[Foundation-l] Showing the difference between the sexes

[Béria Lima]

I have one:

I want you to tell me WHY is easy make a female noob will be able to use
javascript, templates and redirects than click in one button and say "I'm a
girl".

MediaWiki is full of things since forever. The software will  not broke
because one more feature.
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*Béria Lima (Beh)
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2011/2/14 Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com>

> Rather than implementing MediaWiki code that could be controversial,
> there's
> probably an easier solution that requires no code:
>
> - Add a pseudo-namespace (such as the WP: prefix on Wikipedia, WN: on
> Wikinews, etc.) that forwards from Benutzerin to Benutzer (and the relevant
> User talk namespaces).  This would mean that either Benutzer or Benutzerin
> would successfully link to one's user pages.
>
> - Let users add a template to their user and talk pages that changes the
> title of the page from Benutzer to Benutzerin.  This could be easily done
> using the magic word {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and possibly JavaScript to modify the
> user/user talk links at the top of the page.
>
> This has the benefits of not adding more code to MediaWiki, not requiring
> users to choose their gender unless they want to, and ensuring that if
> someone doesn't know whether I'm male or female, they can get to my user
> page without having to guess.
>
> It would obviously be a decision for communities to make, but if there were
> consensus to do it, I'm pretty sure that it could easily be done this way.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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