Re: [Wiki-research-l] Women on Wikidata

2014-04-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The problem that I want to solve is that the number of humans that are neither male nor female is currently 419.862 and growing. I am not particularly interested in other sex/gender issues. I know from a conversation with DBpedia people that they have a property for penis length.. Not

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Women on Wikidata

2014-04-20 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: To be blunt, Wikidata gains the quantitative quality I am looking for when only male and female is added where applicable. Transgender issues with respect are edge cases. Transgender issues are primarily raised

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Women on Wikidata

2014-04-20 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: The success of Wikidata is tightly coupled to the re-use of its wealth of data, both in Wikimedia projects and by third parties. Completeness of data is very much a factor here; for some research purposes,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Women on Wikidata

2014-04-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about the issue of sex ratios on Wikidata [1]. The experiment I did with Harvard alumni was to get some idea about the number of humans who were not yet known as human. I added a substantial number of them to have an item for each entry in the category on the English Wikipedia. I