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Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage

This page is about the WikiProject. For the "Orphan article" how-to information page, see WP:Orphan.
For WikiProject Adoption, fostering, orphan care and displacement, see WP:AFOD.
"WP:DO" redirects here. For pages on what to do, see WP:DOS.

Welcome to WikiProject Orphanage!

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

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Special pages (maintenance) Information
Broken redirects
Dead-end pages Dead-end pages
Dormant pages Forgotten articles
Double redirects Double redirects
Lonely pages Orphaned articles
Long pages
New pages New pages patrol
New pages feed Page curation
Protected pages Protection policy
Short pages
Uncategorized pages Categorization
Uncategorized categories
Uncategorized templates
Unused categories
Unused files (images)
Unused templates
Without interwiki links
Most interwiki links
Wanted pages
Most-wanted articles
See also: Maintenance departments

There are 56,202 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 7,123,655 articles on Wikipedia. This is 0.79% 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?

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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

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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

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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

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Inactive list

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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

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Orphaned articles
(refresh)
Subtotals
December 2015159
January 2016162
February 201655
March 2016239
April 2016333
May 2016325
June 2016345
July 2016334
August 2016466
September 2016408
October 2016279
November 2016213
December 2016191
January 2017540
February 2017560
March 2017585
April 2017291
May 2017439
June 2017410
July 2017130
August 2017328
September 2017270
October 2017219
November 201775
December 2017126
January 2018171
February 2018230
March 2018259
April 2018135
May 201842
June 2018477
July 2018124
August 2018153
September 2018468
October 2018192
November 2018140
December 2018397
January 2019426
February 2019339
March 2019442
April 2019115
May 2019198
June 2019277
July 2019221
August 2019195
September 2019160
October 2019536
November 2019298
December 2019120
January 2020193
March 2020182
April 2020303
May 2020421
June 2020238
July 2020219
August 2020159
September 2020247
October 2020355
November 2020263
December 2020193
January 2021671
February 2021372
March 2021330
April 2021347
May 2021312
June 2021220
July 2021308
August 2021231
October 2021313
November 2021588
December 2021834
January 2022836
February 2022576
March 2022460
April 20221,040
May 2022412
June 2022419
July 2022376
August 2022382
September 2022450
October 2022572
November 2022930
December 2022405
January 2023467
February 2023239
March 2023416
April 2023425
May 2023342
June 2023434
July 2023532
August 20231,149
September 20231,280
October 2023393
November 2023422
December 2023471
January 2024628
February 20241,189
March 2024904
April 2024394
May 2024445
June 20242,064
July 2024364
August 20241,793
September 2024364
October 2024501
November 2024515
December 20241,668
January 20251,492
February 2025435
March 2025483
April 2025384
May 2025618
June 2025647
July 2025592
August 2025644
September 2025805
October 20251,687
November 2025573
December 20251,946
January 2026821
Undated articles5
All articles
56,285

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

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See also: Category: WikiProject Orphanage templates
  • This user is a member of
    WikiProject Orphanage.
    You can help!
    – {{User Wikipedia Orphan}} – the userbox for this project.
  • orpThis user is working to reduce the orphaned pages backlog
    – Custom userbox



Description Template Example
Add link to orphaned articles by subject. {{WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|Physics}}
Orphaned articles in Physicsthe tool's wiki page
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]]
}}

Categories

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Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Orphaned articles

Subpages

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See also

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WikiProject orphan lists

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Obsolete orphan lists

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These are kept for historical purposes only, they are no longer used:

References

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  1. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4
  2. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4
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