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Welcome to WikiProject Orphanage!

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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

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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 54,933 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 7,087,852 articles on Wikipedia. This is 0.78% 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
November 201549
December 2015337
January 2016167
February 201658
March 2016244
April 2016336
May 2016330
June 2016351
July 2016339
August 2016468
September 2016418
October 2016281
November 2016215
December 2016193
January 2017564
February 2017566
March 2017593
April 2017300
May 2017443
June 2017415
July 2017134
August 2017332
September 2017270
October 2017223
November 201776
December 2017133
January 2018174
February 2018232
March 2018265
April 2018137
May 201843
June 2018487
July 2018129
August 2018156
September 2018477
October 2018194
November 2018142
December 2018400
January 2019434
February 2019344
March 2019454
April 2019119
May 2019201
June 2019283
July 2019224
August 2019195
September 2019161
October 2019542
November 2019302
December 2019125
January 2020199
March 2020188
April 2020308
May 2020434
June 2020240
July 2020224
August 2020162
September 2020253
October 2020361
November 2020268
December 2020199
January 2021683
February 2021388
March 2021334
April 2021352
May 2021317
June 2021225
July 2021313
August 2021234
October 2021319
November 2021600
December 2021848
January 2022853
February 2022584
March 2022483
April 20221,063
May 2022417
June 2022424
July 2022381
August 2022390
September 2022464
October 2022583
November 2022947
December 2022421
January 2023486
February 2023250
March 2023430
April 2023433
May 2023352
June 2023444
July 2023539
August 20231,177
September 20231,313
October 2023405
November 2023437
December 2023486
January 2024650
February 20241,211
March 2024931
April 2024407
May 2024459
June 20242,123
July 2024367
August 20241,841
September 2024378
October 2024513
November 2024530
December 20241,738
January 20251,550
February 2025470
March 2025506
April 2025400
May 2025645
June 2025696
July 2025638
August 2025700
September 2025887
October 20251,887
November 2025149
Undated articles5
All articles
54,947

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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