https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53834
--- Comment #9 from Jared Zimmerman (WMF) <[email protected]> --- Nemo, emotion isn't the right word, but the tone of the current explanatory text is impersonal and due to its wording and placement (below controls) could be confusing, many user will not know what "grammatical gender" even means, leading to more confusion. line by line analysis: Setting this preference is optional. - not really, since its a radio control, you have to selection something The software uses its value to address you and to mention you to others using the appropriate grammatical gender. - "the software" many user don't think of websites as software, this feels overly technical, and isn't in simplified language that is clear on first read - The target of "its" is unclear - "mention you to others" is another sentence where the context is unclear, in what cases does the software mention me to others? - "grammatical gender" while technically correct, is overly specific, many users would have to look this up, to determine how this differs from "gender" and really in this particular instance does that difference really matter? This information will be public. - plenty of user actions and attributes are public on the site, why does this particular one need a callout to say so? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
