hi, actually there were two questions. one was if a vote about the topic (have a rule for gender-something in articles) makes sense. a 3:1 majority says: no. the main reason is "do not patronise the autor." and the second question was if people do support the proposal or not. the proposed rule itself proposes a classical language. with no surprise after the result of the first question, a lot less answered here. a 2:1 majority says: no, this rule should not be like proposed.
rupert. On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just talking about this yesterday - In the Dutch Wikipedia, > gender-neutral language is used for occupations and during the > Art&Feminism edit-a-thon we remarked on how difficult it is to track > down female artists if the lead sentence is gender neutral. This is > compounded by the fact that the Dutch Wikipedia does not allow gender > categories at all (which does solve the "Ghettoization" problem we > constantly have in the English Wikipedia where women are in the "Women > <skill>" categories rather than the main categories). In the English > Wikipedia we also only have gender-neutral languages for most > occupations, but that is because we discarded gender-based words so > long ago (poet vs. poetess). > > 2014-02-02, Kevin Gorman <[email protected]>: > > Hi Bob - > > > > Unfortunately I both don't speak German, and don't have the time to go > > through a long and messy RfC on the subject in a language I don't > > understand currently. However the issue as it has been framed in your > > original post certainly sounds concerning. If you have the time (and I > > certainly understand if you dont,) would you be willing to provide a > > slightly more in depth summary fo what's going on currently. > > > > Thanks, > > Kevin Gorman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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