The WordPress Translation Day (WPTD) 2021 events recap was published on wptranslationday.org. This post includes an overview of the WPTD 6th edition in September 2021, statistics from the events, and other highlights. Check it out, translate it and share!

Below is an overview of the WordPress Translation Day 2021 planning process, what worked well, and what could be improved for next year. While feedback was open to all the WPTD global organizers, these may not reflect everyone’s thoughts, so if you have opinions, suggestions, and other ideas for future organizers, please share those in the comments!

An overview of WPTD 2021 planning

WordPress Translation Day 2021 had some new elements compared to previous editions of WPTD. In June 2021, there was a proposal to host WPTD events spanning the month of September. The organizing team decided to encourage local events throughout the month for more schedule flexibility, with a series of global events in English to take place within a two-week period: September 17 to 30, 2021.

Global organizing for this year’s WPTD happened in a dedicated 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/. instance aimed at helping organizers more easily coordinate between teams and tasks. This resulted in a couple of posts to the Make/Polyglots blog to share team updates with the broader Polyglots community. There were roughly four organizing teams, with a lot of cross-over and many organizers working across areas:

• Website and Design
• Local events
• Global events
• Marketing/Communications

Organizers had a weekly, asynchronous check-in on Slack using automated reminders to share how they were doing, what they were working on, and any help they needed. We primarily coordinated tasks in the WPTD Trello board, and later created a private P2p2 "p2" is the name of the theme that blogs at make.wordpress.org use (and o2 is the accompanying plugin). When asked to post something "on the p2" by a member of the Polyglots team, that usually means you're asked to post on the team blog https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/. for the WPTD organizing team to better plan on specific tasks – for example, coordinating Polyglots Appreciation nominees before they were public. This site was mostly used for writing longer proposals to facilitate feedback, particularly since we decided to skip video-based meetings due to timezone issues.

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