List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Version 1.1
Version 1.1 of List of articles every Wikipedia should have refers to the revision done on November 15, 2008 at 18:35. It has a total of 1000 articles.
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Section | Number |
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Biography | 216 |
History | 40 |
Geography | 148 |
Society | 76 |
Culture | 150 |
Science | 245 |
Technology | 72 |
Foodstuffs | 31 |
Mathematics | 22 |
Total | 1000 |
How to use this list
[edit]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.
Biography
[edit]This section is for people. Have at least one paragraph on listed key historical figures.
Actors, dancers and models
[edit]Artists and architects
[edit]- 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
Authors, playwrights and poets
[edit]- 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
Composers and musicians
[edit]- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Berlioz, Hector
- Brahms, Johannes
- Bruckner, Anton
- 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
Explorers
[edit]- 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
Film directors and screenwriters
[edit]- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
[edit]- 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
Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)
[edit]- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Avicenna
- Confucius
- Bruno, Giordano
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- 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
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Sun Tzu
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Politicians, leaders and aristocrats
[edit]- 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
- Thatcher, Margaret
- Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Washington, George
Religious figures
[edit]Revolutionaries and activists
[edit]- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Goldman, Emma
- Joan of Arc
- Keller, Helen
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Mother Teresa
- Nightingale, Florence
- Guevara, Che
History
[edit]This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world
[edit]Middle Ages and Early Modern
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
Continents and major regions
[edit]At least three sentences on each.
Countries
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Society
[edit]Family and relationships
[edit]Thought, behavior and emotion
[edit]Politics
[edit]- 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
[edit]Law
[edit]International organizations
[edit]- 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
[edit]Social issues
[edit]Culture
[edit]At least three sentences on:
Language and literature
[edit]- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Alphabet
- Literacy
- Writing
- Literature
Architecture and civil engineering
[edit]Film, radio and television
[edit]Music
[edit]Recreation
[edit]World view and religion
[edit]- God
- Mythology
- Worldview philosophies
- Soul
- Religion
- Specific religions
- Spirituality
Philosophy
[edit]- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
Science
[edit]At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.
Astronomy
[edit]- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar system
- Star
- Universe
Biology
[edit]- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
Biological processes
[edit]Anatomy
[edit]- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
Health and medicine
[edit]- 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
[edit]Chemistry
[edit]Weather, climate and geology
[edit]Physics
[edit]- 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
[edit]Timekeeping
[edit]Technology
[edit]Communication
[edit]Electronics
[edit]- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
[edit]- Computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer software