 Hello. OK. So today's my talk is called Stories from the Japanese WordPress community. First, let me introduce myself. As Tako said, my name is Naoko. How to remember this name is pretty easy now, right now, in the company, Naoko. That's how you say my name. I'm a globalizer at Automatic, which means that my team helps Automatic internationalize their products, including WordPress.com and several other plugins and other services. I'm not a developer. Right now, I do project management and marketing and community outreach, everything that are not coding within my team. And if so, that's my WordPress.com or my work-related role. But in the WordPress.org community, I've been a Japanese general translation editor for a long time. And I'm one of the six people who are on that role right now. So if you saw Cal and Sergey's talk, they talked about several areas that you can get involved. I'm going to show you how we do it in Japan. So WordPress in Japan. It's an old community. It's as long as WordPress itself. I think the first translation of WordPress into Japanese started the winter of the year WordPress started. So it's like maybe half a year behind the WordPress itself. So it's as long as WordPress, 13-year-old. Today, WordPress in Japanese is most actively used language besides English. So if you say there are 100% of WordPress sites, 54% of that is US English. And if you take that out and make another 100% with all other locales or languages, Japanese is the number one with 12.3%. So that's about 10% of English usage. It's counted based on the active sites. So the stats is now on worpers.org slash about stats. Japanese popularity is followed by German, Spanish, French, and Russian. We've been lucky. I mean, Japanese have many, many speakers in one country. So one culture, it's very easy to communicate to each other. It's like a monoculture. It's easy to form a community compared to many other locales that have different background in people's lives and customs. But not all OSS open source popular CMSs or services that are popular in Western countries, not all of them are popular in Japan. So what is different with, you know, WordPress and other services or CMSs? So WordPress powers 78.5% of Japanese sites with CMS. Number two is Adobe Dreamweaver. I don't know if it's CMS. I don't know. I'm not sure. I think it's like a site authoring tool. So it's kind of like in the same group as WordPress. And number three is what's called LiveDropBlog. It's like a hosted blog solution. You don't see Drupal or Jumla or Type 3, which are popular in other countries, WordPress wins by far because of the community, I think. I mean, WordPress is the same everywhere you go. It's the same functionality. I mean, the translation is different. What's different among different countries, you know, that's community. That's the strength of WordPress in Japan. WordPress is used by a prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, by a popular newspaper, the Japan Times. It's an English, one of the most popular English newspaper in Japan, also online. And other small sites like this Ryokan, it's a Japanese inn. I mean, they have different sites made with WordPress. There are many, many, many, many books in Japanese about WordPress. Some of the authors are in this room. All my Japanese friends came to listen to this talk. And I wrote some of the very, very old one with a WordPress, I don't know what was it, 2.5, something like that. Very old one. But since a long time, everybody's running WordPress on these books, also in Japanese. So in 2013, I came to the first World Camp Europe in Latin, and I talked about the kind of the same story about how Japanese community grew so much. And this was my answer. So you take small steps, and you know, you can get more people involved, and just keep it going. By doing that, you can make one little dot into these many, many, many dots, and that's the part of the community. So I still believe in that. It's still going on today. So in Matt's talk earlier today, he said like weeks in Squarespace, they spent several millions of dollars into advertisement. WordPress doesn't have it. I mean, WordPress.com spends a little bit of marketing fees, but that's not why WordPress is popular in Japan at all. I mean, WordPress is popular because of the open source community and the people behind it. When I talk about WordPress community in Japan, I think of lots of offline events. I'm gonna talk about some of the online activities we do, but I think by getting people together in one place, there are some talks about meetups earlier today. That kind of kicked off the community, and it helped us a lot. So, you know, Keo introduced Takayuki Miyoshi, he's a contact form seven author. He started what's called WorldBent. It is a website powered by BodyPress, and it's a community website for WordPress users to start a meetup in your own city. Before, at the time, this was in 2008. At the time, there was no community rules about meetup.com usage, or there wasn't any community team on WordPress.org. We kind of had an early start by having a site like this. This site doesn't organize meetup by itself. It doesn't do anything on its own, but it makes it really easy for you to see that there are many other ones that are doing the same thing, and that you can do it too, because there's a sign-up form, there are other activities that you can see. So, I think that really helped it. But not just by saying, hey, you can follow me up, you can do this, that you see other people doing it by having this site. I think it helped it a lot. So, WordPress is a community meetup, so it's the same as what they call meetup. We have about 25 active groups in different cities, and meetups are held almost every weekend in Japan, somewhere, it's like World Camp worldwide. Every weekend, there's a meetup somewhere in Japan. This slide is from, I think, three or four years ago. We created this flyer, there's a designer who actually designed the Kabuki Wapu, that's in the middle. He designed this flyer as well to promote WorldBent at the Open Source Conference event. And since then, we have more and more WorldBent events. These are banners that WorldBent use for their own community website or their own event. Like every event has, sometimes, like Osaka, they create different banner for every event once a month. And, you know, some make flyers. This was World Volcano, which was like a festival type of conference event. And we have WorldBent Tokyo and organizers are here. And we had World Udon, Udon means like the noodle, because in Kagawa, it's a popular food there. So, you know, they create something very unique on its own. So this is a calendar. We have linked from ja.worldbest.org website. This also helps to see there's so many other, you know, communities having meetups. You know, every weekend, there's at least one or two, you know, say for sometimes like there's a holiday or something, you don't have it, but otherwise, you know, you have one or two everywhere. So when people say, when's your next meetup? You can point to this and say, like, it's gonna be updated, you know, next time. And WorldCamps, we have lots of WorldCamps. 17 WorldCamps in eight years. I have a short story to tell about this too, but I don't have much time, so I'm gonna skip it for now. And please don't tweet this one, because we haven't announced this yet. WorldCamp Tokyo image. But that's the one for this year. So we're gonna have WorldCamp Kansai in July, and WorldCamp Tokyo into, I mean, September. Yeah, all welcome to come. And in both of the, this is the one that you can tweet. It's a good one, it's a good one. It's a secret one. And on both WorldCamps, we can have English speakers and WorldCamp Tokyo, it's gonna have an English track. It's called Global Track, and we're gonna have lots of speakers from outside of Japan too. Cal talked about, we have different festivals, WorldCrab, they eat a crab after a meetup, or bash where they have beer while they're having meetup. Many unique events. They learn from the sessions, they teach each other, they get connected, that's the reason you want to try to have meetups and WorldCamp and other events. And meeting people and having real offline events are great, but the power of WordPress community also goes on line. So, translation. We have six GTEs, there are people on the top. We can translate and validate or approve, decline anybody's translation, including core and plugins and themes. We have project translation editors. They can translate certain specific themes and plugins and we have contributors. They don't have rights to approve anything, but they have contributed to the translation suggestions. Global translation, they was mentioned earlier. We did participate and then also we achieved part of our goals which was to make the top 100 themes and plugins that are popular to be 100% translated. We are 100% with the themes, so the 100 themes are translated into Japanese 100% and 100 plugins are not yet there, not there yet, but 42% of the top 100 plugins which means 42 plugins are translated. There are some of the red ones we marked. It's not translatable actually. So we have some issues also, but by setting a goal, let's try to get this top 100 done. We were able to get closer to the goal without thinking, oh, we have 45,000 plugins and thousands of themes to translate, which seems a lot of work, but we are able to get close to the goals by setting an infinite number. We have lots of documentation contributors. 480 people signed up to this Japanese codex. We have a separate install, thousands of pages, and these are some of the top contributors. We have very active support for our members and also these are the top members from the last release cycle. We actually... Museum announcement. Okay, I'm not sure, okay. So we have lots of forms of contributors who are actively participating. Some of them answer hundreds or hundreds of questions every couple of months. We have a local SAC, Tai, he's also a GTE for a long time. He studied local SAC so we can communicate in Japanese. And we also have core contributors. There are some in here also. We have a page about how to report the bug in Japanese and what to do if you find anything, any issue. They might not be able to report it in English, but we also have a forum thread where they can report it in Japanese and we take it from there to help them out too. And also, WAPU. We have lots of WAPUs, but of course not every WAPU is from Japan. Let me tell you the story about WAPU and World Camp Europe. So in 2013, when I was on stage, I showed some of the WAPU creations, not just illustrations, but people making WAPU or different creations. They liked WAPU so much that they made. And actually, one of the people who are also here, Scott and Simon from Code for the People at the time, they made their own WAPU for the Christmas card. And then there's also the World Camp London punk WAPU, and then it kind of spread all over the place. So I think that's the punk WAPU. So I think it's very exciting for people in Japan to see the power of open sourcing something. WAPU is kind of unique. It's an illustration, so it's not cold, but you can create something cool and let other people do whatever they want to do with it. And it will be like this, like you can do it by yourself. You have to let other people help you to make something cool, right? And there's a WAPU, it's an API right now, and then these contributors are in here also. There's 3D WAPU in production right now. Yeah, this is a project for World Camp campsite that's coming up. There's a model like actual WAPU being created. It's in the process, but you can follow with that GitHub report. So in the last section, I only have a few minutes, but I'm going to talk about ways to get others involved. Okay, so you can do a lot of things, but you're going to burn out if you're the only one doing it or only a few of them doing it. So how can you get others involved? We created this Get Involved page. It's kind of like make.worldpress.org in Japanese, but not so much into details. We just showed some of the things you can do in Japanese, and we also linked to make.worldpress.org to say you can contribute in many different areas. These are people who translated and made the pages and Michael is here. Nuka is here. And we also do Contributor Day and Meetups. Contributor Meetups, not just regular Meetups, but there's like World Press Contribute Club is the name of a Meetup series in Japan in Tokyo. They get together once a month, and they teach each other how to contribute to World Press, like how to translate, how to create a patch, how to create a theme for release or plugins for release. Because things are not always easy for people to understand, especially everything is written in English. By helping each other at the same place, you can learn from each other too. Then we made some Contributor badges for World Camp Osaka and Tokyo too. So it's a good way to help others get involved. Make sure you come to the one-end on Sunday. And we recognize people by saying who helped each release, like translators, testers for Japanese-specific things, and forum contributors for the duration of one release cycle. And whoever reported bugs that are specific to Japanese or things like that, we include that in the... So this is common, World Press 4.5. At the end of it, we announced them too. So by giving other people help to get involved, you can create more contributor... more people who can contribute. And by connecting these dots, we can create a world with many more contributors. You can't do it alone. So World Press need you not to work on your own so much, but to grow the community, right? So you want to keep that in mind. You want to help other people, and you want them to help others too. So be creative, have fun, and keep it going. That's my advice. Thank you.