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Wikimedia Is Moving Toward Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns

Wikimedia Is Moving Toward Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns

by The Daily Eye Team April 7 2017, 1:51 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secs

Wikimedia editors are considering a move to gender-neutral pronouns as default policy on some of the network's pages in hopes of becoming a more inclusive community. The move will start with Wikimedia Commons and Help pages, and has been met with general positivity so far. It grew out of discussions at the annual Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, according to user Fæ, who made the initial proposal Tuesday. Main Commons and Help namespaces would automatically support edits to gender-neutral pronouns, replacing "his or her" with "their" when preferred gender pronoun isn't specified.

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Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri


Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is a film buff and an editor. Books commissioned and edited by him have won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema twice and the inaugural MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Images) Award for Best Writing on Cinema. In 2017, he was named Editor of the Year by the apex publishing body, Publishing Next. He has written for the online magazine Film Companion. He is a consultant, writer and editor for the newly launched film website Cinemaazi.com. He is the author of two books: Whims – A Book of Poems (published by Writers Workshop) and Icons from Bollywood (published by Penguin/Puffin).    


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