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Important note: Since this list is pretty full, it is important that you discuss any changes (adds or deletes) on the discussion for this list first. If you add an entry at this point, it may be necessary to justify deleting something else.

There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. I propose that we invigorate them by ensuring that they each contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth.

I therefore suggest that we make a list of about 1,000 basic articles that we advise having on every existing Wikipedia. These articles should be very basic, and incorporate the most essential information. In some cases, it will be only a table, while in other cases, it will be a stub. This will, however, provide some impetus for the smaller projects to grow.

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.

Because this list has grown so large, it is currently in the process of being split into two levels of priority. Top-priority entries, which are 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 feature, and the page in general, is currently being discussed on the Talk page. If you support this effort, please contribute to the list and participate in the discussion.)

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.

Section Version 1.0 Current Number Target Number
Biography 321 235 TBD
History 78 40 TBD
Geography 151 157 TBD
Society 130 77 TBD
Culture 221 168 TBD
Science 287 243 TBD
Technology 109 75 TBD
Foodstuffs 33 32 TBD
Mathematics 35 33 TBD
Total 1365 1062 1000

Count checked: 05:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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[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 Simple English articles for more comprehensive coverage of the topics in many other languages.

[edit] Biography

This section is for people. Have at least one paragraph on 200 key historical figures.

[edit] Actors, dancers and models

  1. Bardot, Brigitte
  2. Bernhardt, Sarah
  3. Brando, Marlon
  4. Chaplin, Charlie
  5. Dietrich, Marlene
  6. Marx Brothers
  7. Monroe, Marilyn

[edit] Artists and architects

  1. Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
  2. Corbusier, Le
  3. Dalí, Salvador
  4. Donatello
  5. Dürer, Albrecht
  6. Gogh, Vincent van
  7. Goya, Francisco
  8. Kahlo, Frida
  9. Matisse, Henri
  10. Leonardo da Vinci
  11. Michelangelo
  12. Pei, I. M.
  13. Picasso, Pablo
  14. Raphael
  15. Rembrandt
  16. Rubens, Peter Paul
  17. Velázquez, Diego
  18. Warhol, Andy
  19. Wright, Frank Lloyd

[edit] Authors, playwrights and poets

  1. Abu Nuwas
  2. Bashō
  3. Borges, Jorge Luis
  4. Byron, George
  5. Camões, Luís de
  6. Cervantes, Miguel de
  7. Chaucer, Geoffrey
  8. Chekhov, Anton
  9. Daniel, Arnaut
  10. Dante Alighieri
  11. Darío, Rubén
  12. Dickens, Charles
  13. Dostoevsky, Fyodor
  14. Ferdowsi
  15. Fuzûlî
  16. García Márquez, Gabriel
  17. von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
  18. Homer
  19. Horace
  20. Hugo, Victor
  21. Ibsen, Henrik
  22. Joyce, James
  23. Kafka, Franz
  24. Kālidāsa
  25. Khayyam, Omar
  26. Li Bai
  27. Mahfouz, Naguib
  28. Molière
  29. Nabokov, Vladimir
  30. Ovid
  31. Premchand, Munshi
  32. Proust, Marcel
  33. Pushkin, Alexander
  34. Rimbaud, Arthur
  35. Rustaveli, Shota
  36. Saramago, José
  37. Sappho
  38. Shakespeare, William
  39. Singer, Isaac Bashevis
  40. Sophocles
  41. Sturluson, Snorri
  42. Tolstoy, Leo
  43. Twain, Mark
  44. Virgil
  45. Wordsworth, William
  46. Wu Cheng'en

[edit] Composers and musicians

  1. Bach, Johann Sebastian
  2. Beatles, The
  3. Beethoven, Ludwig van
  4. Berlioz, Hector
  5. Bruckner, Anton
  6. Brahms, Johannes
  7. Chopin, Frédéric
  8. Dvořák, Antonín
  9. Handel, Georg Frideric
  10. Hendrix, Jimi
  11. Mahler, Gustav
  12. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  13. Puccini, Giacomo
  14. Presley, Elvis
  15. Rolling Stones, The
  16. Schubert, Franz
  17. Sibelius, Jean
  18. Smetana, Bedřich
  19. Schumann, Robert
  20. Stravinsky, Igor
  21. Tchaikovsky, Petr
  22. Verdi, Giuseppe
  23. Vivaldi, Antonio
  24. Wagner, Richard

[edit] Explorers

  1. Amundsen, Roald
  2. Armstrong, Neil
  3. Cartier, Jacques
  4. Columbus, Christopher
  5. Cook, James
  6. Cortés Hernán
  7. Gagarin, Yuri
  8. Gama, Vasco da
  9. Magellan, Ferdinand
  10. Polo, Marco
  11. Zheng He
  12. von Humboldt, Alexander

[edit] Film directors and screenwriters

  1. Bergman, Ingmar
  2. Disney, Walt
  3. Fellini, Federico
  4. Hitchcock, Alfred
  5. Kubrick, Stanley
  6. Kurosawa, Akira
  7. Lucas, George
  8. Spielberg, Steven

[edit] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

  1. Archimedes
  2. Berners-Lee, Tim
  3. Brahe, Tycho
  4. Copernicus, Nicolaus
  5. Curie, Marie
  6. Darwin, Charles
  7. Edison, Thomas
  8. Einstein, Albert
  9. Euclides
  10. Euler, Leonhard
  11. Faraday, Michael
  12. Fermi, Enrico
  13. Fibonacci
  14. Ford, Henry
  15. Fourier, Joseph
  16. Galileo Galilei
  17. Gauss, Carl Friedrich
  18. Gutenberg, Johannes
  19. Haeckel, Ernst
  20. Joule, James Prescott
  21. Kepler, Johannes
  22. Keynes, John Maynard
  23. Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
  24. Leibniz, Gottfried
  25. Linnaeus, Carl
  26. Maxwell, James Clerk
  27. Mendeleev, Dmitri
  28. von Neumann, John
  29. Newton, Sir Isaac
  30. Pascal, Blaise
  31. Pasteur, Louis
  32. Planck, Max
  33. Pythagoras
  34. Rutherford, Ernest
  35. Schrödinger, Erwin
  36. Stallman, Richard
  37. Tesla, Nikola
  38. Turing, Alan
  39. Watt, James

[edit] Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)

  1. Aquinas, Thomas
  2. Aristotle
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Avicenna
  5. Bruno, Giordano
  6. Beauvoir, Simone de
  7. Chomsky, Noam
  8. Descartes, René
  9. Durkheim, Émile
  10. Francis of Assisi, Saint
  11. Freud, Sigmund
  12. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  13. Herodotus
  14. Hippocrates
  15. Kant, Immanuel
  16. Locke, John
  17. Luther, Martin
  18. Luxemburg, Rosa
  19. Machiavelli, Niccolò
  20. Marx, Karl
  21. Nietzsche, Friedrich
  22. Paul of Tarsus
  23. Plato
  24. Pythagoras
  25. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  26. Jean-Paul Sartre
  27. Smith, Adam
  28. Socrates
  29. Sun Tzu
  30. Voltaire
  31. Weber, Max
  32. Wittgenstein, Ludwig

[edit] Politicians, leaders and aristocrats

  1. Akbar the Great
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Atatürk, Kemal
  4. Augustus
  5. Ben-Gurion, David
  6. von Bismarck, Otto
  7. Bolívar, Simón
  8. Bonaparte, Napoleon
  9. Bush, George W.
  10. Caesar, Julius
  11. Charlemagne
  12. Churchill, Winston
  13. Cixi, Empress Dowager
  14. Cleopatra
  15. Constantine the Great
  16. De Gaulle, Charles
  17. Gandhi, Indira
  18. Elizabeth I of England
  19. Genghis Khan
  20. Haile Selassie
  21. Hirohito
  22. Hitler, Adolf
  23. Lenin, Vladimir
  24. Louis XIV
  25. Mandela, Nelson
  26. Mao Zedong
  27. Mussolini, Benito
  28. Nkrumah, Kwame
  29. Peter I of Russia
  30. Qin Shi Huang
  31. Saladin
  32. Stalin, Joseph
  33. Thatcher, Margaret
  34. Victoria of the United Kingdom
  35. Washington, George

[edit] Religious figures

  1. Abraham
  2. Moses
  3. Jesus
  4. Muhammad
  5. Buddha

[edit] Revolutionaries and activists

  1. Gandhi, Mahatma
  2. Goldman, Emma
  3. Joan of Arc
  4. Keller, Helen
  5. King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  6. Mother Teresa
  7. Nightingale, Florence
  8. Guevara, Che

[edit] History

This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:

  1. History

[edit] Prehistory and ancient world

  1. Prehistory
  2. Stone Age
  3. Bronze Age
  4. Iron Age
  5. Mesopotamia
  6. Ancient Egypt
  7. Ancient Greece
  8. Roman Empire

[edit] Middle Ages and Early Modern

  1. Age of Enlightenment
  2. Aztec
  3. Byzantine Empire
  4. Crusades
  5. Holy Roman Empire
  6. Hundred Years' War
  7. Middle Ages
  8. Mongol Empire
  9. Ming Dynasty
  10. Ottoman Empire
  11. Protestant Reformation
  12. Renaissance
  13. Thirty Years War
  14. Vikings

[edit] Modern

  1. American Civil War
  2. Apartheid
  3. British Empire
  4. Cold War
  5. French Revolution
  6. Great Depression
  7. The Holocaust
  8. Industrial Revolution
  9. Korean War
  10. Nazi Germany
  11. Russian Revolution of 1917
  12. Qing Dynasty
  13. Spanish Civil War
  14. Treaty of Versailles
  15. Vietnam War
  16. World War I
  17. World War II

[edit] Geography

This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.

  1. Geography
  2. Capital
  3. City
  4. Continent
  5. Country
  6. Desert
  7. Earth science
  8. Map
  9. North Pole
  10. Ocean
  11. Rainforest
  12. River
  13. Sea
  14. South Pole

[edit] Continents and major regions

At least three sentences on each.

  1. Africa
  2. Antarctica
  3. Asia
  4. Europe
  5. Middle East
  6. North America
  7. Oceania
  8. South America

[edit] Countries

Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the 243 countries listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries. However, for the smaller Wikipedias, some of the more high-priority countries to have articles on are:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Algeria
  3. Argentina
  4. Australia
  5. Austria
  6. Bangladesh
  7. Belgium
  8. Brazil
  9. Canada
  10. People's Republic of China
  11. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  12. Cuba
  13. Egypt
  14. Ethiopia
  15. France
  16. Germany
  17. Greece
  18. India
  19. Indonesia
  20. Iran
  21. Iraq
  22. Republic of Ireland
  23. Israel
  24. Italy
  25. Japan
  26. Kazakhstan
  27. Mexico
  28. The Netherlands
  29. New Zealand
  30. Pakistan
  31. Poland
  32. Russia
  33. Portugal
  34. Saudi Arabia
  35. South Africa
  36. South Korea
  37. Spain
  38. Sudan
  39. Switzerland
  40. Tanzania
  41. Thailand
  42. Turkey
  43. Ukraine
  44. United Arab Emirates
  45. United Kingdom
  46. United States
  47. Vatican City
  48. Vietnam
  49. Venezuela

[edit] Cities

  1. Amsterdam
  2. Athens
  3. Baghdad
  4. Bangkok
  5. Beijing
  6. Beirut
  7. Berlin
  8. Brisbane
  9. Brussels
  10. Buenos Aires
  11. Cairo
  12. Canberra
  13. Cape Town
  14. Damascus
  15. Dar es Salaam
  16. Dublin
  17. Edinburgh
  18. Hong Kong
  19. Istanbul
  20. Jakarta
  21. Jerusalem
  22. Karachi
  23. Kyoto
  24. Los Angeles
  25. London
  26. Mecca
  27. Melbourne
  28. Mexico City
  29. Milan
  30. Moscow
  31. Mumbai
  32. Nairobi
  33. Naples
  34. New Delhi
  35. New York City
  36. Paris
  37. Rio de Janeiro
  38. Rome
  39. Saint Petersburg
  40. Seoul
  41. Shanghai
  42. Singapore
  43. Sydney
  44. Tehran
  45. Tel Aviv
  46. Tokyo
  47. Vienna
  48. Washington, D.C.

[edit] Bodies of water

  1. Amazon River
  2. Aral Sea
  3. Arctic Ocean
  4. Atlantic Ocean
  5. Baltic Sea
  6. Black Sea
  7. Caribbean Sea
  8. Caspian Sea
  9. Congo River
  10. Danube
  11. Dead Sea
  12. Ganges River
  13. Great Barrier Reef
  14. Great Lakes
  15. Indian Ocean
  16. Indus River
  17. Lake Baikal
  18. Lake Tanganyika
  19. Lake Victoria
  20. Mediterranean Sea
  21. Mississippi River
  22. Niagara Falls
  23. Niger River
  24. Nile
  25. North Sea
  26. Pacific Ocean
  27. Panama Canal
  28. Rhine
  29. Suez Canal
  30. Southern Ocean
  31. Volga River
  32. Yangtze River

[edit] Mountains, valleys and deserts

  1. Alps
  2. Andes
  3. Himalaya
  4. Mount Kilimanjaro
  5. Mount Everest
  6. Rocky Mountains
  7. Sahara

[edit] Society

  1. Society
  2. Civilization
  3. Education

[edit] Family and relationships

  1. Family
  2. Child
  3. Man
  4. Marriage
  5. Woman

[edit] Thought, behavior and emotion

  1. Behavior
  2. Emotion
  3. Love
  4. Thought

[edit] Politics

  1. Politics
  2. Anarchism
  3. Colonialism
  4. Communism
  5. Conservatism
  6. Democracy
  7. Dictatorship
  8. Diplomacy
  9. Fascism
  10. Globalization
  11. Government
  12. Ideology
  13. Imperialism
  14. Liberalism
  15. Marxism
  16. Monarchy
  17. Nationalism
  18. Nazism
  19. Republic
  20. Socialism
  21. State
  22. Political party
  23. Propaganda
  24. Terrorism

[edit] Business and economics

  1. Economics
  2. Agriculture
  3. Capital
  4. Capitalism
  5. Currency
    1. Euro
    2. Japanese yen
    3. United States dollar
  6. Industry
  7. Money
  8. Tax

[edit] Law

  1. Law
  2. Constitution

[edit] International organizations

  1. African Union
  2. Arab League
  3. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  4. Commonwealth of Independent States
  5. Commonwealth of Nations
  6. European Union
  7. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  8. NATO
  9. Nobel Prize
  10. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  11. United Nations
    1. International Atomic Energy Agency
    2. International Court of Justice
    3. International Monetary Fund
    4. UNESCO
    5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    6. World Health Organization
  12. World Bank Group
  13. World Trade Organization

[edit] War and military

  1. Civil war
  2. Military
  3. Peace
  4. War

[edit] Social issues

  1. Abortion
  2. Capital punishment
  3. Human rights
  4. Racism
  5. Slavery

[edit] Culture

At least three sentences on:

  1. Culture
  2. Art
    1. Comics
    2. Painting
    3. Photography
    4. Sculpture
      1. Pottery
  3. Dance
  4. Fashion
  5. Theatre
  6. Festival de Cannes

[edit] Language and literature

  1. Language
  2. Alphabet
    1. Chinese character
    2. Cyrillic alphabet
    3. Greek alphabet
    4. Latin alphabet
    5. Letter
  3. Grammar
    1. Noun
    2. Verb
  4. Linguistics
  5. Literacy
  6. Literature
    1. Prose
    2. Fiction
    3. Novel
      1. The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
    4. Poetry
      1. Epic of Gilgamesh
      2. Iliad
      3. Mahabharata
      4. Ramayana
  7. Pronunciation
  8. Specific languages
    1. Arabic
    2. Bengali
    3. Chinese
    4. English
    5. Esperanto
    6. French
    7. German
    8. Greek
    9. Hebrew
    10. Hindi
    11. Italian
    12. Japanese
    13. Latin
    14. Persian
    15. Russian
    16. Sanskrit
    17. Spanish
    18. Tamil
    19. Turkish
  9. Word
  10. Writing

[edit] Architecture and civil engineering

  1. Architecture
  2. Arch
  3. Bridge
  4. Canal
  5. Dam
  6. Dome
  7. House
  8. Specific structures
    1. Aswan Dam
    2. Burj Dubai
    3. Colosseum
    4. Great Wall of China
    5. Eiffel Tower
    6. Empire State Building
    7. Hagia Sophia
    8. Parthenon
    9. Pyramids of Giza
    10. St. Peter's Basilica
    11. Statue of Liberty
    12. Taj Mahal
  9. Pyramid
  10. Tower

[edit] Film, radio and television

  1. Film
    1. Animation
  2. Radio
  3. Television

[edit] Music

  1. Music
  2. Song
  3. Specific music genres
    1. Blues
    2. Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
    3. Electronic music
    4. Folk music
    5. Jazz
    6. Reggae
    7. Rhythm and blues
    8. Rock music
    9. New Age music
  4. Specific musical instruments
    1. Drum
    2. Flute
    3. Guitar
    4. Piano
    5. Trumpet
    6. Violin

[edit] Recreation

  1. Game