On 29 July 2012 22:53, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> And I don't think the cases where it is >> unclear or a matter of privacy (a vanishingly small number) should >> preclude the obvious cases being done. It doesn't seem quite right >> that the potential for arguments over edge cases and how to handle >> them sensitively, would preclude being able to search by gender. > > When used in category intersections, its really useful info for gender > studies.
Indeed. I would love to see a chart of gender-in-Wikipedia compared to birth years, for example, over the last few centuries. Even in the simplest cases (pure coverage numbers) it's an interesting tool for understanding our coverage and how that reflects systemic biases. I'm interested to hear that you categorised for a large set - did it work smoothly, labour-intensiveness aside, and was there any pushback? -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
