A session for the International Translation Day celebration week. The recording archive can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqMDbPWZdo

2. Naoko Takano
Global Mentor, Polyglots Team
GTE, Japanese Team
Globalizer, Automattic

3. Happy
Translation Day!

4. September 2020
Polyglots Stats

5. available locales
core packages
partially complete core
204
55
67
How Many WordPress Locales?

6. WordPress 5.5.1 Localized Package Release Status
(September 30, 2020)

7. active translators
GTEs
PTEs
15,225
635
3,275
Who Translates WordPress?

8. Locale Installation Percentage
(September 30, 2020)

9. % Spanish (Spain)
% Japanese
% German
% French
% English (UK)
5.81
5.77
5.69
4.00
3.71
Top Installation Percentage

10. Non-en_US WordPress powers
of the web
WordPress powers 38.5% of the web
22%

11. Argentina
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Peru
Puerto Rico
Spain
Uruguay
Spanish
Language with most variables

12. New Locales in the Past Year
Fon
Tamazight
Ecuadorian Spanish
Venetian
(fɔ̀ngbè)
(ⵜⵜⵜⵜⵜⵜⵜⵜ)
(Español de Ecuador)
(Vèneto)

13. Most WordPress.org Forum Replies
265,606
98,824
81,094
72,203
59,566
Russian
Japanese
Dutch
Spanish (Spain)
Portuguese (Brazil)

14. Most Contributors (Currently Active Only)
1,151
1,069
1,055
872
840
Spanish (Spain)
German
Italian
French
Dutch

15. HelpHub Pages Translated

16. Polyglots Handbook Revision
pages reviewed & rewritten
new pages created
54
7

17. Requests in the Past Year
Editor requests made (PTE/review)
Locale requests made
928
31

18. What do these
numbers tell us?

19. More active WordPress Project
means
more contents to translate

20. Each team needs to
invite new contributors,
Help them learn,
and collaborate well

21. And as a global team:
share the knowledge
&
learn from others

22. We can do it!