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== Navigating within Wikipedia ==

There are two basic ways to find interesting articles in Wikipedia: Do a search, or browse, starting from the Mainlinks Pageon the left of every page. Wikipedia has lots of organizing features depending on how you want to browse, like overviews, portals, lists, indexes, and categories. But for a bit of amusement, you can also try a couple of unusual ways to go from article to article, as discussed in this section.

=== Searching Wikipedia ===

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==== Portals ====

From [[Wikipedia:Contents]], you can instead click the [[Wikipedia:Contents/Portals|Portals" link]] and go to the main page for portals ('''Figure B-8'''). Like categories, portals can be a great way to narrow down the number of articles you're particularly interested in reading, or to lead you to articles that you otherwise might never have known existed.

[[File:Wikipedia-The Missing Manual_I_mediaobject_d1e29638.png|frame|center|'''Figure B-8''' Portals are probably one of the least known ways to find articles on Wikipedia. If you're particularly interested in a topic, one of the 500 or so existing portals can be a great page to bookmark.]]