An English Wikipedia gender neutral policy, similar to the one developed for Commons, is now under "lively" discussion in a Requests for Comment started this afternoon. You can read the proposed policy and join in by adding your viewpoint at: Shortcut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/RFC_GNL Full link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/RfC_to_adopt_a_default_gender_neutral_style_for_policy,_guidelines_and_help_pages
Some of the comments may be upsetting for some readers. I've actually been a bit surprised. If it's too much drama for you, go focus on something more fun. Thanks, Fae Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+ On 5 April 2017 at 11:44, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > * > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Defaulting_to_gender_neutral_language_in_the_Commons_namespace > > Hi, > > One of the outcomes from my weekend at the Wikimedia Conference in > Berlin, was that the various discussions over /feeling/ more welcoming > in our language presumptions for non-male contributors made me think > about taking some practical steps on my home project. Commons is lucky > that having a standard policy language of English makes it easier to > use neutral gender in policy statements. I'm taking that further by > proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and > help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or > she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all. I'm hoping > that the outcome will feel like a much more natural space for people > like me that prefer to stay gender neutral, possibly give a slightly > safer feeling to the project by the very act of making the effort, as > well as avoiding an over-emphasis on binary gender when it's pretty > easy to simply avoid it. > > Comments are welcome on the specific proposal, or you may have ideas > for other local projects to do something similar. I'm aware that this > is much more difficult to make progress on in languages such as German > or Spanish that have a presumption of male/female gender within their > vocabulary, so any cases of on-project initiatives in non-English > would be especially interesting. Solving these challenges is an > opportunity to make our projects a leader on gender neutrality... -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
