Wikipedia:Indexes
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Wikipedia indexes (or indices) are alphabetical
list articles, consisting of lists of, in turn, the encyclopedic articles available on Wikipedia for any broad, general topic. Examples include: Index of Buddhism-related articles, Index of fishing articles, and Index of physics articles. These are distinct from Wikipedia outlines
, which are topically hierarchical instead of alphabetical.
There are three typical ways of accessing Wikipedia indexes:
- from in-article linksto them;
- from category hierarchywhere these specialized list articles are stored;
- from Wikipedia:Contents/Indices, the page presenting these articles as a set.
Anyone may create or work on an index article. WikiProject Indexes is a WikiProject that has been organized to develop and maintain these pages.
See also
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates, for the distinction between list articles (of various sorts) and other forms of content navigation in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing, for the other kind of indexing
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Glossaries, for similar lists (often embedded) that are alphabetical lists of terms with encyclopedic definitions (for dictionary-style definitions, see Wiktionary)
- Wikipedia:Outlines and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines, for similar lists that are topically hierarchical instead of alphabetical
- WP:Disambiguation pagebut with actual content instead of just listing pages with the content.
- embedded lists)