On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
Do you need the gender of the current user, or of another user? If you need the gender of the current user, all you need to do is depend on mediawiki.user and mediawiki.jqueryMsg, then just pass mw.user (the user object) as the parameter to {{GENDER:$1|...}}. If you need the gender of a different user, I'm not sure that's even available. "Gergo Tisza" gtisza@wikimedia.org writes:
I need the gender of a different user (the one who uploaded a given image - not even necessarily a user on the same wiki). It is available via the users API, [1] what I need to know is whether it is necessary.
Maybe not a good solution but a working one: Just assume the user did not reveal their gender: use the "gender unknown" message variant and avoid gender processing. Of course, you could make this behavior depend on a sort of "misermode" switch.
Purodha