[Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have asked women from different communities about this, I have asked men
from different communities about this. For some languages the compromise is
not one of selecting either but using unnatural language. For some languages
women indicate that not being addressed properly makes them less inclined to
participate. In the Russian Wikipedia they use templates to show namespaces
depending on the gender of the person involved. For quite a number of
languages we are waiting for this software to be implemented in our live
environment with ready localisations.

Mislabeled suggest a choice. As a result of our ongoing ability to implement
gender in the strings it is only now possible to have gender specific name
spaces. We do not have the functionality yet to have logs that are gender
aware. We do not have a tool yet to localise / proof read only those
messages with gender functionality.

Our internationalisation has improved considerably over time and we are
better able to treat both men and women with the respect they are due.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 23 March 2011 20:14, Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:37 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> > Given the recent uproar at the discovery that the User namespace has been
> > mislabeled for female editors for years, I would think that appropriately
> > addressing people who have volunteered to take a (lengthy) survey would
> be a
> > high priority.
>
> It wasn't "mislabeled", why would you think that it was?  The nouns in
> many languages have genders, and the default for that case is almost
> always male.  It's not very fair, but females are used to it. :-)  It
> certainly wasn't "mislabeled".
>
> --
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
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