improve the Documentation / Edit the Whonix Wiki | Wikipedia | Backup Whonix
Development Just Start | Maintain a Component | Contributor | General | Release Manager | Audit Documentation Changes | Audit Whonix
User Support User Support
Legal Legal Consulting

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Easy / Anyone[edit]

Feel free to do any or all of the following - any help is most welcome. When contributing, always consider your own protection and safety as the first priority, particularly if you are at risk.

Vote[edit]

Please rate Whonix.

Review[edit]

Please write reviews for Whonix.

Spread Awareness[edit]

Tell your friends, family and acquaintances about Whonix. Post Whonix newsarchive.org on your website, blog or social media.

Follow Whonix[edit]

Follow one or more of the following sources: [1]

Testing[edit]

Whonix needs more people to test new Whonix features, bug fixes and so on.

Screenshots[edit]

Whonix requires more recent and awesome Screenshots. Donate them to Whonix or release them into the public domainarchive.org.

Videos[edit]

We need more Whonix Videos, particularly in languages other than English. They can be demonstration videos, promotional videos, conceptual videos or tutorials. Donate them to Whonix or release them into the public domainarchive.org. We also have a video script waiting to be produced - please get in contact for further details.

Social Media / Marketing[edit]

Although social media platforms erode privacy goals by collecting a lot of user data, we believe they are important venues for marketing and communication in the modern era.

If you are willing to help or to maintain any Whonix social media profiles, please get in contact.

Archival[edit]

Whonix wiki contains many external links. After any external link, there is another [archive] link. These links point to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a web archive. However, some links may not actually been archived yet. To contribute, click [archive] links and click through the archival process to actually archive the link if it has not been archived yet.

Intermediate[edit]

Documentation[edit]

Want to improve Whonix wiki, this or any wiki page? Help is welcome and volunteer contributions are happily considered!

Short summary: Anyone can edit the Whonix wiki.

Edits are possible with or without account at time of writing.

1. Any huge modification should be discussed in Whonix forums beforehand. Smaller changes (such as fixing links, typos, grammars and small enhancements) do not require prior discussion. It is recommended to start with small changes first before taking on major rewrites.

2. There are [[Edit]] buttons next to every wiki chapter.

3. Press the [[Edit]] button.

4. Expand/improve the text or fix links, typos or grammar.

5. Optional: Press the Show preview button.

6. Optional: Press the Show changes button.

7. Further modify the text if required.

8. Save changes.

9. Done. The wiki edit is complete.

10. Wait for moderation to confirm the edit. Should there be any issues, post in Whonix forums.

Conditions:

  • Moderation: Edits are held for moderation.
  • Modifications: Please note that all contributions to Whonix may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
  • Copyright: You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself. Before copying content here from elsewhere, ask for approval by admins in Whonix forumsarchive.org. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
  • Terms: Read, understand and agree to Conditions for Contributions to Whonix.
  • Policies: Policy of Whonix Website and Whonix Chat and Policy On Nonfreedom Software applies.

For example, start working on this ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T64archive.org

Wikipedia Editing[edit]

Please help to improve Whonix Wikipedia Pagearchive.org (English). [2] See the feedback threadarchive.org for further information. Or if you speak German, help to keep Whonix German Wikipedia Pagearchive.org up-to-date.

Run the Whonix Backup Script[edit]

Create a backup of the Whonix Anonymous Operating System website and source code. The more people that retain backups, the less likely Whonix can be erased from the history books. This can be done periodically, every now and then or when convenient.

See: How to Backup Whonix for further details.

Development[edit]

Follow Whonix Development[edit]

  • Join the Whonix Development Forumarchive.org
    • The forums offers fine-tuned options to subscribe by e-mail. Tthere is on the right side a symbol o.
    • (Edit | New Topic | o)
      • Watching - You will automatically watch all topics in these categories. You will be notified of every new post in every topic, and a count of new replies will be shown.
      • Tracking - - You will automatically track all topics in these categories. You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you, and a count of new replies will be shown.
      • Watching - First Post You will only be notified of the first post in each new topic in these categories.
      • Normal - You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you.
      • Muted - You will never be notified of anything about new topics in these categories, and they will not appear in latest.
    • You can subscribe via RSS (Latest Postsarchive.org);
      • any URL of the forum can be turned into a feed by adding .rss or .json at the end.

Just Start[edit]

Development[edit]

Just start working on any open ticketarchive.org. One example ticket:
https://forums.whonix.org/t/screen-locker-in-security-can-we-disable-these-at-least-4-backdoors/8128/3archive.org

Or start by working on any of these security TODOarchive.org items.

Contributor List[edit]

Table: Components looking for dedicated contributor.

Anon Connection Wizard
AppArmor Profiles
Apple macOS
Automated Test Suitearchive.org [3]
Live DVD [4]
Live USB [4]
Microsoft Windows Installer
msgdispatcher_dispatch_xarchive.org
Physical Isolation
Qubes-Whonix
Raspberry Pi Whonix-Gateway
sdwdatearchive.org
sdwdate-gui [5]
Tor Control Panel [6]
Upgrading Whonix Packages from Source Code
Verifiable Builds
VirtualBox
Whonix Server Version [7]
Whonix Welcome Pagearchive.org

Contributor Responsibilities[edit]

The tasks of a contributor include:

  • Answering questions in the forums.
  • Keeping the wiki up-to-date.
  • Testing of installation, build and upgrade instructions.
  • Following the issue tracker, squashing bugs and perhaps implementing new features relating to the maintained component.
  • Otherwise self-initiated (guess) work and taking care of the component in question.

This is a volunteer position.

Package Contributor[edit]

Whonix provides a lot of Debian packages; see Overviewarchive.org for further information. Due to limited Whonix contributors resources, only a few packages are supported on Debian hosts. A lot of these packages are untested and unmaintained in any other Linux distribution.

Would you be interested in maintaining one or more packages for use beyond Whonix? For example, in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or other distributions? Maintenance requirements would involve keeping up with code changes and releases, testing if these packages work outside of Whonix, eventually reporting bugs or adding new features, and answering user support requests.

If interested, ambitious package contributors could even seek to have one or more Whonix packages accepted into a mainstream Linux distribution.

This is a volunteer position.

General Tasks[edit]

People with skills and interest in the following areas would also help:

  • Good knowledge of Linux networking and iptables.
  • AppArmor profile creation and testing of new AppArmor profiles for improved security.
  • #!/bin/bash
  • Programming languages like Python, Ruby, C, and others.
  • Registration at our issue tracker.
  • Participation in the development forumarchive.org; consider hitting the "notify" button to subscribe.
  • Discussion participation - login on github and go to https://github.com/Whonix/derivative-maker/issuesarchive.org and press "watch" for notifications about Whonix github issues (this is an old issue tracker and less important).

Release Manager[edit]

If you are willing to have your real name connected to the Whonix project and Tor, please continue reading.

Depending on your interests, your tasks could include:

  • Building Whonix .ova images:
    • Creating stable releases.
    • Creating stable hotfix releases.
    • Creating assorted other builds. [8]
  • Building Whonix .libvirt images.
  • Reporting bugs when builds fail.
  • Signing and uploading releases.
  • Updating the download page.
  • Posting to the blog or mailing lists.
  • Fixing simple build documentation.
  • Dev/Redistribution
  • Essential Whonix Functionality Tests. [9]

This is a volunteer position.

Audit Documentation Changes[edit]

Keep abreast of our wiki changes (rssarchive.org Whonix wiki recent changes rss).

Audit Whonix[edit]

Audit Whonix security.

User Support[edit]

Help other users by providing user support, answering questions.

  • Join the Whonix User Forumarchive.org.
    • The forums offers fine-tuned options to subscribe by e-mail. In each category
    • there is on the right side a symbol o.
    • (Edit | New Topic | o)
      • Watching - You will automatically watch all topics in these categories. You will be notified of every new post in every topic, and a count of new replies will be shown.
      • Tracking - - You will automatically track all topics in these categories. You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you, and a count of new replies will be shown.
      • Watching - First Post You will only be notified of the first post in each new topic in these categories.
      • Normal - You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you.
      • Muted - You will never be notified of anything about new topics in these categories, and they will not appear in latest.
    • You can subscribe via RSS (Latest Postsarchive.org);
      • any URL of the forum can be turned into a feed by adding .rss or .json at the end.
  • Help other users on Stack Exchange by watching questions tagged with the whonix

Legal[edit]

Knowledge about laws, and international taxes would be helpful. If you are interested, please e-mail Patrick Schleizer at

Footnotes[edit]

  1. First consider the risk of following Whonix on social media in your personal circumstances.
  2. Be aware that Tor exit nodes are usually prevented from editing.
  3. 4.0 4.1 See Whonix Host for inspiration.
  4. sdwdate-guiarchive.org
  5. Related entry: Website and Server Tests.
      • Creating terminal-only Whonix-Gateway.
      • Creating testers-only releases.
      • Creating Whonix-Gnome-Workstation.
      • Creating Whonix-LXDE-Workstation.
      • Creating 64-bit builds.
  6. This will be easy and fast as soon as we add a script.

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