GENDER and !!FUZZY!!

Thread summary:[Link to] [Edit]

CLOSED This issue is closed by Purodha

In the message group Wikimedia messages, I have got rid of the GENDER magic word in some messages, for example MediaWiki:Group-botadmin-member/cy. I am now getting the missing parameter warning and the messages have been automatically marked !!FUZZY!!. I thought that GENDER was optional?

Lloffiwr (talk)‎

I think the most common practice is to leave it as in the English source, with only one parameter for the "unspecified gender". Translate can't know if gender matters in that specific message in your language. The optional use of GENDER is the "second feature" discussed in Gender ({{GENDER:|...).

Nemo (talk)‎

But the odd thing is that some others of the messages in the group "Wikimedia messages" also use GENDER but didn't have a !!FUZZY!! mark added automatically, after I edited them yesterday.

Lloffiwr (talk)‎

Some of them might have the variable checks disabled.

Nike (talk)‎