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There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. I propose that we invigorate them by ensuring that they each contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth.
I therefore suggest that we make a list of about 1,000 basic articles that we advise having on every existing Wikipedia. These articles should be very basic, and incorporate the most essential information. In some cases, it will be only a table, while in other cases, it will be a stub. This will, however, provide some impetus for the smaller projects to grow.
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. Until then, links to the largest Wikipedia, the English language version, are provided as a translatable resource.
Because this list has grown so large, it is currently in the process of being split into two levels of priority. Top-priority entries, which are 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. (This feature, and the page in general, is currently being discussed on the Talk page. If you support this effort, please contribute to the list and participate in the discussion.)
How to use this list
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 will eventually all be linked to articles in the Simple English Wikipedia. If you are missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles. You can also check the language links in the Simple English articles for more comprehensive coverage of the topics in many other languages.
Biography
This section is for people. Have at least one paragraph on 200 key historical figures.
Actors, dancers and models
Artists and architects
- Corbusier, Le
- Dalí, Salvador
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Pollock, Jackson
- Rembrandt
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Arnaut, Daniel
- Bashō
- Beckett, Samuel
- Camões, Luís de
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Darío, Rubén
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Ferdowsi
- Fuzûlî
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Homer
- Horace
- Hugo, Victor
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Khayyam, Omar
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Milton, John
- Molière
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Ovid
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Premchand, Munshi
- Proust, Marcel
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Rustaveli, Shota
- Sappho
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Sturluson, Snorri
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wu Cheng'en
- Yeats, William Butler
Composers and musicians
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák Antonín
- Jackson, Michael
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Pink Floyd
- Presley, Elvis
- Sibelius, Jean
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
Explorers
- Amundsen, Roald
- Armstrong, Neil
- Cartier, Jacques
- Columbus, Christopher
- Cook, James
- Cortés Hernán
- Gama, Vasco da
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Polo, Marco
- Zheng He
Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahe, Tycho
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johann
- Kepler, Johannes
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Linnaeus, Carolus
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Stallman, Richard
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
- Wright brothers
Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Avicenna
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chomsky, Noam
- Descartes, René
- Durkheim, Émile
- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Kant, Immanuel
- Locke, John
- Luther, Martin
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paul of Tarsus
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Sun Tzu
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Politicans, leaders and aristocrats
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Atatürk, Kemal
- Augustus
- Bismarck, Otto von
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bush, George W.
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Cixi, Empress Dowager
- Cleopatra
- De Gaulle, Charles
- Gandhi, Indira
- Constantine the Great
- Elizabeth I of England
- Genghis Khan
- Haile Selassie
- Hirohito
- Hitler, Adolf
- Lenin, V. I.
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Mussolini, Benito
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter I of Russia
- Qin Shi Huang
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Thatcher, Margaret
- Truman, Harry S.
- Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Washington, George
Revolutionaries and activists
- Bin Laden, Osama
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Goldman, Emma
- Joan of Arc
- Keller, Helen
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Mother Teresa
- Nightingale, Florence
- Parks, Rosa
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
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aztec
- Byzantine Empire
- Crusades
- Holy Roman Empire
- Hundred Years War
- Middle Ages
- Ming Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Protestant Reformation
- Renaissance
- Thirty Years War
- Vikings
Modern
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- Gulf War
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Korean War
- Nazi Germany
- Russian Revolution of 1917
- Qing Dynasty
- Spanish Civil War
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
Geography
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
- Geography
- Capital
- City
- Continent
- Country
- Desert
- Earth science
- Map
- North Pole
- Ocean
- Rainforest
- River
- Sea
- South Pole
Continents and major regions
At least three sentences on each.
Countries
Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the 243 countries listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Beirut
- Berlin
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Dublin
- Florence
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kyoto
- London
- Mecca
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- New Delhi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Venice
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
Bodies of water
- Amazon River
- Aral Sea
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Congo River
- Danube
- Dead Sea
- Euphrates
- Ganges River
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Lakes
- Indian Ocean
- Indus River
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Tanganyika
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake Victoria
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mississippi River
- Niagara Falls
- Niger River
- Nile
- North Sea
- Pacific Ocean
- Panama Canal
- Rhine
- Suez Canal
- Southern Ocean
- Tigris
- Volga River
- Yangtze River
Mountains, valleys and deserts
Society
Family and relationships
Thought, behavior and emotion
Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Communism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State
- Political party
Business and economics
Law
International organizations
- African Union
- Arab League
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Commonwealth of Nations
- European Union
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- NATO
- Nobel Prize
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- United Nations
- World Bank Group
- World Trade Organization
War and military
Social issues
Culture
At least three sentences on:
Language and literature
- Language
- Alphabet
- Grammar
- Linguistics
- Literacy
- Literature
- Pronunciation
- Specific languages
- Word
- Writing
Architecture and civil engineering
Film, radio and television
Music
Recreation
World view and religion
Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
Science
At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.
Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar system
- Star
- Universe
Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Scientific classification
Biological processes
Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Drugs
- Health
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Penicillin
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Virus
Organisms
Chemistry
Weather, climate and geology
Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Force
- Light
- Mass
- Molecule
- Quantum mechanics
- Sound
- Speed
- Theory of relativity
- Time
- Velocity
- Weight
Timekeeping
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
- User interface
Raw materials and energy
- Electricity
- Fossil fuel
- Fire
- Internal combustion engine
- Renewable energy
- Glass
- Paper
- Plastic
- Steam engine
- Wood
Transportation
Weapons
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Group theory
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
Measurement and units
- If you support this effort, please add to the list. We can then decide what the basic sentences can be for each article.