On Jul 18, 2012 8:56 PM, "Carcharoth" carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On 7/18/12, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 July 2012 10:47, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@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.
For 1,000,000 articles? I think it should be done, but it will take more than a few hours. I think it could be done very quickly, if lots of people got involved.
Laura and I did it for Australian sports people. It is time consuming as category structures need to be created.
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.
-- JV