MediaWiki:Wm-license-attribution-with-author-text

$1 is free text so we don't know the gender. I don't think you can and want to force in the gender.

Multichill‎12:28, 27 February 2011

What do you think about supplying the gender via a template parameter, having the default "unknown"?

Purodha Blissenbach‎12:33, 27 February 2011

whatever works ... There is no value for the person currently logged in.

GerardM‎22:34, 27 February 2011

This message (and few similar ones) are used in templates inside descriptions of uploaded files where they refer to the copyright holder of that uploaded file. That can be a user of the wiki, or someone or somegroup else. If the currently logged in user is meant, (s)he is referred to in the same way any other wiki user is. For these message, there needs to be no special treatment for the person currently logged in.

Purodha Blissenbach‎08:40, 28 February 2011
 
 
 
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