On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:52 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> > > 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. It's also able to be fetched through the API: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=1.2.3.4|Catrope|Vandal01|Bob&usprop=gender&continue -Frances
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