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Subject Index / Portals
Background to the schools Wikipedia
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Portal pages are another way of learning about topics. They collect snippets of a lot of articles and themes together on a topic (like, say, Medieval Britain) and allow you to get an overview of how well the topic is covered here. Wikipedia has introduced Portal pages recently and the content on them is a mixture of projects (helping people become involved in improving Wikipedia) and content. Here we have taken just the content out.