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
POWER OF THE COMMUNITYMy slide from WCEU 2013
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
LOCAL SLACKStarted by Taisuke Jotaki
REPORTING & FIXING BUGS
WAPUU JSON APIgithub.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu-api
3D WAPUUgithub.com/wckansai2016/3d-wapuu
WAYS TO GET OTHERS INVOLVED
“GET INVOLVED” PAGE
CONTRIBUTOR DAY & MEETUPS
YOU CAN’T DO IT
ALONE
WORDPRESS NEEDS YOU...
TOGROW THE
COMMUNITY
BE CREATIVE HAVE FUN
KEEP IT GOING