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This page is about the WikiProject. For the "Orphan article" how-to information page, see WP:Orphan.
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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 55,913 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 7,132,585 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
December 201557
January 2016130
February 201655
March 2016227
April 2016331
May 2016323
June 2016343
July 2016332
August 2016465
September 2016405
October 2016277
November 2016213
December 2016188
January 2017536
February 2017556
March 2017585
April 2017284
May 2017436
June 2017409
July 2017127
August 2017327
September 2017268
October 2017218
November 201775
December 2017126
January 2018171
February 2018228
March 2018258
April 2018135
May 201842
June 2018473
July 2018123
August 2018152
September 2018466
October 2018191
November 2018140
December 2018395
January 2019425
February 2019339
March 2019439
April 2019113
May 2019196
June 2019273
July 2019220
August 2019191
September 2019160
October 2019534
November 2019298
December 2019120
January 2020191
March 2020182
April 2020302
May 2020419
June 2020237
July 2020217
August 2020159
September 2020246
October 2020351
November 2020263
December 2020192
January 2021666
February 2021372
March 2021329
April 2021342
May 2021306
June 2021217
July 2021309
August 2021230
October 2021312
November 2021583
December 2021827
January 2022830
February 2022567
March 2022456
April 20221,022
May 2022410
June 2022417
July 2022375
August 2022381
September 2022449
October 2022568
November 2022925
December 2022401
January 2023464
February 2023239
March 2023414
April 2023419
May 2023338
June 2023431
July 2023530
August 20231,145
September 20231,270
October 2023391
November 2023417
December 2023468
January 2024622
February 20241,171
March 2024899
April 2024390
May 2024443
June 20242,050
July 2024359
August 20241,775
September 2024361
October 2024497
November 2024513
December 20241,652
January 20251,476
February 2025417
March 2025471
April 2025374
May 2025611
June 2025632
July 2025573
August 2025633
September 2025790
October 20251,645
November 2025547
December 20251,844
January 20261,065
February 2026207
Undated articles5
All articles
55,976

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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