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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. This list provides links to corresponding Wikidata objects, containing links to articles in various Wikipedias which can be used as a translatable resource.

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There is a related list of articles tailored to the English Wikipedia called Vital articles.

This list is limited to 1000 articles, but larger list of 10,000 articles is available below.

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Recent changes
Date Adding Removing
2025-07-24 Respiration Breathing
2025-07-24 Latin script Latin alphabet
2025-07-24 Arabic script Arabic alphabet
2025-07-07 Spice Rye
2025-04-21 South China Sea Lake Tanganyika
2025-02-15 Protestantism Trimurti
2025-02-11 Library Mass media
Section Current Number Target Number
Biography 204 TBD
Philosophy 13 TBD
Religion 22 TBD
Social sciences 77 TBD
Language and literature 46 TBD
Arts and recreation 75 TBD
Measurements 12 TBD
Science 258 TBD
* Astronomy 22 TBD
* Biology 84 TBD
* Health and medicine 38 TBD
* Chemistry 26 TBD
* Earth science 21 TBD
* Physics 39 TBD
* Mathematics 26 TBD
Food and agriculture 34 TBD
Technology 67 TBD
History 46 TBD
Geography 146 TBD
Total 1000 1000

Count checked: 16:20, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

How to use this list

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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 here are linked to corresponding items in the Wikidata project. If your Wikipedia is missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles from a different language that you are familiar with (for example, English). Language links to Wikipedias in which the topic is covered are provided at the bottom of each Wikidata item page.

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.

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.

It's possible to list the top 1000 most translated (linked) pages in some languages, at Wikidata Terminator; or even compare any two wikis, with Not in the other language.

Since this list is 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 will be necessary to justify deleting something else.

Six 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), Version 1.3 (24 June 2012), Version 1.4 (1 June 2014), and Version 1.5 (6 February 2022).

Biography

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Philosophers and social scientists

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  1. Aristotle
  2. Beauvoir, Simone de
  3. Chanakya
  4. Confucius
  5. Descartes, René
  6. Freud, Sigmund
  7. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  8. Heidegger, Martin
  9. Ibn Khaldun
  10. Kant, Immanuel
  11. Keynes, John Maynard
  12. Laozi
  13. Locke, John
  14. Machiavelli, Niccolò
  15. Marx, Karl
  16. Nietzsche, Friedrich
  17. Plato
  18. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  19. Sartre, Jean-Paul
  20. Sima Qian
  21. Smith, Adam
  22. Socrates
  23. Voltaire
  24. Weber, Max
  25. Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  26. Zhu Xi

Religious figures and theologians

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  1. Abraham
  2. Aquinas, Thomas
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Buddha
  5. Al-Ghazali
  6. Jesus
  7. Luther, Martin
  8. Moses
  9. Muhammad
  10. Nagarjuna

Political leaders

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  1. Akbar
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Ashoka
  4. Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
  5. Augustus
  6. von Bismarck, Otto
  7. Bolívar, Simón
  8. Caesar, Julius
  9. Charlemagne
  10. Churchill, Winston
  11. Constantine the Great
  12. Cyrus the Great
  13. de Gaulle, Charles
  14. Elizabeth I
  15. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
  16. Genghis Khan
  17. Guevara, Che
  18. Hitler, Adolf
  19. Joan of Arc
  20. King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  21. Lenin, Vladimir
  22. Lincoln, Abraham
  23. Louis XIV
  24. Luxemburg, Rosa
  25. Napoleon
  26. Mandela, Nelson
  27. Mao Zedong
  28. Nehru, Jawaharlal
  29. Nkrumah, Kwame
  30. Peter the Great
  31. Qin Shi Huang
  32. Roosevelt, Franklin D.
  33. Saladin
  34. Stalin, Joseph
  35. Suleiman the Magnificent
  36. Sun Yat-sen
  37. Tamerlane
  38. Umar
  39. Washington, George

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

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  1. Archimedes
  2. Avicenna
  3. Berners-Lee, Tim
  4. Brahmagupta
  5. Copernicus, Nicolaus
  6. Curie, Marie
  7. Darwin, Charles
  8. Edison, Thomas
  9. Einstein, Albert
  10. Euclid
  11. Euler, Leonhard
  12. Faraday, Michael
  13. Fermi, Enrico
  14. Ford, Henry
  15. Galen
  16. Galileo Galilei
  17. Gauss, Carl Friedrich
  18. Gutenberg, Johannes
  19. Hilbert, David
  20. Joule, James Prescott
  21. Kepler, Johannes
  22. al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa
  23. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
  24. Linnaeus, Carl
  25. Maxwell, James Clerk
  26. Mendeleev, Dmitri
  27. Newton, Sir Isaac
  28. Pasteur, Louis
  29. Planck, Max
  30. Rutherford, Ernest
  31. Schrödinger, Erwin
  32. Tesla, Nikola
  33. Turing, Alan
  34. Watt, James

Artists and architects

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

Composers and musicians

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  1. Armstrong, Louis
  2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
  3. Beatles, The
  4. Beethoven, Ludwig van
  5. Brahms, Johannes
  6. Chopin, Frédéric
  7. Dvořák, Antonín
  8. Handel, George Frideric
  9. Haydn, Joseph
  10. Jackson, Michael
  11. Kulthum, Umm
  12. Mahler, Gustav
  13. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  14. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
  15. Puccini, Giacomo
  16. Schubert, Franz
  17. Stravinsky, Igor
  18. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
  19. Verdi, Giuseppe
  20. Vivaldi, Antonio
  21. Wagner, Richard

Film directors, screenwriters and actors

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  1. Bergman, Ingmar
  2. Bernhardt, Sarah
  3. Chaplin, Charlie
  4. Dietrich, Marlene
  5. Disney, Walt
  6. Eisenstein, Sergei
  7. Fellini, Federico
  8. Hitchcock, Alfred
  9. Kubrick, Stanley
  10. Kurosawa, Akira
  11. Monroe, Marilyn
  12. Ray, Satyajit

Authors, playwrights and poets

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  1. Abu Nuwas
  2. Andersen, Hans Christian
  3. Austen, Jane
  4. Bashō
  5. Borges, Jorge Luis
  6. Byron, George
  7. Cervantes, Miguel de
  8. Chaucer, Geoffrey
  9. Chekhov, Anton
  10. Dante Alighieri
  11. Dickens, Charles
  12. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  13. García Márquez, Gabriel
  14. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
  15. Hafez
  16. Homer
  17. Hugo, Victor
  18. Joyce, James
  19. Kafka, Franz
  20. Kālidāsa
  21. Li Bai
  22. Naguib Mahfouz
  23. Molière
  24. Ovid
  25. Proust, Marcel
  26. Pushkin, Alexander
  27. Shakespeare, William
  28. Sophocles
  29. Tagore, Rabindranath
  30. Tolstoy, Leo
  31. Twain, Mark
  32. Virgil

Explorers and travellers

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

Philosophy

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  1. Atheism
  2. Beauty
  3. Confucianism
  4. Dialectic
  5. Ethics
  6. Epistemology
  7. Free will
  8. Knowledge
  9. Logic
  10. Materialism
  11. Philosophy
  12. Reality
  13. Truth

Religion

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  1. Fundamentalism
  2. God
    1. Monotheism
    2. Polytheism
  3. Mythology
  4. Reincarnation
  5. Religion
  6. Soul
  7. Specific religions
    1. Buddhism
    2. Christianity
      1. Catholic Church
      2. Protestantism
    3. Hinduism
    4. Islam
      1. Shia Islam
      2. Sunni Islam
    5. Jainism
    6. Judaism
    7. Shinto
    8. Sikhism
    9. Taoism
    10. Zoroastrianism

Social sciences

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  1. Society
  2. Civilization
  3. Education

Psychology

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  1. Behavior
  2. Emotion
  3. Love
  4. Mind
  5. Psychology
  6. Thought

Family and relationships

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

Politics

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  1. Politics
  2. Colonialism
  3. Diplomacy
  4. Government
    1. Democracy
    2. Dictatorship
    3. Monarchy
    4. Republic
  5. Ideology
    1. Anarchism
    2. Capitalism
    3. Communism
    4. Conservatism
    5. Fascism
    6. Liberalism
    7. Marxism
    8. Nationalism
    9. Socialism
  6. Imperialism
  7. State (polity)
  8. Political party
  9. Propaganda

Business and economics

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  1. Economics
  2. Capital
  3. Currency
    1. Euro
    2. United States dollar
  4. Industrial sector
  5. Money
  6. Tax
  7. Trade

Law

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  1. Law
  2. Constitution

International organizations

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  1. African Union
  2. Arab League
  3. ASEAN
  4. Commonwealth of Nations
  5. European Union
  6. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  7. NATO
  8. Nobel Prize
  9. OPEC
  10. United Nations
    1. International Court of Justice
    2. International Monetary Fund
    3. UNESCO
    4. World Health Organization
  11. World Bank
  12. World Trade Organization

War and military

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

Social issues

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  1. Abortion
  2. Capital punishment
  3. Discrimination
    1. Racism
  4. Feminism
  5. Globalization
  6. Human rights
  7. Poverty
  8. Slavery

Language and literature

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  1. Language
  2. Specific languages
    1. Arabic
    2. Bengali
    3. Chinese
    4. English
    5. French
    6. German
    7. Greek
    8. Hebrew
    9. Hindi-Urdu
    10. Korean
    11. Japanese
    12. Latin
    13. Persian
    14. Portuguese
    15. Russian
    16. Sanskrit
    17. Spanish
    18. Swahili
    19. Turkish
  3. Linguistics
  4. Grammar
  5. Word
    1. Phoneme
    2. Syllable
  6. Writing system
    1. Arabic script
    2. Chinese characters
    3. Cyrillic script
    4. Greek alphabet
    5. Latin script
  7. Literacy
  8. Translation
  9. Literature
    1. Prose
      1. The Art of War
    2. Fiction
      1. One Thousand and One Nights
    3. Novel
      1. Dream of the Red Chamber
      2. The Tale of Genji
    4. Poetry
      1. Epic of Gilgamesh
      2. Iliad
      3. Mahābhārata
      4. Shāhnāma

Measurements

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  1. Measurement
  2. International System of Units

Weight, volume and distance

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  1. Kilogram
  2. Litre
  3. Metre

Time

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  1. Calendar
    1. Gregorian calendar
  2. Clock
  3. Second
  4. Day
  5. Year
  6. Time zone

Science

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  1. Science
  2. Nature

Astronomy

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  1. Astronomy
  2. Asteroid
  3. Big Bang
  4. Black hole
  5. Comet
  6. Galaxy
    1. Milky Way
  7. Moon
  8. Planet
    1. Mercury
    2. Venus
    3. Earth
    4. Mars
    5. Jupiter
    6. Saturn
    7. Uranus
    8. Neptune
  9. Solar System
  10. Spaceflight
  11. Star
    1. Sun
  12. Universe

Biology

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  1. Biology
  2. Biological materials
    1. DNA
    2. Enzyme
    3. Hormone
    4. Protein
  3. Botany
  4. Death
    1. Suicide
  5. Ecology
    1. Endangered species
  6. Life
  7. Biological classification
    1. Species

Biological processes

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  1. Metabolism
    1. Digestion
    2. Photosynthesis
    3. Respiration
  2. Evolution
  3. Reproduction
    1. Pregnancy
    2. Sex

Organisms

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  1. Organism
  2. Animal
    1. Nematode
    2. Mollusca
    3. Arthropod
      1. Insect
        1. Ant
        2. Bee
        3. Mosquito
      2. Spider
    4. Chordate
      1. Amphibian
      2. Bird
        1. Chicken
        2. Pigeons and doves
      3. Fish
        1. Shark
      4. Mammal
        1. Camel
        2. Cat
        3. Cattle
        4. Cetacea
        5. Dog
        6. Horse
        7. Sheep
        8. Rodent
        9. Domestic pig
        10. Primate
          1. Human
      5. Reptile
        1. Dinosaur
        2. Snake
  3. Algae
  4. Archaea
  5. Bacteria
  6. Fungus
  7. Plant
    1. Flower
    2. Fruit
    3. Tree
  8. Protist

Anatomy

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  1. Anatomy
  2. Cell
  3. Circulatory system
    1. Blood
    2. Heart
  4. Endocrine system
  5. Human gastrointestinal tract
    1. Large intestine
    2. Small intestine
    3. Liver
  6. Muscle
  7. Nervous system
    1. Brain
    2. Nerve
    3. Sensory system
      1. Ear
      2. Nose
      3. Eye
      4. Taste
  8. Reproductive system
  9. Respiratory system
  10. Skeleton
  11. Skin

Health and medicine

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  1. Medicine
  2. Dentistry
  3. Disease
  4. Medication
    1. Antibiotic
  5. Health
  6. Immune system
  7. Menstruation
  8. Pandemic
  9. Vaccine
  10. Virus

Specific Diseases/Conditions

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  1. Addiction
    1. Ethanol
    2. Tobacco
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. Cancer
  4. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  5. Common cold
  6. Disability
    1. Blindness
    2. Deafness
  7. Mental disorder
  8. Epilepsy
  9. Gastroenteritis
  10. Headache
  11. Heart attack
  12. Influenza
  13. Malaria
  14. Malnutrition
  15. Obesity
  16. Pneumonia
  17. Poliomyelitis
  18. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
  19. Smallpox
  20. Stroke
  21. Tuberculosis
  22. Diabetes mellitus

Chemistry

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  1. Chemistry
  2. Inorganic chemistry
  3. Biochemistry
  4. Chemical compound
    1. Acid
    2. Base (chemistry)
    3. Salt
  5. Chemical element
    1. Periodic table
    2. Aluminium
    3. Carbon
    4. Copper
    5. Gold
    6. Hydrogen
    7. Iron
    8. Nitrogen
    9. Oxygen
    10. Silver
    11. Tin
  6. Organic chemistry
    1. Alcohol
    2. Carbohydrate
    3. Lipid
  7. Molecule
  8. Analytical chemistry
  9. Physical chemistry

Earth science

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  1. Climate
  2. Earth water cycle
  3. El Niño–Southern Oscillation
  4. Global warming
  5. Earthquake
  6. Geology
    1. Mineral
      1. Diamond
    2. Plate tectonics
    3. Rock
  7. Natural disaster
    1. Flood
    2. Tsunami
  8. Volcano
  9. Weather
    1. Cloud
    2. Rain
    3. Snow
    4. Tornado
    5. Tropical cyclone
    6. Wind

Physics

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  1. Physics
  2. Acceleration
  3. Atom
  4. Energy
    1. Conservation of energy
  5. Electromagnetic radiation
    1. Infrared
    2. Ultraviolet
    3. Light
      1. Color
  6. Classical mechanics
  7. Force
    1. Electromagnetic force
      1. Magnetic field
    2. Gravitation
    3. Strong interaction
    4. Weak interaction
  8. Magnet
  9. Mass
  10. Metal
    1. Steel
  11. Nuclear fission
  12. State of matter
    1. Gas
    2. Liquid
    3. Plasma
    4. Solid
  13. Quantum mechanics
  14. Radioactive decay
  15. General relativity
  16. Special relativity
  17. Semiconductor
  18. Sound
  19. Velocity
    1. Speed of light
  20. Temperature
  21. Time
  22. Thermodynamics
  23. Vacuum

Mathematics

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  1. Mathematics
  2. Arithmetic
    1. Logarithm
    2. Number
    3. Number theory
  3. Algebra
    1. Complex number
    2. Equation
    3. Linear algebra
  4. Geometry
    1. Angle
    2. Area
    3. Coordinate system
    4. Pi
    5. Pythagorean theorem
    6. Symmetry
    7. Trigonometry
  5. Mathematical analysis
    1. Differential equation
    2. Numerical analysis
  6. Probability and statistics
    1. Probability
    2. Statistics
  7. Logic and foundations
    1. Function (mathematics)
    2. Infinity
    3. Mathematical proof
    4. Set theory

Food and agriculture

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Agriculture

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  1. Agriculture
    1. Irrigation
    2. Plough
    3. Domestication

Food

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  1. Food
  2. Bread
  3. Cereal
    1. Barley
    2. Maize
    3. Rice
    4. Sorghum bicolor
    5. Wheat
  4. Cheese
  5. Chocolate
  6. Honey
  7. Apple
  8. Banana
  9. Citrus
  10. Grape
  11. Nut (fruit)
  12. Soybean
  13. Meat
  14. Sugar
  15. Spice
  16. Table salt
  17. Vegetable
    1. Potato

Beverages

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  1. Beer
  2. Coffee
  3. Juice
  4. Milk
  5. Tea
  6. Water
  7. Wine

Technology

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  1. Technology
  2. Biotechnology
  3. Clothing
    1. Cotton
  4. Engineering
    1. Machine
    2. Robot
    3. Screw
    4. Wheel
  5. Metallurgy
  6. Nanotechnology

Communication

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  1. Communication
  2. Information
    1. Encyclopedia
  3. Journalism
    1. Newspaper
  4. Library
    1. Book
  5. Printing
  6. Telephone

Electronics

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  1. Electronics
    1. Electric current
    2. Frequency
  2. Components
    1. Capacitor
    2. Inductor
    3. Transistor
    4. Diode
    5. Resistor
    6. Transformer

Computers and Internet

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  1. Computer
    1. Hard disk drive
    2. Central processing unit
  2. Artificial intelligence
  3. Information technology
    1. Algorithm
  4. Internet
    1. Email
    2. World Wide Web
  5. Operating system
  6. Programming language
  7. Software

Energy and fuels

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  1. Renewable energy
  2. Electricity
    1. Nuclear power
  3. Fossil fuel
  4. Engine
    1. Internal combustion engine
    2. Steam engine
  5. Fire

Materials

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  1. Glass
  2. Paper
  3. Plastic
  4. Wood

Transportation

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  1. Transport
  2. Aircraft
  3. Bicycle
  4. Car
  5. Submarine
  6. Ship
  7. Train

Weapons

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  1. Weapon
    1. Sword
    2. Firearm
      1. Machine gun
    3. Nuclear weapon
  2. Tank
  3. Explosive material
    1. Gunpowder

Arts and recreation

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

Architecture and civil engineering

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

Film, radio and television

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

Music

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  1. Music
  2. Song
  3. Specific music genres
    1. Blues
    2. Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
    3. Electronic music
    4. Flamenco
    5. Hip hop
    6. Jazz
    7. Reggae
    8. Rock music
    9. Samba
  4. Specific musical instruments
    1. Drum
    2. Flute
    3. Guitar
    4. Piano
    5. Trumpet
    6. Violin

Recreation

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  1. Game
    1. Backgammon
    2. Chess
    3. Go (game)
    4. Video game
  2. Gambling
  3. Martial arts
    1. Judo
  4. Olympic Games
  5. Sport
    1. Athletics
    2. Ball games
      1. Baseball
      2. Basketball
      3. Cricket
      4. Association football
      5. Golf
      6. Rugby
      7. Tennis
    3. Swimming
  6. Toy

History

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  1. History

Prehistoric and ancient history

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  1. Ancient Egypt
  2. Ancient Greece
  3. Bronze Age
  4. Gupta Empire
  5. Han Dynasty
  6. Iron Age
  7. Mayan Civilization
  8. Mesopotamia
  9. Prehistory
  10. Roman Empire
  11. Sumer
  12. Stone Age
  13. Tang Dynasty

Medieval and Renaissance periods

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  1. Abbasid Caliphate
  2. Aztec
  3. Byzantine Empire
  4. Crusades
  5. Holy Roman Empire
  6. Inca
  7. Mali Empire
  8. Middle Ages
  9. Ming Dynasty
  10. Mongol Empire
  11. Ottoman Empire
  12. Renaissance
  13. Vikings

Early modern and modern periods

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  1. Age of Enlightenment
  2. American Civil War
  3. Arab-Israeli conflict
  4. Apartheid
  5. British Empire
  6. Cold War
  7. French Revolution
  8. Great Depression
  9. The Holocaust
  10. Industrial Revolution
  11. Nazi Germany
  12. Meiji Restoration
  13. Reformation
  14. Russian Revolution
  15. Qing Dynasty
  16. Soviet Union
  17. Vietnam War
  18. World War I
  19. World War II

Geography

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  1. Geography
  2. City
  3. Continent
  4. Forest
  5. Mountain
  6. Desert
  7. North Pole
  8. Ocean
  9. River
  10. Sea
  11. South Pole

Continents and major regions

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

Countries

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Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the countries listed at List of countries. However, for the smaller Wikipedias, some of the more high-priority countries to have articles on are:

Africa

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  1. Algeria
  2. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  3. Egypt
  4. Ethiopia
  5. Nigeria
  6. South Africa
  7. Sudan
  8. Tanzania

Asia

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  1. Afghanistan
  2. Bangladesh
  3. China
  4. India
  5. Indonesia
  6. Iran
  7. Iraq
  8. Israel
  9. Japan
  10. Pakistan
  11. Philippines
  12. Saudi Arabia
  13. South Korea
  14. Thailand
  15. Turkey
  16. Vietnam

Europe

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  1. Austria
  2. France
  3. Germany
  4. Italy
  5. Netherlands
  6. Poland
  7. Portugal
  8. Russia
  9. Spain
  10. Switzerland
  11. Ukraine
  12. United Kingdom
  13. Vatican City

North America

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  1. Canada
  2. Cuba
  3. Mexico
  4. United States

South America

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  1. Argentina
  2. Brazil
  3. Colombia

Oceania

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  1. Australia

Cities

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Africa

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  1. Cairo
  2. Cape Town
  3. Kinshasa
  4. Lagos
  5. Nairobi

Asia

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  1. Baghdad
  2. Bangkok
  3. Beijing
  4. Damascus
  5. Delhi
  6. Dhaka
  7. Dubai
  8. Hong Kong
  9. Jakarta
  10. Jerusalem
  11. Karachi
  12. Kolkata
  13. Mecca
  14. Mumbai
  15. Seoul
  16. Shanghai
  17. Singapore
  18. Tehran
  19. Tokyo

Europe

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  1. Amsterdam
  2. Athens
  3. Berlin
  4. Brussels
  5. Istanbul
  6. London
  7. Madrid
  8. Moscow
  9. Paris
  10. Rome
  11. Saint Petersburg
  12. Vienna

North America

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  1. Los Angeles
  2. Mexico City
  3. New York City
  4. Washington, D.C.

South America

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  1. Bogotá
  2. Buenos Aires
  3. Rio de Janeiro
  4. São Paulo

Oceania

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  1. Sydney

Bodies of water

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

Mountains and deserts

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


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