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Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender
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Just
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Markus Krötzsch
mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
My error margins are far too wide to make any realistic statement about
minority genders even if I had a method to consider them.
This article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964
gives them as being
: sexing people by name/research gender
bias
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Markus Kr?tzsch
mar...@semantic-mediawiki.orgmailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
My error margins are far too wide to make any realistic statement about
minority genders even if I had a method to consider them
So you've got an agenda that's unrelated to Wikidata or analysis thereof.
Got it. Perhaps a non-Wikidata list would be a more appropriate forum.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote:
Sorry to rant.
Accepted.
Tom
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I think the results of Max are really interesting and fruitful,
and should be shared with this list here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Aubrey
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote:
So you've got an agenda that's unrelated to Wikidata or
Max's comment is very related to Wikidata. The sex property [1] is a
model system to explore important questions for the project at large.
For example, how rigorous do we want to be with automatic classification?
Let's say a property can have one of three values: A, B or C. Roughly 90%
of the
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bias
Just as a suggestion, you can turn these kind of numbers
Naming patterns change over time and geography. If you're interested in
the gender of current day authors, you should probably constrain your name
sampling to the same timeframe.
There's an app that works of the Freebase data here:
http://namegender.freebaseapps.com/
It also has an API that
On 14/10/13 18:18, Tom Morris wrote:
Naming patterns change over time and geography. If you're interested in
the gender of current day authors, you should probably constrain your
name sampling to the same timeframe.
I think geography has a much bigger impact than time here.
Unfortunately,
On 13/10/13 23:21, Magnus Manske wrote:
If you need to push through automated sexing for items without sex
property, point to my similar attempt in June:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Set_sex:male_for_item_list
Thanks, the list I got from the items with sex is already
: Markus Krötzsch
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Subject: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender
bias
Hi all,
I'd like to share a little Wikidata application: I just used Wikidata to
guess the sex of people based
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