danny.leinad wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27364 ***

Sorry. I realized that USERNAME is not a good name for the variable I'm requesting for. I better change it for {{PAGEOWNER}} or {{USERSPACENAME}}, ie the name of the user whose personal space includes the variable.

(In reply to comment #1)

This is *not* a duplicate of bug 27364

beau wrote:

You can always create a template named PAGEOWNER. I don't think there is a need
for another magic word.

You're right. The PAGEOWNER idea is just an alternative, the main request is that the default username of {{gender:|male|female}} should be the owner of the page where the function is included.

In MediaWiki:xyzzy, {{GENDER:|male|female|unknown}} is already addressing
the reader of a messae, i.e. the currently logged in user. I doubt that is
is a good idea to alter this behavour for other namespaces, because it is
possible (though hardly advisable) to transclude those message anywhere
with {{:MediaWiki:xyzzy}} and {{:MediaWiki:xyzzy/zxx}} and with {{int:xyzzy}}
and we were likely to create inconsistencies.

Since contributions are possibly moved or copied around, my preference goes
with something like {{GENDER:username|male|female|unknown}} with a verbatim
user name for the cases this bug is about. That can be had with
{{GENDER:{{subst:#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}|1}}|male|female|unknown}} on user
page, user talk pages, and their subpages, if I am not mistaken.

(In reply to comment #6)

In MediaWiki:xyzzy, {{GENDER:|male|female|unknown}} is already addressing
the reader of a messae, i.e. the currently logged in user.

Are you sure? Can you link a MediaWiki-spacename page where {{gender:|}} with
empty username is included? If it is, I doubt it would be the better default.
Default options should correspond to the more frequently encountered
situations.

IMHO, gender function will bring much more utility (ie. more frequent usage) in
user space pages messages and userboxes, where messages both from and to the
page owner should be easily gender-customized.

(In reply to comment #2)

Sorry. I realized that USERNAME is not a good name for the variable I'm
requesting for. I better change it for {{PAGEOWNER}} or {{USERSPACENAME}}, ie
the name of the user whose personal space includes the variable.

What about {{BASEPAGENAME}} ?

(In reply to comment #7)

Are you sure?

He is correct. I wrote the feature that way.

(In reply to comment #8)

What about {{BASEPAGENAME}} ?

{{BASEPAGENAME}} doesn't always return the username. See what happens in page "User:Example/Archive/2010"

Furthermore, {{PAGEOWNER}} should also check for the namespace to be User or User Talk, and if not, then should return nothing.

(In reply to comment #9)

He is correct. I wrote the feature that way.

Ok thanks. I would have done a test before posting here if I could, but I'm not a bureaucrat. Nevertheless I searched for such a case and could not find any.