[Wikipedia-l] One last word about user genders (was:sco/fiu-vroin danger..)

[Wouter Steenbeek]

>On 5/26/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
> > On English Wikipedia (dunno about the others) there is a facebook page
> > where you can put your photograph if you want people to know stuff like
> > gender (or you can just say "I am male" or "I am female" on your user
> > page).  In general it doesn't make much difference, though, and is not
> > relevant to use of Wikipedia.  I've managed perfectly well for about a
> > decade usually roleplaying female online, and nobody ever knows if I 
>don't
> > want them to know.  Even those who do know tend to forget, such is the
> > power of illusion.
>
>An illusion much harder to maintain in a language like French for
>exemple, where many times I will have to use a female form of a past
>participle or an adjective and give myself away ;-). It is quite an
>interesting thing to note , that English is  language with which it is
>much easier to hide your gender than with many other languages.
>
>Delphine
>
And of course, if you want to be sure your sex is not misinterpreted, you 
can use your real name as user name. I don't think I would consider a 
Delphine male at any time, no matter how drunk I may be...

Wouter

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