Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
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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 meta:List of articles all languages should have. When change is needed, please change at Meta first.
Biography
[edit source]At least three sentences on 100 key historical figures.
Actors, dancers and models
[edit source]- Bardot, Brigitte
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Brando, Marlon
- Chaplin, Charlie
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Marx Brothers
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Camargo, Hebe
Artists and architects
[edit source]- Dalí, Salvador
- Donatello
- Dürer, Albrecht
- El Greco
- Escher, Maurits Cornelis
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Pollock, Jackson
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Velázquez, Diego
- Vermeer, Johannes
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets
[edit source]- Abu Nuwas
- Arnaut, Daniel
- Bashō
- Beckett, Samuel
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Byron, George
- Camões, Luís de
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Darío, Rubén
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Ferdowsi
- Fuzûlî
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Homer
- Horace
- Hugo, Victor
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Khayyam, Omar
- Li Bai
- Lewis, CS
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Milton, John
- Molière
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Ovid
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Premchand, Munshi
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Rustaveli, Shota
- Saramago, Josè
- Sappho
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Sturluson, Snorri
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wu Cheng'en
- Yeats, William Butler
Composers and musicians
[edit source]- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Berlioz, Hector
- Bruckner, Anton
- Brahms, Johannes
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák Antonín
- Händel, Georg Frideric
- Hendrix, Jimi
- Jackson, Michael
- Madonna
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Presley, Elvis
- Rolling Stones, The
- Schubert, Franz
- Smetana, Bedřich
- Schumann, Robert
- Sibelius, Jean
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
Explorers
[edit source]- 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 source]- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
[edit source]- Archimedes
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahe, Tycho
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclides
- Euler, Leonard
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Fibonacci
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johann
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kepler, Johannes
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Linnaeus, Carolus
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Meucci, Antonio
- 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)
[edit source]- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Avicenna
- 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
- Locke, John
- Luther, Martin
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paul of Tarsus
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Sun Tzu
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Politicians, leaders and aristocrats
[edit source]- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Atatürk, Kemal
- Augustus
- Ben-Gurion, David
- Bismarck, Otto von
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bush, George W.
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Cixi, Empress Dowager
- Cleopatra
- Constantine the Great
- De Gaulle, Charles
- Gandhi, Indira
- Elizabeth I of England
- Genghis Khan
- Haile Selassie
- Hirohito
- Hitler, Adolf
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Louis XIV
- Macdonald, John A.
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- 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
Religious figures
[edit source]Revolutionaries and activists
[edit source]- Bin Laden, Osama
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Goldman, Emma
- Joan of Arc
- Keller, Helen
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Mother Teresa
- Nightingale, Florence
- Parks, Rosa
- Guevara, Che
History
[edit source]This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world
[edit source]Middle Ages and Early Modern
[edit source]- 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 source]- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- Gulf War
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Korean War
- Nazi Germany
- Russian Revolution of 1917
- Qing Dynasty
- Spanish Civil War
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
Geography
[edit source]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
[edit source]At least three sentences on each.
Countries
[edit source]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:
- I-Afugani
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- INdiya
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- IJaphani
- Mexico
- The Netherlands
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- IRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
- Portugal
Cities
[edit source]- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Beirut
- Berlin
- Brisbane
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Canberra
- Cape Town
- Chicago
- Damascus
- Dar es Salaam
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Florence
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kyoto
- Los Angeles
- London
- Mecca
- Melbourne
- Mexico City
- Milan
- Montreal
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- Naples
- New Delhi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Saint-Petersburg
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tel Aviv
- Tokyo
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Venice
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
Bodies of water
[edit source]- 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
[edit source]Society
[edit source]Umndeni neTihlobo
[edit source]Thought, behavior and emotion
[edit source]Politics
[edit source]- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Nazism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State
- Political party
- Propaganda
Business and economics
[edit source]Law
[edit source]International organizations
[edit source]- 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
- Mhlabuhlangene
- World Bank Group
- World Trade Organization
War and military
[edit source]Social issues
[edit source]Emasiko nebuciko
[edit source]At least three sentences on:
Language and literature
[edit source]- Lúlwîmi
- Alphabet
- Grammar
- Linguistics
- Literacy
- Literature
- Pronunciation
- Specific languages
- Word
- Writing
Architecture and civil engineering
[edit source]Film, radio and television
[edit source]Music
[edit source]Recreation
[edit source]World view and religion
[edit source]- Deity
- Nkulunkulu
- Mythology
- Worldview philosophies
- Soul
- Lukholo
- Specific religions
- Spirituality
Philosophy
[edit source]- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
Isayensi
[edit source]At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.
Astronomy
[edit source]- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar system
- Star
- Universe
Ibhayoloji
[edit source]- Ibhayoloji
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Scientific classification
Biological processes
[edit source]Anatomy
[edit source]- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
Health and medicine
[edit source]- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Medication
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Drugs
- Health
- Headache
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Penicillin
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes
- Virus
Organisms
[edit source]Ikhemisi
[edit source]Weather, climate and geology
[edit source]Physics
[edit source]- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Force
- Light
- Magnet
- Mass
- Molecule
- Quantum mechanics
- Sound
- Speed
- Theory of relativity
- Time
- Velocity
- Weight
- Length
Timekeeping
[edit source]Technology
[edit source]Communication
[edit source]Electronics
[edit source]- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
[edit source]- Computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
- User interface
Energy and fuels
[edit source]Raw materials
[edit source]Transportation
[edit source]Weapons
[edit source]Foodstuffs
[edit source]Beverages
[edit source]Mathematics
[edit source]- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Group theory
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
Measurement and units
[edit source]
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