On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi John! I take your point. OK, let me break this into
two parts.
Strategy 1. WMF needs to know (as much as possible) which editors are
female/male. It is pointless having a goal in relation to female
participation while we neither know what it currently is and whether or not
anything we do causes it to change or achieve the designed target. Right
now
there are a lot of "ungendered" users on Wikipedia, who make it hard to
know
what is actually going on.
So, having a campaign and or inviting new users to provide their gender
would be a Good Thing for measurement.
Just FYI, where is the user's gender revealed? I
must say that, other than
consulting my own preferences, I have never noticed where my gender or
anyone else's is revealed, although I know everyone says it is ...
somewhere
It's possible it isn't, in English (does anyone know for sure?), because
English verbs have no gender marker. But many languages have mandatory
gender in their verbal systems, and thus, for example, their equivalent of
"User:Person thanked you for your edit" would have the equivalent word for
"thanked" as X if Person is female or Y if Person is male.
A.
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