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
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Markus Krötzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to share a little Wikidata application: I just used Wikidata to > guess the sex of people based on their (first) name [1]. My goal was to > determine gender bias among the authors in several research areas. This is > how some people spend their free time on weekends ;-) > > In the process, I also created a long list of first names with associated > sex information from Wikidata [2]. It is not super clean but it served its > purpose. If you are a researcher, then maybe the gender bias of > journals/conferences is interesting to you as well. Details and some > discussion of the results are online [1]. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > [1] > http://korrekt.org/page/Note:**Sex_Distributions_in_Research<http://korrekt.org/page/Note:Sex_Distributions_in_Research> > [2] https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AstQ5xfO-** > xXGdE9UVkxNc0JMVWJzNmJqNmhPRjc**0cnc&usp=sharing<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AstQ5xfO-xXGdE9UVkxNc0JMVWJzNmJqNmhPRjc0cnc&usp=sharing> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> > -- undefined
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