A note on the methodology of the BLP gender research...
MZMcBride merely pulled a randomized selection of 500 BLPs for me, at my request.
I then took the first 200 names from the list and slapped them into a spreadsheet.
I then marked with an "M" or an "F" all of the unambiguous names that easily identify to a gender -- e.g., "Mike" and "Mohamed" are male, "Carolyn" and "Edith" are female. I left blank all of those that could have any reasonable level of ambiguity... and I was conservative -- I left blank names like "Sandy" and "Casey". Many non-Western names, I had no idea and thus left blank ("Suriya" and "Nyjer", for example).
Then, I manually looked up on Wikipedia each of the blank entries. All but one were fairly easy to identify their gender -- I believe the majority (or the near majority) either played rugby or soccer, or were an Olympic athlete.
The only one that Wikipedia didn't clearly help in identifying their gender was
Masako JÅ, so I went to the web to find an answer. I think Wikipedia spells the name wrong, and a photo I found appeared to be a female.
I hope that helps everyone understand how this study was designed and executed. Stuff the Wikimedia Foundation should be turning out on a daily basis, but that I do for free. Just to help them out.
If anyone wishes to proof my work, here is the list of 200 names:
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Renee_Sands F
Otis_Hudson M
Mamuka_Gorgodze M
Fikre_Selassie_Wogderess M
Douglas_Rae_(businessman) M
Erik_Ellington M
Martin_Bryant M
Edgar_J._Malepeai M
Robert_Gavron,_Baron_Gavron M
Shirley_D._Bowler F
Steve_Bryles M
Mike_Garcia_(NL_pitcher) M
Kyle_Freadrich M
Venod_Sharma M
Steven_Hill_(model) M
Dagmara_Dominczyk F
Thomas_Gill_(footballer) M
George_Phang M
József_Tabaka M
Clara_Morgane F
Warren_Spannaus M
General_Khodaidad M
Hans-Jürgen_Ripp M
Pete_Smith_(announcer) M
Brett_Hauer M
Albertino_Essers M
Kerry_Brothers,_Jr. M
Georgi_Petrov_(footballer_born_1974) M
António_Soares_Carneiro M
JonÃlson_Clovis_Nascimento_Breves M
Nikola_ÄuriÄko M
Rasmus_Fleischer M
Larry_Playfair M
Crispian_Mills M
Guy_Mariano M
Teruhisa_Moriyama M
Jihad_Azour M
Claire_Gibault F
Martha_Wash F
Fay_Kleinman F
Greg_Gall M
Francesco_Lorenzon M
Christopher_Hall_(sculptor) M
Juan_Toya M
Wilfried_Van_Moer M
Michael_Saward M
Yahiya_Doumbia M
William_B._Rudman M
George_Wuerch M
Brian_Orser M
Wellington_Sandoval M
George_Moose M
Ana_Kokkinos F
Christian_Fortune M
Travis_Smith_(artist) M
Dax_Riggs M
Julian_Burnside M
Boss_Bailey M
Aharon_Megged M
John_Sinisa M
Irvine_Arditti M
Jim_Kacian M
Mona-Jeanette_Berntsen F
Adrian_Falub M
MartÃn_Lasarte M
Casey_Fossum M
Struther_Arnott M
Finn_Jebsen M
Edith_Hunkeler F
Clive_Baker M
Ed_Annunziata M
John_McLaughlin_(musician) M
Pervin_Shroff F
Masako_JÅ F
Calvin_Jones_(baseball) M
Mike_Saenz M
Sarah_Jaffe F
Alexander_Bachmanov M
Guy_Allison M
Ababu_Namwamba M
Luke_Arscott M
Konstantinos_Thanos M
Monica_Mæland F
Dave_Faulkner_(musician) M
Khalil_Ibrahim_Al-Zayani M
David_Ackert M
FrantiÅ¡ek_DřÞÄal M
Ronald_L._Ellis M
Janet-Laine_Green F
Megumi_Sato_(athlete) F
Gakuya_Horii M
Camilla_Henemark F
Kyle_Snyder M
Arsen_Fadzayev M
Carolyn_Waldo F
Joan_Lippincott F
Mohamed_Refaie M
Sultan_Hashim_Ahmad_al-Tai M
LucÃa_EtxebarrÃa F
Luke_Williams_(wrestler) M
Patricia_Gaffney F
Abdul_Rahman_Al-Athel M
Kwon_Tae-Man M
Mark_Trombino M
Kiyomi_Niwata F
Slavko_Lukić M
Azar_Karadas M
Amanda_Schull F
Adele_Scheele F
Christian_Giantomassi M
Evangelista_Santos M
Bobby_Hutcherson M
Sandy_Collins_(tennis) F
Steve_Witiuk M
Janusz_WaluÅ› M
Lati_Grobman F
Bob_Atha M
Fredrik_Larsson M
Mike_McCall M
Eugenio_Colombo M
Renos_Doweiya M
Conor_Gill M
Stefan_Uteß M
Theodore_Long M
Tony_Howorth M
Abel_Masuero M
AnÃsio_Abraão_David M
Cedric_Payne M
Pierre_Aubé M
Johnny_Chester M
Martijn_van_der_Laan M
Dick_Dreissigacker M
Sudsy_Monchik M
Pran M
Sandra_A._Gregory F
Enkel_Dauti M
Jerry_Kenneth_"Ken"_Swilling M
David_Southwick M
Suriya_Bala_Kerisnan_Thevar M
Norman_N._Li M
Bryan_Wenzel M
Danny_Manning M
Kay_Tse F
Brad_Fraser M
Peter_Tomasi M
Laurie_Levenson F
Joe_Labero M
Alexander_Korolyuk M
Drew_Anderson_(outfielder) M
Robert_"Mack"_McCormick M
Junie_Donlavey M
Silvan_Zurbriggen M
François_Cluzet M
Joe_Henderson_(runner) M
Mike_Symon M
Tomás_Teresen M
Patrick_Côté_(fighter) M
Plumb_(singer) F
Monica_RoÅŸu F
Sam_Daly M
Mark_L._Polansky M
Frederick_Sumaye M
Steve_Rizzono M
Roy_Frumkes M
Charles_M._Blow M
Margaret_Rudin F
Matthieu_Bochu M
Peter_Iwei M
Adam_Greenberg_(baseball) M
Marvin_Frederick M
Natalie_Spilger F
Maurice_Dalé M
Sachiko_Chijimatsu F
Ko_Gi-Hyun F
Peter_Howitt M
Ivan_Stojmenovic M
Mark_Shulman M
Karloff_Lagarde,_Jr. M
Vasilie_Simiocenco M
Jill_Colucci F
Glen_Osborne M
Ingrid_Hadler F
Andrei_Khodykin M
Danilo_Tomić M
Kevin_James_(actor) M
Domingo_Liotta M
Jesús_Pérez_(boxer) M
Craig_Krampf M
José_Varacka M
Gregg_Bingham M
Nyjer_Morgan M
Jérémy_Denquin M
Alan_Milburn M
Farhad_Reza M
Cameron_Donald M
Paddy_Carr M
Bud_Day M
Richard_Aylard M
Tara_Buck F
Eric_Mackenzie_(Australian_rules_footballer) M
McBride's script, for you propeller-heads was:
QUOTE
SELECT
page_title
FROM page
JOIN categorylinks
ON cl_from = page_id
WHERE cl_to = 'Living_people'
AND page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_random > RAND()
ORDER BY page_random
LIMIT 500;