njh
February 20, 2017, 4:48pm
1
Hello,
I have been going through some datasets and made a list of all artists that the BBC have images for but are missing some basic data:
Artists without a type
People without a gender
Artists with Wikipedia entries, but no Wikidata ID
The fact that they have images, should make it easier to pick a type and gender - although we shouldn’t assume that the BBC got it right.
I have put them all in a spreadsheet:
Sheet3
Image, Name, Type, Gender
Baba Stiltz, person, male
Redlight, person, male
Mark Fanciulli, person, male
Abhijit Pohankar, person, male
Pat Lok, person, male
Oliver Sim, person, male
Langhorne Slim& The Law, group
Da-P, person, male
...
This is a bit of me being a pedantic completist - not sure how useful it is!
Is anyone interested in helping me fix them?
Thanks!
nick.
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njh
February 23, 2017, 6:45pm
2
Nobody interested?
Too boring?
Could I make it easier in some way - like adding Artist names to the spreadsheet?
Freso
February 23, 2017, 10:16pm
3
It is probably just that all editors have their own things they work on. I might pick some up, maybe.
Anyway, I don’t much like messing around in spreadsheets. A report in HTML à la https://musicbrainz.org/reports would be much nicer to work with for me personally. And yes, the MB Artist ID column is a bit superfluous as the ID is listed again, as a link, in the next column. It would probably be nicer to have the name there.
njh
February 28, 2017, 2:10pm
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Thanks Freso.
I have added a Name column to the spreadsheets and hidden the MusicBrainz ID column (it is used to generate the links).
I don’t suppose there is a way of generating custom reports?
njh
May 9, 2017, 10:14am
5
I have made some progress on this and have now assigned types/genders to the 1380 artists in my spreadsheet:
Sheet3
Image, Name, Type, Gender
Baba Stiltz, person, male
Redlight, person, male
Mark Fanciulli, person, male
Abhijit Pohankar, person, male
Pat Lok, person, male
Oliver Sim, person, male
Langhorne Slim& The Law, group
Da-P, person, male
...
Excited to discover that you can insert images into spreadsheets!
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njh
May 9, 2017, 4:31pm
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These changes have now been submitted to MusicBrainz using my personal username ‘njh’.
All tidied up now! Phew!
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Freso
May 9, 2017, 9:07pm
7
Thanks for all your work on this!
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Nice!
It’s not that people don’t care, it’s definitely because we have our own ridiculously long to do lists… Keep it up!
I know I’ve mentioned it before but I think group tidying projects could be a great community building exercise @Freso
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