Thread:Talk:Gender/How to test the new gender stuff wrt MediaWiki 1.18

Here's my understanding of the current situation, courtesy Mark Hershberger:


 * 1. The only new support for gender in 1.18 is the User: namespace. I've asked Sam Reedy to configure Test2 so that you can see this.  If you specify your gender in Special:Preferences you'll see that redirects    your User page. For example, I've set my gender on test2 to "male"    and so when you visit    http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkAHershberger, you'll be    redirected to "Male user:MarkAHershberger" and see the result in the    URL/Location bar.


 * 2. By looking at   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkAHershberger/Gender_example you    can find examples of support that 1.17 already had for gender.  You    can use these for regression testing.


 * 3. There is no way to display different text based on the Gender of the   page viewer.  Purodha Blissenbach has suggested on    http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Gender (which is a good page to read    for more information on this issue) that redirects might be used on    Help pages where this would be useful.