THE STORIES FROM THE JAPANESE WORDPRESS COMMUNITY

WordCamp Europe 2016 / Naoko Takano

NAOKO TAKANO

Globalizer at AutomatticJapanese General Translation Editor

@naokomc / en.naoko.cc

WORDPRESS IN

JAPAN

13 YEAR-OLD

COMMUNITY

12.3%

Japanese is the most widely

used non-English WP locale

Followed by German, Spanish, French,

and Russian

English (US) is 54% of all locales

Source: wordpress.org/about/stats/

78.5%

WordPress share for

Japanese sites with CMS

7.6% = Adobe Dreamweaver

2.6% = Livedoor blog

11.3% = Others

Source: w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/cl-ja-/content_management

PRIME MINISTER

NEWSPAPER

RYOKAN (INN)

POWER OF THE COMMUNITYMy slide from WCEU 2013

OFFLINE EVENTS

WORDBENCHLaunched by Takayuki Miyoshi in 2008

WORDBENCH25+ local groups

Meetups are held almost every weekend

WORDCAMPS17 WordCamps in 8 years

September 17-18

WORDFES, WORDCRAB, WORDBASH…

LEARN TEACH

GET CONNECTED

CONTRIBUTION BY PEOPLE

TRANSLATION6 GTEs, 33 PTEs, 213 contributors

TRANSLATION100% of top 100 themes 42% of top 100 plugins

DOCUMENTATION1,139 pages, 11,544 edits, 482 contributors

SUPPORT FORUMS

LOCAL SLACKStarted by Taisuke Jotaki

REPORTING & FIXING BUGS

WAPUU !

WAPUU JSON APIgithub.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu-api

3D WAPUUgithub.com/wckansai2016/3d-wapuu

WAYS TO GET OTHERS INVOLVED

“GET INVOLVED” PAGE

CONTRIBUTOR DAY & MEETUPS

RECOGNITION

GIVE HELP

YOU CAN’T DO IT

ALONE

WORDPRESS NEEDS YOU...

TOGROW THE

COMMUNITY

BE CREATIVE HAVE FUN

KEEP IT GOING