On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi John! I take your point. OK, let me break this into two parts. >> >> Strategy 1. WMF needs to know (as much as possible) which editors are >> female/male. It is pointless having a goal in relation to female >> participation while we neither know what it currently is and whether or >> not >> anything we do causes it to change or achieve the designed target. Right >> now >> there are a lot of "ungendered" users on Wikipedia, who make it hard to >> know >> what is actually going on. >> >> So, having a campaign and or inviting new users to provide their gender >> would be a Good Thing for measurement. >> >> >> Just FYI, where is the user's gender revealed? I must say that, other than >> consulting my own preferences, I have never noticed where my gender or >> anyone else's is revealed, although I know everyone says it is ... >> somewhere > > > It's possible it isn't, in English (does anyone know for sure?), because > English verbs have no gender marker. But many languages have mandatory > gender in their verbal systems, and thus, for example, their equivalent of > "User:Person thanked you for your edit" would have the equivalent word for > "thanked" as X if Person is female or Y if Person is male.
Any user template can use/display it using the gender parser function. I believe any UI component, like JS gadgets, can use/show it. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l