1.
THE STORIES FROM THE JAPANESE
WORDPRESS COMMUNITY
WordCamp Europe 2016 / Naoko Takano

2.
NAOKO
TAKANO
Globalizer at Automattic
Japanese General Translation Editor
@naokomc / en.naoko.cc

3.
WORDPRESS
IN
JAPAN

4.
13
YEAR-OLD
COMMUNITY

5.

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/

6.

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

7.
PRIME MINISTER

8.
NEWSPAPER

9.
RYOKAN (INN)

10.
POWER OF THE COMMUNITY
My slide from
WCEU 2013

11.
OFFLINE
EVENTS

12.
WORDBENCHLaunched by Takayuki Miyoshi in 2008

13.
WORDBENCH25+ local groups
Meetups are held almost every weekend

14.
WORDCAMPS17 WordCamps in 8 years
September 17-18

15.
WORDFES,WORDCRAB,
WORDBASH…

16.
LEARN
TEACH
GET CONNECTED

17.
CONTRIBUTION
BY PEOPLE

18.
TRANSLATION
6 GTEs, 33 PTEs, 213 contributors

19.
TRANSLATION
100% of top 100 themes
42% of top 100 plugins

20.
DOCUMENTATION
1,139 pages, 11,544 edits, 482 contributors

21.
SUPPORT FORUMS

22.
LOCAL SLACKStarted by Taisuke Jotaki

23.
REPORTING&FIXING BUGS

24.
WAPUU!

25.
WAPUU JSON APIgithub.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu-api

26.
3D WAPUUgithub.com/wckansai2016/3d-wapuu

27.
WAYS TO GET
OTHERS INVOLVED

28.
“GET INVOLVED” PAGE

29.
CONTRIBUTOR DAY
&MEETUPS

30.
RECOGNITION

31.

GIVE HELP

32.



 





33.


34.
YOU CAN’T
DO IT
ALONE

35.
WORDPRESS
NEEDS YOU...

36.
TO
GROW THE
COMMUNITY


37.
BE CREATIVE
HAVE FUN
KEEP IT GOING