On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 July 2012 10:47, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I remember it being referred to many years ago as long-standing
>> practice, but I've dug around a bit in the discussion archives and
>> can't seem to pin it down. It's probably pre-2004, maybe even pre-2003
>> - anyone remember?
>
>
> As with almost all our category system, it's basically ad hoc. I
> suggest if you can propose something not insane to relevant
> wikiprojects and are prepared to do the bot work yourself, you can
> have endless fun clicking "save" in AWB for a few hours.

German Wikipedia has categories Man, Woman, Intersexual, and "Gender
unknown". Works perfectly well for all biographies.

Magnus

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