So I found a twitter thread talking about this, and the documentation page seems to indicate it's used as a lookup for a name to indicate the most likely gender of that name is.
https://pecl.php.net/package/gender/0.6.0
The Fediverse is imperfectly connected, unfortunately, so you're not guaranteed to see everything that exists on your instance. Hopefully features will be introduced to avoid this exact duplication problem.
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julianh@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
These are good but none are compatible with the php gender class.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 3y
A weirdly limited selection, too. Like, what if you're a Somali?
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y
So I found a twitter thread talking about this, and the documentation page seems to indicate it's used as a lookup for a name to indicate the most likely gender of that name is. https://pecl.php.net/package/gender/0.6.0
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1343285800369147904
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y
The country inclusion is odd, but then again apple also does this with oddly specific (to someone living in the west) family relations that exist in other countries/cultural regions. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelcontactrelationeldercousinmotherssiblingsdaughterorfatherssistersdaughter
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
That's neat. I don't suppose there's an anthropology community yet?
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
I didn't see one in the global search.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
The Fediverse is imperfectly connected, unfortunately, so you're not guaranteed to see everything that exists on your instance. Hopefully features will be introduced to avoid this exact duplication problem.
Mounticat@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
From the documentation, it appears that the country codes are for localization presumbly of the names of the genders.
Edit: Ah, others already said this (didn't refresh and kbin doesn't update this automatically). Refer to above.
in2erval@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
My gender is
ERROR_IN_NAME😎Daniikk1012@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
What in the hell is KAZAKH_USBEK?
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social · 3 pts · 3y
Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan. Weird that they're considered the same country by this class
Daniikk1012@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah, that's my complaint, didn't make that clear
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y
https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE Edit: The link from the post doesn't appear on the mlem app right now, here it is for those on mobile.
nodiet@feddit.de · 5 pts · 3y
Some of these are confusing sex with gender, but overall I had a good laugh
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah the chromosome one definitely was as well as a couple others.
sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
unironically this
PierreKanazawa@fedia.io · 3 pts · 3y
I didn't expect that "binary"
hellfire103@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Love it.