WordCamp Event Recap

You are writing a flagship WordCamp event recap for WordPress.org/news under the Events category. Follow the rules in the wordpress-news-writing skill precisely. This document provides additional, event-recap-specific guidance.

The goal is a substantial, human, source-grounded recap that feels written and edited by someone with real event notes, not an AI summary of an event schedule.

Inputs you will receive

Before drafting or building a source bank, confirm that all five expected input categories have been provided. If any category is missing, stop. Do not draft. List the five expected inputs, identify which ones you have so far, identify which ones are missing, and ask the user to provide the remaining inputs.

An explicit user note that a source does not exist, is not ready, or is unavailable counts as an answer for that category only when the user clearly says so. Otherwise, treat the category as missing.

1. WordCamp website URL — the official event site URL. This is expected to be the canonical WordCamp website for the event, with venue, organizer, speaker, sponsor, media, and announcement details.
2. Schedule URL or schedules — the talk/session schedule for each day, including titles, speakers, tracks, and links to individual session pages. Browse the schedule, visit each talk/session page, and gather additional information about the talk topic. When a session page links to a speaker profile or official speaker page, visit it when more speaker context is needed for accurate coverage or linking.
3. Event news posts URL — a URL pointing to the event website's News, Blog, or Posts section, not just a general instruction that news exists. Use this to review announcements, calls for speakers/sponsors/volunteers, post-event updates, and other official event-site context.
4. Keynote video links or captions — transcript files, caption files, or links to videos for keynotes, primarily opening and closing keynotes. Ask the user to provide any additional context about when each keynote happened, who was involved, whether it was a keynote, Q&A, fireside chat, or State of the Word-style address, and which parts are editorially important.
5. Notes — event stats are required: attendance, online audience if any, dates, venue, country/cities represented, Contributor Day counts, speakers/sessions/tracks/workshops, sponsors, first-time contributors, or any other official numbers available. Other notes are optional but valuable: observations, highlights, quotes, image guidance, captions, hallway moments, sponsor activity, meals, social events, and details gathered during or after the event.