Wikipedia Relationship Type

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1 Description
- 1.1 Benefits of linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia
2 Link Phrases
3 Attributes
- 3.1 “description”
4 Guidelines
5 Examples

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This relationship type belongs to the External Website Relationship Class.

Description

This links an entity to its corresponding Wikipedia page. Note that you can link back from Wikipedia to MusicBrainz with special macros on the respective Wikipedia pages. See Link Wikipedia and MusicBrainz for details. Note that you should not link to Wikipedia redirection pages, but to the un-redirected source page.

Benefits of linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia

The BBC uses MusicBrainz to generate tracklist, discographies and artist profile info on its music website, bbc.co.uk/music. Adding a relationship between an artist and a Wikipedia URL automatically generates a biography on the BBC site e.g. Miles Davis.

Link Phrases

Artist has a Wikipedia page at URL
URL is a Wikipedia page for Artist
ReleaseGroup has a Wikipedia page at URL
URL is a Wikipedia page for ReleaseGroup
Label has a Wikipedia page at URL
URL is a Wikipedia page for Label

Attributes

“description”

The description field should be left empty.

Guidelines

The full URL should be used, not just the Wikipedia page name.

Examples

The Temptations has a Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptations is a Wikipedia page for The Temptations