WikiPedia:Category schemes

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A category scheme is a way to index Wikipedia articles. Many category schemes are possible, and there is no scheme that is clearly the best.

Category schemes include:

• Lists of articles
  • Special:Allpages/! - All articles in alphabetical order
    • Wikipedia:Quick index -- Quick access to the above by first two letters
  • Wikipedia:Concise
  • Wikipedia:Basic topics

• Using the Category mechanism (see Wikipedia:Categorization)
  • Wikipedia:Browse by category - Categories of major articles
  • Category:Categories
    • Category:Fundamental
    • Category:Topic lists
• Topic
  • Wikipedia:Browse by overview - Table of Contents of major articles
  • Template:Wikipediatoc with icons - TOC with icons
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia arranged by topic
  • Lists of articles by category
  • List of academic disciplines
  • Library of Congress Classification
  • Wikipedia:Dewey Decimal System
  • Wikipedia:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus
  • SUMO classes
  • Lists of people - Biographies
  • List of countries
  • List of flags
• Time
  • Historical timeline
    • Centuries (e.g. 20th century)
    • Decades (e.g. 1910s)
    • Years (e.g. 1911, 2004)
    • List of themed timelines
  • List of historical anniversaries (e.g. today)
  • Current events (also: recent deaths, this year)
  • Logarithmic timeline
• How-to
• Reference
  • List of glossaries
  • List of reference tables
• Wikipedia:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus
• Misc.
  • A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas
  • List of cycles

• Meta (indexes of pages for Wikipedia editors)
  • Wikipedia:Alphabetical index
  • Wikipedia:Topical index
  • Wikipedia:WikiProjects
  • Special pages
    • Special pages
    • Wikipedia:Special pages
  • Archive (obsolete pages kept as subpages of Wikipedia:Archive for historical interest]]
  • Disambiguation
    • Wikipedia:Multiple-place names
    • Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name
    • Disambiguation pages with links (created from Links to disambiguating pages)

Many of these categories are incomplete — some categorise only the broadest topics, others don't even get that far. See the discussion page for other proposed category schemes.

External links

• Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm)nl:Wikipedia:Navigatie

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