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    Explore Wikipedia's Contents

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    1Curated article collections


    2Reference collections
    3Special format collections
    4Collections of articles
    5Collections of articles by quality or popularity
    There are two ways to look things up in Wikipedia: by searching or by browsing.

    If you know the name of an article for which you are looking, simply type it into Wikipedia's search box.

    If you would like to look around the encyclopedia to see what is on it, use Wikipedia's Contents pages. Lists
    and indices are examples of contents for a published work, and Wikipedia has many of each, including
    a complete alphabetical index and indices by category.
    Links to all of Wikipedia's main contents pages are presented below, and they in turn link to the more specific
    pages.

    Curated article collections


    Overview articles
    Overview articles summarize in prose a broad topic like biology, and also have illustrations and links to subtopics
    like cell biology, biographies like Carl Linnaeus, and other related articles like Human Genome Project.

    Portal:Contents/Overviews lists overview articles from covered areas of knowledge in a single page.
    Outline pages
    Outline pages have trees of article links in an outline format. They show how important subtopics relate to each
    other, and can be useful as a more condensed, non-prose alternative to overview articles.

    Portal:Contents/Outlines is a comprehensive list of "Outline of __" pages, organized by subject


    Outline of academic disciplines covers subjects studied in college or university, and links directly to prose
    overview articles
    Third-party classification systems
    Various third-party classification systems have been mapped to Wikipedia articles, which can be accessed from
    these pages:

    List of Dewey Decimal classes


    Library of Congress Classification
    Wikipedia:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus
    Vital articles
    Main page: Wikipedia:Vital articles
    Vital articles are lists of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. They serve
    as centralized watchlists to track the status of Wikipedia's most important articles.

    Vital articles level 1 10 most important articles


    Vital articles level 2 100 most important articles
    Vital articles level 3 1,000 most important articles
    Vital articles level 4 10,000 most important articles

    Reference collections
    Wikipedia has several types of pages which provide content in a non-prose form, for reference purposes.

    List pages
    List pages enumerate items of a particular type, such as the List of sovereign states or List of South Africans.
    Wikipedia has "lists of lists" when there are too many items to fit on a single page, when the items can sorted in
    different ways, or as a way of navigating lists on a topic (for example Lists of countries and territories or Lists of
    people). There are several ways to find lists:

    Portal:Contents/Lists A limited single-page collection of lists and lists of lists


    List of lists of lists A broad single-page collection of lists of lists
    Category:Lists Browse lists comprehensively via the multi-page Wikipedia category system
    Timelines
    Timelines list events chronologically, sometimes including links to articles with more detail. There are several ways
    to find timelines:

    List of timelines has a long single-page collection


    Category:Timelines has a comprehensive multi-page collection via the Wikipedia category system
    Of particular interest may be:

    List of centuries
    List of decades
    List of historical anniversariese.g. events on January 1 of any year
    2017major events this year
    Portal:Current eventsfeatured current events and related project activities
    Deaths in 2017lists notable people who died this year
    Category:Graphical timelinesgraphical timelines in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically
    Glossaries
    Glossaries are lists of terms with definitions. Wikipedia includes hundreds of alphabetical glossaries; they can be
    found two ways:

    Portal:Contents/Glossaries A single-page list of glossaries


    Category:Wikipedia glossaries Browse glossaries comprehensively via the Wikipedia category system
    Bibliographies
    Bibliographies list sources on a given topic, for verification or further reading outside Wikipedia:

    Category:Wikipedia bibliographies has a complete multi-page listing


    Category:Discographies
    Discographies catalog the sound recordings of individual artists or groups.

    Category:Discographies has a complete multi-page listing

    Special format collections


    Portals
    Portals include featured articles, images, news, categories, excerpts of key articles, links to related portals, and to-
    do lists for editors. There are two ways to find portals:

    Portal:Contents/Portals A single-page list of portals


    Category:Portals Browse portals comprehensively via the Wikipedia category system
    Wikipedia books
    Wikipedia books are collections of Wikipedia articles that can be viewed, downloaded, or printed into a book. They
    provide a roadmap for a course of study in a particular subject.

    Category:Wikipedia books (community books)an alphabetical list of the books


    Category:Wikipedia booksa list of the books, categorized by topic
    Spoken articles
    Growing collections of Wikipedia articles are starting to become available as spoken word recordings as well.

    Category:Spoken articlesan organized list of all spoken articles


    Wikipedia:Spoken articlessome general information about the spoken article technology

    Collections of articles
    Category system
    Wikipedia's collection of category pages is a classified index system. It is automatically generated from category
    tags at the bottoms of articles and most other pages. Nearly all of the articles available so far on the website can
    be found through these subject indexes.
    If you are simply looking to browse articles by topic, there are three top-level pages to choose from:

    Category:Main topic classificationsprobably what you are looking for: Arts, History, Technology, etc.
    Portal:Contents/Categoriesa hand-crafted list of first- and second-level topic categories
    For biographies, see Category:People.
    Category:Contents is technically at the top of the category hierarchy, but contains many categories useful to editors
    but not readers. Special:Categories lists every category alphabetically.

    Alphabetical lists of articles


    Wikipedia's alphabetical article indexes

    Special:Allpages lists all of the current pages in Wikipedia.


    Portal:Contents/AZ index provides an easy way to skip to a particular part of the alphabet in the list of all
    articles.
    Lists of alphabetical indexes
    Category:Wikipedia indexesalphabetical list of topic indexes
    Portal:Contents/Indicesindexes sorted by topic area

    Collections of articles by quality or popularity


    Featured content
    Featured content is the best Wikipedia has to offer, via vigorous peer review. Presented by type:

    Featured articles Featured lists Featured pictures Featured portals Featured topics
    Most popular articles

    Wikipedia:Top 5000 pages (of the last week)

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