Is using a gendered prefix for username in the Mentors list working?
Context: some language have a gendered way to describe users (utilisateur/utilisatrice). Some people will use [[utilisatrice:Helen]] for instance in the mentor list. Will it work?
Is using a gendered prefix for username in the Mentors list working?
Context: some language have a gendered way to describe users (utilisateur/utilisatrice). Some people will use [[utilisatrice:Helen]] for instance in the mentor list. Will it work?
Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Open | None | T213990 [EPIC] Growth: Newcomer homepage | |||
Resolved | SBisson | T216631 Homepage: mentorship module | |||
Open | Cntlsn | T223215 Homepage: Improve newcomer understanding of mentors | |||
Resolved | • Tim_WMDE | T220145 Homepage Mentorship: allow mentors to configure their presentation | |||
Resolved | Dyolf77_WMF | T228304 Check if local translations and gendered equivalents of user: work when you sign-up as a mentor |
@Trizek-WMF - please check the following examples or real arwiki accounts with Arabic native speakers.
tl;dr
Regarding the main question of using on mentor list gender-specific titles of user namespace - e.g. utilisateur/utilisatrice for French. Yes, the links will be correctly resolved to user pages even if utilisatrice would be used for a page that is, in fact, utilisateur.
I tested on betalabs arwiki (there is no cswiki on beta and kowiki does not have extensive grammar support for gender). I checked for the case that described in the task - using مستخدم/مستخدمة ( equivalent to utilisateur/utilisatrice) on a mentor list.
@Dyolf77_WMF -- if this looks good to you (now that the train is arriving), you can resolve the task.