2011/2/12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Given that we want to be more welcoming to women, I think it is awesome that
we will be able to address women as women. The fact that we gain some
statistical insight is a fringe benefit.
The only question left is, when can this be
I have one:
I want you to tell me WHY is easy make a female noob will be able to use
javascript, templates and redirects than click in one button and say I'm a
girl.
MediaWiki is full of things since forever. The software will not broke
because one more feature.
*Béria Lima (Beh)
(351) 925
I agree with Beria here :) If (where) you implement it, then do it well.
Creating a look-a-like solution with redirect-and-template structures seems
a bit like a typical wikipedia-workaround, and I probably don't have to
remind you that many of these workarounds together (resulting in complicated
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:32:34 -0500, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com
wrote:
Rather than implementing MediaWiki code that could be controversial,
there's
probably an easier solution that requires no code:
- Add a pseudo-namespace (such as the WP: prefix on Wikipedia, WN: on
Wikinews,
And do you want it to be implemented :) But that question is to be
answered on a community level of course - but I guess there are a few
potential reasons why they might not want to implement it:
* It could potentially give people the feeling they have to tell their
gender: some people might not
Lodewijk is absolutely right. For example, Benutzer in German is a
default term, it covers both male and female users (probably the same
with gebruiker in Dutch), so why change it to something causing
problems all over the place, not only technical ones? They can add it
to the code of Mediawiki
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
And do you want it to be implemented :) But that question is to be
answered on a community level of course - but I guess there are a few
potential reasons why they might not want to implement it:
[...]
* Although
Gerard, a girl posting here, not anymore a male discussion ;)
*Lodewijk and Thomas: so why change it to something causing problems all
over the place, not only technical ones?*
Why? Maybe to call a girl by her real gender. The problems you both listed
are not real problems. The male version is
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
Lodewijk: Gerard, this wouldn't really help to attract more new female
users.
Could you please tell me why? I can set my preferences to male or
female, but i can't see my user page with my real gender. And yes, that
is a
To be absolutely clear: I am not against the feature, I am just
against applying it to every user that indicated his/her gender
without asking. Up to now (afaik) the male/female setting was only
used for communication *to* the user: that is private. To turn on
suddenly a feature that shows this
So my user page would be at Male:Mono or Man:Mono?
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
To be absolutely clear: I am not against the feature, I am just
against applying it to every user that indicated his/her gender
without asking. Up to now (afaik) the
No Momo, your user page will be User:Mono as always.
_
*Béria Lima (Beh)
(351) 925 171 484*
2011/2/13 The Mono m...@mono.x10.bz
So my user page would be at Male:Mono or Man:Mono?
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
wrote:
To be absolutely clear: I am not
Rather than implementing MediaWiki code that could be controversial, there's
probably an easier solution that requires no code:
- Add a pseudo-namespace (such as the WP: prefix on Wikipedia, WN: on
Wikinews, etc.) that forwards from Benutzerin to Benutzer (and the relevant
User talk namespaces).
Hoi,
In English the word User does not indicate if it is male or female, The
word Gebruiker or Benutzer do; the female form is Gebruikster or
Benutzerin. It is with pleasure that I learned that Nikerabbit has written
the code that allows for those languages where there is both a male and a
female
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