[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-05-16 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 TeleComNasSprVen changed: What|Removed |Added Status|PATCH_TO_REVIEW |UNCONFIRMED Ever confirmed|1

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-05-16 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 TeleComNasSprVen changed: What|Removed |Added CC||drevit...@gmail.com --- Comment #19

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-04-01 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #18 from Ryan Kaldari --- Ah, I see what you mean. I still think it makes a lot more sense to have the default be the first parameter for gender, regardless of how it works for PLURAL (since gender is most commonly unknown). As it w

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-04-01 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #17 from Nemo --- (In reply to Ryan Kaldari from comment #16) > I'm just curious if the i18n engineers would be open to fixing this in the > process. That's not a bug, it's a feature. It's certainly not going to change, especially

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-04-01 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #16 from Ryan Kaldari --- > Which first requires showing linguistic evidence of what grammatical > consequences the option/category in question would have, in order to > define what {{GENDER}} would need to show, then at what condit

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-03-31 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #15 from Nemo --- (In reply to Ryan Kaldari from comment #14) > The only tricky part is figuring out what the proper order of the values > should be in the i18n messages. Which first requires showing linguistic evidence of what gra

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-03-31 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 Ryan Kaldari changed: What|Removed |Added CC||rkald...@wikimedia.org --- Comment #14

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-08 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #13 from Jared Zimmerman (WMF) --- If you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns there are many languages that seem to have the concept of a gender neautral pronoun, not all of cours

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-08 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #12 from Jackmcbarn --- How do other languages handle users who pick the gender-neutral preference currently? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. __

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-08 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #11 from Andre Klapper --- I fail to see how this construction works in any other language than English (at least in those 3 other languages that I know), and I'm not convinced adding a "Translators: Come up with something that work

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #10 from Nemo --- «When selecting gender in Special:Preferences, use "They edit wiki pages" instead of "I prefer not to say", to be more in line with the "He edits wiki pages" and "She edits wiki pages" options.» It's not "more in l

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #9 from Gerrit Notification Bot --- Change 106179 had a related patch set uploaded by Jackmcbarn: Use gender-neutral wording in Special:Preferences https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106179 -- You are receiving this mail because: You

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 Gerrit Notification Bot changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |PATCH_TO_REVIEW Ever con

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #8 from Jared Zimmerman (WMF) --- @Jackmcbarn Thats basically it. When that options is chosen we'd use a gender neutral pronoun to talk about the users actions on site, where possible depending on the UI language. -- You are r

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #7 from Jackmcbarn --- I see now. Right now, the options read "Prefer not to say", "He edits wiki pages", and "She edits wiki pages". Would changing "Prefer not to say" to "They edit wiki pages" fix this, or is more needed? -- You

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #6 from Jared Zimmerman (WMF) --- @Jackmcbarn If i ask you if you want pizza, a burger, or salad, and give you the options A. Prefer not to say B. Salad C. Pizza does A map to a burger? many people WOULD prefer to say, but we don'

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 Jackmcbarn changed: What|Removed |Added CC||jackmcbarn+w...@gmail.com --- Comment #5

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 Bartosz Dziewoński changed: What|Removed |Added Status|REOPENED|UNCONFIRMED CC|

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 --- Comment #3 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) --- (In reply to comment #2) > Nemo, it's pretty clear you don't support this or any other move to be more > inclusive about gender issues in the software. By marking this as a dupe of a > closed bug yo

[Bug 59643] Provide further options than only binary gender

2014-01-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59643 Andre Klapper changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Unprioritized |Normal Version|unspecified