Frances Hocutt <fhocutt(a)wikimedia.org> writes:
One change that could address the latter incentive is
to change the
defaults on MediaWiki so that masculine grammatical gender is not the
default for new users. It could be randomly assigned, and then some men as
well as some women would have the incentive to set their gender preferences.
That's how it currently works, according to the manual, with the default
gender set to 'unknown':
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions
I'm not sure if that's a recent change, or what's in effect on
Wikimedia's own wikis, though.
-Mark
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