On 29 July 2012 22:53, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> 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
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk