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.
[tulaika] Biography
At least three sentences on 100 key historical figures.
[tulaika] Actors, dancers and models
- Bardot, Brigitte
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Brando, Marlon
- Chaplin, Charlie
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Marx Brothers
- Monroe, Marilyn
[tulaika] Artists and architects
- Botticelli, Sandro
- Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
- Corbusier, Le
- 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
[tulaika] Authors, playwrights and poets
- 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
[tulaika] Composers and musicians
- 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
[tulaika] Explorers
- 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
[tulaika] Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Spielberg, Steven
[tulaika] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- 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
[tulaika] Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)
- 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
[tulaika] Politicians, leaders and aristocrats
- 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
[tulaika] Religious figures
- Abraham
- Moses
- Jesus
- Muhammad
- Buddha
[tulaika] Revolutionaries and activists
- Bin Laden, Osama
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Goldman, Emma
- Joan of Arc
- Keller, Helen
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Mother Teresa
- Nightingale, Florence
- Parks, Rosa
- Guevara, Che
[tulaika] History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
- History
[tulaika] Prehistory and ancient world
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
[tulaika] Middle Ages and Early Modern
- 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
[tulaika] Modern
- 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
[tulaika] 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
[tulaika] Continents and major regions
At least three sentences on each.
- Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
[tulaika] 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
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- People's Republic of China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- España
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- The Netherlands
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
- Portugal
[tulaika] Cities
- 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.
[tulaika] 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
[tulaika] Mountains, valleys and deserts
- Alps
- Andes
- Himalaya
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Mount Everest
- Rocky Mountains
- Sahara
[tulaika] Society
- Society
- Civilization
- Education
[tulaika] Family and relationships
- Family
- Child
- Man
- Marriage
- Woman
[tulaika] Thought, behavior and emotion
- Behavior
- Emotion
- Love
- Thought
[tulaika] Politics
- Politika
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Gobietnu
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Nazism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State
- Political party
- Propaganda
[tulaika] Business and economics
- Ekonomia
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Agriculture
- Capital
- Capitalism
- Currency
- Canadian dollar
- Euro
- Pound sterling (UK)
- Japanese yen
- United States dollar
- Industry
- Money
- Tax
[tulaika] Law
- Lai
- Constitution
[tulaika] 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
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- International Court of Justice
- International Monetary Fund
- UNESCO
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- World Health Organization
- World Bank Group
- World Trade Organization
[tulaika] War and military
[tulaika] Social issues
- Abortion
- Capital punishment
- Human rights
- Racism
- Slavery
[tulaika] Culture
At least three sentences on:
- Art
- Kuttura
- Comics
- Painting
- Photography
- Sculpture
- Pottery
- Dance
- Fashion
- Theatre
- Festival de Cannes
[tulaika] Language and literature
- Language
- Alphabet
- Chinese character
- Cyrillic alphabet
- Greek alphabet
- Latin alphabet
- Letter
- Grammar
- Noun
- Syntax
- Verb
- Linguistics
- Literacy
- Literature
- Prose
- Fiction
- Novel
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
- Poetry
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Iliad
- Mahabharata
- Ramayana
- Pronunciation
- Specific languages
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Chinese
- English
- Esperanto
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Interlingua
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Persian
- Russian
- Sanskrit
- Spanish
- Tamil
- Turkish
- Word
- Writing
[tulaika] Architecture and civil engineering
- Architecture
- Arch
- Bridge
- Canal
- Dam
- Dome
- House
- Specific structures
- Aswan Dam
- Burj Dubai
- Colosseum
- CN Tower
- Great Wall of China
- Eiffel Tower
- Empire State Building
- Hagia Sophia
- Hoover Dam
- Mount Rushmore
- Parthenon
- Petronas Towers
- Pyramids of Giza
- St. Peter's Basilica
- Sears Tower
- Statue of Liberty
- Sydney Opera House
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramid
- Tower
[tulaika] Film, radio and television
- Film
- Animation
- Radio
- Television
[tulaika] Music
- Music
- Song
- Specific music genres
- Blues
- Classical music
- Opera
- Symphony
- Electronic music
- Folk music
- Jazz
- Pop music
- Reggae
- Rhythm and blues
- Rock and roll
- Hard rock
- New Age music
- Specific musical instruments
- Drum
- Flute
- Guitar
- Piano
- Trumpet
- Violin
[tulaika] Recreation
- Game
- Backgammon
- Chess
- Go (board game)
- Playing card
- Gambling
- Martial arts
- Judo
- Karate
- Olympic Games
- Sport
- American football
- Auto racing
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Fencing
- Football (soccer)
- Golf
- Horse racing
- Ice hockey
- Tennis
- Rugby union
- Wrestling
- Athletics
- Toy
[tulaika] World view and religion
- Deity
- God
- Mythology
- Worldview philosophies
- Atheism
- Fundamentalism
- Materialism
- Monotheism
- Polytheism
- Soul
- Religion
- Specific religions
- Bahá'í Faith
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Catholicism
- Confucianism
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Jainism
- Judaism
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Voodoo
- Zoroastrianism
- Spirituality
[tulaika] Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
[tulaika] Science
At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.
- Science
[tulaika] Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Milky Way
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Earth
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Mercury
- Neptune
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Venus
- Solar system
- Star
- Sun
- Universe
[tulaika] Biology
- Bioloyia
- Biological materials
- DNA
- Enzyme
- Protein
- Botany
- Death
- Suicide
- Ecology
- Endangered species
- Domestication
- Life
- Scientific classification
- Species
[tulaika] Biological processes
- Metabolism
- Digestion
- Photosynthesis
- Respiration (physiology)
- Evolution
- Biological reproduction
- Asexual reproduction
- Sexual reproduction
- Heterosexuality
- Homosexuality
- Pregnancy
- Sex
- Female
- Male
- Sexual intercourse
[tulaika] Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Blood
- Heart
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Large intestine
- Small intestine
- Liver
- Integumentary system
- Breast
- Skin
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Brain
- Sensory system
- Auditory system
- Ear
- Gustatory system
- Olfactory system
- Somatosensory system
- Visual system
- Eye
- Auditory system
- Reproductive system
- Penis
- Vagina
- Respiratory system
- Lung
- Skeleton
[tulaika] Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alcoholism
- Drug addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Blindness
- Hearing impairment
- Mental illness
- Disease
- Medication
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Tobacco
- Drugs
- Health
- Headache
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Penicillin
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- AIDS
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes
- Virus
- Influenza
- Smallpox
[tulaika] Organisms
- Organism
- Animal
- Arthropod
- Insect
- Ant
- Bee
- Butterfly
- Arachnid
- Insect
- Chordate
- Amphibian
- Frog
- Bird
- Chicken
- Dove
- Fish
- Shark
- Mammal
- Ape
- Human
- Camel
- Cat
- Cattle
- Dog
- Dolphin
- Elephant
- Horse
- Sheep
- Lion
- Pig
- Whale
- Ape
- Reptile
- Dinosaur
- Snake
- Amphibian
- Arthropod
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Fungus
- Plant
- Flower
- Tree
- Protist
[tulaika] Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Chemical compound
- Acid
- Base (chemistry)
- Salt
- Chemical element
- List of elements
- Periodic table
- Aluminium
- Carbon
- Copper
- Gold
- Helium
- Hydrogen
- Iron
- Neon
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Silver
- Tin
- Zinc
- Metal
- Alloy
- Steel
- Alloy
- Organic chemistry
- Alcohol
- Carbohydrate
- Hormone
- Lipid
- Phase (matter)
- Gas
- Liquid
- Plasma
- Solid
[tulaika] Weather, climate and geology
- Avalanche
- Climate
- ENSO
- Global warming
- Earthquake
- Geology
- Mineral
- Diamond
- Plate tectonics
- Rock
- Mineral
- Natural disaster
- Volcano
- Weather
- Cloud
- Flood
- Tsunami
- Rain
- Acid rain
- Snow
- Tornado
- Tropical cyclone
[tulaika] Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Conservation of energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Infrared
- Visual spectrum
- Color
- Ultraviolet
- Gamma ray
- Force
- Electromagnetism
- Gravitation
- Nuclear force
- Light
- Magnet
- Magnetic field
- Mass
- Molecule
- Quantum mechanics
- Sound
- Speed
- Speed of light
- Speed of sound
- Theory of relativity
- Time
- Velocity
- Weight
- Length
[tulaika] Timekeeping
- Anno Domini
- Calendar
- Gregorian calendar
- Century
- Day
- Minute
- Millennium
- Month
- Time zone
- Daylight saving time
- Week
- Year
[tulaika] Technology
- Technology
- Biotechnology
- Clothing
- Cotton
- Engineering
- Lever
- Pulley
- Screw
- Wedge
- Wheel
- Irrigation
- Plough
- Metallurgy
- Nanotechnology
[tulaika] Communication
- Communication
- Book
- Information
- Encyclopedia
- Journalism
- Newspaper
- Mass media
- Printing
- Railroad
- Telephone
- Mobile telephone
[tulaika] Electronics
- Electronics
- Current (electricity)
- Frequency
- Components
- Capacitor
- Inductor
- Transistor
- Diode
- Resistor
- Transformer
[tulaika] Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Hard disk
- Processor
- RAM
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Algorithm
- Internet
- World Wide Web
- Web browser
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
- User interface
- Keyboard
- Monitor
- Mouse (computing)
[tulaika] Energy and fuels
- Energy (technology)
- Renewable energy
- Electricity
- Nuclear power
- Fossil fuel
- Internal combustion engine
- Steam engine
- Fire
[tulaika] Raw materials
- Glass
- Paper
- Plastic
- Wood
[tulaika] Transportation
- Transport
- Aircraft
- Automobile
- Bicycle
- Boat
- Ship
- Train
[tulaika] Weapons
- Weapon
- Axe
- Explosive material
- Gunpowder
- Firearm
- Machine gun
- Nuclear weapon
- Sword
- Tank
[tulaika] Foodstuffs
- Food
- Bread
- Cereal
- Barley
- Maize
- Oat
- Rice
- Rye
- Sorghum
- Wheat
- Cheese
- Chocolate
- Honey
- Fruit
- Apple
- Banana
- Grape
- Legume
- Soybean
- Lemon
- Nut (fruit)
- Meat
- Sugar
- Vegetable
- Potato
[tulaika] Beverages
- Beer
- Wine
- Coffee
- Milk
- Tea
- Water
- Juice
[tulaika] Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Circle
- Pi
- Square
- Triangle
- Circle
- Group theory
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Complex number
- Integer
- Natural number
- Prime number
- Rational number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
[tulaika] Measurement and units
- Measurement
- Joule
- Kilogram
- Litre
- Metre
- Newton
- SI
- Volt
- Watt
- Second
- Kelvin
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