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Three versions from the history of this page can be found at [[List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Version 1.0|Version 1.0]] (14 August 2006), [[/Version 1.1|Version 1.1]] (15 November 2008) and [[/Version 1.2|Version 1.2]] (7 February 2010). |
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- Important note: 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.
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.
Three versions from the history of this page can be found at Version 1.0 (14 August 2006), Version 1.1 (15 November 2008) and Version 1.2 (7 February 2010).
Section | Version 1.2 | Current Number | Target Number |
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Biography | 216 | 216 | TBD |
History | 41 | 41 | TBD |
Geography | 147 | 147 | 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.
Biography
Actors, dancers and models
Artists and architects
- Corbusier, Le
- Dalí, Salvador
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Hokusai, Katsushika
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Sinan
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Bashō
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Byron, George
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- Hafez
- Homer
- Hugo, Victor
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
Composers and musicians
- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Piaf, Édith
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Presley, Elvis
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Umm Kulthum
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vysotsky, Vladimir
- Wagner, Richard
Explorers and Travelers
- Amundsen, Roald
- Armstrong, Neil
- Cartier, Jacques
- Columbus, Christopher
- Cook, James
- Cortés, Hernán
- Gagarin, Yuri
- da Gama, Vasco
- Ibn Battuta
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Polo, Marco
- Zheng He
Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Avicenna
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Euler, Leonhard
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Fibonacci
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galen
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kepler, Johannes
- al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Linnaeus, Carl
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
Philosophers and social scientists
- Aristotle
- Confucius
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Chomsky, Noam
- Descartes, René
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Ibn Khaldun
- Kant, Immanuel
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Laozi
- Locke, John
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Plato
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Sima Qian
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Zhu Xi
Political leaders
- Akbar the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka the Great
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Augustus
- Ben-Gurion, David
- von Bismarck, Otto
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Constantine the Great
- Cyrus the Great
- de Gaulle, Charles
- Elizabeth I of England
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Genghis Khan
- Guevara, Che
- Hitler, Adolf
- Joan of Arc
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Louis XIV
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter I of Russia
- Qin Shi Huang
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Sun Yat-sen
- Tamerlane
- Umar
- Washington, George
Religious figures and theologians
- Abraham
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Luther, Martin
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Saint Paul
Philosophy and psychology
Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Philosophy
- Reality
- Truth
Psychology
Religion
World view and religion
Social sciences
Family and relationships
Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- Sovereign state
- Political party
- Propaganda
- Terrorism
Business and economics
Law
International organizations
- African Union
- Arab League
- ASEAN
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Commonwealth of Nations
- European Union
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- NATO
- Nobel Prize
- OPEC
- United Nations
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization
War and military
Social issues
Language and literature
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Alphabet
- Literacy
- Writing
- Literature
Science
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
- Human 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
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Health
- Headache
- Heart attack
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Antibiotic
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Virus
Organisms
Chemistry
Weather, climate and geology
Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Length
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- State of matter
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Velocity
- Time
- Thermodynamics
Measurement and units
Timekeeping
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer software
Energy and fuels
Materials
Transportation
Weapons
Arts and recreation
Architecture and civil engineering
Film, radio and television
Music
Recreation
History and geography
History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Gupta Empire
Middle Ages and Early Modern
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aztec
- Byzantine Empire
- Crusades
- Holy Roman Empire
- Hundred Years' War
- Middle Ages
- Mongol Empire
- Ming Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Protestant Reformation
- Thirty Years' War
- Renaissance
- Tang Dynasty
- Vikings
Modern
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- Cultural Revolution
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi Germany
- Meiji Restoration
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Qing Dynasty
- 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
Countries
Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the 243 countries listed at 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
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- 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