Since we have the User object for the collection owner, we could include
owner's gender as one of the parameters for that message.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Jon Robson wrote:
> I've replied on the bug with some ideas... let's continue the conversation
> there :-)
> On 29 Mar 2015 2:50 pm
I've replied on the bug with some ideas... let's continue the conversation
there :-)
On 29 Mar 2015 2:50 pm, "Amir E. Aharoni"
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am translating Gather, and I feel very uncomfortable about the term
> "Owner".
>
> It's challenging to translate, because in the languages I care about
OK, if it's intentional as I suspected, then it's fine :)
Gender will be an issue with any word. For the particular case of this
table it doesn't actually matter, because it refers to multiple users, but
if you ever write a message that refers to a particular known user, please
make sure that it s
Thanks, Alex! I see, now.
Amir, you guessed it: owner is intentional in this space because it is
really important that anyone potentially moderating this knows that it is
not a collaborative work and it very much is the opinion of the person who
created it. It is going to be a big mind-shift for
Indeed it is only API documentation and the label of the user column on the
administration view Special:GatherLists so it isn't something *widely*
visible.
I'm fine with renaming it to whatever you guys feel is appropiate.
I've created a phab task to track this on the current sprint, we can
conti
I'm guessing it's one of these:
alex@alex-laptop:~/Development/MediaWiki/extensions/Gather (master)$ grep
-i owner i18n/en.json
"gather-lists-collection-owner": "Owner",
"apihelp-gather-param-owner": "Owner of the collections to search for. If
omitted, defaults to current user.",
alex@alex-laptop:~
Hi Amir,
I want to help on this, but am not sure where this shows up. Can you refer
us to where in the interface owner appears?
Thanks,
J
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am translating Gather, and I feel very uncomfortable about
Hi,
I am translating Gather, and I feel very uncomfortable about the term
"Owner".
It's challenging to translate, because in the languages I care about -
Hebrew and Russian - it requires gender. Now gender can be added without
too much technical effort, but there's still the general feeling of
di
