Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core
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Slides from the presentation given at WordCamp US 2017, arguing for the ability for translators to add gender-variable translations to WordPress. Video: https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/08/yoav-farhi-gender-fair-wordpress-fixing-translation-inequality-at-the-core/
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Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core
- 1. Gender-Fair WordPress: Fixing Translation Inequality at the Core Yoav Farhi @yoavf
- 2. Gender-Fair WordPress: Fixing Translation Inequality at the Core Yoav Farhi @yoavf
- 3. […] 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
- 4. Two problems that arise are ambiguity, and stereotyping Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language. UNESCO, 1999. http://yoav.fr/unescolang
- 5. […] Hence the need to adjust our language when our ideas evolve. Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language. UNESCO, 1999. http://yoav.fr/unescolang
- 12. By Don Clark CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- 13. A policeman
- 14. A police officer A fireman
- 15. A police officer A firefighter A stewardess
- 16. A police officer A firefighter A flight attendant
- 17. ✔ English ✘ Some other languages Gender Neutral Grammar
- 18. I’d like you to meet someone
- 19. 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.
- 23. ראשית מפתחת
- 24. ראשי מפתח
- 25. User Roles
- 26. En Español… La Autora El Autor __( 'Author' )
- 27. En Français Editirice Editeur __( ‘Editor' )
- 28. “ ” 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
- 30. The Solution 1. A user profile field 2. A new translation function 3. GlotPress Support
- 37. In GlotPress