They are used in education, for class projects, in business and even in politics.īut the open nature of wikis and their ease of use can be a disadvantage.
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He liked it so much he decided to name his new web project after it.īasically, wikis are websites which are very easy to set up, because they generally use WYSIWYG tools (see Series 2) and they can then be edited by anybody – you don’t have to be the creator of the site to add more content. He was understandably confused and when he asked what it meant was told it simply meant the quick bus. Ward Cunningham, the man credited with developing the wiki concept for the internet, was at Honolulu airport in Hawaii and was told to take the ‘wiki wiki bus’. The ‘wiki’ part is actually a Hawaiian word meaning ‘quickly’. It’s open to anybody, anywhere at any time. It means that anyone can contribute their own information and content to the site. This is another example – OK, I get the '-pedia' part – that’s from encyclopedia, right? Yes, but what about the wiki? In fact it’s the 'wiki' part which is the USP (unique selling point) of Wikipedia.
But ask them what a ‘wiki’ is, and there’s a good chance you’ll be met with a blank look and a scratch of the head.īut what is Wikipedia? If you’ve followed this series from the beginning, you’ll have already seen some examples of words which are formed by blending two words together. At least not many who have access to the internet. There can’t be many people left who haven’t heard of Wikipedia. (Identity is cisgender gay man.'Wiki' – W-I-K-I. Singer-songwriter, occultist, and performance artist P-orridge, Genesis Breyer ( wikipedia, here)
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Retrieved 24 April 2020.Ĭoyote's bio on their personal website uses "they" to describe them, captured March 2016 "Kamala Harris: "My Pronouns Are She, Her, And Hers" CNN's Cuomo: "Mine Too "". Gibson's comment on a Reddit "Ask Me Anything", August 2014 "Lena Dunham's Sibling Grace 'Walked Like A Boy' At NYFW" on, retrieved April 2016 'Every step I take is a defiance': Rain Dove on modelling, Asia Argento and 'gender capitalism'. Justin Bond: 'I think everybody's trans', June 2011 If you don't feel confident to edit the table, you can use this Google form to send the information to Cassian and they'll edit the table for you. If you have to ask a celebrity what their pronouns are, be polite and sensitive - being asked about pronouns isn't always easy.Check for existing sources such as celebrity bios and existing interviews before asking a celebrity directly.
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If you have a more recent and at least equally reliable source for a celebrity's pronouns, feel free to change the source in the table.If there is no date on the source, write the month and year that you added the source to the table. Always add a date next to your source.If they have a page about them on Wikipedia, you can add them.
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"Tweet your favourite celebrities and ask them about their pronouns - then update the table so others can easily get it right." Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a central place for people to list them in a crowdsource kind of a way? But most celebrities haven’t stated their pronoun preference, and if they have, there’s not really an easy way to find out what that preference is. "And that means that most celebrities are going to have to be called they too. "This morning I’m enjoying the idea of referring to everyone as they until I know otherwise, not to misgender or to degender but because they also happens to be the pronoun you use when someone’s gender is unknown. I said that I’d like it if people just stopped assuming gender based on appearance. "He asked me to describe a society that included me (a nonbinary person) by default. "This morning I am thinking about my recent session with a gender-specialist counsellor at my gender identity clinic, and my feeling that cis binary as default is a very real thing that makes me feel marginalised. Introduction from Cassian Lodge's blog post, March 2016: This is not just for transgender and nonbinary celebrities, but for all celebrities. The celebrity pronoun project collects the pronouns of all celebrities for easy reference. If you are interested in bringing it back, feel free to leave a message in the discussion page. DisclaimerThe celebrity pronoun project is currently inactive, and this page has been kept as an archive.
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