In Portuguese, the names of the wikis can be either male or female. For example, Wikipedia and Wikiversity are female, but Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikinews and Wikidata are male. We say "a Wikipédia" and "o Wikilivros", for example.

Some system messages use the male and others use the female form. For example, MediaWiki:Aboutsite/pt is "Sobre a {{SITENAME}}", which is suitable only for female sites. MediaWiki:Alllogstext/pt-br has "para o {{SITENAME}}", which is suitable only for male sites. Some other messages, like MediaWiki:Searchsuggest-search/pt ("Pesquisar em {{SITENAME}}") avoid using the gender, but this does not sound good in either case. (It is more natural to say "Pesquisar no {{SITENAME}}" or "Pesquisar na {{SITENAME}}" according to the gender)

It would be very good if there was a magic word like {{SITEGENDER:}} that would allow the text to change according to a predefined sitename gender. This would reduce the need for the creation of local messages that override the default ones in Portuguese wikis (and maybe in other languages too).