Wikipedia editors have organized the vast content of the encyclopedia in several different

"table of contents" and other forms for browsing. This page lists:

Curated article collections The most important articles on the most important topics
Reference collections Reference lists, timelines, glossaries, bibliographies, and
discographies
Special format collections Portals, books, and spoken audio
Complete collections of articles For when you want to see everything Wikipedia has
on a topic
Collections of articles by quality or popularity

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.

Portal:Contents/Overviews lists overview articles from all areas of knowledge in a

single page.

Outline pages
Outline pages have trees of article links in the classic outline format you may have learned in
school. They show how important subtopics relate to each other, and can be useful as a more
condensed, non-prose alternative to overview articles.

Portal:Contents/Outlines is a comprehensive list of "Outline of __" pages, organized

by subject
Outline of academic disciplines covers subjects studied in college or university, and
links directly to prose overview articles

Third-party classification systems

Various third-party classification systems have been mapped to Wikipedia articles, which can
be accessed from these pages:

List of Dewey Decimal classes

Library of Congress Classification
Wikipedia:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus

Most important articles for editors

These lists are meant to identify articles which deserve editor attention because they are the
most important for an encyclopedia to have, as determined by the community of participating
editors. They may also be of interest to readers as an alternative to lists of overview articles.

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
Category:Articles by importance Browse articles by importance and topic via the
Wikipedia category system

Reference collections
Wikipedia has several types of pages which provide content in a non-prose form, for
reference purposes.

List pages
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To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R from move}}}} on the third
line after the redirect target. An alias/shortcut for the rcat(s) may also be used. "Rcat shell" is
an alias/shortcut for the Redirect category shell template; for more information follow the
template link. Never substitute redirect category templates nor place them on soft redirects.
See also the redirect style guide and complete list of redirect templates.

This is a maintenance category. It is used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project

and is not part of the encyclopedia. It contains pages that are not articles, or it groups
articles by status rather than content. Do not include this category in content
categories.
This is a hidden category. It is not shown on its member pages, unless the
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This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the
sake of the list itself. Pages are added to tracking categories through templates.
These redirects are used to avoid breaking links, internal and external, that may have been
made to the old page titles.
The rcat used to tag redirects and populate this category, {{R from move}}, is automatically
added to a redirect that results from a page move/rename. Older redirects from page moves
may still need to be tagged manually.