Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> I would wait for actual use-cases to come up to bother with this,
> though. We should just make sure that nothing in the basic framework
> really strictly assumes a male/female/unknown trichotomy.
>
>> What are the cascading implications of user gender on localization
>> (adjective agreement in Romance languages, verb agreement in Semitic
>> languages) and what technical requirements would be imposed?
>
> You'd likely need to write messages like "Automatically block the last
> IP address used by this user, and any subsequent IPs {{#gender:$1|he
> tries|she tries|they try}} to edit from", where $1 is the *username*
I think you're assuming on the syntax the male/female/unknown trichotomy
you wanted to avoid.
IMHO it should be: "block any subsequent IPs {{#gender:$1|male=he
tries|female=she tries|default=they try}} to edit from"
Now, the order isn't hardcoding the Zulitutsi gender.
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