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:3) - Note that the German persondata supports gender alongside a pre-existing standard practice of categorising biographies by gender - [[:de:Kategorie:Frau]], etc. The English Wikipedia doesn't seem keen on systematically recording gender as metadata, and I suspect this is why en.wp's persondata doesn't currently support it.
:In the long run, the use of authority identifiers could be used to help pull in information such as gender from other databases (though I can't immediately think of a major one which supports it ''and'' systematically records gender), but a major expansion of our metadata like this should probably go through a separate RFC. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 21:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
::Thank-you both for those answers. I particularly liked the reference to the "make articles very simple to edit by removing everything but paragraph text" tranche of opinion! :-) I had forgotten that de-Wikipedia categorise by gender. But I'm not sure why attempts to start adding gender metadata on en-Wikipedia woud be a tar baby. Have there been bad experiences in the past? And can anyone think of a way to ''estimate'' the number of articles about women on Wikipedia? And to go back on topic, when I clicked on one of the VIAF examples, I got a bit lost. Is there a page explaining what the different parts of VIAF landing page mean? [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 22:04, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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