Well, particulary, I have no problem with the male &quot;Usuário&quot; (in portuguese). And sincerely, I don&#39;t think the fact of see a male word will push me out Wikippedia. We are quite used to use a male word in portuguese when we don&#39;t know the gender of someone, but yes, would be nice to see a &quot;Usuária&quot; in my page :D<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/5 Erik Moeller <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:erik@wikimedia.org">erik@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
one example of discrimination in the software we use (MediaWiki) is<br>
the way user pages are designated and displayed. If you create a user<br>
profile, your page is called &quot;User:Yournamehere&quot;. This works fine in<br>
English, but in some other languages, the default for &quot;User:&quot; is the<br>
male translation. Some have aliases (but always display the male<br>
expression), others don&#39;t.<br>
<br>
There&#39;s actually a bug report about this for Polish:<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160</a><br>
<br>
I am wondering:<br>
- Are there people on this list affected by this? If so, how do you<br>
feel about it - how important would it be to you to get this fixed?<br>
- Are there other examples of discriminatory language (or interfaces)<br>
that are built into the software?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Erik<br>
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