[Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

[MZMcBride]

Casey Brown 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".

I was mostly referring to this post by Sue.[1] I'm not sure what better term
I could use to describe a situation in which female editors are labeled
site-wide as male editors in languages in which there is a proper alternate
form. Given that there are now efforts under way[2] to correct this, I think
it further underscores that there was a mislabeling of editors.

MZMcBride

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-February/000171.html
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28052