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Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:48:03 +0000

Max: on en.Wikipedia, Category:Living people is used; also {{WikiProject Biography|living=yes}} on the talk pages.

Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Max

Max — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:39:56 +0000

I suppose at least one way to approach that question is to look at Wikidata items that have Property:Date of Birth, but not Property:Date of Death when that Wikidata property arrives (waiting on the Date data-type). Can you think of other ways to determine living/dead people?

Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Andreas Kolbe

Andreas Kolbe — Mon, 20 May 2013 06:57:46 +0000

Thanks, Max. Is there a way to do a separate analysis for living people?

Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:44:19 +0000

s/stared/started. Sorry.

Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:07 +0000

Great stuff! I stared a discussion about recording the sex or gender of Wikipedia's biographical subjects in its infoboxes, but it got bogged down in bikeshedding^W discussion of visual presentation. I must re-start it!

Comment on The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:14 +0000

Could you migrate ORCID data, too? There isn't much, in Wikipedia, yet, but its fast growing. We hope to add ORCID IDs for the authors of papers in Wikipedia references, too, even if there isn't an article about them.

Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Max

Max — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:45:02 +0000

Very curious. This would mean that we can run a further simulation to find the ‘true(r)’ sex ratios of Wikidata by algorithmically guessing the sexes of those articles that we know to be of people but not with Property:Sex. We can guess that they are people by if they have Property:Main Type (GND) = Person. Or they have properties of people like Property:Birth Date.

Comment on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF by Joseph Reagle

Joseph Reagle — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:27:14 +0000

Hey Max, for gender guessing this might be of interest: http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/technology/guessing-the-gender-of-bibliographic-subjects.html

Comment on Supporting a Virtual Organization by Jeff Young

Jeff Young — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:04:02 +0000

I absolutely agree. Globalization is hard and requires constant practice. Being confronted by the tradeoffs on a frequent basis is vital. If it ever becomes easy, its because we’ve lost sight of unfulfilled business opportunities.

Comment on Irreconcilable differences? Name authority control & humanities scholarship by David Michelson

David Michelson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:29:33 +0000

Yes, in fact is is EAC-CPF that we will be using at Syriaca.org. Even with EAC-CPF, however, a work around using local types to link elements and sources is needed to create the equivalent of footnotes. I’d be happy to discuss this further with anyone interested in doing the same.