Portal:Contents
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Below are content navigation systems to help you browse the encyclopedia. They serve as an alternative to the search box, and are especially useful when you don't know exactly what you are looking for, or for when you want to see everything on a particular subject. Topic listsPresenting article links, list articles provide the function of tables of contents. Overviews
Item lists
Timelines
Lists of articles by quality or popularityFeatured contentFeatured content is the best Wikipedia has to offer, via vigorous peer review. Presented by type: Most popular articles
Vital articlesTopics considered most essential, from 10 articles in Level 1 to approaching 10,000 in Level 4.
Articles are also categorized by importance in their field(s) Alternate formatsPortalsA 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. Wikipedia booksWikipedia 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.
Spoken articlesGrowing collections of Wikipedia articles are starting to become available as spoken word recordings as well.
GlossariesGlossaries are lists of terms with definitions. Wikipedia includes hundreds of alphabetical glossaries. Wikipedia's index systemsCategory systemWikipedia'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:
For biographies, see Category:People categories by parameter. 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 articlesWikipedia's alphabetical article indexes
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