On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 18 July 2012 10:47, Andrew Gray
<andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> 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