Mark Williamson dixit:
Anthere,
Remember that, so far as we have been able to tell, there _is_ a disproportionate majority of male Wikimedia project users...
I tend to make a guess based on the username, and sometimes the result is bizzarre. If you consider it, most people have in their mind a register of names which belong to people, and which are usually for boys and which are for girls.
Names such as "Anthere", "Aphaia", "Eloquence", "Maverick", "Dori", "The Epopt", "HaafLimbo", "Guaka", "Cicero", and the like, I judge based on existing data which can have odd results since none or only a couple of these names are already in my personal register.
"Anthere" I judged as a man (however if in the future I meet somebody with the screenname "Zinthere" I will probably judge them as a woman), "Aphaia" as a woman, "Eloquence" as a woman, "Maverick" as a man, "Dori" as a woman ("Dori" is the name of a female fish in a movie I saw so this one was not without precedent), "The Epopt" as a man, "HaafLimbo" as a man, "Guaka" as a man, and "Cicero" as a man.
Thanks, Mark. And sorry for causing headache, Anthere... Btw, Cicero is a woman, though she herself agrees her nick name suggests the opposite.
Wouter
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