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WikiProject Orphanage is dedicated to clearing up the immense backlog of orphaned articles. There are thousands of articles and images on Wikipedia with few or no incoming links to them. The value of this project should not be underestimated as the wikilink is one of the important characteristics of a wiki and is indeed what provides Wikipedia with its ease of quick information retrieval. Plus, if you are new to Wikipedia, de-orphaning articles is a great way to learn a wide variety of useful skills. De-orphaning, when done correctly, will allow you to learn how to navigate within Wikipedia, how to format wikilinks, and how to utilize cleanup tags.
Goals and scope[edit]
There are 62,698 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 6,807,430 articles on Wikipedia. This is 0.92% of the total articles, and an incredible amount to work on, so we need your help.
While it may seem simple at first, not every article can be de-orphaned, and de-orphaning can be a difficult task, so this project aims to educate and make it easier. But please remember that de-orphaning is about maintaining and improving the quality of individual articles by integrating them with others in a relevant and meaningful way; it's not about keeping score. The value of de-orphaning is not determined by the number of incoming links you added or how many orphan tags you removed, but rather by the quality of integration. Therefore, the primary goal of the Orphanage is to improve Wikipedia by building the web in a way that enhances the quality of all affected articles.
Note that this project deals primarily with articles rather than images. For orphaned images, see Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files.
Our current aim is to clear the backlog of orphaned articles on Wikipedia, so that all articles can be found by a series of links from the Main Page. Note that an article with categories can be found in this way because it can be reached from other articles that share the category; however, categories currently are not counted in the definition of orphan. The project also aims to make the process of de-orphaning easier. Through collaborating with other projects, providing information, and above all helping editors to cooperate, the Orphanage will make the task of de-orphaning a little less daunting. If you have any ideas or suggestions on how to help us improve in our goal, please feel free to leave a message on the talk page.
What can we all do to help?[edit]
Surely you're wondering what you can do to help our cause. With the current backlog all the help that is offered is welcomed. De-orphaning an article is a good way to start.
Suggestions for how to de-orphan
Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article provides information regarding how to find articles that can be linked to orphans and add them. There is also a host of other relevant information in the main article.
Participants[edit]
To add yourself to the list of participants, edit this section and add your username to the bottom of the Active list using this format:
((Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/table|Your Username|Active))
To receive Backlog drive notifications on your talkpage please add your name here. If you would like a userbox, to proclaim your project participation on your user page, it can be found in the template section below.
Active members
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| Amwyll Rwden (talk • contribs) | ? |
| Ainlina (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Correogsk (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Manishearth (talk • contribs) | Writing de-orphaning app (Student) |
| Lamro (talk • contribs) | Active |
| ErikTheBikeMan (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Arbitrarily0 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Mavromatis (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active |
| Sultec (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Jtle515 (talk • contribs) | Active when I get around to it |
| Mjquin_id (talk • contribs) | Active when I have time |
| Cae prince (talk • contribs) | Active whenever I can spare time |
| OlEnglish (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Daiyusha (talk • contribs) | Active |
| AncientToaster (talk • contribs) | Active when I remember |
| Dylanfromthenorth (talk • contribs) | Active but new to it |
| chrisjj (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Watercleave (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Jminthorne (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Miyagawa (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Tech12 (talk • contribs) | Active when I can |
| Georgejdorner (talk • contribs) | Active in field of World War I aviation |
| Blacktav (talk • contribs) | Actively wanting to learn |
| Blackash (talk • contribs) | Active |
| slaporte (talk • contribs) | Active |
| RAFIAMAN (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Molestash (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Sadads (talk • contribs) | Active, particularly in novels. Also removing unneeded tags using AWB |
| otr500 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| MaynardClark (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active |
| Adhirk (talk • contribs) | Active whenever I'm in office |
| Kwamikagami (talk • contribs) | Scan the new lists for language articles: let me know if there's a search term I should add to the AWB filter. |
| Cwmhiraeth (talk • contribs) | Active |
| lezelmaz (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Breawycker (talk • contribs) | Active when I can |
| Mgumn (talk • contribs) | Active, but very, very new |
| Jonathandeamer (talk • contribs) | Newly active as of February 2012 |
| Adamkriesberg (talk • contribs) | Active, Feb 2012 |
| Tosk_Albanian (talk • contribs) | V. active |
| DJB3.14 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Mfbjr (talk • contribs) | Active, new |
| jamesmcmahon0 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| andrewman327 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Cypherquest (talk • contribs) | Active |
| CaitlinStewart (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Molly-in-md (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Laurenthian (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Kvng (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Jonathan Tessier (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Danielh32 (talk • contribs) | Active: main activity is adding movies to actor's filmography |
| gbawden (talk • contribs) | Active |
| SpiritedMichelle (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Gilded Snail (talk • contribs) | Active |
| dnllnd (talk • contribs) | Sporadically active |
| Lucasstar1 (talk • contribs) | Active, and new. |
| Lakun.patra (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Coolabahapple (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Knope7 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| TheEditor867 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Green daemon (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Gimubrc (talk • contribs) | Active, new user, new member |
| ShuffleboardJerk (talk • contribs) | Very Active |
| Laatu (talk • contribs) | Active, but new to de-orphaning :) |
| Eno Lirpa (talk • contribs) | Active |
| F1lover22 (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active (I Have Exams) |
| Pianoman320 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| BlackcurrantTea (talk • contribs) | Sporadically active, concentrating on the Feb 2009 backlog |
| Dthomsen8 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Info2Learn (talk • contribs) | Whenever I get the chance! |
| Pufferfyshe (talk • contribs) | Active, at least a little bit |
| AmericanAir88 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| SpiritPrince (talk • contribs) | Active when I can |
| Milesjolly1997 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| StraussInTheHouse (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Tt 225 (talk • contribs) | Active, doing some of the 2009 backlog |
| Mcampany (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Nat965 (talk • contribs) | Active when I can |
| Oronsay (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Jmfcomo (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active, maybe? |
| Jmertel23 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Narky Blert (talk • contribs) | Active? Maybe. I spend most of my time fixing bad links to WP:DAB pages (current backlog 8,213) – but have de-orphaned a few pages, and have taken a few ((orphan)) tags off when there was a link or two in. It's a WikiGnomish sort of thing |
| Greyjoy (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Robincantin (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Teratix (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Atlantic306 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Geekdiva (talk • contribs) | Active when my real-life limitations allow (new as of 12/18) |
| SamCordes (talk • contribs) | Active |
| James Hyett (talk • contribs) | Active |
| DannyS712 (talk • contribs) | semi-Active |
| rollidan (talk • contribs) | Semi-active (I'm a student) |
| Sam Sailor (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Bsoyka (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active (Student) |
| OliverEastwood (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Chialynn (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Robincantin (talk • contribs) | Active I've been doing a few every day. |
| Azrkhan (talk • contribs) | Active |
| VFF0347 (talk • contribs) | Active - New to the Project as of Sept 2019, I will try to de-orphan several (3-5) each week here at the outset. |
| The Lord of Math (talk • contribs) | Active |
| SoftHiss (talk • contribs) | Active Joined 3/5/2020. |
| Epluribusunumyall (talk • contribs) | Active Also a student, but will try to be active as much as possible during quarantine |
| The war moose (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Brad Thomas Hanks (talk • contribs) | Active |
| I-Bin-A-Bibi (talk • contribs) | Active |
| VersaceSpace (talk • contribs) | Active when I can be (stop adding me to the inactive section) |
| Sideriver84 (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active |
| TsunamiPrincess (talk • contribs) | Active I am here to help, as often as I can. |
| Midknight1342 (talk • contribs) | Active I'm here to help the best I can! |
| Dr. Moist Vanilla (talk • contribs) | Active I'm here a few times a week, will try to come here as much as I can as I am a student. |
| JoeNMLC (talk • contribs) | Active |
| SparklingSnail (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Smoresmores (talk • contribs) | Active |
| RedPurpleX (talk • contribs) | Active |
| AryaHedgehog (talk • contribs) | Active New! |
| DevSpenpai (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Herravondure (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Lyricalcarpenter (talk • contribs) | Active (New!) |
| A.a.m.tm (talk • contribs) | Active when possible |
| Perfect4th (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Panthermail (talk • contribs) | Active, I am a student but i will do my best to clear the backlog! |
| Demt1298 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| evrik (talk • contribs) | Activish |
| Ruud Buitelaar (talk • contribs) | Active |
| BrendaJaneF (talk • contribs) | Active, Just started (July 2022) my attempts at linking articles so I might be a bit slow. |
| AiGenly (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Morscho (talk • contribs) | Active, I will try to be as active as possible |
| Contrawwftw (talk • contribs) | Active |
| 2006toyotacorrola (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Scatterleaf (talk • contribs) | Active, new |
| Wikiwow1102 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| LonelySchoolbag143 (talk • contribs) | Active, I will try to de-orphan as much as possible! |
| Knowpanther (talk • contribs) | Have lots of work!!! |
| Switchpanel (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Ernsanchez00 (talk • contribs) | Just started (February 2023), I'm not too sure how to de-orphan the article. |
| KatProsodi (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Persent101 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Anxietykazoo (talk • contribs) | Active |
| manumaker08 (talk • contribs) | semi-Active |
| YourLeastFavorite (talk • contribs) | Just trying this out to see what I can do |
| Looklook look at me (talk • contribs) | Active whenever I can be |
| Leafy46 (talk • contribs) | Active, will help out where I can |
| Fortunaa (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Tableguy28 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Millows (talk • contribs) | Active |
| TrademarkedTarantula (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Turtlecrown (talk • contribs) | Active: targeting articles beginning 'Sa-' using All category list (Oct 2023); just started using Quarry for 'Sa-' false orphans |
| GraziePrego (talk • contribs) | Active |
| JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Disc the Band (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Orange sticker (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Ms.Aloisia (talk • contribs) | Active whenever I have time |
| Apothewiki (talk • contribs) | Semi-Active |
| Cl3phact0 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Masterhatch (talk • contribs) | Active |
| SmileySnail (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Flux55 (talk • contribs) | Active |
| Rublamb (talk • contribs) | Active |
| TofuTomaso (talk • contribs) | Active, started February 2024 |
| GoldenBootWizard276 (talk • contribs) | Semi-active |
| EsperPike (talk • contribs) | Active, new to Wiki editing |
Inactive list
These former members haven't been seen around in a while or are unfortunately no longer involved with WikiProject Orphanage. We hope they'll come back and move themselves to the active list!
Progress[edit]
A progress graph and monthly summary of tagged orphans is at Category:Orphaned articles.
Note that the bot addbot started tagging orphans in February 2009, which accounted for the large number of orphans tagged that month.
For in-depth details, see the Wikipedia:Orphan information page.
Templates[edit]
- ((Orphan)) – a template to be put directly on the article if it satisfies the orphan criteria. Currently recommended for use only if an article has zero incoming links.
- ((Orphan|date=April 2024|incat=April 2024)) – if the article has no link and probably never will, but is well categorised.
- ((Orphan|date=April 2024|att=April 2024)) – once you have unsuccessfully attempted to de-orphan the article. Leave "date" as the date on the original orphan template (if one exists), and set "att" to equal the month and year you attempted to de-orphan the article.
- ((Orphaned essay)) – for essays that are found to be orphaned.
- ((subst:Welcome de-orphaner)) – a welcoming template to encourage new project members.
- ((subst:Welcome de-orphaner2)) – a slightly different welcoming template, to invite de-orphaners to the project.
((WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|WikiProject name))- add link to orphaned articles by subject.
- – ((User Wikipedia Orphan)) – the userbox for this project.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Orphanage.
You can help!
- – Custom userbox
orp This user is working to reduce the orphaned pages backlog
| Description | Template | Example | ||
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| Add link to orphaned articles by subject. | ((WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|Physics))
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| Add link to orphaned articles by subject. Within todo list | ((tasks |cleanup=((WikiProject cleanup list|France)) |geocoord= ((WikiProject cleanup group|All articles needing coordinates|France)) |orphans= ((WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|France)) |photo= [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France]] )) |
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Categories[edit]
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Subpages
- List of all subpages of this page
See also[edit]
- Help:Drawing attention to new pages
- Wikipedia:Build the web
- Wikipedia:Integrate
- Wikipedia:Walled garden
- WikiProject Abandoned Articles
- WikiProject Council/Proposals/Navbox
WikiProject orphan lists
Obsolete orphan lists
These are kept for historical purposes only, they are no longer used:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Articles orphaned without redirects - List of orphans from a 2003 database dump
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Articles - List of articles from a 2004 database dump
References[edit]
External links[edit]
