https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442
--- Comment #39 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> 2012-10-16 19:31:39 UTC --- Sorry if I repeat some things previously said, but I don't have time to read the massive number of comments above. My perspective, shaped by the priorities laid out at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience, is the following: The reason the gender preference exists is to support proper l10n of MediaWiki. This is most important to users in languages such as Portuguese or Russian, where fundamental parts of the software, like the term used for the User namespace, need to be customized to indicate masculine or feminine. With that in mind, I would strongly support adding a *configurable* gender field into registration. This gives us the best of both worlds: it avoids annoying English users or other projects where gender is pretty much totally unimportant for localization, while making it available to users who really need it. I don't think we're immediately adding a gender field for our first pass on testing and productization, but I will note this bug and the associated feature idea as something to consider as a nice to have for our work on editor engagement experiments. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
