There are lots of related discussions on the talk page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21
Translation seems like one of the major issues! So far, sex and gender are not distinguished as far as I can tell. -Jodi On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Powers <ltpowers_w...@rochester.rr.com>wrote: > I wonder if that's a translation issue. English Wikipedia is mostly > concerned with gender, but other languages might only consider sex, or use > the same word for both concepts. > > > Powers &8^] > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ryan Kaldari [mailto:rkald...@wikimedia.org] > > Sent: Tuesday 21 May 2013 19:07 > > To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects > > Subject: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF > > > > An interesting blog post about sex ratio data from Wikipedia and > Wikidata: > > http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877 > > > > Interestingly, Wikidata only allows assigning a 'sex' to a person, not a > > 'gender'. > > > > Ryan Kaldari > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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