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== Index of the Wikipedia Namespace? ==

Is there a page that has links to all pages in the Wikipedia namespace? Hopefully organized by topic, with short explanations of the content? So far, I've found 3 or 4 of them, all listing a small section, but nothing complete. This includes the so called 'Community Portal.' --[[User:Voodoo|Voodoo]] 01:20, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

:Try [[Wikipedia:Alphabetical index]].  It's not annotated, but the page titles are quite clear.  :)  [[User:Fabiform|fabiform]] | [[User talk:Fabiform|talk]] 01:35, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well, that's not bad, but it's alphabetical. I found two, or maybe even three more index type of pages, all of them very incomplete. The closest to complete seems to be [[Wikipedia:Utilities]], and that's both incomplete and not very good.--[[User:Voodoo|Voodoo]] 03:46, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:Of the index pages I've seen, Wikipedia:Utilities is the most comprehensive. It doesn't list all the pages, but you can probably get from there to any page in the Wikipedia namespace with only a jump or two. I'm afraid that if you don't like that page, you're probably out of luck, because I don't think we have anything better. People have done lots of indexing of those pages over time, but it's a big project. [[User:Isomorphic|Isomorphic]] 05:36, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

:I could use a good answer to this question too; I often get lost in the Wikipedia namespace. We have so many organisations and policies! The Wikipedia namespace could use a bit more organisation (covering all the nodes), but I don't know where to start.. [[User:Sverdrup|&#9999; Sverdrup]] 18:41, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

::I'm working on it, people, but it's a HUGE project. The complete list, bot-generated, is [[Wikipedia:List of pages in the Wikipedia namespace]]. [[Wikipedia:Alphabetical index]] is more manageable because it doesn't fill your screen with all the archives and subpages. [[Wikipedia:Utilities]] will be renamed Wikipedia:Topical index, and it will eventually have a more complete (and hopefully better organized) index, but it takes a while to get there from where it is now. --[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] 21:40, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

::I started working on this too. Do you want to create a page with what you have, or at least the proposed categories etc. so we can help you, or would you rather just do the whole thing yourself? --[[User:Voodoo|Voodoo]] 01:13, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

:::The alphabetical index is already complete - what I'm doing there is mostly looking for pages than can be merged with or redirected to other pages. But anybody who wants to help with the topical index (aka Utilities) is welcome to work on the existing page. I'm not planning to create a new page, just rename the old one when it gets complete enough to call it an index. --[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] 02:16, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)