MusicBrainz Wiki:Categories

Purpose

This page contains a list of established categories that should be used in the MusicBrainz Wiki to categorize your wiki pages.

This is a work in progress; some existing categories in Talk:Wiki Categories will be discussed and then moved here.

Wiki Categories

Documentation & Style

• Category:Proposal -- Pages that deal with proposals covering anything other than advanced relationships or StyleGuidelines.
  • Category:Failed Proposal -- Pages that deal with any failed proposals, including advanced relationships and StyleGuidelines.
  • Category:Proposed Style -- Pages that deal with proposed StyleGuidelines.
  • Category:Proposed Advanced Relationship Type -- This Category groups all pages that contain a proposed Advanced Relationship Type.

• Category:Style -- For pages describing, proposing, or discussing the style guidelines.
  • Category:Official Style -- For the official pages describing the accepted StyleGuidelines.
  • Category:Series Style -- Pages that deal with SeriesStyleGuidelines.
  • Category:Style Council -- Pages that deal with the StyleCouncil.

• Category:Documentation -- For MusicBrainz documentation being developed on the Wiki.
  • Category:FAQ -- This category contains pages dealing with FrequentlyAskedQuestions.
  • Category:Artist -- Pages providing documentation about Artists.
  • Category:Label -- Pages providing documentation about Labels.
  • Category:Annotation -- Pages providing documentation about Annotations.
  • Category:Release -- Pages providing documentation about Releases.
  • Category:Track -- Pages providing documentation about Tracks.
  • Category:Edit Types -- For documentation of different EditTypes.
  • Category:Advanced Relationships -- Pages providing documentation about the Advanced Relationships.
    • Category:Relationship Attribute -- Pages providing documentation about AdvancedRelationshipAttributes.
    • Category:Relationship Type -- Pages providing documentation about AdvancedRelationshipTypes.
    • Category:Relationship Class - Pages providing documentation about (a particular) Relationship Class:
      • Category:Alternative Version Relationship Class
      • Category:Biographical Relationship Class
        • Category:Business Association Relationship Class
          • Category:Contract Relationship Class
          • Category:Business to Business Relationship Class
        • Category:Personal Association Relationship Class
      • Category:Compilation Relationship Class
        • Category:Compiled Material Relationship Class
        • Category:Compiling Artist Role Relationship Class
      • Category:Composition Relationship Class
      • Category:Discontinued Relationship Class
      • Category:External Resource Relationship Class
        • Category:External Information Relationship Class
        • Category:External Website Relationship Class
          • Category:Affiliate Relationship Class
        • Category:Get Music Relationship Class
      • Category:Musical Association Relationship Class
      • Category:NGS Upgrade Relationship Class
      • Category:Performance Relationship Class
      • Category:Production Relationship Class
        • Category:Engineer Relationship Class
      • Category:Remix Relationship Class
        • Category:Remixed Material Relationship Class
        • Category:Remixing Artist Role Relationship Class
    • Category:Relationship Family - Pages providing documentation about (a particular) Relationship Family; redundant ones are redirected to their inverse (Release Label redirects to Label Release, etc.). NGS is already supported, as these are auto-assigned via template. The invalid family categories (due to redundancy) are listed on the talk page.
      • Current Entities
        • Category:Artist-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Label-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Label-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Release-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Release-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Release-Release Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Release Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Track Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Release Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Track Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-URL Relationship Family
      • NGS Entities
        • Category:Artist-Credit Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Artist-Credit Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Label-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Medium-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Medium-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Medium-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Medium-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Recording-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Recording-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Recording-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Recording-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Recording-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:Release-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Release-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Release-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Release Relationship Family
        • Category:Release Group-Release Group Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:Track-Release Group Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Release Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Release Group Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Track Relationship Family
        • Category:Tracklist-Tracklist Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Release Group Relationship Family
        • Category:URL-Tracklist Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Artist Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Artist Credit Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Label Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Medium Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Recording Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Release Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Release Group Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Track Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Tracklist Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-URL Relationship Family
        • Category:Work-Work Relationship Family
• Category:WikiDocs Page -- This category groups all WikiDocs pages.
  • Category:Text Fragment -- This category groups all pages that are used on the MusicBrainz Server for transcluded Text Fragments.

Products

• Category:Products -- This category groups all MusicBrainz products, and some of their documentation.
  • Category:Server -- This category groups all pages that deal with the MusicBrainz Server.
  • Category:Database -- This category groups all pages that deal with the MusicBrainz Database.
  • Category:Download -- This category groups all pages that provide download links for MusicBrainz products.
  • Category:Picard -- This category groups all pages about MusicBrainz Picard.

• Category:Affiliate -- This category groups all pages relating to our tagger affiliate program.

Community

• Category:User -- Personal pages of WikiZens and MusicBrainz Contributors. These are important because they backlink to all the pages a person has edited. So please create a personal page and sign your edits with your Wiki Name.
  • Category:Bio -- This category groups all pages that are official biographies of the people behind MusicBrainz.
  • Category:Developer -- This category groups all pages about MusicBrainz developers.
  • Category:User Language -- This category groups all pages that define a User Language.

• Category:Communication Forum -- This category is for pages that describe places used by the MusicBrainz community to discuss.

WikiWardening

• Category:Wiki -- This category groups pages that deal with the state of this wiki or with general wiki culture.
  • Category:Candidate for Deletion -- This is a list of pages which should maybe be deleted.
  • Category:To Be Reviewed -- This is a list of pages that haven't been reviewed yet.
  • Category:Stubs -- These are articles that could use some expansion.

• Category:Index -- This category groups together index pages. Index pages just collect pages that deal with a specific topic without that topic being discussed on the page itself. Please keep in mind that a wiki is a flat hierarchy; that means that pages can be listed on several indices. Index pages form nothing like a directory tree but are mere clusters for topics.