This is due to an option in Special:Preferences where you can choose your sex. If it's unset or set to male, then Benutzerin will redirect to Benutzer. If it's set to female, then Benutzer redirects to Benutzerin. This is consistent with the German language. I've confirmed using a script that the Melly42 account has the sex set to female.
I'm actually rather impressed by this feature. It's a nice little use of the preference that I'd never seen before. Dan On 24 December 2013 10:47, Qichen Tu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to ask a question about the namespace alias redirection. > > On the de.wikipedia.org, Benutzerin is the namespace alias of Benutzer, so > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Melly42< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzerin%3AMelly42&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEVE2tAIqIUtu_x1PyhmAdbZvWtNg > > > should > redirect to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Melly42< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer%3AMelly42&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFZvSiDfV1Al5zTGohY1m5HZyk0iQ > > > . > But the real situation is > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Melly42< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer%3AMelly42&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFZvSiDfV1Al5zTGohY1m5HZyk0iQ > > > redirecting > to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Melly42< > http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzerin%3AMelly42&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEVE2tAIqIUtu_x1PyhmAdbZvWtNg > > > . > > Anybody could tell me what happened? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
