Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have

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
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
Film directors and screenwriters
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
Philosophy and psychology
Philosophy
Psychology
Religion
World view and religion
Social sciences
Family and relationships
Politics
Business and economics
Law
International organizations
War and military
Social issues
Language and literature
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Writing system
- Literacy
- Translation
- Literature
Science
Astronomy
Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
Biological processes
Anatomy
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
Earth science
Physics
Measurement and units
Timekeeping
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
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
Middle Ages and Early Modern
Modern
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