Well, particulary, I have no problem with the male "Usuário" (in
portuguese). And sincerely, I don'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't know the gender of someone, but yes, would be nice to see a
"Usuária" in my page :D
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2011/2/5 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi,
one example of discrimination in the software we use (MediaWiki) is
the way user pages are designated and displayed. If you create a user
profile, your page is called "User:Yournamehere". This works fine in
English, but in some other languages, the default for "User:" is the
male translation. Some have aliases (but always display the male
expression), others don't.
There's actually a bug report about this for Polish:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160
I am wondering:
- Are there people on this list affected by this? If so, how do you
feel about it - how important would it be to you to get this fixed?
- Are there other examples of discriminatory language (or interfaces)
that are built into the software?
Thanks,
Erik
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