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Wikipedia outlines tend to include elements found in both of these types of outline and additional wiki-elements as well, such as descriptive lead sections. This mixture of elements, and the potential for them being added at any time by editors, makes the general term "Outline" more appropriate to describe Wikipedia's outlines.
Together, these outlines also form a multipage site map of Wikipedia. General reference Culture and the arts Geography and places Health and fitness History and events Human activities Mathematics and logic Natural and physical sciences People and self Philosophy and thinking Religion and belief systems Society and social sciences Technology ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and a topical guide to Wikipedia: Wikipedia [ a ] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers , known as Wikipedians , through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki .
To use it on outlines, go to Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines and click on "Related changes" in the tools menu. In order for this to work on all outlines, Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines must be kept up to date. Beware: "Related changes" looks a lot like "Recent changes", and it is easy to accidentally use the latter by mistake.
Below is a summary of the world's knowledge, in the form of an outline. Each subject in turn links to an outline that summarizes that subject. Together, these outlines also form a multipage site map of Wikipedia.
These outline articles form the outline of the knowledge on Wikipedia. Outlines show the structure of a subject, helping the reader become familiar with the subject it presents and providing a table of contents, or site map, to that subject. Outlines also help guide readers to related articles and ones that they never thought we'd have.
Outlines can be presented as a work's table of contents, but they can also be used as the body of a work. The Outline of Knowledge from the 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is an example of this. Wikipedia includes outlines that summarize subjects (for example, see Outline of chess, Outline of Mars, and Outline of knowledge).
This includes all outlines that can also be found in the subcategories. This is the parent category for pages in Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines . See also: Wikipedia:Outlines and WikiProject Outlines .