Frances Hocutt <[email protected]> writes: > One change that could address the latter incentive is to change the > defaults on MediaWiki so that masculine grammatical gender is not the > default for new users. It could be randomly assigned, and then some men as > well as some women would have the incentive to set their gender preferences.
That's how it currently works, according to the manual, with the default gender set to 'unknown': http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions I'm not sure if that's a recent change, or what's in effect on Wikimedia's own wikis, though. -Mark -- Mark J. Nelson http://www.kmjn.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
