The tool is here, and is linked from all German category pages:
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.
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Lady of Shalott
<ladyofshalott.wp@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
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