All depends on how many users you have and how accurate you want your data to be. If your language uses specific morphemes for women (usually non-european languages have marked feminine morphemes; male names and pronouns are not marked), then you could write a parser for these names. Yet I doubt your data will be any better than 90% accurate. Don't forget people construct virtual identities and often use loanwords. You could also parse their content (blogs, comments,... *is this legal?) and see which first person pronouns, verbs, etc. they use. If the latter are explicit feminine forms, use a feminine welcome. So, I would just work around the gender-specific welcome. Replace it somehow. Convince your client it is somehow spooky to directly address the visitor. Or, even better, add a gender category to your db and register form and convince your client that some day it will prove interesting for data mining purposes. greetings,djinja
> Subject: Re: Determine gender from first name > From: law...@thenilgiris.com > To: django-users@googlegroups.com > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:20:36 +0530 > > On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 09:49 +0100, Demetrio Girardi wrote: > > How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of > > first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that > > guesstimates the gender? > > not possible in my opinion. There may be some languages where a name > *has* to have gender specific suffix. All the languages I know do not. > Maria, Rama, Krishna, for example are not gender specific. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
