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This is an Open submission for Wikimania 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by a member of the Programme Committee.

Submission no. 2036 Subject - C7
Title of the submission

An Orphan Wants to be Adopted

Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, poster, birds of a feather discussion)

lecture

Author of the submission

ovedc

type of submission

panels

Language of presentation

English

E-mail address

ovedco@gmail.com

Username

Ovedc (talk)

Country of origin

ISRAEL

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

WM-IL

Personal homepage or blog

Ovedc

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

The aim of this presentation is to introduce one WikiProject run on the Hebrew Wikipedia and lessons which we can learn from it; An orphan page is defined as "a page with few or no links from other pages". De-orphaning articles is an important aspect of building the web. In this presentation I'll share my experiences about this WikiProject for Orphans. The lecture will present examples, and will attempt to provide a method of managing local WikiProject Orphanage.

What will attendees take away from this session?

The aim of this submission is to introduce one WikiProject run on the Hebrew Wikipedia and lessons which we can learn from it; An orphan is defined as "a page with few or no links from other pages". These pages can still be found by searching Wikipedia, but it is preferable that they can also be reachable by links from related pages; it is therefore helpful to add links from other suitable pages with similar and/or related information. De-orphaning articles is an important aspect of building the web. I would like to share in this presentation my experiences about this WikiProject. I will give in my presentation tips and tricks on how to manage a WikiProject for Orphans, including:

  1. educating contributors
  2. maintaining the lists
  3. 4 stage to de-orphaning:
    1. Finding an orphaned article
    2. Finding related articles (methods)
    3. Adding links
    4. Remove the orphan template

The lecture will present examples, and will attempt to provide a methode of managing local WikiProject Orphanage.

Theme of presentation

WikiCulture & Community

For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?
Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long)
25 minutes

25 minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

Yes, depend of scholarship from Wikimedia Foundation

Slides or further information (optional)

Coming soon. some slides...

Special requests

First day would be nice. Not on Shabbat (Saturday)


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  1. Ovedc (talk) 10:46, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Anne Delong (talk) 10:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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  4. Missvain (talk) 15:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]