List of articles every Wikipedia should have
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There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. This list is intended as a guideline for those projects so that they will contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth. The articles should contain at least basic information on the topics they describe, thus providing a starting point for growth besides being a useful reference for the readers.
In addition to simply listing the articles, this project hopes to eventually create easily translatable versions of these articles, possibly containing core information at simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have. Until then, links to the largest Wikipedia, the English language version, are provided as a translatable resource.
Top-priority entries, which are deemed especially necessary for any Wikipedia to have, are marked in bold; like the list itself, these selections should not be viewed as dictating how important certain topics are, but only as a utility for smaller Wikipedias to start from.
This list is also used to obtain the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles. Articles which are absent from one wikipedia are shown in List of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Absent Articles.
This list is limited to 1000 articles but a much larger list is available at List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded.
Four versions from the history of this page can be found at Version 1.0 (14 August 2006), Version 1.1 (15 November 2008), Version 1.2 (3 February 2010) and Version 1.3 (24 June 2012).
Date | Adding | Removing |
---|---|---|
2012-08-09 | Athletics | Track and field |
2012-06-24 | Hector Berlioz | Umm Kulthum |
2012-05-06 | State (polity) | Sovereign state |
2012-05-03 | Immune system | Integumentary system |
2012-03-23 | Submarine | Boat |
2012-03-10 | Three Gorges Dam | Aswan Dam |
2012-02-04 | Inorganic chemistry | Helium |
2012-02-04 | Physical chemistry | Neon |
2012-02-04 | Analytical chemistry | Zinc |
2012-01-31 | Menstruation | Watt |
2011-10-14 | Trimurti | Shiva |
2011-10-10 | Arab-Israeli conflict | David Ben-Gurion |
2011-08-27 | The Art of War | Joule |
2011-08-18 | Clock | Random-access memory |
2011-08-14 | Spaceflight | Light year |
2011-07-25 | Rodent | Lion |
Section | Version 1.1 | Current Number | Target Number | Vital articles |
---|---|---|---|---|
Biography | 216 | 204 | TBD | 120 |
Philosophy and psychology | 18 | 18 | TBD | 25 |
World view and religion | 21 | 25 | TBD | 46 |
Social sciences | 71 | 70 | TBD | 93 |
Language and literature | 43 | 47 | TBD | 36 |
Culture, arts and recreation | 73 | 76 | TBD | 84 |
Science | 245 | 246 | TBD | 250 |
* Astronomy | 22 | 22 | TBD | 26 |
* Biology | 118 | 119 | TBD | 104 |
** Health and medicine | 34 | 37 | TBD | 42 |
* Chemistry | 27 | 27 | TBD | 36 |
* Earth science | 21 | 21 | TBD | 19 |
* Physics | 36 | 39 | TBD | 41 |
* Measurement and units | 11 | 6 | TBD | 0 |
* Timekeeping | 8 | 6 | TBD | 0 |
* Foodstuffs | 31 | 31 | TBD | 21 |
* Mathematics | 22 | 25 | TBD | 61 |
Technology | 72 | 70 | TBD | 106 |
History | 40 | 45 | TBD | 62 |
Geography | 148 | 146 | TBD | 87 |
Total | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 972 |
Count checked: 16:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] How to use this list
There are several different ways to use this list. The first is to translate it into the language of your Wikipedia and see whether you have articles on all of these topics. The topics will eventually all be linked to articles in the Simple English Wikipedia. If you are missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles. You can also check the language links in the English articles for more comprehensive coverage of the topics in many other languages.
[edit] Biography
[edit] Actors, dancers and models
[edit] Artists and architects
- Le Corbusier
- Dalí, Salvador
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Hokusai, Katsushika
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Sinan, Mimar
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
[edit] Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Bashō
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Byron, George
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Hafez
- Homer
- Hugo, Victor
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
[edit] Composers and musicians
- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Berlioz, Hector
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Piaf, Édith
- Presley, Elvis
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vysotsky, Vladimir
- Wagner, Richard
[edit] Explorers and travelers
- Amundsen, Roald
- Armstrong, Neil
- Cartier, Jacques
- Columbus, Christopher
- Cook, James
- Cortés, Hernán
- Gagarin, Yuri
- da Gama, Vasco
- Ibn Battuta
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Polo, Marco
- Zheng He
[edit] Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
[edit] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Avicenna
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Euler, Leonhard
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Fibonacci
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galen
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kepler, Johannes
- al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- Linnaeus, Carl
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
[edit] Philosophers and social scientists
- Aristotle
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Chomsky, Noam
- Confucius
- Descartes, René
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Ibn Khaldun
- Kant, Immanuel
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Laozi
- Locke, John
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Plato
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Sima Qian
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Zhu Xi
[edit] Political leaders
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Augustus
- von Bismarck, Otto
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Constantine the Great
- Cyrus the Great
- de Gaulle, Charles
- Elizabeth I of England
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Genghis Khan
- Guevara, Che
- Hitler, Adolf
- Joan of Arc
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Louis XIV
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter the Great
- Qin Shi Huang
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Sun Yat-sen
- Tamerlane
- Umar
- Washington, George
[edit] Religious figures and theologians
- Abraham
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- Al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Luther, Martin
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Paul the Apostle
[edit] Philosophy and psychology
[edit] Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Philosophy
- Probability
- Reality
- Truth
[edit] Psychology
[edit] Religion
[edit] World view and religion
[edit] Social sciences
[edit] Family and relationships
[edit] Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State (polity)
- Political party
- Propaganda
- Terrorism
[edit] Business and economics
[edit] Law
[edit] International organizations
- African Union
- Arab League
- ASEAN
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Commonwealth of Nations
- European Union
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- NATO
- Nobel Prize
- OPEC
- United Nations
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization
[edit] War and military
[edit] Social issues
[edit] Language and literature
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Alphabet
- Literacy
- Writing
- Literature
[edit] Science
[edit] Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar System
- Spaceflight
- Star
- Universe
[edit] Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
[edit] Biological processes
[edit] Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Breast
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Human gastrointestinal tract
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
- Skin
[edit] Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Health
- Headache
- Immune system
- Heart attack
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Menstruation
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Antibacterial
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Virus
[edit] Organisms
[edit] Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Chemical compound
- Chemical element
- Organic chemistry
- Molecule
- Analytical chemistry
- Physical chemistry
[edit] Earth science
[edit] Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- State of matter
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Velocity
- Temperature
- Time
- Thermodynamics
- Vacuum
[edit] Measurement and units
[edit] Timekeeping
[edit] Foodstuffs
[edit] Beverages
[edit] Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Coordinate system
- Mathematical analysis
- Equation
- Function (mathematics)
- Geometry
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Symmetry
- Trigonometry
[edit] Technology
[edit] Communication
[edit] Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
[edit] Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
[edit] Energy and fuels
[edit] Materials
[edit] Transportation
[edit] Weapons
[edit] Arts and recreation
[edit] Architecture and civil engineering
[edit] Film, radio and television
[edit] Music
[edit] Recreation
[edit] History and geography
[edit] History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
[edit] Prehistory and ancient world
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Gupta Empire
[edit] Middle Ages and Early Modern
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aztec
- Byzantine Empire
- Crusades
- Holy Roman Empire
- Hundred Years' War
- Middle Ages
- Mongol Empire
- Ming Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Protestant Reformation
- Thirty Years' War
- Renaissance
- Tang Dynasty
- Vikings
[edit] Modern
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- Cultural Revolution
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi Germany
- Meiji Restoration
- Russian Revolution
- Qing Dynasty
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
[edit] Geography
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
[edit] Continents and major regions
[edit] Countries
Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the 243 countries listed at List of countries. However, for the smaller Wikipedias, some of the more high-priority countries to have articles on are:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
[edit] Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Berlin
- Bogotá
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Delhi
- Dhaka
- Dubai
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kinshasa
- Kolkata
- Lagos
- London
- Los Angeles
- Madrid
- Mecca
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Saint Petersburg
- São Paulo
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
[edit] Bodies of water
- Amazon River
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Congo River
- Danube
- Ganges
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Lakes
- Indian Ocean
- Indus River
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Tanganyika
- Lake Victoria
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mississippi River
- Niger River
- Nile
- North Sea
- Pacific Ocean
- Panama Canal
- Rhine
- Suez Canal
- Southern Ocean
- Volga River
- Yangtze River
- Yellow River