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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 55,101 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 7,096,048 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 201525
December 2015333
January 2016167
February 201658
March 2016242
April 2016336
May 2016329
June 2016349
July 2016339
August 2016468
September 2016417
October 2016281
November 2016215
December 2016193
January 2017559
February 2017564
March 2017592
April 2017299
May 2017441
June 2017415
July 2017134
August 2017329
September 2017270
October 2017222
November 201776
December 2017132
January 2018174
February 2018232
March 2018265
April 2018137
May 201842
June 2018483
July 2018129
August 2018156
September 2018475
October 2018194
November 2018142
December 2018399
January 2019430
February 2019341
March 2019453
April 2019119
May 2019200
June 2019282
July 2019222
August 2019195
September 2019160
October 2019542
November 2019301
December 2019124
January 2020199
March 2020186
April 2020308
May 2020426
June 2020240
July 2020224
August 2020162
September 2020252
October 2020357
November 2020268
December 2020195
January 2021678
February 2021382
March 2021332
April 2021350
May 2021316
June 2021225
July 2021310
August 2021232
October 2021317
November 2021597
December 2021845
January 2022849
February 2022584
March 2022479
April 20221,061
May 2022417
June 2022423
July 2022381
August 2022390
September 2022463
October 2022580
November 2022942
December 2022417
January 2023482
February 2023246
March 2023423
April 2023432
May 2023349
June 2023441
July 2023537
August 20231,176
September 20231,307
October 2023402
November 2023437
December 2023483
January 2024646
February 20241,205
March 2024923
April 2024402
May 2024458
June 20242,109
July 2024367
August 20241,830
September 2024372
October 2024512
November 2024526
December 20241,726
January 20251,543
February 2025463
March 2025499
April 2025394
May 2025636
June 2025684
July 2025626
August 2025690
September 2025865
October 20251,818
November 2025730
Undated articles6
All articles
55,114

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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