Last modified: 2013-05-28 21:44:49 UTC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page&useNew=1>. Please can we make the image on the left of the "contributors this month" text gender neutral (instead of the male one that it is now)? The same with <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page&useNew=1>, the background image behind the "Don't have an account" text is not gender neutral.
These are as close as we're going to get I think, without resorting to cliches. The usual alternative, trying to add an explicitly female torso, tends to involve adding pig tails or other "long hair" markers to the head. These are culturally pretty biased and I find them to so trite as to be almost offensive. I'm adding Vibha, our resident Interaction Designer, to this bug since Munaf has left the Wikimedia Foundation and she has a woman's perspective to add.
I agree with Steven, its challenging to represent both genders. Adding a female torso would introduce the new problem around sizing & foreground. We could possibly fade the opacity of the torso's more so it stands out less. Would that help at all?
Okay, with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65167/ we've taken a quick stab at this. The icons in both versions are pretty much neuter-looking.
