User:Igrek/top1000
See also edit
- User:Igrek/top1000v2
- List of articles every Wikipedia should have.
- List of Wikipedias by sample of articles.
- List of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Absent Articles.
- List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded.
Four 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) and Version 1.3 (24 June 2012).
Statistics edit
- Adding -
Removing-- Balans
Section | Version 1.1 | Current Number | Target Number | Vital articles |
---|---|---|---|---|
Biography | 216 | 204 | TBD | 120 |
Philosophy and psychology | 18 | 18 | TBD | 25 |
World view and religion | 21 | 25 | TBD | 46 |
Social sciences | 71 | 70 | TBD | 93 |
Language and literature | 43 | 47 | TBD | 36 |
Culture, arts and recreation | 73 | 76 | TBD | 84 |
Science | 245 | 246 | TBD | 250 |
* Astronomy | 22 | 22 | TBD | 26 |
* Biology | 118 | 119 | TBD | 104 |
** Health and medicine | 34 | 37 | TBD | 42 |
* Chemistry | 27 | 27 | TBD | 36 |
* Earth science | 21 | 21 | TBD | 19 |
* Physics | 36 | 39 | TBD | 41 |
* Measurement and units | 11 | 6 | TBD | 0 |
* Timekeeping | 8 | 6 | TBD | 0 |
* Foodstuffs | 31 | 31 | TBD | 21 |
* Mathematics | 22 | 25 | TBD | 61 |
Technology | 72 | 70 | TBD | 106 |
History | 40 | 45 | TBD | 62 |
Geography | 148 | 146 | TBD | 87 |
Total | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 972 |
Count checked: 16:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Biography edit
Actors, dancers and models edit
Artists and architects edit
- Le Corbusier
- 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, Mimar
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets (-1 +1) edit
- Abu Nuwas
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- 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
- en:Jules Verne
,
Composers and musicians edit
- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
Berlioz, Hector- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
Dvořák, Antonín- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Piaf, Édith- Presley, Elvis
Puccini, Giacomo- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
Vysotsky, Vladimir- Wagner, Richard
- en:Joseph Haydn
- en:Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- en:Sergei Rachmaninoff
- en:Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy or en:Johann Strauss II or en:Franz Liszt
- en:Ravi Shankar
Explorers and travelers edit
- 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
Film directors and screenwriters edit
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians edit
- 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 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
Philosophers and social scientists edit
- Aristotle
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Chomsky, Noam
- Confucius
- 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
Political leaders edit
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Augustus
- 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- en:Justinian I
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Louis XIV
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- 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
Religious figures and theologians edit
Philosophy and psychology edit
Philosophy edit
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Philosophy
- Probability
- Reality
- Truth
Psychology edit
Religion edit
World view and religion (-7 +7) edit
Social sciences edit
Family and relationships edit
Politics edit
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State (polity)
- Political party
- Propaganda
- Terrorism
Business and economics edit
Law edit
International organizations edit
- 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
War and military edit
Social issues (+1) edit
Language and literature edit
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Writing system
- Literacy
- Translation
- Literature
Science edit
Astronomy edit
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar System
- Spaceflight
- Star
- Universe
Biology edit
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
Biological processes edit
Anatomy edit
- Anatomy
- Breast
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Human gastrointestinal tract
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
- Skin
Health and medicine edit
- 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 (-8 +11) edit
- Organism
- Animal
- en:Cnidaria
- en:Mollusca
- en:Worm
- Arthropod
- Insect
AntBee- en:Beetles
- en:Lepidoptera (Butterfly / Moth)
Mosquito
- Spider
- Insect
- Chordate
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Fungus
- Plant
Flower- Tree
- en:Flowering plant
- en:Asteraceae (aster family)
- en:Fabaceae (bean family)
- en:Poaceae (true grasses)
- en:Orchidaceae (orchid family)
- en:Pinophyta
- Protist
Chemistry edit
- Chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Chemical compound
- Chemical element
- Organic chemistry
- Molecule
- Analytical chemistry
- Physical chemistry
Earth science edit
Physics edit
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- State of matter
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Velocity
- Temperature
- Time
- Thermodynamics
- Vacuum
Measurement and units edit
Timekeeping edit
Foodstuffs (-3 +1) edit
Beverages (-2 +1) edit
Mathematics 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
Architecture and civil engineering edit
Film, radio and television edit
Music edit
Recreation (-7 +7) edit
History and geography edit
History (+4) edit
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world edit
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Gupta Empire
Middle Ages and Early Modern (-1 +4) edit
- 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
- Vikings
- en:Feudalism
- en:House of Habsburg
- en:Inca Empire
- en:Migration Period
Modern (-1 +2) edit
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- Cultural Revolution
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi Germany
- Meiji Restoration
- Russian Revolution
- Qing Dynasty
Treaty of Versailles- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
- en:Napoleonic Wars
- en:Scramble for Africa
Geography edit
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
Continents and major regions (+1) edit
Countries (-6 +3) edit
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
- 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 CityVenezuela- Vietnam
- en:Burma
- en:Colombia
- en:Philippines
Cities (-5) edit
Amsterdam- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Berlin
BogotáBrussels- 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 (-2 +3) edit
- en:African Great Lakes
- 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 TanganyikaLake 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
- en:South China Sea
- en:Persian Gulf