Overviews of Wikipedia An overview surveys what is covered in an area. - Overviews – one-page outline of Wikipedia, divided into 12 major subjects
- List of academic disciplines – knowledge divided by field
Other topic lists Wiki has thousands more topic lists; some are even lists of other lists. - Lists – of related articles
- Category:Lists – alphabetical list of lists
- Outlines – subject overviews; structured lists that map out subjects
Two of the broadest list collections are: - Lists of countries and territories and many lists by country
- Lists of people including by nationality and by occupation
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 sounds
- Featured topics
Books Books are collections of Wikipedia articles, that can be viewed, downloaded, or printed into a book. - Category:Wikipedia books (community books) – alphabetical list of the books
- Category:Wikipedia books – categorized by topic
Glossaries Glossaries are lists of terms with definitions: - Glossaries – a list of glossaries arranged by subject
- Category:Glossaries – glossaries in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically
Portals A portal introduces the reader to a subject by presenting images, categories and excerpts of key articles. Portals also guide editing by providing to-do lists. - List of portals
- Category:Portals
Timelines Timelines list articles chronologically. The top-level timelines and timeline sets are: - List of timelines – historical timelines, arranged by subject. Find more in Category:Timelines
- List of centuries – (e.g., 20th century)
- List of decades – (e.g., 1910s)
- List of historical anniversaries – (e.g., today)
- 2024 – major events this year
- Portal Current events – featured current events and related project activities
- Recent deaths – lists notable people who died not long ago
- Category:Graphical timelines – graphical timelines in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically
Alphabetical indexes - Complete alphabetical index – sorted by the first two letters of the title, e.g., "Aa Ab Ac Ad..."
Categorical indexes Wiki's category system is generated from category tags at the bottom of articles. The top-end pages are: - Categories – an index of major categories, arranged by subject – that section of the page is an exception to the category autogeneration rule, as it is crafted by hand
- Category:Articles – the category in which all article category systems are located
- Category:Categories – the highest level or "root" category in Wikipedia – its autogenerated entries are listed at the bottom of the page
- Category:Contents – the category equivalent to this page
- Category:Fundamental categories – the category containing the most fundamental ontological categories such that every article category system can reasonably be expected to be within it
- Special:Categories – every category listed alphabetically
Wiki's other broad categorical indices are: - List of Dewey Decimal classes – top two levels of this library classification system, linked to Wikipedia articles
- Library of Congress Classification – LCC subjects linked to Wikipedia articles
- Outline of Roget's Thesaurus – articles organised into a system based on six classes, with thousands of branches, following Roget's system
Spoken articles - Category:Spoken articles – articles that are available as spoken word recordings
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