Wiki Page Type — Overview

A broad, high-level survey of an entire topic area. The entry point for any new topic.

What It Is

An overview page maps the full landscape of a topic without going deep on any single part. It answers “what is this thing and how does it all fit together?” rather than explaining mechanics or procedures.

When to Write One

• When starting a new topic — the overview is usually the first page created.
• When a topic has grown enough that a reader needs a map before diving into entities and concepts.
• After a synthesis pass reveals that no single page tells the whole story.

What It Contains

• One-sentence summary at the top
• Architecture diagram or component map (if applicable)
• List of major components/entities with one-line descriptions
• Key relationships between components
• Links to the entities, concepts, and how-tos it summarizes

What It Is Not

• It does not duplicate content from entity or concept pages — it links to them.
• It is not a how-to. Procedural steps belong in how-to/.
• It does not go deep on any one component.

Example

[[wiki/elastic/overviews/elastic-stack]] — maps every component (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Fleet) and shows how data flows between them.

See Also

• wiki-page-type-entity — named things that an overview links to
• wiki-page-type-concept — ideas and mechanisms an overview references
• wiki-schema — full schema this page type lives in