User:Isra1337/vital/version 1.0
There are a lot of Wikipedias. Some of them are very big, and some are very small. They all need certain basic articles. They can even just be stubs.
This is a list of 1,000 basic articles every Wikipedia needs. This page should include the same article as m:List of articles all languages should have. When change is needed, please change at Meta first. This page currently marked as Version 1.0 which refers to the revision done on August 14th, 2006 at 21:36. List of other versions:
Biography
Actors, dancers and models
Artists and architects
- Corbusier, Le
- Dalí, Salvador
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Pollock, Jackson
- Rembrandt
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Arnaut, Daniel
- Bashō
- Camões, Luís de
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Darío, Rubén
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Ferdowsi
- Fuzûlî
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Homer
- Horace
- Hugo, Victor
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Khayyam, Omar
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Ovid
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Premchand, Munshi
- Proust, Marcel
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Rustaveli, Shota
- Sappho
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Sturluson, Snorri
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wu Cheng'en
Composers and musicians
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák Antonín
- Jackson, Michael
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Pink Floyd
- Presley, Elvis
- Sibelius, Jean
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
Explorers
- Amundsen, Roald
- Armstrong, Neil
- Cartier, Jacques
- Columbus, Christopher
- Cook, James
- Cortés Hernán
- Gama, Vasco da
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Polo, Marco
- Zheng He
Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahe, Tycho
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johann
- Kepler, Johannes
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Linnaeus, Carolus
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Stallman, Richard
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
- Wright brothers
Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chomsky, Noam
- Descartes, René
- Durkheim, Émile
- Foucault, Michel
- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Kant, Immanuel
- Locke, John
- Luther, Martin
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paul of Tarsus
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Sun Tzu
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Politicans, leaders and aristocrats
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Atatürk, Kemal
- Augustus
- Bismarck, Otto von
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bush, George W.
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Cixi, Empress Dowager
- Cleopatra
- De Gaulle, Charles
- Gandhi, Indira
- Constantine the Great
- Elizabeth I of England
- Genghis Khan
- Haile Selassie
- Hirohito
- Hitler, Adolf
- Lenin, V. I.
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Merkel, Angela
- Mussolini, Benito
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter I of Russia
- Qin Shi Huang
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Thatcher, Margaret
- Truman, Harry S.
- Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Washington, George
Revolutionaries and activists
- Bin Laden, Osama
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Goldman, Emma
- Joan of Arc
- Keller, Helen
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Nightingale, Florence
- Parks, Rosa
- Teresa, Mother
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
- Ming Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Protestant Reformation
- Renaissance
- Thirty Years War
- Vikings
Modern
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- Gulf War
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Korean War
- Nazi Germany
- 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.
- Geography
- Capital
- City
- Continent
- Country
- Desert
- Earth science
- Map
- North Pole
- Ocean
- Rainforest
- River
- Sea
- South Pole
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
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Beirut
- Berlin
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Dublin
- Florence
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kyoto
- London
- Mecca
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- New Delhi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Venice
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
Bodies of water
- Amazon River
- Aral Sea
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Congo River
- Danube
- Dead Sea
- Euphrates
- Ganges River
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Lakes
- Indian Ocean
- Indus River
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Tanganyika
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake Victoria
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mississippi River
- Niagara Falls
- Niger River
- Nile
- North Sea
- Pacific Ocean
- Panama Canal
- Rhine
- Suez Canal
- Southern Ocean
- Tigris
- Volga River
- Yangtze River
Mountains, valleys and deserts
Society
Family and relationships
Thought, behavior and emotion
Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Communism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State
- Political party
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
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- United Nations
- World Bank Group
- World Trade Organization
War and military
Social issues
Culture
At least three sentences on:
Language and literature
- Language
- Alphabet
- Grammar
- Linguistics
- Literacy
- Literature
- Pronunciation
- Specific languages
- Word
- Writing
Architecture and civil engineering
- Architecture
- Arch
- Bridge
- Canal
- Dam
- Dome
- House
- Nail (engineering)
- Specific structures
- Pyramid
- Tower
Film, radio and television
Music
- Music
- Compact disc
- Song
- Specific music genres
- Specific musical instruments
Recreation
Religion
- Religion
- Astrology
- Deity
- Festival
- Mythology
- Religious philosophies
- Soul
- Specific religions
- Spirituality
Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
Science
At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.
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
- Scientific classification
Biological processes
Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Drugs
- Health
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Penicillin
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Virus
Organisms
Chemistry
Weather, climate and geology
Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Force
- Light
- Mass
- Molecule
- Quantum mechanics
- Sound
- Speed
- Theory of relativity
- Time
- Velocity
- Weight
Timekeeping
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
- User interface
Raw materials and energy
- Electricity
- Fossil fuel
- Fire
- Internal combustion engine
- Renewable energy
- Glass
- Paper
- Plastic
- Steam engine
- Wood
Transportation
Weapons
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Group theory
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry