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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to MusicBrainz. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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[edit] Scope

The goal of this project is to link each artist in the MusicBrainz database to Wikipedia and vice versa. For example: Weezer has relationship with Wikipedia and our Weezer page has a link to the corresponding information on MusicBrainz.

[edit] Parentage

This wikiproject is the malformed child of at least WikiProject Music and no one else claims responsibility. The following WikiProjects could also be considered parents:

[edit] Related things in Wikipedia

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Related Wikiportals

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Participants

[edit] Goals

  1. Link every artist and album Wikipedia Page to its counterpart on MusicBrainz.
  2. Link every MusicBrainz artist and album that has a wikipedia page to the appropriate Wikipedia page.

[edit] Projects

  1. /Linking focus

[edit] Tasks

  • Add MusicBrainz links! See the "Templates" section for how to do it. You may as well start by looking for artists/releases that you have a personal interest in, or alternatively by checking that various well-known artists have MB links.


[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy


[edit] Templates

All the templates use the same syntax:

{{MusicBrainz artist|id=31e7b30b-f960-408f-908b-c8e277308eab|name=Susumu Hirasawa}}
{{MusicBrainz release|id=5e06ebf6-f5c2-42ef-8b52-2adfc304b2cc|name=Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack}}
{{MusicBrainz track|id=5bcf21f3-41bb-49b0-a290-6b0eb468b20c|name=Encyclopedia}}
{{MusicBrainz label|id=7e461015-9826-471d-8287-2fbe8903887c|name=GO' Danish Folk Music}}

There is also a wikilink template:

{{MusicBrainz wiki|WikiPedia}}
{{MusicBrainz wiki|MusicBrainz}}

There are also userboxes:

{{User:UBX/MusicBrainz}}
Image:MusicBrainz Tagger icon.png This user is a MusicBrainz moderator.
{{User WikiProject MusicBrainz}}
↑Project members are encouraged to use this one.→		 Template:User WikiProject MusicBrainz


And here is the project notice to be put on talk pages (mostly on templates and MB related articles (all 4 or 5 of em):

MusicBrainz

This article is part of WikiProject MusicBrainz, an attempt to comprehensively link MusicBrainz and Wikipedia resources. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page for more details on the projects.


Tagging focus:

MusicBrainz This category and any subcategories are the focus of the MusicBrainz WikiProject linking efforts. This message will be removed when the time period for linking has elapsed or we are finished.


[edit] Tools (useful WKP searches)

Use these searches to help find "raw" links out from WP to MusicBrainz:

Ideally it would be nice if all of these used the templates instead. Of course for user pages, talk pages, it's less important. But perhaps if you see main articles appearing in those search results, you could convert them to use the templates instead.

Here are some quick links to find pages that make use of our lovely MusicBrainz link templates:

[edit] Categories


[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on MusicBrainz

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on MusicBrainz

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to MusicBrainz

Please feel free to list your new MusicBrainz-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Votes for deletion

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The MusicBrainz-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/MusicBrainz.