https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442
--- Comment #36 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2011-10-22 18:08:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #35) > And what if that first e-mail notification they get sent before anything, > before they even get to their preferences page, happens to use language that > would be rude if it did not know their gender? And what if it's not in their language? > > 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. > > Sure... in English. But other languages have different pronouns for different > genders, I'm Italian and Italian is one such language. > and without a good idea of it your greeting could come off as very > rude. ...as without a good idea of many other things about the person, if you're not careful. -- 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
