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There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active, and others quite moribund. I propose that we invigorate them, and ensure that they each contain a minimum of information that will be of use to users. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth.

I therefore suggest that we make a list of 1,000 basic articles that we should try to encorage to appear on every existing Wikipedia.

It still remains to define how detailed these 'articles' should be; or better yet, the list should include both significant articles (primary elements) and secondary topics/articles, which should either get short paragraph-length stubs, or be covered by a longer article.

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. This project hopes to create easily translatable versions of these articles, containing core information at simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have.

If you support this effort, please add to the list.

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

At least three sentences on 100 key historical figures

Composers

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Fryderyk Chopin
  4. Antonín Dvořák
  5. Gustav Mahler
  6. Claudio Monteverdi
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Richard Wagner

Explorers

  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Willem Barentz
  3. Vitus Bering
  4. Jacques Cartier
  5. Christopher Columbus
  6. James Cook
  7. Hernán Cortés
  8. Francis Drake
  9. Leif Ericsson
  10. Vasco da Gama
  11. Edmund Hillary
  12. Tenzing Norgay
  13. Ferdinand Magellan
  14. Marco Polo
  15. Abel Tasman
  16. Zheng He

Inventors and scientists

  1. Archimedes
  2. John Logie Baird
  3. Alexander Graham Bell
  4. Carl Benz
  5. Niels Bohr
  6. Tycho Brahe
  7. Rachel Carson
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Marie Curie (Maria Skłodowska-Curie)
  10. Charles Darwin
  11. Albert Einstein (see current status, edit current status)
  12. Thomas Alva Edison
  13. Enrico Fermi
  14. Richard Feynman
  15. Alexander Fleming
  16. Henry Ford
  17. Sigmund Freud
  18. Buckminster Fuller
  19. Kazimierz Funk
  20. Galileo Galilei
  21. Johann Gutenberg
  22. Huygens
  23. Edward Jenner
  24. Johannes Kepler
  25. John Maynard Keynes
  26. Carolus Linnaeus
  27. Ignacy Łukasiewicz
  28. James Clerk Maxwell
  29. Isaac Newton
  30. Alfred Nobel
  31. Hans Christian Oersted
  32. Louis Pasteur
  33. Ole Christensen Roemer
  34. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
  35. Ernest Rutherford
  36. Nikola Tesla
  37. Leonardo Da Vinci
  38. The Wright Brothers

Mathematicians, not listed elsewhere

  1. Leonhard Euler
  2. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
  3. Karl Friedrich Gauss
  4. Kurt Gödel
  5. David Hilbert
  6. Hypatia
  7. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  8. Gottfried Leibniz
  9. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
  10. Thales
  11. Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi

Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)

  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Aristotle
  3. Augustinus
  4. Averroes
  5. Matsuo Basho
  6. Simone de Beauvoir
  7. Confucius
  8. Rene Descartes
  9. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  10. Edward Gibbon
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Herodotus
  13. Hippocrates
  14. Immanuel Kant
  15. Lao Tzu
  16. Li Po
  17. Martin Luther
  18. Soeren Kierkegaard
  19. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  20. Karl Marx
  21. Nagarjuna
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche
  23. Tom Paine
  24. Plato
  25. Pythagoras
  26. Sima Qian
  27. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  28. Bertrand Russell
  29. Adam Smith
  30. Socrates
  31. Sun Tzu
  32. Tu Fu
  33. Voltaire
  34. Mary Wollstonecraft
  35. Zeami

Authors, Playwrights and Poets

  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. Hans Christian Andersen
  3. Aristophanes
  4. Isaac Asimov
  5. Jane Austen
  6. Bertolt Brecht
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Miguel de Cervantes
  9. Anton Chekhov
  10. Emily Dickinson
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  12. Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. Alexandre Dumas
  14. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  15. Grimm Brothers
  16. Dashiell Hammett
  17. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  18. Ernest Hemingway
  19. Hildegard of Bingen
  20. Homer
  21. Victor Hugo
  22. Langston Hughes
  23. Henrik Ibsen
  24. James Joyce
  25. Franz Kafka
  26. Astrid Lindgren
  27. Thomas Mann
  28. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  29. Arthur Miller
  30. Moliere
  31. Pablo Neruda
  32. Sylvia Plath
  33. Edgar Allan Poe
  34. Marcel Proust
  35. Alexandr Pushkin
  36. Rainer Maria Rilke
  37. Carl Sandburg
  38. Sappho
  39. Jean-Paul Sartre
  40. William Shakespeare
  41. George Bernard Shaw
  42. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  43. Murasaki Shikibu
  44. Sophocles
  45. Robert Louis Stevenson
  46. JRR Tolkien
  47. Leo Tolstoy
  48. Mark Twain
  49. Jules Verne
  50. Virgil
  51. H. G. Wells
  52. Walt Whitman
  53. Oscar Wilde
  54. WB Yeats

Artists

  1. Michelangelo Buonarroti
  2. Paul Cézanne
  3. Vincent van Gogh
  4. Katsushika Hokusai
  5. Frida Kahlo
  6. Claude Monet
  7. Georgia O'Keefe
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Jackson Pollock
  10. Nicolas Poussin
  11. Rembrandt van Rijn
  12. Auguste Rodin
  13. Rafael Sancho
  14. Andy Warhol

Past politicans and leaders

  1. Akbar the Great
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Kemal Atatürk
  4. Cæsar Augustus
  5. Otto von Bismarck
  6. Simón Bolívar
  7. Napoléon Bonaparte
  8. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  9. Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
  10. Charlemagne
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Cleopatra
  13. Constantine the Great
  14. Queen Elizabeth I (of England)
  15. Franz Ferdinand
  16. Mohandas Gandhi
  17. Charles de Gaulle
  18. Mikhail Gorbachev
  19. Ernesto "Che" Guevara
  20. Hammurabi
  21. Hannibal
  22. Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Thomas Jefferson
  25. Pope John Paul II
  26. Julius Caesar
  27. Genghis Khan
  28. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  29. Abraham Lincoln
  30. Nelson Mandela
  31. Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong)
  32. Maria Theresa of Austria (Holy Roman Empress)
  33. Queen Mary I of Scotland
  34. Golda Meir
  35. Benito Mussolini
  36. Kwame Nkrumah
  37. Peter the Great
  38. Józef Piłsudski
  39. Pol Pot
  40. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  41. Saladin
  42. Shaka Zulu
  43. Sitting Bull
  44. Josef Stalin
  45. Tamerlane
  46. Margaret Thatcher
  47. Leo Trotsky
  48. Harry Truman
  49. Queen Victoria (of the United Kingdom)
  50. George Washington
  51. Emperor Wilhelm II
  52. Qin Shihuang
  53. Hastings Kamuzu Banda

Modern politicans and leaders

  1. Kofi Annan
  2. Pope Benedict XVI
  3. Silvio Berlusconi
  4. Tony Blair
  5. George W. Bush
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Jacques Chirac
  8. Vladimir Putin
  9. Gerhard Schröder
  10. Queen Elizabeth II (UK)
  11. Lech Wałęsa
  12. Lee Kuan Yew
  13. Mahathir bin Mohamad

Women in history

  1. Lucrezia Borgia
  2. Indira Gandhi
  3. Sojourner Truth
  4. Germaine Greer
  5. Semiramis, Queen of Assyria
  6. Nefertiti
  7. Catherine de' Medici
  8. Queen Liliuokalani
  9. Makeda, Queen of Sheba (Ethiopia)
  10. Kaahumanu
  11. Joan of Arc
  12. Emma Goldman
  13. Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
  14. Helen Keller
  15. Rosa Luxemburg
  16. Florence Nightingale
  17. Rosa Parks
  18. Cixi (Tse Hsi, Tz'u-hsi) (The Dowager Empress of China, 1835 - 1908)
  19. Eva Peron
  20. Emilia Plater
  21. Eleanor Roosevelt
  22. Princess Diana Spencer
  23. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
  24. Harriet Tubman

Computers and Internet

  1. Tim Berners-Lee
  2. Bill Gates
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Donald Knuth
  5. Dennis Ritchie
  6. Richard Stallman
  7. Linus Torvalds
  8. Alan Turing

Terrorists

  1. Gavrilo Princip
  2. Osama bin Laden

History

At least five sentences on:

Prehistory and ancient world

  1. Ancient Egypt
  2. Archaeology
  3. Bronze Age
  4. Byzantine Empire
  5. Classical Greece
  6. Dinosaur
  7. Human evolution
  8. Inca and other Andes cultures
  9. Iron Age
  10. Macedonian Empire
  11. Mesoamerica
  12. Prehistory
  13. Roman Empire
  14. Seljuk Empire
  15. Stone Age
  16. Sumer

Middle Ages and Renaissance

  1. Age of Enlightenment
  2. American War of Independece
  3. Black Death
  4. British Empire
  5. Colonization of North-east America
  6. Colonization of South America
  7. Counter-Reformation
  8. Crusades
  9. Discovery of the Americas
  10. Dutch Revolt
  11. English Civil War
  12. French Revolution
  13. The Great Schism
  14. Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
  15. Middle Ages
  16. Napoleonic Wars
  17. Ottoman Empire
  18. Partitions of Poland
  19. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  20. Reformation
  21. Renaissance
  22. Spanish Inquisition
  23. Vikings

Industrial age

  1. 1973 oil crisis
  2. Afghan-Soviet War
  3. American Civil War
  4. Apartheid
  5. Cold War
  6. Decolonization
  7. Establishment of the State of Israel
  8. Industrial Revolution
  9. Franco-Prussian War
  10. German unification
  11. Great Depression
  12. Gulf wars
  13. The Holocaust
  14. Iranian Revolution
  15. Italian unification
  16. Korean War
  17. Meiji Restoration
  18. Nazi Germany
  19. Outer space exploration (Sputnik, Apollo programs, shuttles)
  20. Perestroika and dissolution of the Soviet Union
  21. Polish-Soviet War
  22. Reunification of Germany
  23. Russian Civil War
  24. Russian February Revolution
  25. Russian October (Bolshevik) Revolution
  26. Solidarity in Poland
  27. Spanish Civil War
  28. The Scramble for Africa
  29. Treaty of Versailles
  30. Vietnam War
  31. World War I
  32. World War II
  33. Han Dynasty
  34. Tang Dynasty
  35. Sung Dynasty
  36. Yuan Dynasty
  37. Qing Dynasty
  38. Ming Dynasty

Geography

  1. Earth science
  2. Capital
  3. City
  4. Continent
  5. Desert
  6. Ocean
  7. Rain forest
  8. River
  9. Sea
  10. North Pole
  11. South Pole

Continents and major regions

At least three sentences on each of the continents

  1. Africa
  2. Antarctica
  3. Asia
  4. Europe
  5. Latin America
  6. Middle East
  7. North America
  8. Oceania
  9. South America

Countries

  1. One sentence and the table on all countries in this list (203 articles):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries

Major cities

Cities with historical, economical, political and/or religious importance and significance

  1. Athens
  2. Bangkok
  3. Barcelona
  4. Beijing
  5. Belgrade
  6. Berlin
  7. Bombay
  8. Brussels
  9. Cairo
  10. Copenhagen
  11. Edinburgh
  12. Frankfurt
  13. Hanoi
  14. Hong Kong
  15. Istanbul
  16. Jakarta
  17. Jerusalem
  18. London
  19. Manila
  20. Madrid
  21. Mecca
  22. Mexico City
  23. Moscow
  24. Munich (München)
  25. Nairobi
  26. New Delhi
  27. New York
  28. Paris
  29. Rio de Janiero
  30. Rome
  31. Shanghai
  32. Singapore
  33. St. Petersburg
  34. Stockholm
  35. Sydney
  36. Taipei
  37. Tokyo
  38. Toronto
  39. Vienna
  40. Warsaw
  41. Washington D.C.

Bodies of water

  1. Amazon River
  2. Aral Sea
  3. Arctic Ocean
  4. Atlantic Ocean
  5. Baltic Sea
  6. Black Sea
  7. Caspian Sea
  8. Dead Sea
  9. Great Barrier Reef
  10. Great Lakes
  11. Indian Ocean
  12. Lake Baikal
  13. Lake Tanganyika
  14. Lake Titicaca
  15. Lake Victoria
  16. Mediterranean Sea
  17. Mississippi River
  18. Niagara falls
  19. Nile River
  20. North Sea
  21. Pacific Ocean
  22. Panama Canal
  23. Suez Canal
  24. Southern Ocean

Mountains, valleys and deserts

  1. Alps
  2. Andes
  3. Great Rift Valley
  4. Himalayas
  5. Kilimanjaro
  6. Mount Everest
  7. Rocky Mountains
  8. Sahara Desert

Disasters

  1. Avalanche
  2. Earthquake
  3. Flood
  4. Hurricane
  5. Nuclear meltdown
  6. Tsunami
  7. Volcano

Government and politics

  1. Anarchism
  2. Anarchy
  3. Capitalism
  4. Communism
  5. Democracy
  6. Dictatorship
  7. Fascism
  8. Globalisation
  9. Imperialism
  10. Liberalism
  11. Monarchy
  12. Nationalism
  13. Racism
  14. Republic
  15. Socialism
  16. Separation of powers:
    1. Judiciary
    2. Legislature
    3. Executive
  17. Political party
  18. Theocracy

Economics

  1. Economics
  2. Money
  3. Supply & Demand
  4. Market
  5. Capital
  6. Microeconomics
  7. Macroeconomics

Currency

  1. American Dollar
  2. British Pound (Sterling)
  3. Euro
  4. Renminbi
  5. Rupee
  6. Yen

Legal documents

  1. Communist Manifesto
  2. Constitution
  3. Law
  4. Magna Carta
  5. Leviathan

International organizations

  1. African Union
  2. ASEAN
  3. Arab League
  4. Antiglobalization
  5. Commonwealth of Independent States
  6. Commonwealth of Nations
  7. Council of Europe
    1. European Court of Human Rights
    2. European Convention on Human Rights
  8. Diplomacy
  9. European Union
  10. Freedom
  11. Geneva Conventions
    1. Red Cross/Red Crescent/Red Star of David
  12. Globalization
  13. Interpol
  14. NATO
  15. Nobel Prize
  16. OECD
  17. OSCE
  18. Olympic Games, preferably with a mention of the Paralympics
  19. OPEC
  20. Organization of American States
  21. United Nations
    1. IAEA
    2. IMF
    3. International Criminal Court
    4. International Court of Justice
    5. WHO
    6. WTO
    7. UNICEF
    8. UNESCO
    9. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    10. World Bank
  22. World Peace

Human issues

  1. Abortion
  2. Birth control
  3. Capital punishment
  4. Human rights
  5. Racism
  6. Sexism
  7. Sexuality
  8. Slavery

Philosophy

  1. Philosophy
  2. Eastern philosophy
  3. Western philosophy
  4. Scientific method
  5. Beauty
  6. Ethics
  7. Existence
  8. Experience
  9. Feminism
  10. Humanism
  11. Knowledge
  12. Moral (or Morality)
  13. Logic
  14. Truth

Religion and spirituality

  1. Religion

At least a five-sentence introduction to the religions:

  1. Astrology
  2. Baha'i
    1. Báb
    2. Bahá'u'lláh
  3. Buddhism
    1. Gautama Buddha
  4. Christianity
    1. Church
    2. Jehovah
    3. Jehovah's Witnesses
    4. Jesus
    5. Pope
    6. Protestantism
    7. Trinity
  5. Confucianism
  6. God
    1. Monotheism
  7. Hinduism
    1. Brahma
    2. Vishnu
    3. Siva
  8. Islam
    1. Ali
    2. Mosque
    3. Muhammad
    4. Omar
    5. Sufism
  9. Jainism
  10. Judaism
    1. Moses
    2. Synagogue
    3. Yahweh
  11. Mythology
    1. Greek mythology
  12. Shinto
  13. Sikhism
    1. Nanak
  14. Spirits
  15. Taoism
  16. Unitarianism
  17. Voodoo
  18. Zoroastrianism
    1. Zoroaster

Religious philosophies

  1. Agnosticism
  2. Atheism
  3. Religious Fundamentalism

Culture

At least three sentences on:

  1. Art
    1. Painting
    2. Sculpture
  2. Culture
  3. Dance
  4. Radio
  5. Television
  6. Theater
    1. Broadway
    2. Noh
  7. Tourism

Architecture

also civil engeering

  1. Architecture
  2. Arch
  3. Bridge
  4. Canal
  5. Dam
  6. Dome
  7. Nail
  8. Tower


Film

  1. Film
    1. History/evolution
      1. Silent era/transition to sound
      2. Studio era (Including the different "type" of films from MGM, Warner Bros, Fox, Columbia, etc.)
      3. Modern era
    2. Actors
      1. Silent stars - Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson
      2. Studio stars / contract era - Crawford, Gable, Harlow, Wayne, Garbo, Lombard, Shearer, etc.
      3. Growth of the (Stanislausky) method - Brando, Dean, Monroe, Actors Studio
      4. Modern era (top actors now key power)
    3. Directors / creators
      1. Silent greats - DW Griffith, Frances Marion, Cecil B. de Mille
      2. European film grows - Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Renoir
      3. Studio system (Michael Curtiz, Mitchell Leison, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Dorothy Arzner)
      4. Ingmar Bergman
      5. Walt Disney
      6. Akira Kurosawa
      7. Alfred Hitchcock
      8. Film school (1970s) generation - Spielberg, Lucas, Scorcese, etc.

Literature

  1. Literature
    1. Novel
      1. Don Quixote
      2. Thousand and One Nights
    2. Poetry
      1. Epic of Gilgamesh
      2. Iliad
      3. Mahabharata
      4. Odyssey
  2. Books
    1. The Bible
    2. The Qur'an

Music

  1. Music
    1. CD
    2. Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
    3. Jazz
    4. Pop music
    5. Reggae
    6. Soul and gospel
      1. Aretha Franklin
    7. Rock and roll
      1. The Beatles
      2. Heavy metal
      3. Elvis Presley
      4. The Rolling Stones
    8. Traditional
      1. Gamelan
      2. Indian classical music
  2. Musical Instruments
    1. Drum
    2. Flute
    3. Guitar
    4. Piano
    5. String instrument
    6. Trumpet
    7. Violin/Fiddle

Science

At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields:

Astronomy

  1. Astronomy
  2. Asteroid
  3. Big Bang
  4. Black hole
  5. Comet
  6. Earth
  7. Galaxy
  8. Jupiter
  9. Light year
  10. Mars
  11. Mercury
  12. Milky Way
  13. Moon
  14. Neptune
  15. Planet
  16. Pluto
  17. Saturn
  18. Solar System
  19. Star
  20. Sun
  21. Uranus
  22. Venus

Biology

  1. Biology

Biological materials

  1. DNA
  2. Enzyme
  3. Protein

Mammalian anatomy

  1. Digestive system
    1. Large intestine
    2. Small intestine
    3. Liver
  2. Respiratory system
    1. Lungs
  3. Skeletal system
  4. Nervous system
    1. Brain
    2. Sensory system
      1. Auditory system
        1. Ear
      2. Visual system
        1. Eye
      3. Olfactory system
      4. Gustatory system
      5. Somatosensory system
  5. Endocrine system
  6. Circulatory system
    1. Blood
    2. Heart
  7. Reproductive system
    1. Penis
    2. Vagina
  8. Integumentary system
    1. Skin
  9. Breast

Biological processes

  1. Digestion
  2. Evolution
  3. Excretion
  4. Photosynthesis
  5. Pregnancy
  6. Reproduction
  7. Respiration

Organisms

  1. Animal
    1. Chordate
      1. Amphibian
        1. Frog
      2. Bird
        1. Dove
        2. Eagle
      3. Fish
        1. Shark
      4. Mammal
        1. Bat
        2. Bear
        3. Camel
        4. Cat
        5. Cattle
        6. Dog
        7. Dolphin
        8. Elephant
        9. Horse
        10. Sheep
        11. Lion
        12. Mammoth
        13. Monkey
        14. Pig
        15. Whale
      5. Reptile
        1. Snake
    2. Insect
      1. Ant
      2. Bee
      3. Butterfly
    3. Arachnid
  2. Archea
  3. Bacterium
  4. Fungus
  5. Plant
    1. Flower
    2. Palm
    3. Tree
  6. Protist
  7. Cell

Chemistry

  1. Chemistry
  2. Element
  3. List of elements
  4. Biochemistry
  5. Organic chemistry
  6. Periodic table
  7. Aluminium
  8. Carbon
  9. Copper
  10. Gold
  11. Iron
  12. Helium
  13. Hydrogen
  14. Lithium
  15. Neon
  16. Nitrogen
  17. Oxygen
  18. Silver
  19. Zinc

Ecology

  1. Ecology
  2. Species
    1. Endangered species

Geology

  1. Basalt
  2. Flint
  3. Limestone
  4. Earth (Geology)

Medicine

  1. Medicine
  2. AIDS
  3. Alcoholism
  4. Cancer
  5. Cirrhosis of the liver
  6. Cholera
  7. Dentistry
  8. Diabetes mellitus
  9. Dysentery
  10. Heart disease
  11. Hypertension
  12. Influenza
  13. Lung cancer
  14. Malaria
  15. Malnutrtion
  16. Obesity
  17. Sexually transmitted disease
  18. Smallpox
  19. Stroke
  20. Syphilis
  21. Tuberculosis
  22. Virus
  23. Blindness
  24. Mental Illness
  25. Deafness

Meterology

  1. Cloud
  2. El Niño
  3. Global Warming
  4. Tornado
  5. Tropical cyclone
  6. Rain
  7. Snow

Physics

  1. Physics
  2. Atom
    1. Electron
    2. Neutron
    3. Proton
  3. Energy
    1. Electromagnetic radiation
      1. Radio
      2. IR
      3. Visible
        1. Spectrum
        2. Black
        3. White
        4. Red
        5. Yellow
        6. Green
        7. Blue
      4. UV
      5. Gamma
  4. Isotope
  5. Molecule
  6. Light
  7. Forces
    1. Gravitation
    2. Electromagnetism
    3. Weak nuclear force
    4. Strong nuclear force
  8. Acceleration
  9. Force
  10. Mass
  11. Speed
  12. Time
  13. Velocity
  14. Weight
  15. Quantum mechanics
  16. Theory of relativity

Human sciences

  1. Anthropology
  2. Education
    1. University
  3. Human
  4. Psychology
  5. Sociology

Resources

  1. Coal
  2. Gas
  3. Minerals
  4. Diamond
  5. Oil
  6. Salt

SI units and others

  1. SI Unit System
  2. Metre
  3. Litre
  4. Kilogram
  5. Volt
  6. Watt
  7. Newton

Calendars and timekeeping

  1. Calendar
  2. Day
    1. Gregorian calendar
      1. Day-of-week algorithm
      2. Calculation of date of Easter
      3. Leap year
  3. Month
  4. Time zone
    1. Daylight Saving Time / Summer Time
  5. Year
  6. (article about each of the months of the year)
  7. Chinese calendar

Technology

Computers

  1. Computer
    1. Processor
    2. RAM
    3. Motherboard
    4. Hard disk
    5. Boot loader
  2. Artificial Intelligence
  3. Computer science
    1. Algorithm
  4. Operating system
    1. Microsoft Windows
    2. Mac OS
    3. GNU and Linux
    4. Unix
  5. Programming language
    1. C
    2. Java
    3. Pascal
    4. PHP
  6. Software
  7. User interface
    1. Mouse
    2. Keyboard
    3. Monitor

Common technology

  1. Coinage
  2. Engineering
  3. Inclined plane
  4. Lever
  5. Metallurgy
  6. Pulley
  7. Screw
  8. Wedge
  9. Wheel

Communication

  1. Letters / Alphabet
    1. Chinese character
    2. Cyrillic alphabet
    3. Greek alphabet
    4. Latin alphabet
    5. Literacy
  2. Information
  3. Internet
    1. E-mail
    2. Internet protocol
    3. TCP
    4. World Wide Web
      1. Web browser
    5. HTTP
    6. HTML
    7. Wiki
  4. Journalism
    1. Newspaper
    2. Mass media
    3. Radio
  5. Printing
  6. Railroad
  7. Telegraph
  8. Telephone
    1. Mobile telephone
  9. Television
  10. Writing

Electronics

  1. Electronics
    1. Voltage
    2. Current
    3. Charge
    4. Frequency
    5. Phase
    6. Resistance
    7. Reactance
    8. Inductance
    9. Capacitance
    10. Gain
  2. Components
    1. Transistor
    2. Diode
    3. Resistor
    4. Capacitor
    5. Transformer
    6. Inductor

Food production

  1. Grain grinding
  2. Irrigation
  3. Knife
  4. Plough
  5. Pottery

Harnessing energy

  1. Combustion engine
  2. Electricity
  3. Depletable energy sources and fossil fuels
    1. Coal
    2. Gas
    3. Oil
    4. Nuclear
  4. Fire
  5. Renewable energy sources
    1. Solar
    2. Hydro
    3. Wind
    4. Waves
    5. Wood
  6. Steam engine

Materials

  1. Glass
  2. Paper
  3. Plastic

Transportation

  1. Transport
  2. Aeroplane
  3. Automobile
  4. Bicycle
  5. Boat
  6. Ship
  7. Train

Weapons

  1. Axe
  2. Explosives
  3. Firearms
  4. Gunpowder
  5. Machine gun
  6. Martial arts (i.e. one's own body as a weapon)
  7. Nuclear weapon
  8. Sword
  9. Tank

Industry

  1. Manufacturing
  2. Mining
  3. Refining

Foodstuffs

  1. Barley
  2. Bread
  3. Cheese
  4. Chocolate
  5. Cotton
  6. Honey
  7. Fruit
    1. Apple
    2. Banana
    3. Grape
    4. Lemon
    5. Orange
  8. Maize
  9. Oats
  10. Potato
  11. Rice
  12. Sorghum
  13. Soya bean
  14. Sugar
  15. Tobacco
  16. Vegetable
  17. Wheat

Beverages

  1. Alcohol
    1. Beer
    2. Wine
  2. Cola
  3. Coffee
  4. Tea
  5. Water
  6. Milk

Language

  1. Language
  2. Dialect
  3. Grammar
  4. Linguistics
  5. Pronunciation
  6. Syntax
  7. Word
  8. (article about the language specific to that Wikipedia)
  9. Arabic
  10. Bengali
  11. English
  12. Esperanto
  13. French
  14. German
  15. Greek
  16. Hebrew
  17. Hindi
  18. Quechua
  19. Japanese
  20. Latin
  21. Russian
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Spanish
  24. Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua)
  25. Tamil
  26. Turkish
  27. Swahili

Mathematics

  1. Mathematics
  2. Algebra
  3. Axiom
  4. Calculus
    1. Integration
    2. Differentiation
  5. Geometry
    1. Circle
      1. Pi
    2. Square
    3. Triangle
  6. Group theory
  7. Mathematical logic
  8. Mathematical proof
    1. Proof by deduction
    2. Proof by induction
    3. Proof by contradiction
  9. Number
    1. Complex number
    2. Integer
    3. Natural number
    4. Prime number
    5. Rational number
  10. Infinity
  11. Set theory
  12. Statistics
  13. Trigonometry

Military

  1. Army
    1. Artillery
    2. Cavalry
    3. Infantry
  2. Navy
  3. Airforce

Sports and games

  1. Sport
    1. Olympics
    2. Football World Cup
    3. Athletics
    4. Badminton
    5. Baseball
    6. Basketball
    7. Cricket
    8. Fencing
    9. Ice hockey
    10. Judo
    11. Motor racing
    12. Rugby
    13. Soccer
    14. Tennis
    15. Volleyball
    16. Waterpolo
    17. Wrestling
  2. Game
    1. Backgammon
    2. Checkers
    3. Chess
    4. Go
    5. Mancala
  3. Gambling
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