I see. Thanks Dan.

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:

This is due to an option in Special:Preferences where you can choose your sex. If it's unset or set to male, then Benutzerin will redirect to Benutzer. If it's set to female, then Benutzer redirects to Benutzerin. This is consistent with the German language. I've confirmed using a script that the Melly42 account has the sex set to female.

I'm actually rather impressed by this feature. It's a nice little use of the preference that I'd never seen before.

Dan

On 24 December 2013 10:47, Qichen Tu tuqc@google.com wrote:

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Hi All,

I want to ask a question about the namespace alias redirection.

On the de.wikipedia.org, Benutzerin is the namespace alias of Benutzer,

so

...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Melly42<

http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzeri...

...

...

should redirect to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Melly42<

http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer%...

...

...

. But the real situation is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Melly42<

http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer%...

...

...

redirecting to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Melly42<

http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzeri...

...

...

.

Anybody could tell me what happened?

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