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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
