gender-fair wordpress: fixing translation inequality at the core
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Gender-Fair WordPress:Fixing Translation Inequality at the Core
Yoav Farhi @yoavf
Gender-Fair WordPress:Fixing Translation Inequality at the Core
Yoav Farhi @yoavf
[…] language does not merely reflect the way we think: it also shapes our thinking.
Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language. UNESCO, 1999. http://yoav.fr/unescolang
Two problems that arise are ambiguity, and stereotyping
Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language. UNESCO, 1999. http://yoav.fr/unescolang
[…] Hence the need to adjust our language when our ideas evolve.
Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language. UNESCO, 1999. http://yoav.fr/unescolang
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A policeman
A police officer A fireman
A police officer A firefighter A stewardess
A police officer A firefighter A flight attendant
✔ English ✘ Some other languages
Gender Neutral Grammar
I’d like you to meet someone
I’d like you to meet someone
She is the co-foundress of WordPress.
And the chairwoman of the WordPress foundation.
Her name is Matt Mullenweg.
Développeuse principale
Développeur principal
מפתחת ראשית
מפתח ראשי
User Roles
En Español…
La Autora El Autor
__( 'Author' )
En Français
Editirice Editeur
__( ‘Editor' )
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”FRENCH LINGUIST NICOLAS BEAUZÉE – 1767
The masculine gender is considered more noble than the feminine because of the superiority of the male over the female
French
HebrewGerman
Czech
RomanianPortugese
RussianArabic
Serbian
Spanish
UrduLithuanian
ItalianGreek
…
The Solution
1. A user profile field 2. A new translation function 3. GlotPress Support
https://cloudup.com/cfDq64A9FkV
https://cloudup.com/cfDq64A9FkV
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Translation Function
Make pot
I18n-tools
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42725
gp-gender plugin
GlotPress
In GlotPress
https://github.com/GlotPress/GlotPress-WP/pull/855
https://github.com/yoavf/gp-gender
Thank You!
Yoav Farhi @yoavf