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Ahmed Kabir Chaion 12:24 pm on June 18, 2025
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Polyglots Week in Review: June 18, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (June 18, 2025), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.’s stats, highlights, and ways to contribute.

➡️ Jump to: 📊 Weekly Stats |📌 Highlights |✋ Requests & Help Needed |📅 Meetings

📊 Weekly Stats (as of June 18, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to June 11, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

  • Total Locales: 208
  • Releases:
    • Up to date: 67 (+1)
    • Behind by minor versions: 1 (±0)
    • Behind by one major version: 4 (±0)
    • Behind by more than one major version: 58 (-1)
    • Have site but never released: 5
    • Have no site: 73

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 39 (+1)
  • 95–99% Translated: 23 (−1)
  • 90–94% Translated: 8 (±0)
  • 50–89% Translated: 41 (±0)
  • 0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 9 / 7,266 total (-4)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 35 / 199 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 794 (±0)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,245 (-5)
  • Translation Contributors: 76,699 (+248)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 56.865% (+0.020%) of WordPress sites are running a translated version of WordPress.

📌 Highlights

Here are some posts we recommend worth checking out:

✋ Requests & Help Needed

Want to help more? Consider reviewing open translation requests or helping guide new contributors in your locale. Don’t forget to check the Translation Editors Handbook!

📅 Upcoming Meetings

  • June 18, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • June 25, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • July 2, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • July 9, 2025 at 7:00 GMT

🗓 Find full details here: 👉 make.wordpress.org/meetings Regular #polyglots meetings:

  • Global Polyglots Chat (Asia-Pacific): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 7:00 GMT
  • Global Polyglots Chat (Europe/Africa/Americas): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 13:00 GMT

👥 Want to help lead a meeting? Let us know in #polyglots!

Thank you to everyone contributing to translations and making WordPress accessible in your language. 🌍💛

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Ahmed Kabir Chaion 1:26 pm on June 12, 2025
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Polyglots Week in Review: June 12, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (June 12, 2025), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.’s stats, highlights, and ways to contribute.

➡️ Jump to: 📊 Weekly Stats |📌 Highlights |✋ Requests & Help Needed |📅 Meetings

📊 Weekly Stats (as of June 12, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to June 9, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

  • Total Locales: 208
  • Releases:
    • Up to date: 67 (±0)
    • Behind by minor versions: 1 (±0)
    • Behind by one major version: 4 (±0)
    • Behind by more than one major version: 58 (±0)
    • Have site but never released: 5
    • Have no site: 73

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 38 (+1)
  • 95–99% Translated: 24 (−1)
  • 90–94% Translated: 8 (±0)
  • 50–89% Translated: 41 (±0)
  • 0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 15 / 7,261 total (-1)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 35 / 199 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 794 (±0)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,250 (+1)
  • Translation Contributors: 76,327 (+93)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 56.849% (-0.0010%) of WordPress sites are running a translated version of WordPress.

📌 Highlights

Here are some posts and updates you might have missed:

  • Recap for the Polyglots Table (Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WCEU 2025): I am currently working on a post summarizing the activities for the Polyglots Table at 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 2025.
  • Cross-team collaboration with Training & 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 Review: I have had chats with both the Training Team and the Plugin Review Team about content translation and plugin description. I will be drafting a separate P2s for both the conversation and finalize them with collaboration from the teams later on.
  • Introductory call with the new Team Reps: I am scheduled to have a introductory call with both Nidhi & Luis (our new reps) and plan the rest of the year in a more organized way.
  • Mentorship & Helpful Resources to take care of the pending requests: I had a chat with @petya at WCEU 2025 Contributor Day. I was provided with some helpful resources which I am looking into and collaborating with the Polyglots Leads. I plan to start working on the pending requests and prepare a strategy on how we can better handle the backlog of requests. I plan to publish a P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. as we progress forward.

✋ Requests & Help Needed

Want to help more? Consider reviewing open translation requests or helping guide new contributors in your locale. Don’t forget to check the Translation Editors Handbook!

📅 Upcoming Meetings

  • June 18, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • June 25, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • July 2, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • July 9, 2025 at 7:00 GMT

🗓 Find full details here: 👉 make.wordpress.org/meetings Regular #polyglots meetings:

  • Global Polyglots Chat (Asia-Pacific): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 7:00 GMT
  • Global Polyglots Chat (Europe/Africa/Americas): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 13:00 GMT

👥 Want to help lead a meeting? Let us know in #polyglots!

Thank you to everyone contributing to translations and making WordPress accessible in your language. 🌍💛

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Timi Wahalahti 6:59 pm on July 2, 2020
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WCEU 2020 Online Contributor Day: Feedback and achievements

It’s almost a month from the 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 2020 Online Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.. From the perspective of the WCEU team, the day was a success, went smoothly and everyone had a good time.

But we know we could have done a better job and there’s always room for improvement! WCEU 2020 was also a first time when online Contributor Day at large scale did take place. That’s why we want to hear feedback from team reps and facilitators.

What we could have done differently or better? What worked and what didn’t work? Is there something you would like to see changed when other WordCamps do organize online Contributor Days? Any good practices your team had during the day and want to share those with others?

Please leave a comment with free-form feedback! If you don’t want to share the feedback publicly, reach out to @sippis on 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/. or send email to contributing@wp-europe.org. All feedback and input is highly appreciated 🙂

If your team did write a recap of your teams achievements during the day, share the link in comments. If there’s no recap yet, we highly encourage you to write a one.

Lastly, big thank you to all team facilitators who worked with us to make the Contributor Day and pulling our requests together in short time period. You are awesome!

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Abha Thakor 10:30 pm on June 2, 2020
Tags: #OnlineWPMeetup, Contributor Day, , Meetup marketing, , WordCamp Europe 2020   

Marketing team update, 2 June 2020

Some of the highlights from the Marketing Team in the last few weeks are:

  • more than 40 introduction sessions
  • 10 videos to help with onboarding or showcasing the community
  • multiple projects and campaigns planning
  • support to new and longer-term contributors
  • planning support to contributor events
  • marketing skills sessions and training

MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. marketing and promotions survey

We are trialling a survey to help WordPress Meetups with their marketing. If you are a Meetup organizer, we would value your time in completing this form. Thanks to those who provided feedback during the last few weeks.

#ContributorStory

This campaign continues and features are currently appearing on 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 2020’s website and its social channels. Please support it and celebrate the contributors who make WordPress. Thanks to Abha Thakor and Helen Odia for the latest editions and to the contributors featured.

More updates soon about how you can nominate a contributor for the next series.

Onboarding videos and preparation for WCEU

You can find our videos to help attendees set up a WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ and Make WordPress 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/. accounts for WordCamp Europe (WCEU) Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.. A number of translated commentaries and captions are being added.

More long term versions for WordPress.tv and the Contributor Day Handbook on GitHub will be made after WCEU. Thanks to everyone who has been involved in making these. Let us know if you have presenting experience and can help with translating and recording voiceovers in other languages.

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Abha Thakor 11:44 am on May 24, 2020
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Marketing Team update, May 2020

Supporting new and existing contributors

Thanks to the work of our contributor event communications working group, we have continued to produce materials to encourage participation and provide support in setting up and using the team’s tools.

With the assistance of @macgraphic, @webcommsat and @rahuldsarker we are working on screen videos to show how to set up WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ and Make WordPress 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/. accounts ahead of 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 (WCEU) Online Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. on 4 June 2020.

The English version of the video, with captions.

Some contributors have asked for further help with voiceovers or captions in their native languages. We will try to add these where possible. If you would like to help with this, contact @webcommsat or @macgraphic

Marketing Team onboarding (introduction) sessions will run again this week on. Please join the team if you would like assistance setting up the tools or being involved at WordCamp Europe’s Contributor Day on 4 June 2020.

  • Monday 25 May 2020, 19:30 UTC (a Zoom link to the group event will be available either on request through email or shared on the #marketing channel on Slack)
  • Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00 UTC
  • Wednesday 3 June 2020, 14:00 UTC – usual Marketing Team meeting which will be held on Slack and Zoom
    • this will focus on any remaining support needed to help WCEU Contributor Day attendees and final preparations with volunteers
    • event attendees are welcome to join, especially if they need assistance preparing for the event

Small group training

For the previous four weeks we have been running small group training and task support to help new contributors to the WordPress project or those starting out in marketing.

Thank you to everyone who has come along and those who have generously provided video conferencing hosting and training. During this last week, we have run daily sessions on onboarding, the tasks we will have available at WordCamp Europe’s Contributor Day, and introductions to marketing techniques used in some of the existing tasks.

Promoting Online WordPress Meetups

We continue to help with marketing and information on WordPress Meetups which are running online during the pandemic.

If your Chapter MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. is planning an event which would welcome or be of interest to a wider, global audience, help us find your details by adding #OnlineWPMeetup to your relevant social media posts. Thanks for all the feedback and help requests that have come in, ideas for contributor stories, and for our survey.

We hope to publish the survey next week to better understand how the team can assist organizing teams.

WordPress Translation Day mini-events

Abha Thakor and Rahul D Sarker have been working to promote interim locale events for the French and Bengali languages in the last two months.

Thanks to @webcommsat and all those involved in producing marketing materials. If you could assist the #WPTranslationDay, Polyglots and Marketing teams in jointly updating a communications pack, please message the @TranslateWP Twitter account or contact @webcommsat on the Make Slack.

After WCEU, the Translation Day team will be exploring when the next international day could potentially take place.

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Timi Wahalahti 6:43 pm on May 21, 2020
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WCEU 2020 Online Contributor Day: All that team facilitators and experienced Contributors need to know

Hello WordPress Make teams. It’s only two weeks until 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 2020 Online Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. and we can’t wait for the event to start.

First of all, thank you so much for providing us with all the details we asked for, especially within such a tight timeframe and with limited information. The whole WCEU team was thrilled to receive the excellent video introductions from the 15 different Make teams that will be joining us on the day.

We are finally ready to share a detailed update about how the day will work and have a few final requests. This is a long post, but please read it carefully as it contains important information for all members of the Make teams helping at Contributor Day.

Continue reading →

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Timi Wahalahti 9:51 am on April 24, 2020
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WCEU Online 2020 Contributor Day update: times, registration, platforms and team video introductions

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 Online 2020 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. team is happy to provide more information about the Contributor Day and guides for making your team’s video introduction!

Times

Contributor Day will take place on 4 June 13:00-18:00 UTC.

Tickets / registration

Registration will be opened in a few days, follow our website and Twitter account for official announcement.

During the WCEU Online 2020 registration, we will ask whether attendees plan to attend to Contributor Day. Attendees will choose their preferred team, so we can provide an estimate on how many contributors you can expect to work in your team during the day. If we start reaching more than 500 attendees for Contributor Day, the option to mark interest to attend will be removed.

You don’t need to worry about getting your Make team’s key contributors to register before the limit of 500 attendees is reached, we have taken it into account and ensured enough seats for them 🙂 If someone in your team couldn’t mark their interest during registration, let us know via email to contributing@wp-europe.org.

It’s important that everyone planning to attend WCEU Online 2020 Contributor Day does the registration! We will send instructions and useful links for attendees before the event.

Platforms and tools we are using

Existing contributors are already in Making WordPress 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/. and we do want to get new contributors there as well, so they will come straight to space where contributions continue after Contributor Day. During the day, Make teams use their existing Slack channels for communication accompanied by a new general Contributor Day channel dedicated to helping attendees and for general coordination.

In addition to Slack, teams have the opportunity to have ad-hoc video calls when needed. WCEU team will provide the Zoom accounts and schedule meetings on a request.

Opening and closing remarks will take place on Youtube Live.

Instructions to record your team introduction

The organization team for the WordCamp Europe Online 2020 is working to create an enjoyable Contributor Day. To smooth the onboarding of the new contributors, we are asking each Make team’s Reps to create a short video, no longer than one minute, that highlights:

  • who you are and which team you’re representing
  • what the team does
  • if there are any focuses during the WCEU 2020 Contributor Day
  • how contributors can help your team
  • any other relevant idea that you see fit for your team

We aim to publish these videos in advance, to help contributors decide on the team they plan to join. They will be featured on the official website for the event and in the Contributor Day opening remarks taking place in Youtube Live.

Given the tight schedule, we are asking the teams to submit the videos before 8 May 2020, so there’s room for review, add graphics to start and end, and ensure that contributors have time to decide.

Please, submit your videos observing the following guidelines:

  • You can use any camera available, even your phone, to record the video. If you would like to record from the computer but don’t know how here are a few simple tutorials for Mac users, Linux users, and Windows users.
  • Avoid using a busy background – both audio (background noise) and visual (stripes, zigzags, virtual backgrounds, and other people).
  • Find a place with good lighting. Avoid having the main light source on your back.
  • When possible use an external mic for better audio results.
  • Take the time to send a meaningful message.
  • Submit the video via a cloud service like WeTransfer (no signup needed) to contributing@wp-europe.org. If you had a manuscript, please send it too.

If you are facing troubles with recording the video, let us know via email to contributing@wp-europe.org and we will schedule a Zoom call with you to do the recording part.

Leave a comment if you have any questions. Thank you for creating this event with us!

The WCEU 2020 Online Contributor Day Team
Abha, Laetitia, Marco, Michael, Pedro, Timi

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Abha Thakor 8:58 pm on April 22, 2020
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Marketing Team update – 22 April 2020


In the team we are:

  • working on how people can contribute to the Marketing Team at 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’s online Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. in June 2020
  • supporting Online WordPress Meetups together with the Community Team. If you are organizing an online MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area., do use #OnlineWPMeetup to help us support you
  • working on documents for the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team to highlight the work of the release team and component maintainers
  • continuing to work with WCEU Contributing Team on contributor stories and onboarding guides
  • rolling out a package of support for team members during the public health emergency and helping them to keep connected. This includes Virtual Coffee Breaks and informal ways to show how the team continues to contribute to the global WordPress project. For example, a photo mosaic
  • continuing to provide ways for newer contributors to get involved. This includes running collaboration sessions to help people contribute ideas, learn more about the tools and work of the project, and find ways to get involved.

    • You can find out more about the work of the Marketing Team at https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/

    Come and join our meetings on 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/. on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC.

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    Francesca Marano 5:50 pm on January 27, 2020
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    WCEU 2020 – Leave no Contributor Behind

    The organising team for Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WordCamp Europe in June this year needs your help. The team would like to do two things:

    1. Increase the value that new attendees get from Contributor Day
    2. Increase the long term benefit to the WordPress project from onboarding new contributors

    What’s the Problem We Are Trying to Solve?

    Many teams see a good start first thing in the morning on Contributor Day, with an introduction and lots of enthusiasm. Sometimes this can tail off as new contributors get stuck, can’t find relevant tasks to get involved with, or can’t get help because experienced contributors have moved on to working on their own tasks.

    Contributor Day presents huge potential but often the number of returning contributors isn’t as high as it could be. Although we don’t have numbers for this, that’s the feeling that experienced contributors have communicated in the past.

    It would be great for the WordPress project to gain more regular contributors as a result of attending a Contributor Day.

    Let’s Plan for Long Lasting Contribution

    There are three aspects to improving the retention rate of new contributors on a Contributor Day:

    1. Better planning prior to the event
    2. Better support during the day for new contributors
    3. Better follow-ups in the days after the event

    The organising team is planning to contact the team reps from each of the teams that make up WordPress and ask them to help facilitate this plan. WCEU Contributor Day is a great opportunity to do this at the team levels due to the high number of experienced contributors in attendance.

    1. Better planning prior to the event

    An example of a problem that can be reduced with some prior planning is the fact that all the “good first bugs” often get taken within a short period of time, leaving new contributors struggling to find tasks to work on. With a small amount of planning in the weeks prior to WCEU, it should be possible to get a higher number of good first tasks lined up and ready to be worked on by new contributors at Contributor Day.

    Team reps

    1. Please ensure the content of your “Getting Started at a Contributor Day” handbook page is up to date (example from the Polyglots). This page should give an idea of what the team works on during Contributor Days. If you don’t have such a page, please create one. These links will be published on a specific page for attendees, so the sooner you can confirm you have it, the better. 
    2. To maximize the value for new contributors, please collate tasks that both new and existing contributors can work on during the day (for example your “good first tasks” list). This list needs to be fairly detailed and be published on the WCEU website a week prior to the event.
      Example of how the Community team does this:
      – Call for ideas
      – Plans for the day

    2. Better support during the day for new contributors

    Some teams run short introductory sessions on Contributor Day and it would be great to have more of these in 2020. This could be a session repeated a few times during the day to reach as many new contributors as possible.

    Team reps

    If your team needs it, can you plan an introductory session to help onboard new contributors to your team? It doesn’t need to be long, around 10 minutes with a few slides is ideal.

    In addition, it would be great for existing contributors to help out new contributors who may get stuck or run out of tasks on the day. Identifying existing contributors who will be in attendance and happy to do this should make the day more valuable for everyone.

    The WCEU 2020 contributing team wants to move away from having one or two team leads and instead having a team of experienced contributors functioning as mentors to help and guide new contributors.

    3. Better follow-ups in the days after the event

    During Contributor Day and the days immediately following it, the project sees contributions from new contributors that typically need some guidance. For example, patches that need testing and feedback, translations that need approval, or just a general check-in to see how a new contributor is getting on.

    Team reps

    In order to help maintain enthusiasm, it would be great to have a plan to ensure new contributors get feedback on their initial contributions. This takes different forms depending on the team, so please think about how you can support new contributors in the days after the event.

    There will be a room available for use as a Contributing Area during the main 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. event. All teams are welcome to share this room in order to carry on contributing or helping out new contributors.

    Thank You

    Thank you for helping increase the value of WCEU Contributor Day for everyone!

    If anyone (existing or new contributors) has any other ideas about making the event more valuable, please leave a comment.

    The WCEU 2020 Contributing Team
    Abha, Aleksandar, Francesca, John, Laetitia, Michael

    #contributor-day

    Aaron D. Campbell 6:38 pm on November 3, 2019
    Tags: Contributor Day,   

    WordCamp US Contributor Day 2019

    Hosting

    • Reviewed and commented on a draft document outlining criteria for inclusion of hosts on a new /hosting page on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/
    • Found a fix for WordPress Travis CI reporting
    • Got access to PHPUnit 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 reporter used for showing hosting test results
    • Content review and edits to the Hosting Handbook – it had fallen a bit out of date

    Docs

    • created a list of missing or incorrect information in the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. documentation
    • Two reps designated for Gutenberg developer and user documentation
    • Migrated content from Codex to Devhub
    • Tidying up handbook issues
    • Tagging some articles as documentation

    CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

    • onboarded new contributors
    • New contributors helped get two new commits in: r46639 & r46640
    • set up and ran a unit test on a patch
    • agreed proposed direction for REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. core authentication support
    • Privacy – potentially displaying privacy info in plugin readme for hopeful adding to plugin repo
    • Roadmap for Site Health + action plan for v2
    • Solicited user feedback on Core 5.3
    • @TimothyBlynJacobs made his first commit to WordPress Core

    Kids Camp

    • Started first ever kids camp at a 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. US!
    • Scavenger hunt where kids took selfies with people from each contributor team to use in the creation of their WordPress sites!

    Test

    • A couple usability testing scripts have been written.
    • Going through all Gutenberg issues labelled as “needs testing” – over 15 tested
    • Helping other contributors get their testing environments set up

    Polyglots

    • Translated 5.3 for Dutch

    Marketing

    • Subtitling videos to use for marketing purposes
    • Updates to example sites on WordPress.org
    • Interviewing other teams and working up a recap post

    Design

    • Fire, forage, and treasure exercise with post-its
    • Working on Author block
    • Working on processes for product design for WordPress

    Mobile

    • Testing
    • Environment setup
    • Updating new contributor onboarding documentation
    • Regression testing on iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. release

    AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)

    • We’ve gotten everyone acquainted with the accessibility team, how to contribute and where to find important team info
    • We split the group into two: those who are new to a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and want to go over 101 basics and those more familiar with it and want to learn how to get started contributing
    • We went over TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and learned how to create and give feedback on tickets and issues
    • We discussed the many different ways in which people can contribute, wether that’s with code, design, testing or feedback, everyone can participate
    • Working through Trac tickets
    • Testing, giving feedback, and opening issues for new stuff
    • After lunch we all paired and started diving into Trac. The team is already helping move tickets forward by testing, suggesting solutions and submitting patches.

    Support

    • Onboard 4-5 new people to the team
    • Discussing what the causes may be of fewer unanswered issues than normal
    • “No reply” topics down to 4

    CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress.

    • Working on updating Lando testing system
    • Closed several existing issues
    • Work on docker environment to make running tests more reliable

    MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.

    • Got Aaron access to make this post!
    • Onboarded 4 people
    • Fixed 4 WordCamp.org issues
    • Fixes 2 issued for Five for the Future
    • Fixed 1 issue for WordPress.tv

    Training

    • Onboarding
    • Iterations on Make.WP site
    • Forms, new page templates, and taxonomies for lesson plans
    • Working on lesson plans for:
      • Getting started with CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.
      • Installing plugins
      • What you can do with WordPress
    • 3 new prs for meta site learn.wordpress.org
    • 3 lesson plans were instructionally reviewed.

    Community

    • New meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizer orientation
    • Documentation for reaching out to prior WordCamp sponsors
    • WC Asia budget review
    • Going through WCUS 2019 photos
    • Working on messaging and benefits around speaker diversity training
    • Onboarding checklists
    • New WordCamp organizer orientation
    • New meetup chapter vetted and ready to launch
    • Diverse Speaker Training Team: Marketing text for promoting our workshop to meetups
    • Diverse Speaker Training Team: Edited training videos
    • Diverse Speaker Training Team: Started creating diverse events self-guided training

    TV

    • Teaching people how to access videos from WordCamp that need to be edited.
    • Several people are modding and editing videos from:
      • WCEU
      • Jacksonville
      • Birmingham
    • Two people submitted their first video to wptv
    • Published State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. 2019!
    • Onboarded people for moderating and editing

    Plugins

    • Lots of progress planning the WPGraphQL v1.0 Roadmap
    • Onboarded two new volunteers
    • Streamlined flows

    Tide

    • Working on rate limiting issue

    #contributor-day, #wordcamp-us