Wikidata

From the mouth of the horse: "Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in every language supported by the MediaWiki software." [1]

Wikidata interacts with MusicBrainz in various ways. This page is meant to note these various ways for MusicBrainz editors.

MusicBrainz

Interactions that affect MusicBrainz.

Relationships

The most straight-forward are the Wikidata URL relationships. A few bots scour MusicBrainz and add Wikidata links to entities, but it can also be done manually.

• All open Wikidata relationship edits.
• All Wikidata relationship edits.

Areas

Areas were originally imported from Wikidata by area_bot, although that script is not currently running (if you want to request a missing area, please create a ticket in JIRA).

Wikimedia

There are several properties in Wikidata for MBIDs, all of which can be used to link an item on Wikidata to MusicBrainz:

• Area MBID
• Artist MBID
• Instrument MBID
• Label MBID
• Place MBID
• Release Group MBID
• Series MBID
• Work MBID

The template Authority Control on the English Wikipedia will automatically include a link to MusicBrainz.