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:::(edit conflict) The trite answer to why gender is a tar-baby is that it's a battle-ground in the american [[culture wars]]. More interestingly, post-colonialism delegates gender identification of non-Europeans to their respective non-European cultures, leading to things like [[Kathoey]] and [[Fa'afafine]] being recognised as [[:Category:People by gender|first class genders]]. How does the de-wikipedia deal with this? I have no idea how to measure how many women are in en-wikipedia, except maybe by cross matching by with de wikipedia and then statistically adjusting the counts based on WikiProjects for people who aren't in both. [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] ([[User talk:Stuartyeates|talk]]) 22:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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Wondering off-topic but to address some of the issues raised above...
The problem with persondata (and the suggested "hidden" infobox"), is that it is hidden. Infoboxes make the same data available to machines, by marking up the ''visible'' data using [[microformat]]s - if the visible data is changed, the the emitted metadata changes at the same time. As for "''recognise that for some biographies and articles, infoboxes are not needed''", that's an expression of a debatable opinion, not a recognisable fact. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 14:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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