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 should contain. 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.
Some of the articles are in bold. That means that it is very important that they be written.
[change] Biography
[change] Actors, dancers and models
[change] 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
[change] 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
[change] 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, Edith
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Presley, Elvis
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Umm Kulthum
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vysotsky, Vladimir
- Wagner, Richard
[change] 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
[change] Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
[change] 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
[change] 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
[change] 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
[change] Religious figures and theologians
- Abraham
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Luther, Martin
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Saint Paul
[change] Philosophy and psychology
[change] Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Reality
- Truth
[change] Psychology
[change] Religion
[change] World view and religion
[change] Social sciences
[change] Family and relationships
[change] 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
[change] Business and economics
[change] Law
[change] 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
[change] War and military
[change] Social issues
[change] Language and literature
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Alphabet
- Literacy
- Writing
- Literature
[change] Science
[change] Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar System
- Star
- Universe
[change] Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
[change] Biological processes
[change] Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
[change] 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
[change] Organisms
[change] Chemistry
[change] Weather, climate and geology
[change] Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Length
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- Phase (matter)
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Speed
- Time
- Thermodynamics
[change] Measurement and units
[change] Timekeeping
[change] Foodstuffs
[change] Beverages
[change] Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
[change] Technology
[change] Communication
[change] Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
[change] Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer software
[change] Energy and fuels
[change] Materials
[change] Transportation
[change] Weapons
[change] Arts and recreation
At least three sentences on:
[change] Architecture and civil engineering
[change] Film, radio and television
[change] Music
[change] Recreation
[change] History and geography
[change] History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
[change] Prehistory and ancient world
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Gupta Empire
[change] 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
[change] 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
[change] Geography
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
[change] Continents and major regions
At least three sentences on each.
[change] 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
- Republic of Ireland
- 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
[change] 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.
[change] 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
