Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
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There are hundreds 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 should contain. This page should include the same articles as meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Version 1.4.
Some of the articles are in bold. That means that it is very important that they be written.
For a very long list of basic articles (10,000), see: Vital articles - expanded.
Section | Number |
---|---|
Biography | 204 |
Philosophy and psychology | 18 |
World view and religion | 25 |
Social sciences | 70 |
Language and literature | 47 |
Culture, arts and recreation | 76 |
Science | 299 |
* Astronomy | 22 |
* Biology | 120 |
** Health and medicine | 37 |
* Chemistry | 27 |
* Earth science | 21 |
* Physics | 39 |
* Measurement and units | 6 |
* Timekeeping | 6 |
* Foodstuffs | 31 |
* Mathematics | 25 |
Technology | 70 |
History | 45 |
Geography | 146 |
Total | 1000 |
Count checked: 16:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Biography
Actors, dancers and models
Artists and architects
- Le Corbusier
- Salvador Dalí
- Albrecht Dürer
- Vincent van Gogh
- Francisco de Goya
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Frida Kahlo
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Henri Matisse
- Michelangelo
- Pablo Picasso
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Mimar Sinan
- Diego Velázquez
- Andy Warhol
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Bashō
- Jorge Luis Borges
- George Byron
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Anton Chekhov
- Dante Alighieri
- Charles Dickens
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hafez
- Homer
- Victor Hugo
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Kālidāsa
- Li Bai
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Molière
- Ovid
- Marcel Proust
- Alexander Pushkin
- William Shakespeare
- Sophocles
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Leo Tolstoy
- Mark Twain
- Virgil
Composers and musicians
- Louis Armstrong
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Beatles
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Frédéric Chopin
- Antonín Dvořák
- Georg Frideric Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- Gustav Mahler
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Édith Piaf
- Elvis Presley
- Giacomo Puccini
- Franz Schubert
- Igor Stravinsky
- Petr Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Richard Wagner
Explorers and travelers
- Roald Amundsen
- Neil Armstrong
- Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus
- James Cook
- Hernán Cortés
- Yuri Gagarin
- Vasco da Gama
- Ibn Battuta
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Marco Polo
- Zheng He
Film directors and screenwriters
- Ingmar Bergman
- Walt Disney
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Federico Fellini
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
- Satyajit Ray
- Steven Spielberg
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Avicenna
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Brahmagupta
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Marie Curie
- Charles Darwin
- Thomas Edison
- Albert Einstein
- Euclid
- Leonhard Euler
- Michael Faraday
- Enrico Fermi
- Henry Ford
- Galen
- Galileo Galilei
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Johannes Gutenberg
- David Hilbert
- James Prescott Joule
- Johannes Kepler
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Carl Linnaeus
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Louis Pasteur
- Max Planck
- Ernest Rutherford
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Nikola Tesla
- Alan Turing
- James Watt
Philosophers and social scientists
- Aristotle
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Chanakya
- Noam Chomsky
- Confucius
- René Descartes
- Sigmund Freud
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Ibn Khaldun
- Immanuel Kant
- John Maynard Keynes
- Laozi
- John Locke
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Plato
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Sima Qian
- Adam Smith
- Socrates
- Voltaire
- Max Weber
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Zhu Xi
Political leaders
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Augustus
- Otto von Bismarck
- Simón Bolívar
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Julius Caesar
- Charlemagne
- Winston Churchill
- Constantine the Great
- Cyrus the Great
- Charles de Gaulle
- Elizabeth I of England
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Genghis Khan
- Che Guevara
- Adolf Hitler
- Joan of Arc
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Vladimir Lenin
- Abraham Lincoln
- Louis XIV
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Nelson Mandela
- Mao Zedong
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Peter the Great
- Qin Shi Huang
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Saladin
- Joseph Stalin
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Sun Yat-sen
- Tamerlane
- Umar
- George Washington
Religious figures and theologians
- Abraham
- Thomas Aquinas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- Al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Martin Luther
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Paul the Apostle
Philosophy and psychology
Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Philosophy
- Probability
- 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
- State (polity)
- 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
- Writing system
- Literacy
- Translation
- Literature
Science
Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar System
- Spaceflight
- Star
- Universe
Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
Biological processes
Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Breast
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Human gastrointestinal tract
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
- Skin
Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Health
- Headache
- Immune system
- Heart attack
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Menstruation
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Antibacterial
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Virus
Organisms
Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Chemical compound
- Chemical element
- Organic chemistry
- Molecule
- Analytical chemistry
- Physical chemistry
Earth science
Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- State of matter
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Velocity
- Temperature
- Time
- Thermodynamics
- Vacuum
Measurement and units
Timekeeping
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Coordinate system
- Mathematical analysis
- Equation
- Function (mathematics)
- Geometry
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- 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
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- Cultural Revolution
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi Germany
- Meiji Restoration
- Russian Revolution
- 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 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
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Berlin
- Bogotá
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Delhi
- Dhaka
- Dubai
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kinshasa
- Kolkata
- Lagos
- London
- Los Angeles
- Madrid
- Mecca
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Saint Petersburg
- São Paulo
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- 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
- 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
- Yellow River