Thought it might be fitting to post this…

Thought it might be fitting to post this as today marks five years since @ocean90‘s first patch to WordPress. As has been obvious to some of you, I have stepped back from i18nInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I - eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. This is the process of making software translatable. Information about Internationalization for developers can be found in the Developer’s handbooks. in the past few months, especially after 4.1’s release and as WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe, WordCamp SF, the community summit, and SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. have empowered so many of you. I am stretched across a lot of projects, and Dominik very willingly stepped up to take on a lot of responsibility for improving RosettaRosetta The code name of the theme for the local WordPress sites (eg. bg.wordpress.org is a “Rosetta” site). All locale specific WordPress sites are referred to as “Rosetta sites.” The name was inspired from the ancient Rosetta Stone, which contained more or less the same text in three different languages., coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. language packs, and related projects. He’s a highly respected WP core developer, he’s previously helped me on a number of i18n projects, and he’s slid into this role with ease. It’s also time for the technical point of contact to be a polyglot again. 🙂

@stephdau has also been instrumental for the massive project to translate plugins and themes (including language packs, localized pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme directories, and the like). Also, you may have noticed a lot of coordination across these initiatives now happens in a #meta-i18n channel on Slack.

While I haven’t gone anywhere and I’m still helping a bit behind the scenes, please consider @ocean90 the new @nacin and the primary point of contact core/dotorg i18n and the like!

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