GENDER

I see the content of the qqq-subpages (that documentation?), but I don't find your quote from docs of any of the 5 updated gender related messages. This note confuses too, if I translate it into language where there is no appropriate grammatical gender to use.

Pikne15:24, 22 August 2013

Ah, you're right, the docs were eliminated by a local edit. I've restored them now.[1] Thanks for noticing it, I hadn't thought of a conflict. :)

That has to be taken with a grain of salt; grammatical gender can also include lexical gender, which even your language most likely has from what I recall.

Nemo (talk)16:10, 22 August 2013

Lexical gender as much as I understand is the case for English he/she and that can be taken with a grain of salt. Indeed, there are some rare examples in Estonian too, e.g. equivalents of king and queen are separate words in Estonian (so that the male word isn't used for female person). But I don't choose my gender for MW interface to be addressed or mentioned as a king or queen, isn't it? Or even if I do, that isn't easy to figure out contrary to he/she and other more obvious examples above and that's where the confusion comes from.

Pikne16:52, 22 August 2013

It's your call to decide what makes sense here. It's not only for the user itself, other users in the wiki might use a language where gender matters when referring to the user.

Nike (talk)08:40, 1 September 2013