Translations:Wikimedia-platformen als toeleiding tot en verrijking van het archief van DE SINGEL/7/en
The intention was to enable Wikipedia content to be displayed on your own website with as little manual intervention as possible. This would therefore avoid Wikipedia content from being simply cut and pasted. Updated articles on Wikipedia had to appear automatically on DE SINGEL's website where relevant. We also wanted to be able to create the link straight away for people or organisations who don't yet have a Wikipedia page, but may have one in the future. This is done via Wikidata, the multilingual database set up by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is also behind Wikipedia. Every article on Wikipedia has a corresponding Wikidata item. Different language versions of the same subject are linked to each other on Wikidata.
DE SINGLE describes all productions with links to their people, organisations and digital archive content in Salesforce. An extra field is created in Salesforce for the QID (or Q number), the unique identifier of a data item on Wikidata, comprising the letter 'Q' followed by one or more digits. For Philippe Herreweghe, for example, it's Q168039. When this QID is in Salesforce, the Wikidata API can be called to retrieve the linked Wikipedia content and picture in a certain language if available.