As many will know this bot was set up a few years ago to produce an automated report on articles tagged as orphans that actually have inbound links. It runs this routine every few days. I’ve been using its reports for several years and it has never once made a mistake. Given the slow work of deorphaning what do other editors think about seeking consensus for the bot to actually remove the orphan tags each time it does a run, rather than just adding the article to a report? Mccapra (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm impressed but a little bit skeptical that it has never made a mistake but I have never used this report so what do I know. I do support the proposal however because even if occasional mistakes are made, they would not be of great consequence. ~Kvng (talk) 14:44, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ok when I say “never” I mean “I have repeatedly gone through its output reports and never once found an actual orphan mislabelled as not an orphan”. It’s true that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen but I’ve never found an instance of it. And I guess if it removed the tag from a genuine orphan another bot would come along and reinstate it anyway. So actually if there is consensus to automate the orphan tag removal we’d need to make sure all the bots agreed in a common definition otherwise we’d just have bots edit warring as they removed and re-added the tag. Mccapra (talk) 00:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding the Big Cyan Button template
Hello! I am suggesting the addition of {{Big Cyan Button}}, a template that looks like this:
@Master of Hedgehogs - Here is a more direct option for anyone to click on & find a random orphan article. I tested (without saving) and it works okay.
{{Notice|<big>'''[[Special:RandomInCategory/All orphaned articles|{{highlight|Find a random orphan article|lightblue}}]]'''</big>}}
I like Master of Hedgehogs' version best I guess. 62,000 articles kind of puts me in the mind "Jeez, this is a Augean Stables level problem, I'll never be able to make a dent in it, I'm going to do something else where I can make more of a difference". Maybe that's just me tho. They are both good.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Herostratus (talk • contribs) 17:20, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi everyone. @CapnZapp recently shared a video that graphed connections between articles on Wikipedia, which I thought might be of interest to this project (I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found by adumb). It goes into how roughly 8% of articles don't have links from the wider encyclopedia. But of these 8%, orphaned articles only make up a fraction, while the majority consist of what the creator called "orphaned groups", which are groups of articles that link to each other, but aren't linked to from the wider encyclopedia. The video points out cases such as Iranian villages, which all link to the article on Iran and to each other, but which aren't linked on any other Wikipedia articles. Are orphaned groups something that this Project has looked at in the past? If not, would it be something that the Project would consider taking on under its scope of activities? I think this is something that potentially gets missed, as spotting an orphaned article may be easier than spotting groups of articles that only link to each other. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know I just recently joined the project, but the thing I took most away from the video (which is what piqued my interest) is that it appears that there are way more orphaned articles on Wikipedia than the orphan tag is letting on. He mentions finding 355,159 orphaned articles, which is much higher than the current count even if some of those have already been taken care of.
My point is, he managed to code something that was able to detect orphan articles seemingly with or without the tag. If something similar to that were to be implemented, could that be a solution to finding all orphans and orphaned groups? Highresheadphones (talk) 07:28, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Addendum: After typing this out, I read through the page on AWB and orphans, and I see that this problem is already being tackled. I think the sheer difference in numbers of what he considered to be an orphan page versus what AWB considers an orphan threw me off. Highresheadphones (talk) 23:04, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Orphaned articles from June 2024—This category contains the largest number of articles marked as orphans. There are 2,427 articles tagged. Some editors enjoy making progress on a challenge.
I swear I thought there was a tracker that existed, but I'm not finding it on the WikiProject page. I've been working to remove the tags from quite a few articles, and I was curious where the overall project was at. I understand we have the counter categories, but I think it'd be helpful to have the information by month or whatever period listed somewhere, just so that we can see the overall progress made and possible trends. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
