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These articles are considered the foundation that every Wikipedia should build upon.

 meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have - 1,000 most important articles
 meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded  - 10,000 most important
articles
Vital articles
Main page: Wikipedia:Vital articles
Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding
high-quality articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of
Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize
for improvement.

 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
 Vital articles level 5 – 50,000 most important articles
Vital people
Main page: Wikipedia:Vital people
Vital people are lists of biographies for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding
high-quality articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of
Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize
for improvement.

 Vital people level 1 – 50 most important people

 Vital people level 2 – 100 most important people
 Vital people level 3 – 500 most important people
 Vital people level 4 – 5,000 most important people
 Vital people level 5 – 15,000 most important people

Third-party classification systems

Various third-party classification systems have been mapped to Wikipedia articles, which can
be accessed from these pages:

 Library of Congress Classification

 List of Dewey Decimal classes
 Figurative system of human knowledge (Encyclopédie)
 Outline of  Roget's Thesaurus
 Propædia (Encyclopædia Britannica)
 Tree of knowledge system
 Universal Decimal Classification
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 be 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:

 Wikipedia: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:Wikipedia 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 anniversaries – e.g. events on January 1 of any year
 Category:Graphical timelines – graphical 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:

 Wikipedia: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:

 Wikipedia:List of bibliographies is a list of bibliographies

 Category:Wikipedia bibliographies has a complete multi-page listing of bibliographies
on Wikipedia
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 contain featured articles and images, news, categories, excerpts of key articles, links to
related portals, and to-do lists for editors. There are two ways to find portals:

 Wikipedia:Contents/Portals – A single-page list of portals

 Category:Portals – Browse portals comprehensively via the Wikipedia category system.
Spoken articles
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