2011/2/14 Daniel and Elizabeth Case <dancase(a)frontiernet.net>et>:
Of course, another question no one's asked is:
just what is the practical
effect or effects of indicating a gender preference on enwiki right now?
1) If you change your user interface language to a language that is
highly gendered, it will show appropriate messages. (There's only one
message, I believe, in English which is gender-customized.)
2) Some user boxes and other templates make use of the gender
preference to say things in a gender-specific way (instead of using
"he/she" or "they").
I think that's it.
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