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=Linking Wikipedia and MusicBrainz together=
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia] is an online encyclopedia Wiki in multiple languages that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It contains many articles on bands and other artists. This is a short draft describing the possible collaboration between [[MusicBrainz]] and Wikipedia.
[[Wikipedia|WikiPedia]] is an online encyclopedia Wiki in multiple languages that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It contains many articles on bands and other artists. This is a short draft describing the possible collaboration between [[MusicBrainz]] and Wikipedia.


==Linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia==
==Linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia==

Revision as of 13:45, 1 February 2006

Linking Wikipedia and MusicBrainz together

WikiPedia is an online encyclopedia Wiki in multiple languages that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It contains many articles on bands and other artists. This is a short draft describing the possible collaboration between MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia

You can use the WikipediaRelationshipType to add an AdvancedRelationship (AR) between an artist or album and their Wikipedia url.

Linking from Wikipedia to MusicBrainz

Linking from the English Wikipedia to MusicBrainz

At the English Wikipedia, use the templates

  • {{Musicbrainz artist|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFARTIST}} (link),
  • {{Musicbrainz album|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFALBUM}} (link),
  • link to the earliest release
  • {{Musicbrainz track|id=PERMALINKCODE|name=NAMEOFARTIST}} (link),
  • link to the earliest release

to link to MusicBrainz objects, and

  • {{Musicbrainz wiki|PAGENAME}} (link),
  • good for the references/external links section
  • [[MusicBrainz:PAGENAME]],
  • better to use in the middle of a sentence

to link to the Musicbrainz wiki. (ALLCAPSWORDS are arguments, obviously)

Linking from the German Wikipedia to MusicBrainz

Unfortunatly the German Wikipedia changed its template and currently only artists can be linked and only with the Row ID. Don't ask why, its simply stupid. You can help discussing about this at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage_Diskussion:Musicbrainz.

So if you want to link to a MusicBrainz page in Wikipedia use one of the following codes in the article:

  • {{MusicBrainz künstler|id=ROWID|name=NAMEOFARTIST}} (link),
  • prefered to use
  • {{MusicBrainz|ROWID}} (link)
  • only for artists; for uniformity I suggest using the previous one
  • {{MusicBrainz album|id=ROWID|name=NAMEOFALBUM}}} (link)
  • link to the earliest release

You can parse all articles out of the Database dump to get the coresponding MusicBrainz ROWID: http://www.wikisign.org/chronikdetail.php?key=fca86618f9fa3e32acf29bc7a90931bb&view=table&wsLang=en