Increasing the visibility of orphan articles

There are millions of orphan articles in Wikipedia. These are articles without any incoming links. Thus, orphan articles are de-facto invisible for readers when navigating Wikipedia. For more details, see the paper Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia

This tool aims to increase the visibility of articles. It generates recommendations of articles from where to link to them. We identify recommendations by looking up the corresponding article in other Wikipedia languages. Surprisingly, in many cases there are already existing links which can be simply "translated". The advantage is that these recommendations can be considered high quality and are easily interpretable because they have already been vetted by other language communities. You can learn more about the model here.

You can test out the tool below with your own article. The tool is most useful for orphan articles because they do not have any incoming links from other articles yet. See, for example, the list of orphan articles in English Wikipedia (there are similar lists in other languages). However, you can use the tool with any other article as well. The result is a list of potential source articles from where to link to the orphan article. The suggested link already exists in at least one other Wikipedia. Note that the tool does not return any results in cases when there are no existing links in other language versions to that article.