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 1Featured content
 2Main subject classifications
 3Curated article collections
 4Third-party classification systems
 5Reference collections
 6Special format collections
 7Collections of articles
Wikipedia is a compendium of the world's knowledge. If you know what you are
looking for, type it into Wikipedia's search box. If, however, you need a bird's eye
view of what Wikipedia has to offer, see its main contents pages below, which in turn
list more specific pages.
Featured content

Featured content represents the best of Wikipedia, and has undergone a thorough

review process to ensure that it meets the highest encyclopedic standards.
Presented by type:
 Featured articles
 Featured lists
 Featured pictures
 Featured topics

Main subject classifications

Wikipedia's main navigation subsystems
(overviews, outlines, lists, portals, glossaries, categories, and indices) are each
divided into the following subject classifications:

 Reference works – compendiums of information, usually

of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease of
reference. That is, the information is intended to be
quickly found when needed.
 Culture – encompasses the social behavior and norms
found in human societies, as well as the knowledge,
beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities and habits of
the individuals in these groups.
 Geography – field of science devoted to the study of the
lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the
Earth and planets.
 Health – state of physical, mental and social well-being.
 History – the past as it is described in written
documents, and the study thereof.
 Human activities – the various activities done by people.
For instance, it includes leisure, entertainment, industry,
recreation, war, and exercise.
 Mathematics – the study of topics such as quantity
(numbers), structure, space, and change. It evolved
through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning,
from counting, calculation, measurement, and the
systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical
objects.
 Natural science – branch of science concerned with the
description, prediction, and understanding of natural
phenomena, based on empirical evidence from
observation and experimentation.
 People – plurality of persons considered as a whole, as
is the case with an ethnic group or nation.
  Philosophy – study of general and fundamental
questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason,
mind, and language.
 Religions – social-cultural systems of designated
behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts,
sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations,
that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or
spiritual elements.
 Society – group of individuals involved in persistent
social interaction, or a large social group sharing the
same geographical or social territory, typically subject to
the same political authority and dominant cultural
expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of
relationships (social relations) between individuals who
share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given
society may be described as the sum/total of such
relationships among its constituent of members.
 Technology – the sum of techniques, skills, methods,
and processes used in the production of goods or
services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as
scientific investigation.

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.

 Wikipedia:Contents/Overviews lists overview articles

from covered fields in a single page.
Outline pages
Outline pages have trees of topics in an outline format, which in turn are linked to
further outlines and articles providing more detail. Outlines show how important
subtopics relate to each other based on how they are arranged in the tree, and they
are useful as a more condensed, non-prose alternative to overview articles.

 Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines is a comprehensive list of

"Outline of __" pages, organized by subject. It is itself an
outline, that links (almost) exclusively to other outlines.
 Outline of academic disciplines covers subjects studied
in college or university and provides links to prose
overview articles and their corresponding outlines.
 Outline of knowledge is the top-level outline, its subject
being the broadest one of all. It is the ancestor of all
other outlines, and they branch out from it, in successive
levels.
List of articles every Wikipedia should have
Main article: meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have
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

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
Growing collections of Wikipedia articles are starting to become available as spoken
word recordings as well.

 Category:Spoken articles – an organized list of all

spoken articles
 Wikipedia:Spoken articles – some 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 classifications – probably what you

are looking for: Arts, History, Technology, etc.
 Wikipedia:Contents/Categories – a 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.
 Wikipedia:Contents/A–Z index provides an easy way to
skip to a particular part of the alphabet in the list of all
articles.
 Lists of alphabetical indexes
o Category:Wikipedia indexes – alphabetical list of
topic indexes
 o Wikipedia:Contents/Indices – indexes sorted by topic
area
Current history entries
You can help us keep Wikipedia up to date! The list below is for encyclopedia entries
that describe and pertain to events happening on a current basis.

 2022 – major events this year

 2022 in politics and government  – major current
political news and developments
 2022 in science and technology  – major current news
on science findings and technology developments
 Portal:Current events – featured current events and
related project activities
 Category:2022-related timelines
 Category:2022 by country
 Deaths in 2022 – lists people who died this year
 Category:Contemporary history by country
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