[Gendergap] Hardcoded discrimination

[Erik Moeller]

Hi,

one example of discrimination in the software we use (MediaWiki) is
the way user pages are designated and displayed. If you create a user
profile, your page is called "User:Yournamehere". This works fine in
English, but in some other languages, the default for "User:" is the
male translation. Some have aliases (but always display the male
expression), others don't.

There's actually a bug report about this for Polish:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160

I am wondering:
- Are there people on this list affected by this? If so, how do you
feel about it - how important would it be to you to get this fixed?
- Are there other examples of discriminatory language (or interfaces)
that are built into the software?

Thanks,
Erik

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Erik Möller
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