On 12/27/2011 8:23 PM, Ms. Anne Frazer wrote:
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 1:23 AM Carol Moore
carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
No matter what the main language of the Wikimedia foundation - and
who knows what it might be 50 years from now - finding ways to more
actively get non-main
Interesting en.wp discussion started by a new editor, made visible through
the new editor feedback dashboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedbackDashboard/11753
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Gender-neutral_language
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product
Yes, the traditional usage has been predominantly masculine, but in
modern usage, they is the dominant form. See my reply at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Gender-neutral_language#She_before_he.3F
Ryan Kaldari
On 12/28/11 4:50 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:06
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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Yes, the traditional usage has been predominantly masculine, but in modern
usage, they is the dominant form. See my reply at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Gender-neutral_language#She_before_he.3F
I think the way grammatical gender and gender inequality relate is an
interesting topic, but this debate will get off-topic and technical
quite quickly. Nevertheless, I gave it a stab in my inline replies
below, along with hopefully a more useful observation.
On 12/28/11 8:08 PM, Theo10011
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Yes, the traditional usage has been predominantly masculine, but in modern
usage, they is the dominant form. See my reply at
https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefsdb=ruwikiversity is a
tool that allows you to check the participation rates of males/females on
various wikiprojects based on users who explicitly state this information
in their profile. I've been trying to get this data for specific country
pages
