I was just talking about this yesterday - In the Dutch Wikipedia, gender-neutral language is used for occupations and during the Art&Feminism edit-a-thon we remarked on how difficult it is to track down female artists if the lead sentence is gender neutral. This is compounded by the fact that the Dutch Wikipedia does not allow gender categories at all (which does solve the "Ghettoization" problem we constantly have in the English Wikipedia where women are in the "Women <skill>" categories rather than the main categories). In the English Wikipedia we also only have gender-neutral languages for most occupations, but that is because we discarded gender-based words so long ago (poet vs. poetess).
2014-02-02, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com>: > Hi Bob - > > Unfortunately I both don't speak German, and don't have the time to go > through a long and messy RfC on the subject in a language I don't > understand currently. However the issue as it has been framed in your > original post certainly sounds concerning. If you have the time (and I > certainly understand if you dont,) would you be willing to provide a > slightly more in depth summary fo what's going on currently. > > Thanks, > Kevin Gorman > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
