Style update, 2014-11-03
As mentioned when the new style process was announced, at a similar time to every server release post we’ll be publishing a list of what’s changed in style during that period. The first period of two...
View ArticleStyle update, 2014-12-03
After skipping a fortnight because of concentrating on the schema change release, here’s the next edition of the style update, with all the changes from the last month. Most of the changes involve...
View ArticleStyle update, 2015-01-13
It’s been, well, a bit too long, but here we go with a new entry of “What has changed in Style”! The two bigger changes to previous usage here involve pseudo-releases and live bootlegs: Pseudo-releases...
View ArticleStyle update, 2015-01-27
Small update this time. Two main changes – a few more pages are now linkable as “other databases”, and a lot of small guidelines related to titles have been condensed into the Titles guideline instead....
View ArticleStyle update, 2015-02-11
New updates to style are here! We gave proper definitions to “social network” and “online community” (and while doing that we split last.fm from “social network” into its own type). Also added a few...
View ArticleDownstream Wikipedia link usage and migration to Wikidata
MusicBrainz has linked to Wikipedia for many years and we now have links to Wikidata as well. Wikidata, however, acts as a central repository for Wikipedia links, so it does not make sense for...
View ArticleStyle update, 2015-06-02
Ok, so the “have a report every two weeks” thing didn’t work out very well lately. But things have been happening anyway, so here’s all that has happened in the last few months! Guidelines for artists...
View ArticleStyle update, 2015-09-08
Hi everyone! Here we are with another very, very late style update for the last couple months. Apart from quite a few smaller changes (full list below), we split the translator relationship so that...
View ArticleSimplification of the featured artist guideline
Hi everyone! In the past couple years, we’ve steadily reduced the amount of standardisation we do, instead preferring to stick closer to the original release information (except for obvious errors) and...
View ArticleStyle Guideline Updates
If you’ve been lurking on our forums, you will know that our style guidelines have been receiving lots of attention lately! Both MusicBrainz docs and BookBrainz docs have been getting new additions...
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