- From: Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:03:01 +0400
- To: lwatson@tetralogical.com, Spec-prod <spec-prod@w3.org>, chairs@w3.org
Hi Leonie, Thank you for your feedback. Sure, we can also add these pronouns to the list of terms to detect. Do you have a preference or suggestion as to what our guidance to the editors should be in those cases? Denis On 7/22/20 1:21 PM, Léonie Watson wrote: > Denis, this is a really positive step, thank you to you and the team. > > One suggestion - is it possible for PubRules to check for gender > specific pronouns (he/she, him/her etc.) too? > > They are rare in specifications, but do sometimes feature as part of use > cases or examples. > > Léonie. > > On 22/07/2020 09:40, Denis Ah-Kang wrote: >> Dear editors and chairs, >> >> In order to offer the best environment possible to its >> community, W3C is supporting the push for a more inclusive and >> neutral language, especially in our specifications. >> >> In the upcoming weeks, pubrules [1] will show a warning if >> terms like "master", "slave", "grandfather", "sanity" or >> "dummy" are detected in a specification and this will also >> be reflected in the Manual of style [2] with a list of >> alternatives. >> Note, since it may take time for the editors to change the >> branch name "master" to something else, we will not flag the >> URLs containing that word in the first place. >> >> Going forward, we will audit all the specification repositories >> and open issues if they contain problematic terms. >> >> Let me know if you have any comments/suggestions. >> >> Denis >> W3C Systems team >> >> [1] https://www.w3.org/pubrules/ >> [2] https://w3c.github.io/manual-of-style/ >> >
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