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Change 540449 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; owner: Gergő Tisza):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Add gender to some messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/540449

(The last two messages are from T222926: Use preferences for inputting email address.)

Change 540449 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Add gender to some messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/540449

Checked in arwiki betalabs.

@Tgr - I did not see the difference in displayed messages (when "How do you prefer to be described?" setting was changed)- does new messages need some additional push or something?

The way I tested:

• log in to arwiki betalabs
• in Preferences - User profile change "How do you prefer to be described?"
• evoke the Welcome survey with Special:WelcomeSurvey?_group=exp2_target_specialpage and compare which messages will display gender support (the steps worked for `cswiki).

welcomesurvey-skip-btn/ar was updated on Oct 3 to make use of GENDER. Not sure at what schedule translations reach beta; the local message definitely uses gender now.

I tested locally by changing the English messages to be gender-dependent, that worked as expected.

Hi @Tgr I updated the list of messages (please see task description), can we make the modifications on WTN? Thanks.

In T234350#5589196, @Dyolf77_WMF wrote:

Hi @Tgr I updated the list of messages (please see task description), can we make the modifications on WTN? Thanks.

I would generally recommend creating a new task instead of reopening, for easier tracking.

Moving to Incoming for prioritization. (The task is reused but this is a new set of messages.)

Btw is it easy to explain to an English speaker when a message will need gender support in Arabic? If so, putting that guidance on some wiki page would be worthwhile.

@Tgr Thanks,

Btw is it easy to explain to an English speaker when a message will need gender support in Arabic? If so, putting that guidance on some wiki page would be worthwhile.

Sure, I am thinking about it. Will do it! (Just a general rule, every verb in a sentence for persons - singular or plural - has to be with GENDER parameter).

@MMiller_WMF can you define the priority of this task (or rather task type, seeing how it will probably be a recurring task)?

@Trizek-WMF and @Dyolf77_WMF -- can you each comment on how important this is? It is hard for me to know, since I don't speak a language where this is relevant. Which of these situations do you think is the case:

1. This must be fixed immediately, because the messages do not make sense to many users.
2. This should be fixed soon, because many users are getting an experience that may make them want to leave.
3. This would be nice to fix, but not urgent, because many internet users are used to this problem.

@MMiller_WMF , I think:

2. This should be fixed soon, because many users are getting an experience that may make them want to leave.

With the syntax {{GENDER:|Create}} user page, you should be able to get the current users gender without the parameter. We will try to get this into 1.0 but may not be able to.

To do (besides updating the messages):

• check if GENDER with no explicit user parameter works in Javascript; if it doesn't make it work (probably less work than trying to pass all through the user parameters)
• check if GENDER with no explicit user parameter works in ResourceLoader callbacks (where the context user is not available)

I used the syntax {{GENDER:| | }}. On arwiki beta I see the result and it is working in some cases but not in others:

Hi @Dyolf77_WMF can you provide cases where the messages did and didn't work? Its a bit hard to interpret in Arabic :)

Hi @JTannerWMF it seems that the {{GENDER:| | }}. is not working at all. Where it worked, it's a classic GENFER:$1.

In T234350#5728494, @JTannerWMF wrote:

Hi @Dyolf77_WMF can you provide cases where the messages did and didn't work? Its a bit hard to interpret in Arabic :)

Hi @JTannerWMF, as I said before the {{GENDER:| | }} trick didn't work, but after checking some messages I found this message on TWN where the rendering message follows the gender specification (in the example, the underlined words are for female, as the preference of the user). It worked both in arwiki beta and arwiki:

Hi, is there still anything to do in this task?

@Urbanecm It is a background task, but we can close it now.

The {{GENDER:|}} is working in some places and not working in others. Like this sentence: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Growthexperiments-homepage-suggestededits-tasktype-label-links/ar

@Tgr -- could you help us with this question please?

The gender does not get automatically applied currently for messages defined in a ResourceLoader callback, which we use for some of our messages (those related to a specific task type). Worse, we cannot set it explicitly either as ResourceLoader itself does not know who the user is.
I guess we'll have to change the logic generating task configuration data to pass message specifiers instead of messages, or something like that.

@Tgr , @MMiller_WMF Thanks