Orphaned Pages/Talk

• See Orphaned Pages/History for details on the 2008-2010 cleanup process where approximately 1500 orphans were sent off for adoption (:>).

  Apr 23, 2010 - 8:55AM - ALL Orphan Pages and Orphan Redirects have been completed again after taking care of my Biz Temp *** CLEAN PAGE ***

To Do List

• RemovedUserPage/Talk - this page has no parent but contains information about removing pages

BAD PAGE NAMES

•  ["/Ant Hill Cooperative/Minutes/2005-05-15"]  — deleted
  

•  ["Ed "El Destructo" Repard"]  — fixed to Ed El Destructo Repard

• Link from Category List: find (or create) an appropriate category list (see Shopping, Nonprofit Organizations, Companies, etc) and add the page name to the list.

• Include Files: create an "Include" reference list on the Talk page of the including page or via a link in the page itself - putting a link on the page makes it accessible to link to for editing. Caution: wiki links within headers do not operate as expected.

• Adoption via Comments: To eliminate some orphans that had an active original author or were user subpages Brad added comments on the User pages as follows:
  

Hi, you have hereby ADOPTED your original ["SomeOrphanPage"], 


which is not otherwise linked to (;>) 


This made the page disappear from the Orphan pages list and put it back on the owner or original author to decide what to do with it. Of course, they can delete the comment and it comes back to haunt us (;>{

• Preserving Revision History for Deleted Pages: when deleting old page names where the page name is not useful as an alternate redirect name, such as misspellings, it is very helpful to preserve the revision history which is only available under the old page name.
  

• Prior to deleting the old page, go to its Info page and copy the URL from the browser URL window. For example
  

 https://rocwiki.org/Triathalon?action=info  for the misspelled Triathalon page


• Go to (or create) the Talk page for the current correct pagename and place a URL link to the old name using the URL saved above. For example
  

 [https://rocwiki.org/Triathalon?action=info Triathalon]  links to the revision history of the old incorrect pagename


• Now delete the incorrectly named page. It will no longer be exposed as a RocWiki page to outside search engines, etc. but the revision history, under the bad name, will be preserved for documentation and research purposes.
  

• For Another Example: - on Web Services/Talk you will find: "Originally created as web design - old page name deleted after documenting it here."

• Orphan Redirect
  

• Renamed Pages - when you rename a page and fix all the links to the new page you cause the original page name to become an orphan redirect, a redirect page with no links to it. If the old page name is not a useful top level reference for RocWiki, then see 'Preserving Revision History for Deleted Pages above to delete the page and yet preserve any useful revision history for the page.
  

• Alternate Redirects: when you create an alternate page name with a redirect you will also create an orphan redirect.
  

• Fixing Orphan Redirects:
  

• Wiki link the alternate name within the redirected page using AKA or other such references. CN Tower example:
  

   The '''CN Tower''' (aka ["Toronto Tower"]) 
  

  adopts the alternate redirect named Toronto Tower
  

• Add text and wiki links elsewhere on the page or on the Talk page to document multiple redirects from page combinations, etc. where the original page names are useful redirects.

There are various groups of pages that were not really orphans, but required some actions to both document their use and to remove them from the list.

OLD ROOT USERNAME redirects

See Orphaned Pages/Root Users - has links to old user page and new user page, thus eliminating all the old user pages as Orphaned Redirects.

INCLUDES

• Current Events - Include on Front Page is our Live Feed
  

• Important Reminders - Include in Current Events
  

• News - include in Front Page
  

• Following fixed via entries in their Talk pages:
  

• TalkLink
  

  * ["Baseball/Batting Cages"] - Include 
  

  * ["Chronological List of Festivals"] - include in ["Festivals"]
  

* ["Film Festivals"] - Include in ["Festivals"]


* ["Music Festivals"] - Include in ["Festivals"]


* ["Churches that Support Same Sex Union"] - include in ["Wedding Services"]


* ["Collegiate Sports Teams"] - included on ["Sports"]


* ["Other Professional Sports"] in ["Sports"]


* ["Recreational Sports Leagues"] in ["Sports"]

Template Stuff to Fix

See Templates/Talk for further discussion on Template orphanage management


• Non-Profit Template
  

• Review Template
  

• Team Sports Template
  

• Trail Template
  

• User Complicated Template - for a really complicate User Page (:>}

RocWiki Community and other Stuff

• Wiki Community/07 April Agenda
  

• Wiki Community/Decorum
  

• Wiki Community/Press Releases
  

• Wiki Community/Talk/Archive
  

OTHER:


• INVALID PAGE - should be referred to in some documentation page
  

• wikinode
  

• Wiki Settings - it ADOPTS all its subordinates

Other Orphan Redirects

Comments:

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2011-10-05 08:00:09   I just de-orphaned a whole bunch. Mostly I just had to find the appropriate category. —EileenF

• Nice work—I continue to be in awe of your dedication to the Wiki. —PeteB