<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Wouldn't the obvious thing in the Spanish Wikipedia be to differentiate between usuario and usuaria? As in Página del usuario / Página de la usuaria?</div><div><br></div><div>Andreas<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 5/10/11, patricia morales <i><mariadelcarmenpatricia@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: patricia morales <mariadelcarmenpatricia@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedystka<br>To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Date: Wednesday, 5 October, 2011, 18:10<br><br><div id="yiv620014656"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new
roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px;border:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);height:0px;line-height:0;font-size:0px;" class="yiv620014656hr"></div><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> patricia morales <mariadelcarmenpatricia@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:51 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[Gendergap] Wikipedystka<br></font><br>
<div id="yiv620014656"><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span>It seems to me very kind, but not related to the ethymology nor the use of the words (I have not information about Polish).</span></div>
<div><span>In English you have the male suffix -ian and the female suffix -ienne : <a rel="nofollow" title="comedienne" target="_blank" href="http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/comedienne">comedienne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" title="equestrienne" target="_blank" href="http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/equestrienne">equestrienne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" title="tragedienne" target="_blank" href="http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/tragedienne">tragedienne</a>.</span></div>
<div><span>At the same time you have the suffix -ist for both gender (coming from -ista (Latin) and -istes (old Greek)</span></div>
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<div><span>In Spanish and other langues with differentiaded articles we have:</span></div>
<div><span>El artista y la artista</span></div>
<div><span>La wikipedista (female editor) and el wikipedista (male editor).</span></div>
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<div><span>In Spanish and other languages it is sometimes used <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:amig@s" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=amig@s">amig@s</a> for having a gender sensitivity.</span></div>
<div><span>We could use wikipedist@ , explaining that.</span></div>
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<div><span><var id="yiv620014656yui-ie-cursor"></var>best regards,</span></div>
<div><span>Patricia</span></div>
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<div style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px;border:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);height:0px;line-height:0;font-size:0px;" class="yiv620014656hr"></div><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:18 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Gendergap] Wikipedystka<br></font><br>"Wikipedystka", in Polish, describes a female Wikipedian (as opposed<br>to the male "wikipedysta"). As of today, Polish female Wikipedians are<br>no longer called "wikipedysta" if they choose to publicly identify<br>their gender as female.<br><br>Here are a few
examples:<br>http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:Tanja5<br>http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:Joanna_Ko%C5%9Bmider<br>http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:AldraW<br><br>This is also visible in other places, e.g. recent changes on Polish Wikipedia.<br><br>This change is a result of the roll-out of a new version of our<br>software. Other languages, like German, which also have<br>gender-specific terms to describe users, will be upgraded in the<br>coming days.<br><br>It's a small thing, but hopefully it'll make gender diversity (and<br>lack thereof) a bit more visible, at least in languages which are more<br>expressive than English. ;-)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Erik<br><br>-- <br>Erik Möller<br>VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation<br><br>Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gendergap mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow"
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