https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27398

--- Comment #10 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> 
2011-03-15 23:32:47 UTC ---
We have Medmaacher (with spelling variant Metmaacher) for masculine, neuter,
and unknown, and Medmaachėrn (with spelling variant Metmaacherin) for female1
and female2. Literally, these words translate to "corroborator", "participant".

I was speaking generally. If you have 2 base words, only one can be currently
used as the standard word. While it does not have to be the same word all the
times, in one place/situaton only one can be generated.

Btw. We did not and do have varying namespacenames per gender set.
This morning, I wanted to quickly figure what exactly to do for it.
While the current system of male/female is indeed easily set up,
I detected that we need to have 20 choices to cover all cases occurring in our
grammar when talking _about_ users (including "unknown" cases but not counting
T/F forms, or polite forms, or forms addressing people) These 20 choices can be
experessed with two variables having 5 and 4 possible values, respectively, one
being the "grammatical gender" (declension properties) of the name or nickname,
the other being the "natural gender" of a user. One can use "<user-or-bot-name>
altered <his/her/its> userpage." as a key sentence which has all 20 variantes.

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