[Gendergap] What Gender is Wikipedia?

[Johannes Rohr]

Am 30.12.2011 03:13 schrieb "Sarah Stierch" <sarah.stierch at gmail.com>:
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> Hi folks,
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> While a discussion was taking place on this list about gender neutrality
and language, Victor (User:victorgrigas) and I were having a conversation
about it via email. Victor decided to create a page about "what language is
Wikipedia?"
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> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Gender_Is_Wikipedia
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> Hopefully you will contribute to your own and other languages.
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> Interesting mention about Russian Wikipedia, it states that they refer to
Wikipedia as a female,

Sure. Same in German. In Slavic languages, most nouns ending in -a or -ya
are female, in German, it is somewhat similar. There is absolutely nothing
special about this. In Ukrainian, even the word for 'human' is female:
liudyna. But I doubt that this says much about culture or society..

Johannes

similar to how in English we refer to ships as women.
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> Aweee...even Klingon is featured }:)   (How sentimental!)
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> -Sarah
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