On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John! I take your point. OK, let me break this into two parts.
>>
>> Strategy 1. WMF needs to know (as much as possible) which editors are
>> female/male. It is pointless having a goal in relation to female
>> participation while we neither know what it currently is and whether or
>> not
>> anything we do causes it to change or achieve the designed target. Right
>> now
>> there are a lot of "ungendered" users on Wikipedia, who make it hard to
>> know
>> what is actually going on.
>>
>> So, having a campaign and or inviting new users to provide their gender
>> would be a Good Thing for measurement.
>>
>>
>> Just FYI, where is the user's gender revealed? I must say that, other than
>> consulting my own preferences, I have never noticed where my gender or
>> anyone else's is revealed, although I know everyone says it is ...
>> somewhere
>
>
> It's possible it isn't, in English (does anyone know for sure?), because
> English verbs have no gender marker. But many languages have mandatory
> gender in their verbal systems, and thus, for example, their equivalent of
> "User:Person thanked you for your edit" would have the equivalent word for
> "thanked" as X if Person is female or Y if Person is male.
Any user template can use/display it using the gender parser function.
I believe any UI component, like JS gadgets, can use/show it.