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WikiProject Orphanage is dedicated to clearing up the immense backlog of orphaned articles and images. There are thousands of articles and images on Wikipedia with few or no links to them. While it may seem simple at first, de-orphaning can be a difficult task, and this project aims to make it easier. Plus, if you are new to Wikipedia, de-orphaning articles is a great way to learn a wide variety of useful skills.
Building the web is a big part of Wikipedia, so join in the project and give those articles a home!
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Goals and scope
The Orphanage aims 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.
There were, on last count, 138,902 articles tagged as orphans on Wikipedia. This is over 1% of the total articles, and an incredible amount to work on, so we need your help. As of January 2009[update], there were over 133,000 articles with NO links from other articles, and many more which fit the less strict definition of an orphan, out of about 2.5 million articles.[1] While de-orphaning an article is a simple idea, it is often a difficult task, so the more editors we have to help, the better.
What can I do to help?
Surely you're wondering what you can do to help our cause. De-orphaning an article is a good way to start.
Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article provides information regarding how to find articles that can be linked to orphans and add them.
Participants
To add yourself to the list of participants, please edit this section and add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/table|Your Username|Active}} to the bottom of the list.
Active members
Inactive list
These members haven't been seen around in a while. We hope they'll come back and move themselves to the active list!
| Name | Last contribution |
|---|---|
| freenaulij (talk • contribs) | 2007 December 14 |
| JetLover (talk • contribs) | 2008 May 1 |
| Lights (talk • contribs) | 2008 July 11 |
| Lex Kitten (talk • contribs) | 2008 February 25 |
| gs44631 (talk • contribs) | 2008 March 22 |
| kodmkl (talk • contribs) | 2008 July 31 |
| leobold1 (talk • contribs) | 2008 June 9 |
| Fattyjwoods (talk • contribs) | 2008 July 12 |
| LadyEditor (talk • contribs) | 2008 May 26 |
| Karces (talk • contribs) | 2008 July 10 |
| Cookiecutter43 (talk • contribs) | 2008 August 5 |
| Fbu08 (talk • contribs) | 2008 September 9 |
| Ericloyd (talk • contribs) | 2008 September 16 |
| Vrefron (talk • contribs) | 2008 September 17 |
| Zane McFate (talk • contribs) | 2008 October 8 |
| Mrammaraskar (talk • contribs) | 2008 October 11 |
| Marie_eileen (talk • contribs) | 2008 October 24 |
| Aviationalyours (talk • contribs) | 2008 November 2 |
| Hairlossmatters (talk • contribs) | 2008 November 3 |
| Foolestroupe (talk • contribs) | 2008 November 3 |
| Hunting dog (talk • contribs) | 2008 November 7 |
| Avocado (talk • contribs) | 2008 November 28 |
| Unscented (talk • contribs) | 2008 December 17 |
| Aervanath (talk • contribs) | Still an active editor, just not doing much de-orphaning anymore |
Progress
Summary of tagged orphans (in Category:Orphaned articles)
Note that the bot addbot started tagging orphans in February 2009, which accounts for the large number of orphans tagged that month.
Toolserver list summarizing articles tagged or untagged, courtesy of User:Para.
Templates
- {{orphan}} - A template to be put directly on the article if it has two or fewer links from other articles satisfying the orphan criteria.
- {{orphan|date=September 2009|att=September 2009}}- 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.
- {{articleissues|do-attempt=September 2009|orphan=September 2009}} - If there are other issue tags (notability, refimprov, wikify, etc.) on the page, consider consolidating them into one box with {{articleissues}}. Read the specs first to familiarize yourself with it, although it's pretty straightforward. (Needs both the orphan AND do-attempt parameters in order to categorize the article properly!)
- {{Template:User Wikipedia Orphan}} - The userbox for this project.
- {{Template:Welcome de-orphaner}} - A welcoming template to encourage new project members.
- {{Template:Welcome de-orphaner2}} - A slightly different welcoming template, to invite de-orphaners to the project.
Categories
- List of all subpages of this page
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See also
- Build the web
- Drawing attention to new pages
- Lonely pages
- Unused images
- Walled garden
- WikiProject Abandoned Articles
- WikiProject Council/Proposals/Navbox
- WikiProject Integration
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
External links
