I see. Thanks Dan.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
