Link Wikipedia And MusicBrainz
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Wikipedia is an online wiki-based encyclopedia in multiple languages that is dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). It contains many articles on bands and other artists. This is a short draft describing the possible collaboration between MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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[edit] Linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia
You can use the Wikipedia Relationship Type to add relationships between artists, labels and albums and their Wikipedia URLs.
[edit] Benefits of linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia
The BBC (see BBC Teams Editing MusicBrainz) uses MusicBrainz to generate tracklists, discographies and artist profile info on its music website, bbc.co.uk/music. Adding a relationship between an artist and a Wikipedia URL automatically generates a biography on the BBC site e.g. Miles Davis.
MusicBrainz is probably going to also support this feature in the future.
[edit] Linking from Wikipedia to MusicBrainz
[edit] Linking from the English Wikipedia to MusicBrainz
At the English Wikipedia, use the following templates to link to MusicBrainz objects (ALLCAPSWORDS are arguments):
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{{MusicBrainz artist|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFARTIST}} (link) -
{{MusicBrainz release-group|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFRELEASEGROUP}} (link) -
{{MusicBrainz release|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFRELEASE}} (link) (link to the earliest release when using this) -
{{MusicBrainz track|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFTRACK}} (link) (link to the earliest release when using this) -
{{MusicBrainz label|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFLABEL}} (link)
and these ones to link to the MusicBrainz wiki:
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{{MusicBrainz wiki|PAGENAME}} (link), (good for the references/external links section) -
[[MusicBrainz:PAGENAME]](better to use in the middle of a sentence)
[edit] Linking from the Polish Wikipedia to MusicBrainz
At the Polish Wikipedia, use the templates:
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{{MusicBrainz artist|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFARTIST}} (link)(adoption) -
{{MusicBrainz release-group|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFRELEASEGROUP}} (link)(adoption) -
{{MusicBrainz release|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFRELEASE}} (link)(adoption) (link to the earliest release when using this) -
{{MusicBrainz label|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFLABEL}} (link)(adoption)
[edit] Linking from the German Wikipedia to MusicBrainz
At the German Wikipedia, use the templates
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{{MusicBrainz Künstler|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFARTIST}} (link) -
{{MusicBrainz Album|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFALBUM}} (link) (link to the earliest release when using this) -
{{MusicBrainz Label|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFLABEL}} (link)
[edit] Linking from the French Wikipedia to MusicBrainz
Please don't link from the French Wikipedia to MusicBrainz - French Wikipedians are against it. It's still perfectly OK (and encouraged!) to link from MusicBrainz to the French Wikipedia, just not the other way around.
