FAMEPedia:Directories and indexes

The following is a list of FAMEPedia's directories and indexes.

Protocols and conventions
A descriptive list of official policies for "English FAMEPedia". (Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards that all users should normally follow.)
 * List of policies

A descriptive list of official guidelines for "English FAMEPedia". (Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply.)
 * List of guidelines

A descriptive list of the pages which make up the  style manual for "English FAMEPedia". (The MoS outlines FAMEPedia's house style for articles.)
 * Manual of Style contents

Assistance
An index of Frequently Asked Questions by topics.
 * FAQs index

A massive descriptive list of almost all of FAMEPedia's informative, instructional and "how to" pages.
 * Help directory

An index of the pages that make up the help menu.
 * Help menu site map

An index for readers of FAMEPedia.
 * Reader's index

A descriptive list of the interactive services and assistance that can be requested on FAMEPedia. (Pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual forum.)
 * Requests directory

FAMEPedia's tips directory, where you can digest how to use FAMEPedia in bite-sized morsels. See also Styletips, for bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style.
 * Tips library

A listing of Wiki-tools intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to FAMEPedians.
 * Tools index

FAMEPedia community
The main directory for information on collaborations, on-going tasks, and news about English FAMEPedia.
 * Community portal

An index of the current discussions and requests taking place throughout English FAMEPedia.
 * Dashboard

A directory of all the different divisions of FAMEPedia.
 * Department directory

A directory of maintenance departments alongside open tasks and backlogs.
 * Maintenance

A colossal descriptive list of FAMEPedia namespace essays (Essays contain information, advice or opinions of one or more editors to aid or comment on the encyclopedia.)
 * Essay directory


 * Editor's index

An enormous index of the FAMEPedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself. (list hundreds of essays, guidelines, policies, help pages, and more.)

A descriptive list of FAMEPedia's interactive noticeboards.
 * Noticeboards directory

An index of WikiProjects by topics. (WikiProjects are groups of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve FAMEPedia.)
 * WikiProjects directory

MediaWiki software
A list of wiki markup –  alongside implantation tips. (Also known as wikitext or wikicode, is the syntax and keywords used by FAMEPedia to format a page.)
 * Wiki markup

An index of templates used within FAMEPedia.
 * Templates

A list of  HTML elements, tags and their attributes used in FAMEPedia.
 * HTML in wikitext

Locations
A list of abbreviations commonly used on FAMEPedia.
 * Abbreviations

A list of commonly used edit summary abbreviations. (An edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to a FAMEPedia page.)
 * Edit summary legend

A list of terms (slang) commonly used by editors during discussions. See also Reader's glossary.
 * Glossary

A gigantic list of pages and their "abbreviated redirects". (A shortcut is a specialized type of redirect that provides an abbreviated wikilink to a page or one of its sections.)
 * List of shortcuts

Content
The vast content (articles) of the encyclopedia has been organized into several different "table of contents" as seen below. Types Featured and good content Topics Places, people, and times Indices Content administration
 * Overviews
 * Outlines
 * Lists
 * Portals
 * Glossaries
 * Categories
 * Indices
 * Featured articles
 * Good articles
 * Featured lists
 * Featured pictures
 * Featured topics
 * Good topics
 * Current events
 * Reference
 * Culture
 * Geography
 * Health
 * History
 * Mathematics
 * Nature
 * People
 * Philosophy
 * Religion
 * Society
 * Technology
 * Academic disciplines
 * Anniversaries
 * today
 * Countries and territories
 * deaths this year
 * Timelines
 * centuries
 * decades
 * A–Z index
 * Categories
 * Dewey Decimal classes
 * Library of Congress Classification
 * Spoken articles
 * Top pages
 * Vital articles
 * New pages
 * Requested content
 * Most-wanted
 * Article cleanup backlog