On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com> wrote: Marvelous! They appear to be using just the lead section from our articles, and then from Musicbrainz.org they're pulling the metadata (band members, collaborations) and external links list. Examples (they use the same unfortunate url scheme as musicbrainz...) The Beatles http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d Ludwig van Beethoven http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/1f9df192-a621-4f54-8850-2c5373b7eac9 Portishead http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/8f6bd1e4-fbe1-4f50-aa9b-94c450ec0f11 - It's not fully automated. They're missing a few obscure bands (that we and musicbrainz have the relevant content for) such as Lullatone. Also they're occasionally missing Wikipedia's content when we've disambiguated the page name, such as Solex http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/e064f6f6-76a8-4efe-a94b-09bec8942347 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solex_%28musician%29 On the other hand, they have pages for artists that we don't cover yet, such as Ogurusu Norihide. - Relatedly, all their album reviews (including items from c.2002) seem to be released under CC BY-NC-SA - Separately, I tried to send the BBC this bug report, but the webform refused to send because "is not plain text"... Gah! Maybe someone here can pass it along to their webmaster? "Broken link in FAQ: The link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/faqs#what_happens_if_wikipedias_vandalised currently points to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_vandalism which is incorrect. It should point to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism " Thanks for the pointer, Bod. Quiddity