Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Petscan

Introduction

Petscan can produce a selected list of orphan articles. The list can be filtered by topics, such as geography, history, sports, science, time, etc. Minimum depth setting is one, however that number may need to be increased to receive more results.

Examples

Additional functions

At the top Petscan toolbar, click on "Output" tab.

• Output plain text

At "Format" line, click "Plain text" button.

Instead of camping at the Petscan results, plain text can be copy/paste into a text editor (Notepad) for off-line update of Orphan articles.

• Sort sequence

At "Sort" line, click "default sort" button.

Optional for article order.

Find shortest articles

Many short articles are candidates for Proposed deletion or AfD. Petscan can produce a list using single or multiple categories. For "Output" click on "size" button to Sort smallest articles first.

Wikicode

WP:Petscan • Example link

[https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=4&categories=Sports%0D%0AOrphaned%20articles%0D%0ASouth%20Africa&ns%5B0%5D=1&search_max_results=500&interface_language=en&active_tab=&doit= Example link]

Predefined Petscan request

The most basic way to create a frequently used request is to

1. Generate the request with satisfactory results
2. Copy the request's entire URL
3. Paste into "External links" format at the desired location (User, Talk).

For Example: [full-URL-here Petscan-request-name] • Need to use both single ([ and ]) brackets, one space after URL and before request-name