Ack, they were also defining 'transgender' as a synonym of intersex!
I've removed it for now.
Ryan Kaldari
On 5/24/13 8:31 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
There are lots of related discussions on the talk page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21
Translation seems like one of the major issues!
So far, sex and gender are not distinguished as far as I can tell.
-Jodi
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Powers
<ltpowers_w...@rochester.rr.com
<mailto:ltpowers_w...@rochester.rr.com>> wrote:
I wonder if that's a translation issue. English Wikipedia is mostly
concerned with gender, but other languages might only consider
sex, or use
the same word for both concepts.
Powers &8^]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Kaldari [mailto:rkald...@wikimedia.org
<mailto:rkald...@wikimedia.org>]
> Sent: Tuesday 21 May 2013 19:07
> To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
> Subject: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
>
> An interesting blog post about sex ratio data from Wikipedia and
Wikidata:
> http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877
>
> Interestingly, Wikidata only allows assigning a 'sex' to a
person, not a
> 'gender'.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
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