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Portal:Contents
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Below are pages to help you select subjects to learn about.
Overviews
- Overview — main articles of various topics
- Outlines — subject summaries, with a dual purpose:
- Ease of discovery – outlines show which topics belong to a subject and why
- Access to articles – outlines serve as tables of contents of Wikipedia
- List of academic disciplines — subjects studied in college or university
Lists
More topic lists. Some are lists of lists.
Two of the broadest list collections are:
Alphabetical indexes
Timelines
Featured content
Featured content is the best Wikipedia has to offer, via vigorous peer review. Presented by type:
News about Wikipedia
The Signpost, a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Spoken articles
Growing collections of Wikipedia articles are available as spoken word recordings.
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.
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.
Categorical indexes
Wikipedia's category system is generated from category tags at the bottom of articles and other pages. The top-level pages are:
- Categories — an index of major categories, arranged by subject (because this page is crafted by hand, it is an exception to the category autogeneration rule)
- Category:Articles — the category in which all article category systems are located
- Category:Wikipedia categories — pages and categories which themselves specifically relate to categories
- Category:Contents — the highest level or "root" category in Wikipedia — its subcategories contain various types of encyclopedic content, content that assists with the navigation of the encyclopedia, as well as pages related to the maintenance of the encyclopedia — its autogenerated entries are listed at the bottom of the 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
Wikipedia's other broad categorical indexes are:
Glossaries
Glossaries are lists of terms with definitions.
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