Am 30.12.2011 03:13 schrieb "Sarah Stierch" <[email protected]>: > > Hi folks, > > While a discussion was taking place on this list about gender neutrality and language, Victor (User:victorgrigas) and I were having a conversation about it via email. Victor decided to create a page about "what language is Wikipedia?" > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Gender_Is_Wikipedia > > Hopefully you will contribute to your own and other languages. > > Interesting mention about Russian Wikipedia, it states that they refer to Wikipedia as a female,
Sure. Same in German. In Slavic languages, most nouns ending in -a or -ya are female, in German, it is somewhat similar. There is absolutely nothing special about this. In Ukrainian, even the word for 'human' is female: liudyna. But I doubt that this says much about culture or society.. Johannes similar to how in English we refer to ships as women. > > Aweee...even Klingon is featured }:) (How sentimental!) > > -Sarah > > > -- > Sarah Stierch > Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow > >>Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today<< > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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