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Wikipedia's contents

• 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.

Wikipedia's reference lists

Overviews of Wikipedia

• Overviews—a one-page outline of the contents of Wikipedia, covering 12 major subjects, providing links to key articles in each.
• List of academic disciplines—Wikipedia arranged like a college course curriculum.

Other topic lists

• Lists—a selective collection of article lists, arranged by subject.
• Category:Lists—a list of lists in the category system, arranged alphabetically.

• Lists of countries and territories and many Lists by country.
• Lists of people including by nationality and by occupation.

Featured content

• Featured articles—what we believe to be the best articles in Wikipedia.
• Featured lists—what we believe to be the best lists in Wikipedia.
• Featured pictures—images we find beautiful, impressive, and informative.
• Featured portals—portals we regard as being particularly useful, attractive, and well maintained.
• Featured sounds—sounds we find beautiful, impressive, and informative.
• Featured topics—topics we believe have coverage which is both comprehensive and well written.

Books

• Category:Wikipedia books (community books)—a list of all books, in alphabetical order
• Category:Wikipedia books—a list of books, categorized by topic

Glossaries

• Glossaries—a list of glossaries arranged by subject.
• Category:Glossaries—glossaries in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically.

Portals

Portals can be found at:

• List of portals—a list of active portals.
• Category:Portals—portals in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically.

Timelines

• List of timelines—a selection of historical timelines, arranged by subject. More can be found in Category:Timelines.
• List of centuries—(e.g., 20th century)
• List of decades—(e.g., 1910s)
• List of historical anniversaries—(e.g., today).
• 2010—major events this year.
• Portal:Current events—featured current events and related project activities.
• Recent deaths—notable recent deaths, by month.
• Category:Graphical timelines—graphical timelines in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically.

Wikipedia's indices

Alphabetical indices

• Complete alphabetical index—sorted by the first two letters of the title, e.g., "Aa Ab Ac Ad..."

Categorical indices

• 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.

• List of Dewey Decimal classes—lists the top two levels of this library classification system.
• Library of Congress Classification—this article provides a reflection of its own deep linkage structure.
• 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.