A fact from Outline of canoeing and kayaking appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 November 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Please add topics you feel should be presented on the outline under the most appropriate heading in alphabetical order - or add a new heading if it is needed. Looking through the articles we've linked to I've seen some with 'multiple issues' and others with no refs etc. I am going to concentrate on improving the worst first (if I can) but think it will help if you put a 'see also' link and cut and paste the following Template to the top of the Talk page so it stands out: Thanks Thruxton (talk) 15:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
