#musicbrainz

I fully understand the reasons, but I just don't agree that wikipedia should be used that way

though i also irritate myself with that the (singer) or /band( addtags arent added until there is *found* a duplicate with the same name, and some just have the name

uh.. how to say. thier naming sceme doesnt have a guideline

:)

it does

I meant more like {{PerformsAs|Santogold}}

or I meant more like {{AlsoKnownAsRedirect|Santogold}}

that would very interesting from dbpedia point of view, I guess

as far as i've experienced, when it comes to music and bands. they only tag on an identifier in the name like _(singer) only if it isn't unique

yes

and additional identifiers, (eg 60's band), (rumba dancer) only if those arent unique again

which results in renaming as soon as someone else with that name comes along

exactly. it keeps beign more and more redirects

U2_(band) moved to U2 recently

yes

it breaks links

it doesn't actually, because they add redirects

measn we have to run aroudn and fix them, keep chekking them as s's to make sure hey arent broke

yes

unless it turns into a disambiguation page

in wich case buh

becasue what then in cases like John Willimas

williams

where x person maybe clicks the link to learn *more* about some J.W ihe doesnt know about, but then gets disambig. page and thne he is as far as he started

the thing about disambiguation pages on wikia, is, that if you have *no clue* wich one it is you're after. they are very ambiguous :)

wich is, i thoguht the reason we link to it in the first place, to provide direct links to identify and additional inforamtino on x artist

if i see an artist with a dodgy name, i click it, but if it has wikipedia links and maybe a discogs page. i understand this isnt something thats broken

same for releases with weird titles or names

+track

and labels, etc

well I am giving up on thinking about this and going home

have a good weekend!

some velvet underground fans around?

Hi guys. I translated my new song intro into English(with lyrics).

Welcome listening ^^

LotR, heh, no, i have some obscure recordings and wanted to know if that's an actual release or something

"Please note that this is an unusual recording. The tape machine used to record this show was placed inside Lou Reed’s guitar amp; hence the title. As such, Lou’s guitar is basically all that you can hear; the other instruments and the vocals are difficult to hear. This is a very interesting document of the band, but just be aware that it’s not a typical live recording."

aww MGdesigner needs to hang out for longer so i can tell him tat i liked the sad hacker song :(

luks: are we using test.mb for anything at the moment?

or ruaok :)

and how's portland going?

I'm just trying to kill two hours and finish my blogging duties.

good. the conference was great.

I read your entry on open-source project problems, was a good read

yay!

:-)

there is another one coming soon.

neato

complete with... ooops. MB needs to do this better.

I should subscribe

<-- lazy

and that.

I'm not a regular radar blogger. only for conferences.

yea, thought so

my favorite quote from the conf: "M$ is irrelevant. We're more worried about Apple"

wow. what a statement and change of landscape.

I find that quite relevant though...

I've gone off Apple

ruaok, hate to be a bummer, but mind having a quick read of an email before I shoot it off to the users list (about testing my branch)

shoot.

I wanted to use test.mb.org, but I don't know if it's in use atm

I think luks has a branch running there, but this seems quite useful and more in-the-moment.

if you'd like I can make the box available to you.

and that post looks good.

though I worry about your english sometimes.

i'm a coder :P

au contraire!

and starting to believe that english are not my main language please

your english is waaay too good to be a coder.

oh

rofl

danke :)

must mean your code is crap. :)

:-)

ahahaa

gee thanks :P

I've seen so much crappy writing on the net, that when I see real english it pops out at me.

:P

the net has too much garbage

I was gushing about the current crop of SoC students to the Google SoC Team.

I moan at my sister about adding to that collection

yup?

oh, you had that google dinner yet btw?

yeah, that was yesterday.

cool

they're jazzed that we're into it this year.

:-)

around my table sat: Greg Kroa-hartman (linux kernel hacker), Monty from MySQL, a Google guy, an Oreilly Intern, a metaweb guy and brad fitzpatrick of memcached/LJ/perlbal fame.

nice! i'd love to be able to sit at one of those tables :P

*motorola

stick with open source and you very well might.

one day maybe, heh

i'm glad you forced me to apply for SoC, enjoying open source a lot

so, test.mb.org.wanna?

sure, but do you want me to do the setup? probs better to leave that to luks

but it would be more stable than my server, I'm sure

why shouldn't you do the setup?

the distro there is a bit old, but nothing you can't handle

cool, suppose I can give it a shot then

just leave luks' branch alone and setup a new one.

it's just grabbing some new perl modules really

er, account

hehe

also, my branch doesn't run through apache, I'm not sure if I should look into that (or fastcgi) first

acid2 login name?

acid2 will be fine

atm I've just been using the internal server that ships with Catalyst, it can be set to fork on request, so it should be able to handle load as a test server

k