Casey Brown wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:37 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: >> Given the recent uproar at the discovery that the User namespace has been >> mislabeled for female editors for years, I would think that appropriately >> addressing people who have volunteered to take a (lengthy) survey would be a >> high priority. > > It wasn't "mislabeled", why would you think that it was? The nouns in > many languages have genders, and the default for that case is almost > always male. It's not very fair, but females are used to it. :-) It > certainly wasn't "mislabeled".
I was mostly referring to this post by Sue.[1] I'm not sure what better term I could use to describe a situation in which female editors are labeled site-wide as male editors in languages in which there is a proper alternate form. Given that there are now efforts under way[2] to correct this, I think it further underscores that there was a mislabeling of editors. MZMcBride [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-February/000171.html [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28052 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
