Except when people forget to add the women to the family. I have added lots of women to Wikidata and then I have to go through all of the family relationships - I wish I could just say someone is a sister of someone and be done with it, but no, if they are a child, mother, aunt or cousin as well then I have to go track down all of those relationships separately.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi,
<grin> the English word sibling is good enough.. </grin> because of the gender of a person we would know if it is a brother or a sister... When we know a parent, we implicitly know this already through child.. Consequently in many occassions we do not need to register brother or sister at all.
Thanks,
GerardM

On 20 August 2015 at 15:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew Gray, 17/08/2015 13:29:

In some ways, merging seems more elegant. We do have fairly good
gender metadata (and getting better all the time!), so we can still do
gender-specific relationship searches where needed. It also avoids
having to force a binary gender approach - we are in the odd position
of being able to give a nuanced entry in P21 but can only say if
someone is a "sister" or "brother".

I think this is quite important. I think properties should focus on one thing at a time and there is no need to state both gender and family relationship in the same statement.

Also, are we really sure we don't currently have linguistic issues? I bet there is at least one language in the world where "sister" and "brother" are not two distinct words.

Nemo

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