The tool is here, and is linked from all German category pages:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php
de:WP does not use intersection categories as used in the English
Wikipedia. For example, American women poets would be added to the
following three categories, among others:
American
Woman
Poet
Readers looking for the intersection of these three categories would use
the CatScan tool, and enter the desired categories there. The tool then
provides a list of all the articles that have these three categories
applied to them.
This system keeps the categories more straightforward, and pretty well
avoids the sort of subtle bias Wikipedia has been caught with here.
Defining the precise intersection of interest is up to the user.
A
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Lady of Shalott <ladyofshalott.wp(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Interesting commentary as far as it went. I wish he'd delved a little
> further into what he was saying.
>
> Perception is important. I think people can act in good faith (for
> instance to reduce the size of a massive category) without realizing
> the effect of how the result looks. It may not be meant in a sexist
> way, but if the effect is "ghettoization", it looks sexist, and that
> does matter. There is the real need though to find women novelists,
> male nurses, etc. for studies. Apparently German WP has a system
> whereby one can query category intersections that are defined by the
> end user. ?This souns like a plausible solution, but I haven't used it
> myself (and do't speak German).
>
> Just thinking out loud here...
> Lady
>
> On 4/29/13, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> > Sparked by the recent...situation..
> >
> >
>
http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/wikipedia-and-gendered-categories.h…
> >
> > Sar
> >
> >
> > --
> > *Sarah Stierch*
> > */Museumist and open culture advocate/*
> > >>Visit
sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
> >
>
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