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.
Section | Version 1.1 | Current Number | Target Number |
---|---|---|---|
Biography | 216 | 216 | TBD |
History | 40 | 40 | TBD |
Geography | 148 | 148 | TBD |
Society | 77 | 77 | TBD |
Culture | 150 | 150 | TBD |
Science | 245 | 245 | TBD |
Technology | 71 | 71 | TBD |
Foodstuffs | 31 | 31 | TBD |
Mathematics | 22 | 22 | TBD |
Total | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 |
Count checked: 18:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
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.
Philosophy, Psychology
Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Avicenna
- Confucius
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Bruno, Giordano
- Chomsky, Noam
- Descartes, René
- Durkheim, Émile
- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Kant, Immanuel
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Locke, John
- Luther, Martin
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paul of Tarsus
- Plato
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Sun Tzu
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Religion, Theology
World view and religion
- God
- Mythology
- Worldview philosophies
- Soul
- Religion
- Specific religions
- Spirituality
Religious figures
Social sciences
Family and relationships
Thought, behavior and emotion
Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Nazism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State
- Political party
- Propaganda
- Terrorism
Business and economics
Law
International organizations
- African Union
- Arab League
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Commonwealth of Nations
- European Union
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- NATO
- Nobel Prize
- OPEC
- United Nations
- World Bank Group
- World Trade Organization
War and military
Social issues
Natural sciences
Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar system
- Star
- Universe
Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
Biological processes
Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Medication
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Health
- Headache
- Heart attack
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Penicillin
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes
- Virus
Organisms
Chemistry
Weather, climate and geology
Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Light
- Magnet
- Mass
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactivity
- Sound
- Speed
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Time
- Length
- Phase (matter)
- Metal
Measurement and units
Timekeeping
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Group theory
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahe, Tycho
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclides
- Euler, Leonhard
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Fibonacci
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kepler, Johannes
- Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Linnaeus, Carl
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Pythagoras
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer software
Energy and fuels
Raw materials
Transportation
Weapons
The arts
At least three sentences on:
Architecture and civil engineering
Film, radio and television
Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
Music
Composers and musicians
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Berlioz, Hector
- Bruckner, Anton
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Hendrix, Jimi
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Presley, Elvis
- Rolling Stones, The
- Schubert, Franz
- Smetana, Bedřich
- Schumann, Robert
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
Recreation
Actors, dancers and models
Artists and architects
- Corbusier, Le
- Dalí, Salvador
- Donatello
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Kahlo, Frida
- Matisse, Henri
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Pei, I. M.
- Picasso, Pablo
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Language, Linguistics, Literature
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Alphabet
- Literacy
- Writing
- Literature
Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Bashō
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Byron, George
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- Homer
- Horace
- Hugo, Victor
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Khayyam, Omar
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Saramago, José
- Sappho
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
Geography, Biography, History
History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world
Middle Ages and Early Modern
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aztec
- Byzantine Empire
- Crusades
- Holy Roman Empire
- Hundred Years' War
- Middle Ages
- Mongol Empire
- Ming Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Protestant Reformation
- Renaissance
- Thirty Years' War
- Vikings
Modern
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Korean War
- Nazi Germany
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Qing Dynasty
- Spanish Civil War
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
Geography
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
Continents and major regions
At least three sentences on each.
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:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- People's Republic of China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Russia
- Portugal
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican City
- Vietnam
- Venezuela
Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Berlin
- Bogotá
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Delhi
- Dhaka
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kinshasa
- Kolkata
- Lagos
- Los Angeles
- London
- Madrid
- Mecca
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Saint Petersburg
- São Paulo
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
Bodies of water
- Amazon River
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Congo River
- Danube
- Dead Sea
- 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
Mountains, valleys and deserts
Explorers
- Amundsen, Roald
- Armstrong, Neil
- Cartier, Jacques
- Columbus, Christopher
- Cook, James
- Cortés Hernán
- Gagarin, Yuri
- Gama, Vasco da
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Polo, Marco
- Zheng He
- von Humboldt, Alexander
Politicians, leaders and aristocrats
- Akbar the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Atatürk, Kemal
- Augustus
- Ben-Gurion, David
- von Bismarck, Otto
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Julius Caesar
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Cixi, Empress Dowager
- Cleopatra
- Constantine the Great
- De Gaulle, Charles
- Elizabeth I of England
- Genghis Khan
- Haile Selassie
- Hirohito
- Hitler, Adolf
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Louis XIV
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Mussolini, Benito
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter I of Russia
- Qin Shi Huang
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Tamerlane
- Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Washington, George