[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18003: On the Credits page, add Male/Female tags for each person, for use in translation

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#18003: On the Credits page, add Male/Female tags for each person, for use in
translation
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General            |    Version:
 Severity:  normal             |   Keywords:
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 The Credits page mentions contributors along with their role in the
 project: "Lead Developer", "Guest Committer", etc.

 When translating to certain languages (for e.g., Hebrew), these roles are
 translated differently when the person is male or female. For example, in
 Hebrew there would be a different translation for male lead developers
 (מפתח ראשי) and female lead developers (מפתחת ראשית).

 This doesn't cause an issue with translation at the moment, since the only
 woman on the credits page that has her role mentioned in Jane, and she's
 the only "User Experience Lead". So in translation, we can translate
 everything else as male and only translate that string as female.

 In the interest of future proofing the credits page, I suggest we add two
 different strings for each role - male and female. In English and other
 languages will use both the same way, but languages that are not gender-
 neutral will be able to translate them correctly. This would obviously
 require that we know the gender of all the people mentioned.

 I tried very hard to ignore all the political aspects of this issue - I
 hope we can get through this without having to discuss them :)

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