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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 Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages with its ease of quick information retrieval. Plus, if you are new to Misplaced Pages, 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 Misplaced Pages, how to format wikilinks, and how to utilize cleanup tags.
Goals and scope
There are 53,574 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 6,930,423 articles on Misplaced Pages. This is 0.77% 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 Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages files.
Our current aim is to clear the backlog of orphaned articles on Misplaced Pages, 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?
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
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:
{{Misplaced Pages: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.
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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
Orphaned articles(refresh)| August 2014 | 1 |
| April 2015 | 49 |
| May 2015 | 158 |
| June 2015 | 164 |
| July 2015 | 129 |
| August 2015 | 218 |
| September 2015 | 272 |
| October 2015 | 373 |
| November 2015 | 377 |
| December 2015 | 379 |
| January 2016 | 193 |
| February 2016 | 157 |
| March 2016 | 326 |
| April 2016 | 365 |
| May 2016 | 366 |
| June 2016 | 388 |
| July 2016 | 391 |
| August 2016 | 520 |
| September 2016 | 468 |
| October 2016 | 301 |
| November 2016 | 237 |
| December 2016 | 214 |
| January 2017 | 646 |
| February 2017 | 622 |
| March 2017 | 646 |
| April 2017 | 337 |
| May 2017 | 476 |
| June 2017 | 435 |
| July 2017 | 163 |
| August 2017 | 361 |
| September 2017 | 303 |
| October 2017 | 245 |
| November 2017 | 84 |
| December 2017 | 140 |
| January 2018 | 180 |
| February 2018 | 256 |
| March 2018 | 290 |
| April 2018 | 143 |
| May 2018 | 62 |
| June 2018 | 546 |
| July 2018 | 144 |
| August 2018 | 173 |
| September 2018 | 526 |
| October 2018 | 216 |
| November 2018 | 156 |
| December 2018 | 441 |
| January 2019 | 475 |
| February 2019 | 367 |
| March 2019 | 494 |
| April 2019 | 136 |
| May 2019 | 215 |
| June 2019 | 315 |
| July 2019 | 243 |
| August 2019 | 220 |
| September 2019 | 173 |
| October 2019 | 575 |
| November 2019 | 325 |
| December 2019 | 141 |
| January 2020 | 225 |
| March 2020 | 203 |
| April 2020 | 340 |
| May 2020 | 508 |
| June 2020 | 261 |
| July 2020 | 241 |
| August 2020 | 187 |
| September 2020 | 275 |
| October 2020 | 389 |
| November 2020 | 283 |
| December 2020 | 218 |
| January 2021 | 732 |
| February 2021 | 420 |
| March 2021 | 376 |
| April 2021 | 381 |
| May 2021 | 360 |
| June 2021 | 252 |
| July 2021 | 348 |
| August 2021 | 249 |
| October 2021 | 361 |
| November 2021 | 653 |
| December 2021 | 942 |
| January 2022 | 921 |
| February 2022 | 656 |
| March 2022 | 544 |
| April 2022 | 1,255 |
| May 2022 | 448 |
| June 2022 | 456 |
| July 2022 | 435 |
| August 2022 | 426 |
| September 2022 | 512 |
| October 2022 | 640 |
| November 2022 | 1,035 |
| December 2022 | 581 |
| January 2023 | 552 |
| February 2023 | 280 |
| March 2023 | 472 |
| April 2023 | 477 |
| May 2023 | 385 |
| June 2023 | 506 |
| July 2023 | 590 |
| August 2023 | 1,286 |
| September 2023 | 1,482 |
| October 2023 | 459 |
| November 2023 | 504 |
| December 2023 | 542 |
| January 2024 | 727 |
| February 2024 | 1,349 |
| March 2024 | 1,055 |
| April 2024 | 481 |
| May 2024 | 562 |
| June 2024 | 2,438 |
| July 2024 | 485 |
| August 2024 | 2,160 |
| September 2024 | 440 |
| October 2024 | 714 |
| November 2024 | 710 |
| December 2024 | 1,657 |
| Undated articles | 5 |
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 Misplaced Pages:Orphan information page.
Templates
See also: Category: WikiProject Orphanage templates- {{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=December 2024|incat=December 2024}} – if the article has no link and probably never will, but is well categorised.
- {{Orphan|date=December 2024|att=December 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 Misplaced Pages Orphan}} – the userbox for this project.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Orphanage.
You can help!
– Custom userboxorp This user is working to reduce the orphaned pages backlog
- {{WikiProject Orphanage topicon}} topicon for this project.
| Description | Template | Example | ||
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| Add link to orphaned articles by subject. | {{WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|Physics}}
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Orphaned articles in 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}}
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Subpages
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See also
- Help:Drawing attention to new pages
- Misplaced Pages:Build the web
- Misplaced Pages:Integrate
- Misplaced Pages:Walled garden
- WikiProject Abandoned Articles
- WikiProject Council/Proposals/Navbox
WikiProject orphan lists
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Biography/Orphaned articles
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Medicine/Orphaned articles
Obsolete orphan lists
These are kept for historical purposes only, they are no longer used:
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Orphanage/Articles orphaned without redirects - List of orphans from a 2003 database dump
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Articles - List of articles from a 2004 database dump
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