In reply to Matt.

Dear Matt,

this phenomenon has historical reasons in my opinion.

When I began my contributions to the project in spring 2012 there was a Rosetta page for the German speaking community, which was only used to build the release packages.

You know the history of the German speaking community well, I guess. ;-)

There was a community driven forum and a community site beyond the .org ecosystem. I remember the struggles we had to fill the Rosetta site with related content at the beginning. It was hard to switch from a working community site with full edit rights to a .org restricted backend of a Rosetta site.

Andrew Nacin knows how often I bothered him to get more functionality on the local sites like a team P2/O2.

Since the Contributor Day 2014 at the WordCamp Hamburg, we have a bigger team in the German speaking community. One sub-group is responsible for the content creation of the local site https://de.wordpress.org/. It is really great to watch this shift.

5 years after I picked up the role as locale manager for #de_DE I saw a lot of improvements. There are many open tickets to get closed to make the administration of a local site easier and more comfortable.

But I can imagine, that locales with a lower count of active volunteering members are struggling with that kind of work.

This is one reason, why the Polyglots team does is organizing the Global WordPress Translation Day.

As long as the most of the Polyglots are volunteers we can't expect a fast ongoing. But we will do our best to motivate and educate to do it better.