Editing Encyclopedia:Historical archive/Explore

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<big><div class="center">'''"Where do I begin?"'''</div></big>

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and contains articles which explain over a million different things about the world, the people and things on it, and beyond. There are 2 ways to look things up in Wikipedia: by searching or by browsing...

If you know the name of the topic you are looking for, simply type it into Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Searching|search]] box and press '''Go'''.

If you would like to look around the encyclopedia to see what's on it, here are some ways to explore [[Wikipedia]]:
* '''[[List of overviews]]''' - browse overview articles for major subjects. 
* '''[[Portal:List]]''' - browse the various portals, or summary introductions to a topic.  
* '''[[Wikipedia:Categorical index]]''' - browse the [[Wikipedia:Category|categories]] of the encyclopedia.
* Click on '''[[special:Randompage|Random article]]''' in the sidebar. 
* Find pages that link to a given page; click '''''What links here''''' in the sidebar's toolbox. This also works for pages that do not exist (if there are links to the page it is extra useful to create it). See also [[Wikipedia:What links here]].

There are also several other "Tables of Contents" type pages on Wikipedia.  They are:
*'''[[Lists of basic topics]]'''
*'''[[Lists of topics]]'''
*'''[[List of glossaries]]'''
*'''[[List of reference tables]]'''

Wikipedia also has an '''[[Wikipedia:Quick index|alphabetical index]]''' of all of its articles.

===See also===
*[[Wikipedia:Introduction]]
*[[Help:Contents]]
*[[Wikipedia:Tips]]

<span style="font-size:0.9em">The location of the search box and other links described on this page only apply to the default skin.</span>