https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442
--- Comment #34 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2011-10-22 11:24:20 UTC --- (In reply to comment #33) > Well, yes, it's not an axiom - most websites live without gender support and > we > lived quite happily without it for many years. And yes, it may well be a > slippery slope to making the registration form too complicated. Again: we can make it more complicated, but we need a) to decide that we want to, b) to decide how to do it, i.e. to define a clear rationale which we can use to decide what's in and what's out. I've found bug 25815: the same reasoning applies. > As far as i'm concerned, though, it is a central thing in the process of > introduction. Consider meeting a person on a street - by looking at them or > speaking to them you will probably know their gender before you know their > name > or email. Not necessarily: sometimes I don't know the gender before I hear the name, or even the name doesn't help (if I don't know its gender); and I don't see how this could affect the introduction, it's a pretty worthless piece of information. But, following your example, it's certainly necessary to know in what language you need to introduce yourself, so bug 25815 should be fixed before (if any). But again, "importance" is not the problem and the example is misleading, because we're only considering a specific point of the user life, when the user wants to create the account, and MediaWiki kindly asks only what's needed for the task. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
