MusicBrainz Wiki talk:Categories

Discussion about MusicBrainz wiki categories

Purpose

What Categories do we need, are they good the way they are? Which ones should be proposed in WikiCategories?

Listing and discussion of current categories

Categories now in WikiCategories

• -- Personal pages of WikiZens and MusicBrainzContributors. 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 WikiName.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that are official biographies of the PeopleBehindMusicBrainz
  • -- This Category groups all pages about MusicBrainz developers.

• -- This Category groups all MusicBrainz Products.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that deal with the MusicBrainz Server.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that deal with the MusicBrainz Database.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that provide download links for MusicBrainz Products.
  • -- This Category groups all pages about PicardTagger

• -- For pages describing, proposing, or discussing the style guidelines.
  • -- For the official pages describing the accepted style guidelines.
  • -- Pages that deal with proposed StyleGuideline's.
  • -- Pages that deal with the StyleCouncil.

• -- For MusicBrainz documentation being developed on the Wiki.
  • -- This category contains pages dealing with FrequentlyAskedQuestions.
  • -- Pages providing documentation about Labels.
  • -- Pages providing documentation about Annotationss.
  • -- For documentation of different edit types.
  • -- This Category groups all WikiDocsPages. See WikiDocs for details.
    • -- This Category groups all pages that are used on the MusicBrainz Server for Transcluded TextFragments

• -- For pages relating to our tagger affiliate program
  • -- This Category groups all pages that define a ModeratorLanguage. There is a description of how these pages work on ModeratorLanguage.

• -- This Category is for pages that describe places used by the MusicBrainz community to discuss.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that deal with the mailing lists available on the server.

Categories needing discussion

Full list

• -- For pages about MusicBrainz features and implementation. This one is getting huge. Maybe we should split it.
  • -- This Category is for pages that make proposals which are not only about style (which is covered by) but also new ideas for further developments and other stuff.

• -- For discussion threads. Pages will often be in this and some other category.
• -- For additional info pages that someday may go into the database.
• -- For pages describing, proposing, or discussing the style guidelines
  • -- Pages that deal with SeriesStyleGuidelines.

• Should we really keep this one? There are 3 pages in this category. -- murdos 13:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

• -- For pages describing, proposing, or discussing the editing process & guidelines.
  • -- This Category is for pages that explain the various stati an Edit may have during its lifetime.

• -- This Category is for pages that deal with a the Advanced Relationships subsection of the MusicBrainzDocumentation on this wiki.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that contain a ProposedAdvancedRelationshipType. It is used to automatically generate a list of these pages on ProposedAdvancedRelationshipType
  • -- This Category groups all pages about AdvancedRelationshipAttributes.
  • -- This Category groups all pages about AdvancedRelationshipClasses.
  • -- This Category groups all pages about AdvancedRelationshipTypes.

• -- For MusicBrainz documentation being developed on the Wiki.
  • -- For explanations of terminology like DiscID, ArtistSortName, etc.
  • -- This is a list of HowTo's automatically created from BackLinks to this page. For a more structured overview and instructions on how to add new pages, see HowTo

• -- For pages with descriptions of other related software, resources, or external links.
  • -- This Category is for pages that deal with the applications which use the MusicBrainz data, but are not maintained by the MusicBrainz developers. See the Products page if you want to learn about the MusicBrainz products.

• -- For metadiscussion, tasks about this Wiki.
• and of course, which includes all of the above, plus any which aren't yet listed here.
  • -- Indexpages just collect pages that deal with a specific topic without that topic being discussed on the page itself. Please keep in mind that a WikiIsAFlatHierarchy. That means that pages can be listed on several indices. Indexpages form nothing like a directory tree but are mere clusters for topics.
  • -- Pages that have a philosophical viewpoint.
  • -- This Category groups all pages that deal with lists of stuff to do.
  • -- This Category groups all pages kept for historical purposes (Discussion, Proposal, ...).

Needs splitting

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• There are only 3 pages in this category.should be sufficient. -- murdos 13:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

  we should not maintain wiki page for external software but rather link to an external page

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Ad-hoc/Pseudo Categories

This is a list of all the pages on the wiki that list other pages on the wiki, but aren't Categories. Template:FullSearch

Discussion

I've got to wonder if it's possible to produce a flat (or better yet hierachical) list of categories (as above) automatically. It would certainly be easier to keep up-to-date than a hand-edited list... perhaps a script that watches for edits on Category.*, pulls the description, and updates/adds the list? Please AnswerMe. -- MartinRudat 08:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC)