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      • yeeeargh
        even if i can't find the new song in any database like ISWC and GEMA's?
      • 2013-08-25 23715, 2013

      • nikki
        sure, we don't limit works to things we can find in other databases :)
      • 2013-08-25 23728, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        ok
      • 2013-08-25 23747, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        and do i have to link these works together in some way?
      • 2013-08-25 23748, 2013

      • nikki
        ideally yes
      • 2013-08-25 23755, 2013

      • nikki
        but I don't know which relationship fits best
      • 2013-08-25 23704, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        and should i set the composers of the original work as the composers for the new one? or just add the artists for the new lyrics
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

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      • reosarevok
        I'd possibly do "based on"
      • 2013-08-25 23752, 2013

      • nikki
        I would add whatever credits apply. we don't have a way to inherit relationships
      • 2013-08-25 23754, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (and add the composers)
      • 2013-08-25 23712, 2013

      • yeeeargh
      • 2013-08-25 23732, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        original song is hell on wheels from fu manchu with the composers listed on the discogs link
      • 2013-08-25 23707, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        i would add marten erbsen as lyrics guy and the guys from fu manchu as composers
      • 2013-08-25 23726, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        and then look if i find any good way to relate those two works
      • 2013-08-25 23708, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        Derivative work relationship from the docs looks like a good one i guess
      • 2013-08-25 23754, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Yeah, I mean, it's either "version of" or "based on"
      • 2013-08-25 23707, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (both of wich are derivative work thingies)
      • 2013-08-25 23739, 2013

      • CallerNo6
        I think "based on" is more of an adaption, isn't it?
      • 2013-08-25 23742, 2013

      • CallerNo6 can't remember
      • 2013-08-25 23713, 2013

      • CallerNo6 sez "nevermind"
      • 2013-08-25 23703, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        is the basis for read quite good: "This links two works, where the second work is based on music or text from the first, but isn't directly a revision or an arrangement of it."
      • 2013-08-25 23724, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        i have no clue what i revision or an arrangement would be
      • 2013-08-25 23727, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        though
      • 2013-08-25 23738, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        "The new work must be a new composition, not just an arrangement or the same music with different or translated lyrics. " hm...looks like this would apply here. so it would be the wrong one
      • 2013-08-25 23722, 2013

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      • LordSputnik
        yeeeargh: arrangement = rewriting the existing work to be played by new instruments
      • 2013-08-25 23751, 2013

      • LordSputnik
        revision is a later version of the work by the same composer
      • 2013-08-25 23721, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        arangement shouldn't be used in "pop" music anyways according to the doc
      • 2013-08-25 23723, 2013

      • LordSputnik
        so, Beethoven might have written a really crap symphony, then revised it to make Symphony #5, then you'd use revision
      • 2013-08-25 23750, 2013

      • LordSputnik
        yeeeargh: not generally, no, because recordings have something to deal with that (forgotten what it is)
      • 2013-08-25 23722, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        "Note: This should rarely be used for pop music" ...
      • 2013-08-25 23703, 2013

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      • 2013-08-25 23715, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        musicbrainz.org/doc/relationship-types/7440b539-1… how about this one... it's more general
      • 2013-08-25 23740, 2013

      • LordSputnik
        yeeeargh: i'd use basis, unless it's a parody, then i'd use "earliest version" with the parody attribute
      • 2013-08-25 23714, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        yeah, basis sounds good if there wouldn't be that passage: "The new work must be a new composition, not just an arrangement or the same music with different or translated lyrics. " but the lyrics are completely different and not just translated
      • 2013-08-25 23727, 2013

      • CallerNo6 agrees, "based on" isn't ideal
      • 2013-08-25 23723, 2013

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      • 2013-08-25 23733, 2013

      • CallerNo6
        (that line should be in the bullet point list)
      • 2013-08-25 23721, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        so i guess "other version" is the better one... and i leave translated unselected, because it's not the same text in a different language
      • 2013-08-25 23745, 2013

      • snartal
        Question: How do we add areas?
      • 2013-08-25 23711, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        i believe there is a bot who looks at wikidata entries with specific attributes like "instance of: city" "is in the administrative unit" and so on
      • 2013-08-25 23711, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        there is a thread about that somewhere in the forums where it is explained a bit
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        just search for area and you'll find it
      • 2013-08-25 23740, 2013

      • Leftmost
        I'm not sure how one would determine if a release was European or German, so opinions on https://musicbrainz.org/edit/23481110 would be helpful.
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

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      • reosarevok
        Badly
      • 2013-08-25 23748, 2013

      • reosarevok is very unconvinced of the usefulness and trustworthiness of release countries
      • 2013-08-25 23730, 2013

      • snartal
        reosarevok: To get a new area, do we have to ask you or nikki, or do we have to add it to wikidata?
      • 2013-08-25 23749, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Wikidata. What's the area?
      • 2013-08-25 23710, 2013

      • snartal
        Belen, New Mexico, US
      • 2013-08-25 23718, 2013

      • snartal
        So, I need to go get a wikidata account I guess.
      • 2013-08-25 23723, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q815390 it's already there... you would have to add "is in the administrative unit" and it should be recognised by the bot
      • 2013-08-25 23733, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        no...not needed
      • 2013-08-25 23755, 2013

      • reosarevok
        You can edit without one, it'll check by IP or whatever
      • 2013-08-25 23704, 2013

      • reosarevok
        If you have a wikipedia account, it's the same, too, IIRC
      • 2013-08-25 23716, 2013

      • snartal
        yea, not sure I want my ip addy stuck to edits
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        should work without... i have added some citys in the past
      • 2013-08-25 23733, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        "is in the administrative unit: Q487283" this should be the attribute you want to add
      • 2013-08-25 23755, 2013

      • snartal
        yea, just trying to find out where to do that at
      • 2013-08-25 23722, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        below the other attributes theres an "add button"
      • 2013-08-25 23701, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        then you enter "is in the administrative unit" into the property field
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Or P131 :)
      • 2013-08-25 23733, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (faster)
      • 2013-08-25 23752, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        and "Q487283" int the field next to it, and then save.... if you want you can add a source too
      • 2013-08-25 23710, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        *in
      • 2013-08-25 23728, 2013

      • snartal
        Well, I just typed "New Mexico" and it added it.
      • 2013-08-25 23734, 2013

      • snartal
        What is source for?
      • 2013-08-25 23726, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        where you got your information from... i don't think that it's necessary for the edit to go through, but nice to know... and i guess putting in the county would be better then the state
      • 2013-08-25 23744, 2013

      • reosarevok
        heh
      • 2013-08-25 23759, 2013

      • reosarevok
        For us it doesn't matter since we don't have counties :)
      • 2013-08-25 23708, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (might be better for wikidata proper though)
      • 2013-08-25 23730, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        yeah, still, better information in wikidata... when you do the work you might as well do it right
      • 2013-08-25 23754, 2013

      • snartal
        ok... now "Valencia County, New Mexico"
      • 2013-08-25 23701, 2013

      • snartal
        Good tip
      • 2013-08-25 23711, 2013

      • snartal
        So, now the bot will pick it up?
      • 2013-08-25 23703, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Should do, if it's also set as city or town
      • 2013-08-25 23715, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (god, the site is SO HORRIBLY SLOW :( )
      • 2013-08-25 23739, 2013

      • reosarevok
        It's not automatic though - or well, it is, but not instant
      • 2013-08-25 23739, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        i guess so, to my knowlege those are the only attributes the bot looks for.... don't know how often the bot runs. so no clue when it will show up here
      • 2013-08-25 23745, 2013

      • reosarevok
        It checks every 3 h IIRC?
      • 2013-08-25 23753, 2013

      • reosarevok
        nikki would know :)
      • 2013-08-25 23710, 2013

      • snartal
        hmmm, some of the entries have county only, some have state and county
      • 2013-08-25 23732, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Shouldn't matter
      • 2013-08-25 23737, 2013

      • ListMyCDs
        still waiting bot to support municipalities ;)
      • 2013-08-25 23740, 2013

      • reosarevok
        I think as long as it has one of the two it should catch it
      • 2013-08-25 23746, 2013

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      • 2013-08-25 23750, 2013

      • reosarevok
        ListMyCDs: it does! Kinda. It added the Italian ones
      • 2013-08-25 23755, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Talk to nikki about the Finnish :p
      • 2013-08-25 23712, 2013

      • ListMyCDs
        need to do that :D
      • 2013-08-25 23736, 2013

      • snartal
        Yea, I was just wondering cause in MB some of these show up different, was wonder was causes it.... https://musicbrainz.org/area/0c693f90-d889-4abe-a…
      • 2013-08-25 23751, 2013

      • snartal
        Some have the state on the name, some don't
      • 2013-08-25 23739, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Oh
      • 2013-08-25 23759, 2013

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      • 2013-08-25 23706, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        looks like it picks up the name of the wikidata-entity
      • 2013-08-25 23711, 2013

      • reosarevok
        That's probably just the wikidata name
      • 2013-08-25 23712, 2013

      • reosarevok
        yeah
      • 2013-08-25 23728, 2013

      • reosarevok
        We were planning to remove it from titles once it gets inheritance right
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

      • yeeeargh
      • 2013-08-25 23751, 2013

      • reosarevok
        As long as it says just "City, in United States", it's useful disambiguation
      • 2013-08-25 23721, 2013

      • snartal
        Ah, depends on what the entry title.
      • 2013-08-25 23711, 2013

      • snartal
        That explains why county does the same thing.
      • 2013-08-25 23723, 2013

      • yeeeargh
        alrighty... i'm out for today... have a nice [insert name for local daytime]
      • 2013-08-25 23751, 2013

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      • yindesu
        has Musicbrainz been having server problems the last several days?
      • 2013-08-25 23740, 2013

      • yindesu
        I'd say 90% of my page loads / note submissions fail after 30 seconds due to bad gateways
      • 2013-08-25 23749, 2013

      • snartal
        Fri-Sun it was really slow, with people mentioning timeouts
      • 2013-08-25 23714, 2013

      • yindesu
        still happening right now.
      • 2013-08-25 23733, 2013

      • culinko
        reosarevok: how does the wikidata thingy work? i see some SK cities there, but not sure what to do to so the bot could pick them...
      • 2013-08-25 23757, 2013

      • reosarevok
        yindesu: one server's out for updating, temporary replacement turned out to be crap
      • 2013-08-25 23759, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (so, yes)
      • 2013-08-25 23701, 2013

      • reosarevok
        culinko: needs P31 (instance of) set to city or town, and P131 (administrative division) set to either some area we have in MB, or some area which itself has P131 to some area we have in MB
      • 2013-08-25 23704, 2013

      • yindesu
        I'm sort of hoping someone else can chime in on musicbrainz.org/edit/23479631 and explain Reissues.
      • 2013-08-25 23716, 2013

      • yindesu
        I don't deal with a lot of Reissues or the labels the editor is bringing up
      • 2013-08-25 23755, 2013

      • culinko
        reosarevok: well, the city is linked to the subdivision we already have in mb
      • 2013-08-25 23706, 2013

      • reosarevok
        And is it listed as a city or town? :)
      • 2013-08-25 23709, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (instance of)
      • 2013-08-25 23716, 2013

      • culinko
        city
      • 2013-08-25 23728, 2013

      • reosarevok
        huh
      • 2013-08-25 23733, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Then it should have been added
      • 2013-08-25 23735, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Link? :)
      • 2013-08-25 23736, 2013

      • culinko
      • 2013-08-25 23700, 2013

      • culinko
        well
      • 2013-08-25 23711, 2013

      • culinko
        i was wrong
      • 2013-08-25 23724, 2013

      • culinko
        it is linked to a district and the district is linked to region in mb
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

      • reosarevok
        no, that's fine
      • 2013-08-25 23737, 2013

      • reosarevok
        You were wrong in that it doesn't have instance of
      • 2013-08-25 23745, 2013

      • reosarevok
        "city" on a text-only description doesn't count :p
      • 2013-08-25 23751, 2013

      • culinko
        oh :P
      • 2013-08-25 23707, 2013

      • reosarevok
        So add that and it should get added
      • 2013-08-25 23749, 2013

      • culinko
        where exactly?
      • 2013-08-25 23707, 2013

      • reosarevok
        "Add" after the list of statements
      • 2013-08-25 23714, 2013

      • reosarevok
        P31 on the left, "city" on the right
      • 2013-08-25 23731, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (make sure you pick the city that is related to settlements, not some other random meaning :) )
      • 2013-08-25 23749, 2013

      • culinko
        btw. what's the difference between city and town? just to be sure i won't do anything wrong
      • 2013-08-25 23729, 2013

      • reosarevok
        God knows :p
      • 2013-08-25 23734, 2013

      • reosarevok
        City is bigger :p
      • 2013-08-25 23750, 2013

      • reosarevok
        But I have no idea what the actual limits are - I kinda use city for stuff over 50k people or 100k or so
      • 2013-08-25 23739, 2013

      • culinko
        i mean, you added http://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/22502995 that has like 3k people:P
      • 2013-08-25 23725, 2013

      • reosarevok
        I did, but marked it as town :)
      • 2013-08-25 23728, 2013

      • ListMyCDs
      • 2013-08-25 23732, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (in wikidata, we don't have the difference ourselves)
      • 2013-08-25 23732, 2013

      • snartal
        village-town-city... per wiki Villiage = serveral hundred people.... town bigger...... city bigger.
      • 2013-08-25 23744, 2013

      • culinko
        i mean, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_t… - i found some list, i am not sure how many could i change to "instance of" "city" on wikidata
      • 2013-08-25 23703, 2013

      • culinko
        you know, to get them into mb
      • 2013-08-25 23740, 2013

      • snartal
        It varies by location, according to wikipedia.
      • 2013-08-25 23710, 2013

      • reosarevok
        culinko: town also works :)
      • 2013-08-25 23722, 2013

      • culinko
        ok, but where to draw the line:)
      • 2013-08-25 23724, 2013

      • reosarevok
        (village doesn't though, not automatically)
      • 2013-08-25 23707, 2013

      • reosarevok
        heh, who knows. Zilina looked like a city when I was there and Trnava more like a town :D