BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Orphanage

This page is about the WikiProject. For the "Orphan article" information page, see BTW:Orphan.

WikiProject Orphanage
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Welcome to Project Orphanage.

Goals

The goal of Project Orphanage is to find "homes" for as many "orphans" as realistically possible.

Scope

Orphan (MediaWiki, noun)

article not linked to by any other page in the Wiki.

The MediaWiki software on which Sarna operates automatically generates a daily report (Special:LonelyPages) listing all the pages that have no other pages linking to them, i.e. "orphans". (The report's cache is limited to the first thousand entries.) In an ideal Wiki, every page will have a "home" somewhere, and you should be able to find any article—eventually—by starting at the home page and following the links.

Even just one page that is "homed", or added as a link to another page, is a big help. Try to avoid "bubbles", little sections of the Wiki that just link to each other. How can someone clicking around through the Wiki find that page? Categories aren't always the best way. If you have have any issues, questions, concerns, etc., to discuss, please ask on this project's Talk page (also found on the Discussion tab above this page) or on in the "Wiki" category of channels on Sarna's Discord server (also accessible on the sidebar to the left).

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Talvin: Keeping the cache down to a manageable level so it doesn't overflow again, project leader.
2. BobTheZombie: "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die." (Wherever I'm needed!)
3. ManganMan: I know how to add a missing "2" to existing "2" to get the "4", yet within knowledge I have.
4. theguillotine: Looking to do any work necessary, just point me in a direction and I'll have it done as fast as I can
5. CaptGrognards3025: Interested in helping out with Battles and other entries as needed.
6. Fish: General character work, trying to standardize rosters for mass removal.

Open tasks

Click this button.

De-orphan this article.

1. Either click on the big button above or go to Special:LonelyPages and look through what is available.
2. Choose one that relates to an area you are interested in. It's OK to "adopt" more than one!
3. Include it as a link in a relevant article!
4. Many Orphans are suffering from neglect: they may need more references, some copyediting, even more material added. Try to give your new adoptee some of these things so it can flourish in its new home!
5. And you're done! Someone did the work of adding that article to the wiki, and now you have helped get it out there into public view. Congratulations, and thank you!

Subpages

Almost every WikiProject and topic is represented among the "Orphans", and when dealing with those areas, the work of those projects should be respected. To make it easier to find orphans of interest, they can be found in the below subpages.

In this battleTechWikispace:

BattleTechWiki:

WikiProject Orphanage

• WikiProject Orphanage/Battles
• WikiProject Orphanage/Characters
• WikiProject Orphanage/Eridani Light Horse
• WikiProject Orphanage/Images
• WikiProject Orphanage/Miscellanous Orphans
• WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Commands
• WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Houses
• WikiProject Orphanage/Orphans to be tagged
• WikiProject Orphanage/Products
• WikiProject Orphanage/Technology Orphans
• WikiProject Orphanage/Units
• WikiProject Orphanage/Wolf's Dragoons

BattleTechWiki talk:

WikiProject Orphanage

• WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Commands
• WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Houses
• WikiProject Orphanage/Wolf's Dragoons