User:EvanW/Wikimedia's list of recommended articles
NOTE: This is a copy-and-paste done 11/29/2009 from Wikimedia. The original is under Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License, though I'm not sure how much copyright a simple list has.
I'm putting here Wikimedia's list of "Articles Every Wikipedia Should Have," as a list of the articles a somewhat experienced group, albeit liberal, thinks are important for foreign-language wiki encyclopedias. I disagree with them on several points - for example, they don't list articles on the Bible or Creationism. However, we can still look over this list, thank God for how far we've gotten, and work to fix the redlinks. So far, it looks like we're doing pretty well. But, there're a fair number of articles we don't have. Please help write them!
Note: The bolded articles are the ones they think are especially important.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Actors, dancers and models
- 1.2 Artists and architects
- 1.3 Authors, playwrights and poets
- 1.4 Composers and musicians
- 1.5 Explorers and Travelers
- 1.6 Film directors and screenwriters
- 1.7 Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- 1.8 Philosophers and social scientists
- 1.9 Political leaders
- 1.10 Religious figures and theologians
- 2 Philosophy and psychology
- 3 Religion
- 4 Social sciences
- 5 Language and literature
- 6 Science
- 7 Technology
- 8 Arts and recreation
- 9 History and geography
Biography
Actors, dancers and models
Artists and architects
- Corbusier, Le
- 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
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Bashō
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Byron, George
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- Hafez
- Homer
- Hugo, Victor
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
Composers and musicians
- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Piaf, Edith
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Presley, Elvis
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Umm Kulthum
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vysotsky, Vladimir
- Wagner, Richard
Explorers and Travelers
- 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
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- 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
- 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
- Aristotle
- Confucius
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Chomsky, Noam
- 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
- Akbar the Great
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka the Great
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Augustus
- Ben-Gurion, David
- 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 I of Russia
- Qin Shi Huang
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Sun Yat-Sen
- Tamerlane
- Umar
- Washington, George
Religious figures and theologians
- Abraham
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Buddha
- al-Ghazali
- Jesus
- Luther, Martin
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Saint Paul
Philosophy and psychology
Philosophy
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Philosophy
- Reality
- Truth
Psychology
Religion
World view and religion
Social sciences
Family and relationships
Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- Sovereign state
- Political party
- Propaganda
- Terrorism
Business and economics
Law
International organizations
- 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
Social issues
Language and literature
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Alphabet
- Literacy
- Writing
- Literature
Science
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
- Biological classification
Biological processes
Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Health
- Headache
- Heart attack
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Antibiotic
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Virus
Organisms
Chemistry
Weather, climate and geology
Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Length
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- Phase (matter)
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Velocity
- Time
- Thermodynamics
Measurement and units
Timekeeping
Foodstuffs
Beverages
Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry
Technology
Communication
Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer software
Energy and fuels
Materials
Transportation
Weapons
Arts and recreation
Architecture and civil engineering
Film, radio and television
Music
Recreation
History and geography
History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Gupta Empire
Middle Ages and Early Modern
- 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
Modern
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- Cultural Revolution
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi Germany
- Meiji Restoration
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Qing Dynasty
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
Geography
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
Continents and major regions
Countries
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
- People's Republic of China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican City
- Vietnam
- Venezuela
Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Berlin
- Bogotá
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Delhi
- Dhaka
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kinshasa
- Kolkata
- Lagos
- Los Angeles
- London
- 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
- Amazon River
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Congo River
- Danube
- Dead Sea
- 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