List of articles every Wikipedia should have
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There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. This list is intended as a guideline for those projects so that they will contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth. The articles should contain at least basic information on the topics they describe, thus providing a starting point for growth besides being a useful reference for the readers. This list provides links to corresponding Wikidata objects, containing links to articles in various Wikipedias which can be used as a translatable resource.
This list of pages is available as a PagePile with ID 34426 |
Note: may not reflect changes after 2021-03-02 |
This list is limited to 1000 articles, but a much larger list is available at List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded.
Date | Adding | Removing |
---|---|---|
2022-11-11 | Taste | Breast |
2022-08-17 | Korean | Hangul |
2022-04-02 | Trade | Japanese Yen |
2022-04-02 | Table salt | Oat |
2022-04-02 | Shia Islam | Sufism |
2022-03-18 | Citrus | Lemon |
2022-03-02 | Swimming | Karate |
2022-02-09 | Philippines | New Zealand |
2021-10-27 | Earth water cycle | Avalanche |
Section | Version 1.1 | Current Number | Target Number | Vital articles |
---|---|---|---|---|
Biography | 216 | 204 | TBD | 113 |
Philosophy | 18 | 13 | TBD | 18 |
Religion | 21 | 22 | TBD | 37 |
Social sciences | 71 | 77 | TBD | 135 |
Language and literature | 43 | 46 | TBD | 31 |
Arts and recreation | 73 | 75 | TBD | 60 |
Measurements | 19 | 12 | TBD | 2 |
Science | 195 | 257 | TBD | 293 |
* Astronomy | 22 | 22 | TBD | 26 |
* Biology | 118 | 83 | TBD | 82 |
* Health and medicine | 34 | 38 | TBD | 41 |
* Chemistry | 27 | 27 | TBD | 32 |
* Earth science | 21 | 21 | TBD | 23 |
* Physics | 36 | 39 | TBD | 41 |
* Mathematics | 22 | 25 | TBD | 45 |
Food and agriculture | 19 | 35 | TBD | 2 |
Technology | 69 | 67 | TBD | 98 |
History | 40 | 46 | TBD | 83 |
Geography | 148 | 146 | TBD | 106 |
Total | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 998 |
Count checked: 16:05, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
How to use this list edit
There are several different ways to use this list. The first is to translate it into the language of your Wikipedia and see whether you have articles on all of these topics. The topics here are linked to corresponding items in the Wikidata project. If your Wikipedia is missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles from a different language that you are familiar with (for example, English). Language links to Wikipedias in which the topic is covered are provided at the bottom of each Wikidata item page.
In addition to simply listing the articles, this project hopes to eventually create easily translatable versions of these articles, possibly containing core information at simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have.
This list is also used to obtain the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles. Articles which are absent from one wikipedia are shown in List of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Absent Articles.
It's possible to list the top 1000 most translated (linked) pages in some languages, at Wikidata Terminator; or even compare any two wikis, with Not in the other language.
Since this list is full, it is important that you discuss any changes (adds or deletes) on the discussion for this list first. If you add an entry at this point, it will be necessary to justify deleting something else.
Six versions from the history of this page can be found at Version 1.0 (14 August 2006), Version 1.1 (15 November 2008), Version 1.2 (3 February 2010), Version 1.3 (24 June 2012), Version 1.4 (1 June 2014), and Version 1.5 (6 February 2022).
Top-priority entries, which are considered especially necessary for any Wikipedia to have, are marked in bold. Like the list itself, these selections should not be viewed as dictating how important certain topics are, but only as a utility for smaller Wikipedias to start from.
Biography edit
Philosophers and social scientists edit
- Aristotle
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Confucius
- Descartes, René
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Heidegger, Martin
- 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
Religious figures and theologians edit
- Abraham
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- Al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Luther, Martin
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Nagarjuna
Political leaders edit
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Augustus
- von Bismarck, Otto
- Bolívar, Simón
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Constantine the Great
- Cyrus the Great
- de Gaulle, Charles
- Elizabeth I
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Genghis Khan
- Guevara, Che
- Hitler, Adolf
- Joan of Arc
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Louis XIV
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Napoleon
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter the Great
- Qin Shi Huang
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Sun Yat-sen
- Tamerlane
- Umar
- Washington, George
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians edit
- Archimedes
- Avicenna
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahmagupta
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Euler, Leonhard
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Ford, Henry
- Galen
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Hilbert, David
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kepler, Johannes
- al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- Linnaeus, Carl
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
Artists and architects edit
Composers and musicians edit
- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Haydn, Joseph
- Jackson, Michael
- Kulthum, Umm
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
Film directors, screenwriters and actors edit
Authors, playwrights and poets edit
- Abu Nuwas
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Austen, Jane
- Bashō
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Byron, George
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Hafez
- Homer
- Hugo, Victor
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Li Bai
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Molière
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
Explorers and travelers edit
Philosophy edit
Religion edit
- Fundamentalism
- God
- Mythology
- Religion
- Soul
- Specific religions
- Spiritual practices
Social sciences edit
Psychology edit
Family and relationships edit
Politics edit
- Politics
- Colonialism
- Diplomacy
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- State (polity)
- Political party
- Propaganda
Business and economics edit
Law edit
International organizations edit
- African Union
- Arab League
- ASEAN
- 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 edit
Social issues edit
Language and literature edit
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Writing system
- Literacy
- Translation
- Literature
Measurements edit
Weight, volume and distance edit
Time edit
Science edit
Astronomy edit
Biology edit
Biological processes edit
Organisms edit
Anatomy edit
Health and medicine edit
- Medicine
- Dentistry
- Disease
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Health
- Immune system
- Menstruation
- Pandemic
- Vaccine
- Virus
Specific Diseases/Conditions edit
Chemistry edit
Earth science edit
Physics edit
Mathematics edit
- Mathematics
- Arithmetic
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Mathematical analysis
- Probability and statistics
- Logic and foundations
Food and agriculture edit
Agriculture edit
Food edit
Beverages edit
Technology edit
Communication edit
Electronics edit
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet edit
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
Energy and fuels edit
Materials edit
Transportation edit
Weapons edit
Arts and recreation edit
History edit
Prehistoric and ancient history edit
Medieval and Renaissance periods edit
Early modern and modern periods edit
Geography edit
Continents and major regions edit
Countries edit
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:
Africa edit
Asia edit
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Vietnam
Europe edit
- Austria
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
North America edit
South America edit
Oceania edit
Cities edit
Africa edit
Asia edit
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Damascus
- Delhi
- Dhaka
- Dubai
- Hong Kong
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kolkata
- Mecca
- Mumbai
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Tehran
- Tokyo
Europe edit
North America edit
South America edit
Oceania edit
Bodies of water edit
- 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