Topic on Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Quicksurvey-20-01

Hi,

I translated everything to Hebrew, and there's a pretty serious problem. All the question are in the second person, and in Hebrew this requires grammatical gender, and I had to write everything in masculine. There are various tricks to address this problem when translating user manuals and user interfaces, but using these tricks in this survey would make it too convoluted, and this may spoil the survey's effectiveness.

Is it possible to at least add a comment in the beginning, such as "The questions are written in the masculine gender, but the survey is intended for people of all genders"?

Hi @Amire80! Thank you for helping with the translations. Agree that this is an issue - I think it's totally okay to add a comment in the beginning. Perhaps you could also rephrase the questions in the first person (have the prompts be "I visit Wikipedia" versus "How often do you visit Wikipedia" or "To me, the Wikipedia website feels..." instead of "Does the Wikipedia website feel welcoming?"). I don't think changing it to first person would add significant bias to the responses.

First person in Hebrew needs gender, too :)

If I add a comment, where do I add it?

Perhaps you could add this in English as an optional line, and only show it to languages that need it?

I've added it to the page, and marked it (via qqq) as optional.

Thanks!

No need for gender in French (for the given questions as they are). Thanks!