Naoko Takano – @nao | WordPress.org

Member Since: January 22nd, 2004
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Website: naoko.blog
GitHub: naokomc
Job Title: Globalizer
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

I’m a localization project manager at Automattic. I have been involved in the Japanese WordPress community to help around translation/docs/WordCamps.

Polyglots global mentor
Japanese Team Locale Manager & General Translation Editor (GTE)
WordCamp Asia 2020-2021 Global Lead

Other names: 高野直子, Naoko McCracken, @naokomc

Interests

WordPress, Japan, Japanese, i18n, l10n, translation, blogging, cooking, traveling, parenting

WordPress Origin Story

After I switched my personal blog system to WordPress, I started helping out with Japanese documentation and support forums because there was so little information on WordPress in Japanese back then.
You can read my HeroPress story here.

Contributions Sponsored

Naoko Takano contributes 40 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Documentation, Polyglots.

Contribution History

bbPress Contributor
bbPress Contributor
Community Contributor
Community Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
Support Contributor
Support Contributor
Support Team
Support Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker

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Translations

Wrote a comment on the post Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 29, 2020 (12 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Regarding @tobifjellner’s comment here, I wrote a rough draft of “Translation Collaboration & Team Building…

2 days ago
Created a topic, Japanese Translation / 日本語の翻訳, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tanaka-hisao さま日本語翻訳エディターの @nao です。多数、翻訳が未承認になっていまし…

2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for CartBounty, on the site Translate WordPress:
Japanese review is done. If you are re-submitting more translations, please make sure to follow…

2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Reviving Indonesian on WordPress.org, on the site Translate WordPress:
collection of links in a resource pool YES! Let's do it. I'll start a draft…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Translation error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looks like these are the strings you're referring to. https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wordpress-importer/stable/nl/default/?filters%5Bterm%5D=Importeerder&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc You can make a new…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Translate Plugin into Spanish and Catalan, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not the plugin author but I can share how this plugin can be made…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to The “continue reading” translation does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/swift-blog/fr/default/?filters%5Bterm%5D=continue+reading&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc Looks like "Continue Reading" strings are not approved yet. You can reach out to…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Translate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can contribute translation from here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/booking-for-woocommerce/ Then ask the translations to be approved. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/translating/after-your-contribution…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to LearnPress Translation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looks like Spanish (Spain) translation is 99% done. https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/learnpress/ If you'd like to contribute in…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Translate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It doesn't look like this plugin is translatable. I'm not the plugin author but I…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to translate this plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It doesn't look like this plugin is translatable. https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/one-click-demo-import/ I'm not the plugin author but…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to How to change name of “Check Booking Availability” in Woocommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You have "translate" tag to this question, are you trying to translate this plugin into…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to .Po and .mo files in place, but translation doesn’t work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Maybe your translation file is named differently than it supposed to be. Assming (from your…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to 5.4更新後、Chromeでのみ一部画像の表示不具合, on the site サポートフォーラム:
英語のフォーラムで似たような現…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Classic Editorプラグインについて, on the site サポートフォーラム:
Classic Editor …

3 days ago
Posted a reply to ブログの書き方, on the site サポートフォーラム:
同じページの中で他の位置にジャ…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to WordPress から書き込みができませんについて, on the site サポートフォーラム:
バックグラウンド更新が動作して…

3 days ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Testing 2050

3 days ago
Wrote a new post, Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 22, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Here’s the agenda for our weekly chat. This meeting will be held at [time]Wednesday, April…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi, I would like to…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @dennismaang @minnkyaw @herzcthu Could you look into welcoming a new member to your locale…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2020 Contributor Day Update, on the site Team Updates:
I see, thanks for the clarification!

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2020 Contributor Day Update, on the site Team Updates:
Question about this part: "Make a rough estimate of how many working groups your team…

2 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #5152, in Meta Trac:
Put a limit on adding new translation after multiple warnings

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, I am the…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Review done for Japanese.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 7, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Oops! Thanks, and fixed! I'll try to remember next time 😅

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 7, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Meeting archive Attendees: @prathameshp @atachibana @jeroenrotty @casiepa @ocean90 @kartiks16 @kafleg @nobnob @lasacco and Ahmed Kabir…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 7, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Meeting archive Attendees: @prathameshp @atachibana @jeroenrotty @casiepa @ocean90 @kartiks16 @kafleg @nobnob @lasacco and Ahmed Kabir…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: When langpack is created, always send the new updates on the the project translation (even if below 95%), on the site Translate WordPress:
+1 to both proposals (additional deploy, 90% threshold) too.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 7, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Here’s the agenda for our weekly chat. This meeting will be held at [time]Wednesday, APril…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Rich Table of Content, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @ryota0101! I added you as a PTE of the plugin. Please check our style…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for yocto, on the site Translate WordPress:
For this post, the checkbox was checked but To-Do was still not resolved. I still…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Locale: fon, on the site Translate WordPress:
Glad to hear back from you! We will try moving this forward but please note…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
GTEs of the following locales – your 5.4 translation is at 100% (congrats!) but no…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
Just in time!

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, do_action Japan の計画について＆運営スタッフを募集します, on the site Japanese Team:
5月にオンライン開催予定の do_action チャリティハッカソンの運営スタッフを募集します。

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
Woo hoo!

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
Now it's all done. Awesome job @knutsp & team.

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for cpi-wp-migration Hello…, on the site Translate WordPress:
This has been resolved on local Slack chat, so closing it here. (I missed the…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi GTEs! 5.4 release is coming very soon (scheduled for March 31st). Currently, there are…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, オンラインイベント開催に関するリソース, on the site Japanese Team:
先日 @atachibana さんが COVID-19 に関するイベント主催者への新しい推奨を翻訳してくださいました。その後状況も変わり、今は恐らく皆さんがイベント開催の休止やオンラインでの開催を検討している状況かと思います。コミュニティチームでもオンライン (バーチャル) イベント開催に関してのドキュメンテーションが着々と用意されていますので、日本国内で Meetup を開催予定の方に向けて、こちらでご紹介します。 Meetup ハンドブックの更新オンラインイベント開催用のツールや形式、気をつけることなどをまとめたハンドブックページが公開されました。日本語訳は以下に用意しています。 https://ja.wordpress.org/team/handbook/meetup-organizer-handbook/resources/organizing-virtual-events/ また、オンラインイベントに特化したハンドブックも新たに別途立ち上がっており、今後追記されていく予定です。…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Taking Charity Hackathons Online, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
@hlashbrooke one question. If the event is running without (or with a very simple budget…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Community Events in the time of COVID-19, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+1 to all points in general as well! This is more of a question/clarification. For…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – March 25, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
#weekly-meeting-notes Meeting transcript Weekly Locale Stats Below stats are dated 2020-03-25 compared to 2020-03-18 (differences…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – March 25, 2020 (6 UTC), on the site Translate WordPress:
Here’s the agenda for our weekly chat. This meeting will be held at [time]Wednesday, March…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, I am part…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@sixaxis Thanks for submitting many suggestions, however, I've taken a quick look at the translations…

1 month ago
Created a new ticket, #5109, in Meta Trac:
Remove mention to Google Translator Toolkit

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Nordot: Content Curation & Syndication, on the site Translate WordPress:
@harunakaneko わかりやすい説明がなかったので、動画を作ってみました。他の人も使えるように英語ですが、画面を見ていただくだけでも文書のドキュメントより少しわかりやすいかもしれません。 https://youtu.be/gZuanT86mpA

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, I am part…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I added @dmorita as a PTE. Daiya, welcome and congrats to your first PTE project!…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Nordot: Content Curation & Syndication, on the site Translate WordPress:
@harunakaneko 英文で簡潔なものですが、操作方法の概要はこちらでご覧いただけます。 https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/#approval-of-translations-validating http://bit.ly/wpja-styleguide のページの上部にある Slack の #translate チャンネルに参加していただければ、そちらで質問していただくこともできます。よろしくお願いします。

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
As we discussed at the retrospective of the last release cycle, we are restoring our…

1 month ago