List of articles every Wikipedia should have
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 |
---|---|---|
2022-04-02 | 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 |
2021-09-14 | Oceania | Insular Oceania |
2021-04-07 | Heidegger, Martin | Chomsky, Noam |
2021-04-07 | Jackson, Michael | Presley, Elvis |
Section | Version 1.1 | Current Number | Target Number | Vital articles |
---|---|---|---|---|
Biography | 216 | 203 | 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 | 26 | TBD | 32 |
* Earth science | 21 | 21 | TBD | 23 |
* Physics | 36 | 39 | TBD | 41 |
* Mathematics | 22 | 26 | TBD | 45 |
Food and agriculture | 34 | 35 | TBD | 22 |
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]
Artists and architects[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
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
Explorers and travelers[edit]
Film directors, screenwriters and actors[edit]
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
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
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
- 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]
- Abraham
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- Al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Luther, Martin
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Nagarjuna
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]
- Agriculture
- Animal husbandry
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]
Architecture and civil engineering[edit]
Film, radio and television[edit]
Music[edit]
Recreation[edit]
History[edit]
Prehistory and ancient world[edit]
Middle Ages and Early Modern[edit]
Modern[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:
- 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
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
Cities[edit]
- 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
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
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