Wikipedia's contents: Overviews
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An overview is a survey of what is covered or included in an area. Below is an outline of Wikipedia, divided into 13 sections, each providing an overview of a major subject area, presenting key articles in the respective subject.
General reference (see in all page types)
Culture and the arts (see in all page types)
Culture and Humanities – Celebrities • Classics • Critical theory • Language • Movements • Mythology • Philosophy • Popular culture • Traditions • Tourism
- Art and The arts – Art galleries • Art schools • Museums
- Literature – Poetry
- Performing arts – Comedy ( Humour) • Dance • Film • Music • Opera • Theatre • Circus
- Visual arts – Animation • Architecture • Comics • Design • Drawing • Painting • Photography • Sculpture • Textile arts • Fashion
- Entertainment and Recreation – Cooking • Festivals • Hobbies • Parties
- GamesandToys – Computer and video games • Role-playing games
- Board games – Backgammon • Battleship • Chess • Cluedo (Clue) • Draughts (Checkers) • Go • Mastermind • Monopoly • Reversi • Risk • Scrabble • Stratego
- Card games – Baccarat • Canasta • Collectible card game • Contract bridge • Crazy Eights • Cribbage • Go Fish • Patience (Solitaire) • Poker • Rummy • Spades • Speed • Spite and Malice • War
- Sports – Association football (Soccer) • American football • Baseball • Basketball • Cricket • Cue sports • Golf • Ice hockey • Olympics • Racing ( Cycling, Formula One) • Rugby • Swimming • Tennis • Track and field
- GamesandToys – Computer and video games • Role-playing games
- Mass media – Internet ( Blogosphere, Podcasts, and Websites) • Newspaper • Publications • Publishing • Radio • Television
Geography and places (see in all page types)
- See also: places near you
- Main articles: Earth, Geography and Place
Geography – Atlas • City • Climate • Demographics • Earth • Exploration • Geographic information system • History of geography • Map • Park • Place • Population density • Region • Spatial analysis • Subregion • Surveying
- Branches of Geography – Physical geography ( Climatology, Hydrology) • Human geography • Regional geography
- Natural geographical features
- Landforms – Badlands • Canyon • Cave • Cliff • Coast • Continent • Coral reef • Crater • Desert • Forest • Geyser • Glacier • Gully • Grassland • Highland • Hill • Island • Mesa • Mountain • Mountain range • Plain • Prairie • Peninsula • Reef • Ridge • Savanna • Shoal • Steppe • Tundra • Valley • Volcano • Wetland
- Bodies of water – Bay • Channel • Delta • Estuary • Fjord • Headlands • Lagoon • Lake • Marsh • Ocean • Pond • River • Sea • Sound • Source (river or stream) • Spring (hydrosphere) • Strait • Stream • Swamp • Waterfall
- Manmade geographical features – Airport • Artificial dwelling hill • Artificial island • Breakwater • Bridge • Canal • Causeway • Country • Country subdivision • Dam ( Levee) • Farm • Harbor • Nation • National park • Nature reserve • Park • Pier • Pipeline • Port • Railway • Ranch • Reservoir • Road ( Street) • Settlement ( Village, Town, City, Megalopolis) • Train station • Tunnel
- The World
- By hemisphere – New World • Old World | Eastern world • Western world | Eastern Hemisphere • Western Hemisphere | Northern Hemisphere • Southern Hemisphere
- By cultural region – English-speaking world • Arab world • Chinese world (Sinosphere) • Indosphere • Sub-Saharan Africa • Europe • Latin America • Oceania
- By ordinal classification – First World • Second World • Third World • Fourth World
- By economic development – Developed countries • Developing countries • Least Developed Countries
- By continent – Africa • Antarctica • Australia • Eurasia ( Europe and Asia) • North America • South America
- Countries and polar regions of the world:
Countries of Africa
Countries of Asia
Countries of Europe
Countries of North America
Countries of Oceania
Countries of South America
Antarctic
Arctic
Health and fitness (see in all page types)
General – Health care • Health care industry • Health disparities • Mental health • Population health • Preventive medicine • Public health • Complementary and alternative medicine
Self-care – Body composition • Life extension • Longevity • Physical fitness
- Nutrition – Calorie restriction • Dietary supplements ( Amino acids, Minerals, Nootropics, Nutrients, Vitamins) • Diet (nutrition) • Dieting • Healthy eating pyramid
- Physical exercise – Stretching • Overtraining • Aerobic exercise • Anaerobic exercise • Sport • Walking
- Hygiene – Cleanliness • Oral hygiene • Occupational hygiene
Health science – Dentistry • Occupational therapy • Optometry • Pharmacy • Physiotherapy • Speech-Language Pathology
- Medicine – Midwifery • Nursing • Veterinary medicine • Dentistry • Alternative medicine
- Human medicine – Anesthesiology • Cardiology • Dermatology • Emergency medicine • Endocrinology and Diabetology • Epidemiology • Geriatrics • Hematology • Internal medicine • Nephrology • Neurology • Oncology • Pathology • Pediatrics • Psychiatry • Rheumatology • Surgery • Urology
- Illness – Aging • Alcoholism • Atrophy • Deficiency disease • Depression • Disease • Disorders (types) • Drug abuse • Eating disorder • Foodborne illness • Malnutrition • Obesity • Smoking
History and events (see in all page types)
History by region – Ancient Egypt • Ancient Greece • Ancient Rome • History of China • History of the Middle East • History of Mesoamerica • History of India
- History by continent – Africa • The Americas • Antarctica • Asia • Australia • Eurasia • Europe • North America • Oceania • South America
List of time periods – Prehistory • Protohistory • Ancient history • Modern history • Future history
- The Ages of history – Stone Age • Copper Age • Bronze Age • Iron Age • Middle Ages • Age of Discovery • Renaissance • Age of Enlightenment • Industrial Age • Space Age • Information Age
History by subject
- Cultural history–Money • Sport
- Art ( Architecture • Film • Painting) • Dance • Music • Theatre
- History of philosophy–Ancient • Medieval • Modern • Contemporary
- History of logic
- History of science–Theories/sociology • Historiography • Mathematics • Pseudoscience • Scientific method
- History of the natural sciences – Astronomy • Biology • Chemistry • Ecology • Geography • Physics • Geology
- History of the social sciences – Anthropology • Economics • Education • Geography • Linguistics • Political science • Psychology • Sociology
- History of science by era–In early cultures • In Classical Antiquity • In the Middle Ages • In the Renaissance • Scientific Revolution
- History of technology–Agriculture & agricultural science • Biotechnology • Chemical engineering • Communication • Computing ( Computer science, Software engineering) • Electrical engineering • Invention • Materials science • Measurement • Medicine • Military technology • Transport
Human activities (see in all page types)
Human activity – Arts • Childraising (Babysitting, Child care) • Crime (Harassment, Homicide) • Educating (Learning, Teaching) • Entertainment • Exercise • Exploration (Underwater exploration, Space exploration) • Globalization • Hobbies • Industrialisation • Innovation • Law enforcement • Learning • Leisure activities • Management • Massage • Medicine • Navigation • Philosophy • Politics (Governance) • Publishing • Recreation • Practicing religion (Worship) • Reproduction • Resource consumption • Sex • Shopping • Spending • Sport • Thinking • Transporting • Traveling • Underwater diving • Warfare
- Agriculture – Fisheries management • Fishing • Forestry • Gardening • Horticulture • Ranching
- Business – Business administration • Finance • Industry • Investing • Manufacturing • Marketing • Trading
- Communicating – Conversing • Listening • Reading • Talking • Writing
- Telecommunicating – Broadcasting ( Radio broadcasting, Television broadcasting) • Email • Web navigation
- Science – Applied science • Formal science • Natural science • Physical science • Social science
Impact of human activity – Cars, effects on society • Population growth • Human overpopulation • Overconsumption • War, effects of
- Human impact on the environment – Biodiversity loss • Conservation • Defaunation • Deforestation • Desertification • Ecological crises • Environmental degradation • Environmentalism • Forest degradation • Global warming • Habitat destruction • Habitat fragmentation • Holocene extinction event • Land degradation • Ocean acidification • Ozone depletion • Pollution • Resource depletion
Mathematics and logic (see in all page types)
Formal sciences – Information theory • Logic • Statistics • Theoretical computer science
- Mathematics – Algebra • Applied mathematics • Arithmetic • Calculus • Equations • Geometry • Mathematical analysis • Mathematics education • Mathematical practice • Measurement • Numbers • Philosophy of mathematics • Probability • Proofs • Theorems • Topology • Trigonometry • Unsolved problems in mathematics
Natural and physical sciences (see in all page types)
- Main articles: Natural science and Nature See also Science, Scientific method, Scientist, Scientific misconduct, and Fields of science
Biology – Anatomy (Human anatomy) • Astrobiology • Biochemistry • Bioinformatics • Biological anthropology • Biophysics • Botany • Cell biology • Computational biology • Developmental biology • Ecology • Evolutionary biology • Genetics (Molecular genetics, Population genetics) • Genomics • Marine biology • Histology • Human biology • Immunology • Microbiology • Molecular biology • Neuroscience • Origin of life • Paleontology • Parasitology • Pathology • Physiology • Taxonomy • Zoology (Ethology)
Physical sciences – Earth science • Systems theory
- Astronomy – Optical astronomy • Infrared astronomy • Radio astronomy • High-energy astronomy • Occultation
- Astronomical object – Planet • Dwarf planet • Exoplanet • Stars • Solar system • Constellation • Star cluster • Nebulae • Galaxies • Galaxy cluster • Black holes • Neutron stars • Supernovae
- Chemistry –Analytical chemistry • Atomic theory • Biochemistry • Chemical bond • Chemical equilibrium • Chemical industry • Chemical laws • Chemical reaction • Chemical formulas • Chemists • Electrochemistry • Energy • History of chemistry • Inorganic compounds • Materials science • Ion • Periodic table • pH • Phase • Polymer chemistry • Redox • Thermochemistry
- Matter – Atom • Compound • Molecule • Substance ( Acid, Base)
- Chemical elements – Actinium • Aluminium • Americium • Antimony • Argon • Arsenic • Astatine • Barium • Berkelium • Beryllium • Bismuth • Bohrium • Boron • Bromine • Cadmium • Caesium • Calcium • Californium • Carbon • Cerium • Chlorine • Chromium • Cobalt • Copernicium • Copper • Curium • Darmstadtium • Dubnium • Dysprosium • Einsteinium • Erbium • Europium • Fermium • Flerovium (Ununquadium) • Fluorine • Francium • Gadolinium • Gallium • Germanium • Gold • Hafnium • Hassium • Helium • Holmium • Hydrogen • Indium • Iodine • Iridium • Iron • Krypton • Lanthanum • Lawrencium • Lead • Lithium • Livermorium (Ununhexium) • Lutetium • Magnesium • Manganese • Meitnerium • Mendelevium • Mercury • Molybdenum • Moscovium (Ununpentium) • Neodymium • Neon • Neptunium • Nickel • Nihonium (Ununtrium) • Niobium • Nitrogen • Nobelium • Oganesson (Ununoctium) • Osmium • Oxygen • Palladium • Phosphorus • Platinum • Plutonium • Polonium • Potassium • Praseodymium • Promethium • Protactinium • Radium • Radon • Rhenium • Rhodium • Roentgenium • Rubidium • Ruthenium • Rutherfordium • Samarium • Scandium • Seaborgium • Selenium • Silicon • Silver • Sodium • Strontium • Sulfur • Tantalum • Technetium • Tellurium • Tennessine (Ununseptium) • Terbium • Thallium • Thorium • Thulium • Tin • Titanium • Tungsten • Uranium • Vanadium • Xenon • Ytterbium • Yttrium • Zinc • Zirconium
- Matter – Atom • Compound • Molecule • Substance ( Acid, Base)
- Physics – Atom • Atomic nucleus • Color • Elementary particle • Force • Gravitation • Mass • Matter • Optics • Phase • Quantum mechanics • Sound • Speed • Time • Weight • Energy • Radiation • Electromagnetic radiation • Visible spectrum • Special relativity • General relativity • Electromagnetism • Standard Model • Classical mechanics • Unsolved problems in physics
People and self (see in all page types)
Person – Biography • Character orientation • Consciousness • Gender • Health • Human • Human body • Identity • Individual • Intelligence • Moral character • Personal identity • Personality • Physical fitness • Spirituality • Values • Virtues
- Self – in philosophy • in psychology • in sociology • Self-actualization • Self-awareness • Self-education • Self-care • Self-concept • Self control • Self disclosure • Self-efficacy • Self-esteem • Self harm • Self help • Self-identity • Self image • Self monitoring • Self-perception • Self-regulated learning • Self talk
- Personal life • Adventure • Aging (life cycle) • Career • Citizenship • Education • Employment • Everyday life • Experience • Family • Friendship • Goal • Health maintenance • Home • Homemaking • Human condition • Human ecology • Interpersonal relationship • Intimate relationship • Kinship • Leisure • Lifestyle • Lifeworld • Manual labour • Maslow's hierarchy of needs • Meaning of life • Pets • Physical quality-of-life index • Profession • Quality of life • Quality time • Real life • Sex life • Travel • Work-life balance
- People – Adult • Alien (foreigner) • Child • Father • Genius • Human • Indigenous peoples • Man • Minor • Mother • Parent • Woman • Youth
Philosophy and thinking (see in all page types)
Philosophy – Being • Common sense • Feminist philosophy • Futurology • Goodness and value theory • Happiness • -ism • Meaning of life • Mind • Rhetoric • Space • Unsolved problems in philosophy
- By region – Indian Philosophy, Eastern philosophy • Western philosophy
- Branches of philosophy – Aesthetics • Ethics • Epistemology • Logic • Metaphysics
- Subdisciplines of philosophy – Education • Geography • History • Human nature • Language • Law • Literature • Mathematics • Mind • Philosophy • Physics • Politics • Psychology • Religion • Science • Social science • Technology • War • Culture
- Schools of philosophy – Nyaya • Vaisheshika • Samkhya • Yoga • Mīmāṃsā • Vedanta • Analytic philosophy • Aristotelianism • Continental Philosophy • Critical theory • Deconstructivism • Determinism • Dialectical materialism • Empiricism • Existentialism • Hegelianism • Hermeneutics • Humanism • Idealism • Kantianism • Logical Positivism • Materialism • Neoplatonism • Nihilism • Objectivism (Ayn Rand) • Ordinary Language • Phenomenology • Platonism • Positivism • Postmodernism • Poststructuralism • Pragmatism • Presocratic • Rationalism • Reformational • Relativism • Scholasticism • Skepticism • Stoicism • Structuralism • Transhumanism • Utilitarianism
Thinking – Awareness • Creative processes • Decision making • Heuristic • Learning • Memory • Problem solving • Reason • Teaching
- Qualities of thought – Accuracy • Effectiveness • Efficacy • Efficiency • Frugality • Prudence • Right • Soundness • Validity • Value theory • Wrong
- Thinking errors – Cognitive bias • Cognitive distortion • Error • Fallacy • Fallacies of definition • Logical fallacy • Target fixation
- Related – Genius • High IQ society • Mensa • Nootropics • Philomath • Polymath
Religion and belief systems (see in all page types)
- Allah
- Belief
- Biblical inspiration
- Buddha
- Confucius
- Deity
- Demon
- Devil
- Exorcism
- Heresy
- Inspiration
- Faith
- God
- Jesus
- Holy Spirit
- Morality
- Mormon
- Mythology
- Occult
- Prayer
- Prophecy
- Revelation
- Ritual
- Sin
- Supernatural
- Virtue
- Acosmism
- Agnosticism
- Animism
- Antitheism
- Atheism
- Binitarianism
- Deism
- Determinism
- Duotheism
- Esotericism
- Eutheism and dystheism
- Freethought
- Gnosticism
- Henotheism
- Humanism
- Interfaith
- Ignosticism
- Kathenotheism
- Monism
- Mormon
- Monotheism
- Monolatrism
- Mysticism
- Neopaganism
- New Age
- Nondualism
- Nontheism
- Objectivism
- Pandeism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
- Pastafarianism
- Polydeism
- Polytheism
- Secular
- Skepticism
- Spiritualism
- Spirituality
- Theism
- Theopanism
- Theosophy
- Transcendentalism
- Transtheism
- Trinitarianism
- Unitarianism
- Antireligion
- Ayyavazhi
- Baháʼí Faith
- Buddhism
- Cao Dai
- Chinese folk religion
- Christianity
- Confucianism
- Diasporic
- Falun Gong
- Hellenismos
- Hinduism
- Irreligious
- Islam
- Jainism
- Judaism
- Neopaganism
- Polytheistic reconstructionism
- Rastafari
- Scientology
- Sikhism
- Spiritism
- Shinto
- Taoism
- Tenrikyo
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Unitarian Universalism
- Zoroastrianism
Society and social sciences (see in all page types)
- Main articles: Social sciences and Society See also Science and Scientific method
Social sciences – Anthropology • Archaeology • Cognitive science • Communication studies • Critical theory • Cultural studies • Development studies • Economics (Unsolved problems in economics) • Education • Geography • History • Linguistics (Unsolved problems in linguistics) • Law • Political science • Psychology • Social policy • Sociology
Society – Commons • Ethnic groups • Global commons • Global issue • Group • Infrastructure • People
- Community – Communitarianism • Community development • International community • Local community • Sense of community • Social capital • Socialization • Structure and agency • World community
- Social development – Decadence • Social progress • Technological evolution
- Sociocultural evolution: Accelerating change → Hunter-gatherer bands → Social rank → Tribes → Social stratification → Chiefdoms → Neolithic Revolution → Civilization → Agrarian society → Pre-industrial society → Agrarian villages → Towns → Cities → City-states → Nation-states → Industrial Revolution → ( Modern) Industrial society → ( Postmodern) Post-industrial society → Informational Revolution → Information society → Digital Revolution → Global network → Globalization → World government? → Space colonization? → Technological singularity?
- Social institutions – Organization
- Family – Daughter • Extended family • Father • Grandparent • Home • Human bonding • Mother • Nuclear family • Parent • Son
- Religion
- Infrastructure
- Public infrastructure – Highways • Streets • Roads • Bridges • Mass transit • Airports and Airways • Rail transport • Water supply and Water resources • Wastewater management • Solid-waste treatment and disposal • Electric power
- Private infrastructure – Automobiles • Homes • Personal computers • Personal property • Real estate
- Economy and Business – Finance • Management • Marketing • Franchising
- Education – Academia • Academic misconduct • Homework • Learning • Pedagogy • School • Student • Study skills • Teacher
- Civil society
- Government and Politics – Politics by country • International relations • Public affairs
- Law – Criminal justice • Law enforcement • Legislation • Prison
- Social network – Communication • Journalism • Social capital
Technology and applied sciences (see in all page types)
Technological concepts and issues – Accelerating change • Appropriate technology • Diffusion of innovations in science • Doomsday device • High technology • History of science and technology • History of technology • Industry • Innovation • Knowledge economy • Persuasion technology • Pollution • Posthumanism • Precautionary principle • Research and development • Strategy of technology • Superpowers • Technocapitalism • Technocriticism • Techno-progressivism • Technological convergence • Technological evolution • Technological determinism • Technological diffusion • Technological singularity • Technology acceptance model • Technology assessment • Technology lifecycle • Technology transfer • Technology Tree • Technorealism • Timeline of invention • Transhumanism
Technologies and applied sciences – Aerospace • Agriculture, Agricultural science & Agronomy • Architecture • Automation • Automobile • Big Science • Biotechnology • Cartography • Communication • Construction • Design • Electronics • Energy development • Energy storage • Engineering (Chemical engineering, Civil engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering) • Ergonomics • Firefighting • Food science • Forensics • Forestry • Free software • Health sciences • Health Informatics • Industry • Information science (Library and information science) • Internet • Machines • Management • Manufacturing • Mass communication • Mass production • Medicine (Unsolved problems in neuroscience) • Military science • Military technology and equipment • Mining • Nanotechnology • Nuclear technology • Packaging and labeling • Processes • Robotics • Space exploration • Technology forecasting • Telecommunications • Tools • Weapons
- Computing – Computer science ( Open problems in computer science) • Information systems • Information technology • Programming • Software engineering • Computer engineering • Moore's law
- Artificial intelligence – Automated reasoning • Computer vision • Ethics of AI • History of AI ( Timeline of AI) • Machine learning ( Pattern recognition) • Natural language processing • Progress in AI • Self-driving vehicles • Symbolic AI • Synthetic intelligence • Weak AI
- Artificial general intelligence – AI control problem → Existential risk from AGI ( Technological singularity → Intelligence explosion → Superintelligence → AI takeover → Human extinction?) • AI complete • Artificial consciousness • Friendly AI • Instrumental convergence • Singularitarianism
- Artificial intelligence – Automated reasoning • Computer vision • Ethics of AI • History of AI ( Timeline of AI) • Machine learning ( Pattern recognition) • Natural language processing • Progress in AI • Self-driving vehicles • Symbolic AI • Synthetic intelligence • Weak AI
- Emerging technologies – 3D printing • Artificial intelligence (see above) • Augmented reality • Bioplastics • Brain–computer interfacing • Cancer vaccine • Cellular agriculture • Cryptocurrency • Gene therapy • Nanotechnology • Reusable launch systems • Robotics (Autonomous robots, Robot-assisted surgery) • Stem-cell therapy • Tissue engineering
- Transport – Air transport ( Aircraft, Airline, Airport) • Maritime transport ( Harbors, Ports, Ships) • Off-road transport • Rail transport ( Trains, Train track) • Road transport ( Roads, Bridges, Tunnels, Vehicles) • Space transport