I agree with Beria here :) If (where) you implement it, then do it well.
Creating a look-a-like solution with redirect-and-template structures seems
a bit like a typical wikipedia-workaround, and I probably don't have to
remind you that many of these workarounds together (resulting in complicated
templates for example) are one of the reasons we are loosing touch with a
big part of our potential editor base.
Best,
Lodewijk
2011/2/14 Béria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com>
I have one:
I want you to tell me WHY is easy make a female noob will be able to use
javascript, templates and redirects than click in one button and say "I'm a
girl".
MediaWiki is full of things since forever. The software will not broke
because one more feature.
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*Béria Lima (Beh)
(351) 925 171 484*
2011/2/14 Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral315(a)gmail.com>
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.
- Let users add a template to their user and talk pages that changes the
title of the page from Benutzer to Benutzerin. This could be easily done
using the magic word {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and possibly JavaScript to modify
the
user/user talk links at the top of the page.
This has the benefits of not adding more code to MediaWiki, not requiring
users to choose their gender unless they want to, and ensuring that if
someone doesn't know whether I'm male or female, they can get to my user
page without having to guess.
It would obviously be a decision for communities to make, but if there
were
consensus to do it, I'm pretty sure that it
could easily be done this
way.
Any thoughts?
--
[[User:Ral315]]
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