https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27743
Summary: Handle GENDER more effectively,
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.18-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Currently, user names are passed as parameters to message handling
routines and used there to detemine the users gender and return
language texts varying with the gender.
Sometimes, user names are also used to be included verbatim in messages.
Sometimes, rather links such as [[User:$2|$2]] are used instead.
Sometimes, series of links such as "Username (contribs, block, log, ...) "
are used and passed as parameters to messages.
This pactice has drawbacks:
A: Localizers often cannot immediately identify a parameter as being a plain
name suitable for GENDER use, or a link or series of links which cannot be
used.
B: When parameters for a message are evaluated, often a user object is already
there, then only a name is passed to message handling which has to evaluate its
own user object from the name in order to determine the gender. That's a waste.
C: Messages used outside the context of the wiki, where database lookups are
not readily available (e.g. in JavaScripts) cannot support gender.
Suggestion:
When messages need gender, pass the evaluated gender to them, and alter gender
handlincg accordingly. We need an additional parameter per independent
occurrence of gender per message, which can be seen as a structural advantage,
and the above drawbacks are avoided.
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