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Wikinfo's contents

There are two ways to look things up in Wikinfo: by searching or by browsing.

• If you know the name of an article for which you are looking, simply type it into Wikinfo's search box and press Go, or you can search for information on a topic by typing it in the box and selecting Search.

• If you would like to look around the encyclopedia to see what is on it, use Wikinfo'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 Wikinfo's main contents pages are presented below, and they in turn link to the more specific pages.

Wikinfo's reference lists

Overviews of Wikinfo

An overview is a survey of what is covered or included in an area. Overviews of Wikipedia's coverage include:

• Outline of knowledge - Wikinfo's outline of the knowledge of humankind (still under development) also serves as a general site map of Wikinfo's contents. It is composed of topic outlines (one for each subject), and each of these pages presents its subject's structure, with links to the topics that make up its subject.
• Overviews - a one-page summary of the contents of Wikinfo, presenting an overview of 12 major subjects, providing links to key articles in each.
• List of academic disciplines - Wikinfo arranged like a college course curriculum.

Lists

Wikinfo has many topic lists; some are even lists of other lists.

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

Two of the broadest collections are:

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

Portals

A portal is an introductory page for a given topic. It complements the main article of the subject by introducing the reader to key articles, images, and categories that further describe the subject.

Portals can be found at:

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

Glossaries

Glossaries are lists of terms with definitions:

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

Timelines

Timelines are lists of articles organized chronologically. These are the top-level timelines and lists of 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).
• 2012 - 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.

Wikinfo's indices

Alphabetical indices

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

Categorical indices

Wikinfo's main categorical index system is automatically generated from information (category tags) at the bottom of each article. The top-end pages of the category system are:

• Categorical index - 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:Categories - the highest level or "root" category in Wikinfo - its autogenerated entries are listed at the bottom of the page.
• Category:Contents - the category equivalent to this page.
• Category:Articles - the category in which all article category systems are located.
• Special:Categories - every category listed alphabetically.

Other broad categorical indices are:

• 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.
• Wikinfo:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus - articles organised into a system based on six classes, with thousands of branches, following Roget's system.