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: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 would 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 get 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 the VIAF landing page mean? [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 22:04, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
:::My recollection is that this was argued over way back in the mists of time, though I'm having some trouble finding where. It might be that an RFC on whether or not to have a set of gender-notation "tag" categories is worthwhile to settle it clearly one way or the other! (I'm not wedded to the English vs. the German approach; I can see benefits either way.)
:::German is about 85% male; Czech 85%; Swedish 81%. These are the only three large or medium sized projects I could find which have systematised the categorisation; based on this, I would gamble English is likely to be more or less the same, perhaps somewhere in the 80-85% range.
:::I will have a look for a "reading VIAF" FAQ; it's all relatively technical, though. The data presented is mainly to validate to the user that they have the correct individual, and what the standardised form of the name is. Clicking one of the names takes you to that authority record's entry for the name, which may then link to catalogues or other resources. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 22:29, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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