On 08/20/2013 11:27 PM, Oona Castro wrote:
Thank you, Fabrice, Benny Situ and EE team! "Thanks" feature is still being translated so I could not check it properly in my tests. But I was trying to check whether gender variations will apply. If we say "this user has thanked you", no variation would apply. But if we use "thank you", then it does: Obrigado (for male) and Obrigada (for female), being the variation applied for the gender of the user who is thanking (and not the one being thanked). In the translation tool, I didn't find where/how to provide the 2 options.
Yes, gender support seems to be present almost everywhere in the extension. I found what I believe is a documentation error, pending review (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80329/).
It does use the gender of the thanker (though I can't help but wonder if there's some language that uses the recipient, or both).
In general, MediaWiki handles this with a gender magic word. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GENDER#Users_have_grammatical_genders . I don't use TranslateWiki, so I don't know if they have a special interface for this, or you enter the magic word directly.
Matt Flaschen