Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core

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

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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