Translations:Wikimedia-platformen als toeleiding tot en verrijking van het archief van DE SINGEL/13/en

DE SINGEL employees working as Wikipedians

DE SINGEL reviewed how it updates biographical information about artists. It initially used Wikipedia based on the realisation that it was impossible to provide biographies for 19,500 people and organisations on their own website, let alone maintain them. This doesn't mean that DE SINGEL is no longer actively writing biographies, however, but that they will primarily be on Wikipedia moving forward in order to contribute to universal and freely available knowledge. The fact that it can use its own archive as source material for this is a bonus because this provides extra visibility both for the artists in question and for DE SINGEL itself. Three employees were given the task of writing Wikipedia articles, with priority going to pages for artists appearing at DE SINGEL in the near future, as these are often the pages currently visited the most. They are updating existing pages using sources in DE SINGEL and writing new ones where relevant, guided by meemoo after becoming familiar with Wikipedia. They soon proved able to continue working on their own, and their edits are very much appreciated by other Wikipedians.