Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de writes:
More to the point, the system is indeed asking about the grammatical gender. That this is connected to biological sex doesn't matter to mediawiki.
OK, opened https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18841 to make that clear to the user, and also only ask gender by default if it will be in fact used for the current language.