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# Our year 2021 in review
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<small>2021-12-29 | [@andrea](/@andrea)</small>
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What a busy year it was!
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We started it with just three language versions – now there's ten of them,
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with even more being at various stages of preparation.
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We started with a humble 3,6k weekly visits from 2,6k unique visitors
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– last week it was 223k visits from 144k unique visitors! That's over 50x increase! 🤯
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At the moment we host 277k cards created by 335k registered accounts
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(in January we'll start removing those that don't have a card and just hoard the username).
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We added plenty of new features:
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[the Queer Calendar](/calendar), along with its [Mastodon](https://tech.lgbt/@QueerCalendar) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/CalendarQueer) bots,
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[the Glossary of Queer Terminology](/terminology),
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[the Dictionary of Inclusive Language](https://zaimki.pl/inkluzywny) (only in Polish for now),
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new login and security options,
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and tons of smaller features, improvements, optimisations and bug fixes.
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We pushed 1876 commits to our repository!
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Most of our efforts are focused on the Polish version,
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where it's more about establishing and promoting nonbinary and gender-inclusive in the first place,
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rather than just hosting cards.
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In February, we conducted the [first census of Polish nonbinary language](https://zaimki.pl/blog/spis-2021)
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and got whooping 2211 responses!
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We used the results, along with opinions of experts, to prepare our [Manifest](https://zaimki.pl/blog/manifest)
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with which we're taking a more active role in shaping the language
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by trying to help Polish enbies pick their pronouns despite their language not having any normative, “default” neutral option.
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We've also collected submissions to [a zine](https://zaimki.pl/zin) about discovering one's gender identity and living as a nonbinary person.
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Our efforts to popularise nonbinary forms seem to be working – the number of books, tv shows, games etc.
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that use them and that we managed to find grew from mere 20 in 2019, to 78 in 2020, to 133 in 2021!
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Our team was [invited to various media outlets](https://zaimki.pl/media) 14 times,
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and was mentioned in the media at least 36 times, including being made fun of by the government-controlled right-wing TV station 😉
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We also consulted on multiple academic papers and on the Polish translation of Mark Gevisser's book _The Pink Line_.
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Among all the terrible things happening in the world, at least for our humble project it was a great year.
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And we wish all our queer siblings that the coming one brings them plenty of happiness, joy, acceptance, inclusivity and equality ❤️
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