Wikipedia:Contents
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Navigating Wikipedia's subjects
Wikipedia organizes its content into distinct subject classifications, each with further subdivisions.
Culture
Explore the diverse cultures, arts, beliefs, and customs of human societies.
Geography
Discover the wonders of Earth's lands, features, inhabitants, and planetary phenomena.
Health
Learn about physical, mental, and social health.
History
Dive into the past through written records and scholarly exploration.
Timelines
Explore chronological events through our comprehensive timelines.
Current history entries
Stay up-to-date with encyclopedia entries covering ongoing events.
- 2024 – Major events this year
- 2024 in science – Ongoing science findings and technology advancements
- Portal:Current events – Featured current events and related project activities
Human activities
Delve into diverse human actions, from leisure and entertainment to industry and warfare.
Mathematics and formal sciences
Explore the study of quantity, structure, space, and change.
Natural sciences
Understand natural phenomena through empirical evidence, observations, and experiments.
People
Learn about collective entities, ethnic groups, and nations.
Philosophy
Dive deep into fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, and more.
Reference works
Access comprehensive information collections compiled for easy retrieval.
Third-party classification systems
Refer to various third-party classification systems linked to Wikipedia articles.
- Library of Congress Classification
- List of Dewey Decimal classes
- Figurative system of human knowledge (Encyclopédie)
- Propædia (Encyclopædia Britannica)
- Tree of knowledge system
- Universal Decimal Classification
Bibliographies
Access sources on specific topics for further reading or verification.
- Wikipedia:List of bibliographies – Compilation of bibliographies
- Category:Wikipedia bibliographies – Multi-page catalog of Wikipedia's bibliographies
Religion
Explore social-cultural systems, beliefs, ethics, and more.
Society and social sciences
Understand collectives, social interactions, political authority, and cultural norms.
Technology and applied sciences
Learn about techniques, skills, methods, and processes in technology and science.
Wikipedia's main content systems
Overview articles
Get summaries of broad topics with links to subtopics, biographies, and related articles.
Outline pages
Explore topics in outline format, linking to more detailed articles.
List pages
Find enumerations of specific types, such as lists of countries and people.
Portals
Access featured articles, images, news, and more through thematic portals.
Glossaries
Access lists of terms with definitions through alphabetical glossaries.
Category system
Browse Wikipedia's category pages, which index articles by subject.
- Category:Main topic classifications – Arts, History, Technology, and more
- Wikipedia:Contents/Categories – Hand-crafted list of topic categories
- Category:People – Biographies
Articles by importance or quality
Vital articles
Explore subjects that demand high-quality articles, grouped by importance.
- Vital articles
- Level 1 – 10 most important articles
- Level 2 – 100 most important articles
- Level 3 – 1,000 most important articles
- Level 4 – 10,000 most important articles
- Level 5 – 50,000 most important articles
List of articles every Wikipedia should have
Explore topics where Wikipedias of all languages should have articles.
Featured content
Discover Wikipedia's best, reviewed and vetted for quality.
Good content
Explore well-written, factually accurate articles that meet editorial standards.
Spoken articles
Listen to Wikipedia articles as spoken word recordings.
Alphabetical lists of articles
Browse Wikipedia's articles alphabetically.
- Special:Allpages – List of all current pages
- Wikipedia:Contents/A–Z index – Alphabetical index
- Category:Wikipedia indexes – Alphabetical list of topic indexes
- Wikipedia:Contents/Indices – Indexes sorted by topic area