On 7/18/12, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> Funny you should mention DBpedia. DBpedia can only work based on the things
> in Wikipedia and given that we don't include gender in Wikipedia info boxes
> or category structures, there won't be anything in DBpedia.
>
> But, DBpedia links into Freebase, and Freebase has been running a game
> through the 'Freebase apps' platform called "Genderizer". This allows people
> to select either from a queue of real or fictional people and set their
> gender based on the lead from their Wikipedia article. While this isn't a
> reliable source to integrate the information back into Wikipedia, for the
> purposes of doing a rough study into the gender ratios of Wikipedia articles
> about people (and fictional people), Freebase may do what you want.

Interesting. This could be documented somewhere in Wikipedia's
documentation - is it? And do they cover famous animals as well?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav

Carcharoth

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