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Gendered aliases for non-user NS
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Feature summary
I would like to expand the notion of gendered namespaces to some content namespaces, specifically those that regard exclusively humans. This might be done using wikidata or some magic word.

Use case(s)
I'm thinking specifically about the "Author" namespace that exists in many Wikisources. The situation today is that we have "Autor:Gabriela Mistral" where it should read "Autora:Gabriela Mistral"

Benefits
Correct representation of gender.

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Ninovolador created this task.Jul 28 2022, 6:22 PM
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Umherirrender subscribed.Jul 28 2022, 8:14 PM

There is a setting named for that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExtraGenderNamespaces

But that would only works for user and user talk (due to NamespaceInfo::hasGenderDistinction hard coding that)
But also namespaces from extension.json supports gender key, so that is something not fully implemented.

Umherirrender unsubscribed.Aug 31 2022, 8:02 PM
cscott mentioned this in T320894: The NAMESPACE magic word is not normalized for female users any more.Oct 17 2022, 11:20 PM
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