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.

• Wikipedia:Contents/Overviews lists overview articles from covered fields in a single

page.
Outline pages
Outline pages have trees of topics in an outline format, which in turn are linked to further outlines
and articles providing more detail. Outlines show how important subtopics relate to each other based
on how they are arranged in the tree, and they are useful as a more condensed, non-prose
alternative to overview articles.

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

by subject. It is itself an outline, that links (almost) exclusively to other outlines.
• Outline of academic disciplines covers subjects studied in college or university and
provides links to prose overview articles and their corresponding outlines.
• Outline of knowledge is the top-level outline, its subject being the broadest one of all. It is
the ancestor of all other outlines, and they branch out from it, in successive levels.
List of articles every Wikipedia should have
Main article: meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have
These articles are considered the foundation that every Wikipedia should build upon.

• meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have - 1,000 most important articles
• meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded - 10,000 most important
articles
Vital articles
Main page: Wikipedia:Vital articles
Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding high-
quality articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most
important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.

• 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
• Vital articles level 5 – 50,000 most important articles
Vital people
Main page: Wikipedia:Vital people
Vital people are lists of biographies for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding high-
quality articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most
important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.

• Vital people level 1 – 50 most important people

• Vital people level 2 – 100 most important people
 • Vital people level 3 – 500 most important people
• Vital people level 4 – 5,000 most important people
• Vital people level 5 – 15,000 most important people

Third-party classification systems

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

• Library of Congress Classification

• List of Dewey Decimal classes
• Figurative system of human knowledge (Encyclopédie)
• Outline of Roget's Thesaurus
• Propædia (Encyclopædia Britannica)
• Tree of knowledge system
• Universal Decimal Classification