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| <div style="font-size:21px; font-weight:bold; text-align:center; padding-top:7px; padding-bottom:7px;">Explore Nordic Larp Wiki's Contents</div>
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| There are two ways to look things up in Nordic Larp Wiki: by searching or by browsing.
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| * If you know the name of an article for which you are looking, simply type it into Nordic Larp Wiki's [[Help:Searching|search]] box.
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| * If you would like to look around the encyclopedia to see what is on it, use Nordic Larp Wiki's '''Contents''' pages. Lists and [[Index (publishing)|indices]] are examples of contents for a published work, and Nordic Larp Wiki has [[#Nordic Larp Wiki's indices|many of each]], including a [[Portal:Contents/Quick index|complete alphabetical index]] and [[#Category system|indices by category]]. <br /> Links to all of Nordic Larp Wiki's main contents pages are presented below, and they in turn link to the more specific pages.
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| == Curated article collections ==
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| === Overview articles ===
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| 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]].
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| * [[Portal:Contents/Overviews]] lists overview articles from covered areas of knowledge in a single page.
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| === Outline pages ===
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| Outline pages have [[tree structure|trees]] of topics in an [[Outline (list)|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.
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| * [[Portal: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.
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| * [[Outline of academic disciplines]] covers subjects studied in college or university, and provides links to prose overview articles and their corresponding outlines.
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| * [[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.
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| === Third-party classification systems ===
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| Various third-party classification systems have been mapped to Nordic Larp Wiki articles, which can be accessed from these pages:
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| * [[Wikipedia:List of Dewey Decimal classes|List of Dewey Decimal classes]]
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| * [[Wikipedia:Library of Congress Classification|Library of Congress Classification]]
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| * [[Wikipedia:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus|Wikipedia:Outline of ''Roget's Thesaurus'']]
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| === Vital articles ===
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| {{main|Wikipedia:Vital articles}}
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| Vital articles are lists of subjects for which Nordic Larp Wiki should have corresponding high-quality articles. They serve as [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:Vital articles|centralized watchlists]] to track the status of Nordic Larp Wiki's most important articles.
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| * [[Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/1|Vital articles level 1]] – 10 most important articles
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| * [[Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/2|Vital articles level 2]] – 100 most important articles
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| * [[Wikipedia:Vital articles|Vital articles level 3]] – 1,000 most important articles
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| * [[Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded|Vital articles level 4]] – 10,000 most important articles
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| * [[Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5|Vital articles level 5]] – 50,000 most important articles
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| ==Reference collections==
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| Nordic Larp Wiki has several types of pages which provide content in a non-prose form, for reference purposes.
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| === List pages ===
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| List pages enumerate items of a particular type, such as the [[List of sovereign states]] or [[List of South Africans]]. Nordic Larp Wiki has "lists of lists" when there are too many items to fit on a single page, when the items can sorted in different ways, or as a way of navigating lists on a topic (for example [[Lists of countries and territories]] or [[Lists of people]]). There are several ways to find lists:
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| * [[Portal:Contents/Lists]] – A limited single-page collection of lists and lists of lists
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| * [[List of lists of lists]] – A broad single-page collection of lists of lists
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| * [[:Category:Lists]] – Browse lists comprehensively via the multi-page Nordic Larp Wiki category system
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| === Timelines ===
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| [[Timelines]] list events chronologically, sometimes including links to articles with more detail. There are several ways to find timelines:
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| * [[List of timelines]] has a long single-page collection
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| * [[:Category:Timelines]] has a comprehensive multi-page collection via the Nordic Larp Wiki category system
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| Of particular interest may be:
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| * [[List of centuries]]
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| * [[List of decades]]
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| * [[List of historical anniversaries]] – e.g. events on January 1 of any year
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| * [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]] – major events this year
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| * [[Portal:Current events]] – featured current events and related project activities
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| * [[Deaths in {{CURRENTYEAR}}]] – lists notable people who died this year
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| * [[:Category:Graphical timelines]] – graphical timelines in the category and subcategories, arranged alphabetically
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| === Glossaries ===
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| [[Glossaries]] are lists of terms with definitions. Nordic Larp Wiki includes hundreds of alphabetical glossaries; they can be found two ways:
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| * [[Portal:Contents/Glossaries]] – A single-page list of glossaries
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| * [[:Category:Nordic Larp Wiki glossaries]] – Browse glossaries comprehensively via the Nordic Larp Wiki category system
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| === Bibliographies ===
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| [[Bibliographies]] list sources on a given topic, for verification or further reading outside Nordic Larp Wiki:
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| * [[:Wikipedia:List of bibliographies]] is a list of bibliographies
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| * [[:Category:Nordic Larp Wiki bibliographies]] has a complete multi-page listing of bibliographies on Nordic Larp Wiki
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| === Category:Discographies ===
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| [[Discographies]] catalog the sound recordings of individual artists or groups.
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| * [[:Category:Discographies]] has a complete multi-page listing
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| ==Special format collections==
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| === Portals ===
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| [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Portal|Portals]] include featured articles, images, news, categories, excerpts of key articles, links to related portals, and to-do lists for editors. There are two ways to find portals:
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| * [[Portal:Contents/Portals]] – A single-page list of portals
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| * [[:Category:Portals]] – Browse portals comprehensively via the Nordic Larp Wiki category system
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| === Nordic Larp Wiki books ===
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| [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Books|Nordic Larp Wiki books]] are collections of Nordic Larp Wiki articles that can be viewed, downloaded, or printed into a book. They provide a roadmap for a course of study in a particular subject.
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| * [[:Category:Nordic Larp Wiki books (community books)]] – an alphabetical list of the books
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| * [[:Category:Nordic Larp Wiki books]] – a list of the books, categorized by topic
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| === Spoken articles ===
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| Growing collections of Nordic Larp Wiki articles are starting to become available as spoken word recordings as well.
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| * [[:Category:Spoken articles]] – an organized list of all spoken articles
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| * [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Spoken articles]] – some general information about the spoken article technology
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| == Collections of articles ==
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| === Category system ===
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| Nordic Larp Wiki's [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Categorization|collection of category pages]] is a classified index system. It is automatically generated from category tags at the bottoms of articles and most other pages. Nearly all of the articles available so far on the website can be found through these subject indexes.
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| If you are simply looking to browse articles by topic, there are three top-level pages to choose from:
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| * [[:Category:Main topic classifications]] – probably what you are looking for: Arts, History, Technology, etc.
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| * [[Portal:Contents/Subcategories]] – a hand-crafted list of first- and second-level topic categories
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| For biographies, see [[:Category:People]].
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| [[:Category:Contents]] is technically at the top of the category hierarchy, but contains many categories useful to editors but not readers. [[Special:Subcategories]] lists every category alphabetically.
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| ===Alphabetical lists of articles===
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| Nordic Larp Wiki's alphabetical article indexes
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| * [[Special:Allpages]] lists all of the current pages in Nordic Larp Wiki.
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| * [[Portal:Contents/A–Z index]] provides an easy way to skip to a particular part of the alphabet in the list of all articles.
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| * Lists of alphabetical indexes
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| ** [[:Category:Nordic Larp Wiki indexes]] – alphabetical list of topic indexes
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| ** [[Portal:Contents/Indices]] – indexes sorted by topic area
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| == Collections of articles by quality or popularity ==
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| ===Featured content===
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| [[Portal:Featured content|Featured content]] is the best Nordic Larp Wiki has to offer, via vigorous [[Wikipedia:Peer review|peer review]]. Presented by type:
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| * [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Featured articles|Featured articles]]{{·}}[[Nordic Larp Wiki:Featured lists|Featured lists]]{{·}} [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Featured pictures|Featured pictures]]{{·}} [[Portal:Featured portals|Featured portals]]{{·}} [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Featured topics|Featured topics]]
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| ===Most popular articles===
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| * [[Nordic Larp Wiki:Top 5000 pages]] (of the last week)
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