In my opinion it doesn't clearly explain higher gender identification on ru.wiki
Similar topic was a few days on Wikitech-l and I wrote:
"Polish, Czech, Russian Wikipedias have alias in feminine form (source: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php) - it means that also males can use female alias, for example http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:Leinad (female alias) => http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Leinad (regular namespace in masculine form)."
Moreover, users on Polish Wikipedia by visiting [[Special:Watchlist]] see a message asking them to set gender in Preferences, because it allows to customize the interface (using {{GENDER:}}).
Make a note that currently gender support for interface is only partial, there are still pending or undeployed bugs (some are resolved just a few days ago, so I hope to see them in near time :-).
Maybe Russian Wikipedia had special campaign promoting to set gender in Preferences? :D
-- Leinad
2011/2/14 Andreas Kolbe jayen466@yahoo.com:
The following post from the Foundation list may explain why gender identification is so much higher in Russian Wikipedia than it is in other projects.
Andreas
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:32:34 -0500, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral315@gmail.com wrote:
Rather than implementing MediaWiki code that could be controversial, there's probably an easier solution that requires no code:
- Add a pseudo-namespace (such as the WP: prefix on Wikipedia, WN: on
Wikinews, etc.) that forwards from Benutzerin to Benutzer (and the
relevant
User talk namespaces). This would mean that either Benutzer or
Benutzerin
would successfully link to one's user pages.
My understanding is that this is how it has been realized in Russian Wikipedia for years already: we have for some female users Участница:X rather than Участник:Х (default). It seems to work, and nobody ever complained.
Cheers Yaroslav
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