Thread:Support/Gender support for instances of username (gsw)

Hi

I have recently been working on Wikimedia translations into Alemannic (gsw). I have stumbled upon a few instances where a username is being passed to the message, but there is no indication that it can be checked for gender. An example is MediaWiki:Echo-email-batch-body-intro-daily/gsw.

Should I file bug reports to make these messages gender-sensitive, or is it just an ommission in the documentation? I assumed the latter and used the magical word, but I am not sure whether this is correct or, in the worst case, harmful.

For Alemannic, basically, every instance of a username needs to be checked for gender. Names take definite articles (like in all Upper German varieties). Also, the names can occur with three different genders, female, male, or neuter. Strange though it may seem, neuter is traditionally used when referring to girls and young women in many Alemannic varieties. I can easily provide references from relevant linguistic sources if that is required.

J. &#39;mach&#39; wust (talk) 14:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)