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There are a lot of Wikipedias. Some of them are very big, and some are very small. They all need certain basic articles. They can even just be stubs. This is a list of 1,000 basic articles every Wikipedia needs. This page should include the same article as Wikipedia:m:List of articles all languages should have. When change is needed, please change at Meta first. This page currently marked as Version 1.0 which refers to the revision done on August 14th, 2006 at 21:36.

You heard the overly serious ones; if they're good enough topics for Wikipedia, they are good enough topics for us. Or something like that. Write about these essential stuffings, and make "it" make "sense". If you feel like it, that is.

See also: Illogicopedia:Vital/Level2.

Biography

Actors, dancers and models

1. Brando, Marlon
2. Chaplin, Charlie
3. Dietrich, Marlene
4. Monroe, Marilyn
5. Laurel, Stan
6. Hardy, Ollie Fixed: Laurel and Hardy

Artists and architects

1. Corbusier, Le
2. Dalí, Salvador
3. Dürer, Albrecht
4. Gogh, Vincent van
5. Goya, Francisco
6. Kahlo, Frida
7. Leonardo da Vinci
8. Matisse, Henri
9. Michelangelo
10. Picasso, Pablo
11. Pollock, Jackson
12. Rembrandt
13. Velázquez, Diego
14. Warhol, Andy
15. Wright, Frank Lloyd

Authors, playwrights and poets

1. Abu Nuwas
2. Arnaut, Daniel
3. Bashō
4. Camões, Luís de
5. Cervantes, Miguel de
6. Chaucer, Geoffrey
7. Chekhov, Anton
8. Dante Alighieri
9. Darío, Rubén
10. Dickens, Charles
11. Dostoevsky, Fyodor
12. Ferdowsi
13. Fuzûlî
14. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
15. Homer
16. Horace
17. Hugo, Victor
18. Ibsen, Henrik
19. Kafka, Franz
20. Kālidāsa
21. Khayyam, Omar
22. Li Bai
23. Mahfouz, Naguib
24. Molière
25. Ovid
26. Poe, Edgar Allan
27. Premchand, Munshi
28. Proust, Marcel
29. Rimbaud, Arthur
30. Rustaveli, Shota
31. Sappho
32. Shakespeare, William
33. Sophocles
34. Sturluson, Snorri
35. Tolkien, J. R. R.
36. Tolstoy, Leo
37. Twain, Mark
38. Virgil
39. Wilde, Oscar
40. Wu Cheng'en

Composers and musicians

1. Bach, Johann Sebastian
2. Beatles, The
3. Beethoven, Ludwig van
4. Brahms, Johannes
5. Chopin, Frédéric
6. Dvořák Antonín
7. Jackson, Michael
8. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
9. Pink Floyd
10. Presley, Elvis
11. Sibelius, Jean
12. Stravinsky, Igor
13. Verdi, Giuseppe
14. Vivaldi, Antonio
15. Wagner, Richard

Explorers

1. Amundsen, Roald
2. Armstrong, Neil
3. Cartier, Jacques
4. Columbus, Christopher
5. Cook, James
6. Cortés Hernán
7. Gama, Vasco da
8. Magellan, Ferdinand
9. Polo, Marco
10. Zheng He

Film directors and screenwriters

1. Bergman, Ingmar
2. Disney, Walt
3. Hitchcock, Alfred
4. Kubrick, Stanley
5. Kurosawa, Akira
6. Lucas, George
7. Spielberg, Steven

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

1. Archimedes
2. Bell, Alexander Graham
3. Berners-Lee, Tim
4. Brahe, Tycho
5. Copernicus, Nicolaus
6. Curie, Marie
7. Darwin, Charles
8. Edison, Thomas
9. Einstein, Albert
10. Euclid
11. Faraday, Michael
12. Fermi, Enrico
13. Ford, Henry
14. Fourier, Joseph
15. Galileo Galilei
16. Gauss, Carl Friedrich
17. Gutenberg, Johann
18. Kepler, Johannes
19. Keynes, John Maynard
20. Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
21. Leibniz, Gottfried
22. Linnaeus, Carolus
23. Maxwell, James Clerk
24. Mendeleev, Dmitri
25. Newton, Sir Isaac
26. Pascal, Blaise
27. Pasteur, Louis
28. Planck, Max
29. Rutherford, Ernest
30. Schrödinger, Erwin
31. Stallman, Richard
32. Tesla, Nikola
33. Turing, Alan
34. Watt, James
35. Wright brothers

Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)

1. Aquinas, Thomas
2. Aristotle
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Beauvoir, Simone de
5. Chomsky, Noam
6. Descartes, René
7. Durkheim, Émile
8. Foucault, Michel
9. Francis of Assisi, Saint
10. Freud, Sigmund
11. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
12. Herodotus
13. Hippocrates
14. Kant, Immanuel
15. Locke, John
16. Luther, Martin
17. Luxemburg, Rosa
18. Machiavelli, Niccolò
19. Marx, Karl
20. Nietzsche, Friedrich
21. Paul of Tarsus
22. Plato
23. Pythagoras
24. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
25. Smith, Adam
26. Socrates
27. Sun Tzu
28. Voltaire
29. Weber, Max
30. Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Politicans, leaders and aristocrats

1. Akbar
2. Alexander the Great
3. Atatürk, Kemal
4. Augustus
5. Bismarck, Otto von
6. Bolívar, Simón
7. Bonaparte, Napoleon
8. Bush, George W.
9. Caesar, Julius
10. Charlemagne
11. Churchill, Winston
12. Cixi, Empress Dowager
13. Cleopatra
14. De Gaulle, Charles
15. Gandhi, Indira
16. Constantine the Great
17. Elizabeth I of England
18. Genghis Khan
19. Haile Selassie
20. Hirohito
21. Hitler, Adolf
22. Lenin, V. I.
23. Mandela, Nelson
24. Mao Zedong
25. Merkel, Angela
26. Mussolini, Benito
27. Nkrumah, Kwame
28. Peter I of Russia
29. Qin Shi Huang
30. Saladin
31. Stalin, Joseph
32. Thatcher, Margaret
33. Truman, Harry S.
34. Victoria of the United Kingdom
35. Washington, George

Revolutionaries and activists

1. Bin Laden, Osama
2. Gandhi, Mahatma
3. Goldman, Emma
4. Joan of Arc
5. Keller, Helen
6. King, Martin Luther, Jr.
7. Nightingale, Florence
8. Parks, Rosa
9. Teresa, Mother

History

This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:

1. History

Prehistory and ancient world

1. Prehistory
2. Stone Age
3. Bronze Age
4. Iron Age
5. Mesopotamia
6. Ancient Egypt
7. Ancient Greece

Middle Ages and Early Modern

1. Age of Enlightenment
2. Aztec
3. Byzantine Empire
4. Crusades
5. Holy Roman Empire
6. Hundred Years War
7. Middle Ages
8. Ming Dynasty
9. Ottoman Empire
10. Protestant Reformation
11. Renaissance
12. Thirty Years War
13. Vikings

Modern

1. American Civil War
2. Apartheid
3. British Empire
4. Cold War
5. French Revolution
6. Great Depression
7. Gulf War
8. The Holocaust
9. Industrial Revolution
10. Korean War
11. Nazi Germany
12. Qing Dynasty
13. Spanish Civil War
14. Treaty of Versailles
15. Vietnam War
16. World War I
17. World War II

Geography

This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.

1. Geography
2. Capital
3. City
4. Continent
5. Country
6. Desert
7. Earth science
8. Map
9. North Pole
10. Ocean
11. Rainforest
12. River
13. Sea
14. South Pole

Continents and major regions

At least three sentences on each.

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

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:

1. Afghanistan
2. Algeria
3. Argentina
4. Australia
5. Austria
6. Bangladesh
7. Brazil
8. Canada
9. China
   1. People's Republic of China
10. Democratic Republic of the Congo
11. Egypt
12. Ethiopia
13. France
14. Germany
15. Greece
16. India
17. Indonesia
18. Iran
19. Iraq
20. Republic of Ireland
21. Israel
22. Italy
23. Japan
24. Mexico
25. Pakistan
26. Poland
27. Russia
28. Saudi Arabia
29. Singapore
30. South Africa
31. South Korea
32. Spain
33. Sudan
34. Thailand
35. Turkey
36. Ukraine
37. United Kingdom
38. United States
39. Vietnam

Cities

1. Amsterdam
2. Athens
3. Baghdad
4. Bangkok
5. Beijing
6. Beirut
7. Berlin
8. Brussels
9. Buenos Aires
10. Cairo
11. Cape Town
12. Damascus
13. Dublin
14. Florence
15. Hong Kong
16. Istanbul
17. Jakarta
18. Jerusalem
19. Karachi
20. Kyoto
21. London
22. Mecca
23. Mexico City
24. Moscow
25. Mumbai
26. Nairobi
27. New Delhi
28. New York City
29. Paris
30. Rio de Janeiro
31. Rome
32. Seoul
33. Shanghai
34. Singapore
35. Sydney
36. Tehran
37. Tokyo
38. Venice
39. Vienna
40. 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. Caribbean Sea
8. Caspian Sea
9. Congo River
10. Danube
11. Dead Sea
12. Euphrates
13. Ganges River
14. Great Barrier Reef
15. Great Lakes
16. Indian Ocean
17. Indus River
18. Lake Baikal
19. Lake Tanganyika
20. Lake Titicaca
21. Lake Victoria
22. Mediterranean Sea
23. Mississippi River
24. Niagara Falls
25. Niger River
26. Nile
27. North Sea
28. Pacific Ocean
29. Panama Canal
30. Rhine
31. Suez Canal
32. Southern Ocean
33. Tigris
34. Volga River
35. Yangtze River

Mountains, valleys and deserts

1. Alps
2. Andes
3. Himalaya
4. Mount Kilimanjaro
5. Mount Everest
6. Rocky Mountains
7. Sahara

Society

1. Society
2. Civilization
3. Education

Family and relationships

1. Family
2. Child
3. Man
4. Marriage
5. Woman

Thought, behavior and emotion

1. Love

Politics

1. Politics
2. Anarchism
3. Communism
4. Democracy
5. Dictatorship
6. Diplomacy
7. Fascism
8. Globalization
9. Government
10. Imperialism
11. Liberalism
12. Marxism
13. Monarchy
14. Nationalism
15. Republic
16. Socialism
17. State
18. Political party

Business and economics

1. Economics
   1. Macroeconomics
   2. Microeconomics
2. Agriculture
3. Capital
4. Capitalism
5. Currency
   1. Euro
   2. Japanese yen
   3. Pound sterling
   4. United States dollar
6. Industry
7. Money

Law

1. Law
2. Constitution

International organizations

1. African Union
2. Arab League
3. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
4. Commonwealth of Independent States
5. Commonwealth of Nations
6. European Union
7. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
8. NATO
9. Nobel Prize
10. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
11. United Nations
    1. International Atomic Energy Agency
    2. International Court of Justice
    3. International Monetary Fund
    4. UNESCO
    5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    6. World Health Organization
12. World Bank Group
13. World Trade Organization

War and military

1. Infantry
2. Peace
3. War

Social issues

1. Abortion
2. Capital punishment
3. Human rights
4. Racism
5. Slavery

Culture

At least three sentences on:

1. Culture
2. Art
   1. Comics
   2. Painting
   3. Photography
   4. Sculpture
      1. Pottery
3. Dance
4. Fashion
5. Theatre

Language and literature

1. Language
2. Alphabet
   1. Chinese character
   2. Cyrillic alphabet
   3. Greek alphabet
   4. Latin alphabet
   5. Letter
3. Grammar
   1. Noun
   2. Syntax
   3. Verb
4. Linguistics
5. Literacy
6. Literature
   1. Prose
   2. Fiction
   3. Novel
      1. The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
   4. Poetry
      1. Epic of Gilgamesh
      2. Iliad
      3. Mahabharata
      4. Ramayana
7. Pronunciation
8. Specific languages
   1. Arabic
   2. Bengali
   3. Chinese
   4. English
   5. Esperanto
   6. French
   7. German
   8. Greek
   9. Hebrew
   10. Hindi
   11. Interlingua
   12. Italian
   13. Japanese
   14. Latin
   15. Persian
   16. Russian
   17. Sanskrit
   18. Spanish
   19. Tamil
   20. Turkish
9. Word
10. Writing

Architecture and civil engineering

1. Architecture
2. Arch
3. Bridge
4. Canal
5. Dam
6. Dome
7. House
8. Nail (engineering)
9. Specific structures
   1. Aswan Dam
   2. Colosseum
   3. Great Wall of China
   4. Eiffel Tower
   5. Empire State Building
   6. Hagia Sophia
   7. Parthenon
   8. Pyramids of Giza
   9. St. Peter's Basilica
   10. Taj Mahal
10. Pyramid
11. Tower

Film, radio and television

1. Film
   1. Animation
2. Radio
3. Television

Music

1. Music
2. Compact disc
3. Song
4. Specific music genres
   1. Blues
   2. Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
   3. Electronic music
   4. Folk music
      1. Gamelan
   5. Jazz
   6. Pop music
   7. Reggae
   8. Rhythm and blues
   9. Rock and roll
5. Specific musical instruments
   1. Drum
   2. Flute
   3. Guitar
   4. Piano
   5. Trumpet
   6. Violin

Recreation

1. Game
   1. Backgammon
   2. Chess
   3. Go (board game)
   4. Mancala
   5. Playing card
2. Gambling
3. Martial arts
   1. Judo
4. Olympic Games
5. Party
6. Sport
   1. American football
   2. Auto racing
   3. Badminton
   4. Baseball
   5. Basketball
   6. Cricket
   7. Fencing
   8. Football (soccer)
   9. Golf
   10. Horse racing
   11. Ice hockey
   12. Tennis
   13. Wrestling
   14. Athletics
7. Toy

Religion

1. Religion
2. Astrology
3. Deity
   1. God
4. Festival
5. Mythology
6. Religious philosophies
   1. Atheism
   2. Fundamentalism
7. Soul
8. Specific religions
   1. Bahá'í Faith
   2. Buddhism
   3. Christianity
   4. Confucianism
   5. Hinduism
   6. Islam
   7. Jainism
   8. Judaism
   9. Shinto
   10. Sikhism
   11. Taoism
   12. Voodoo
   13. Zoroastrianism
9. Spirituality

Philosophy

1. Philosophy
2. Beauty
3. Ethics
4. Epistemology
5. Feminism
6. Free will
7. Knowledge
8. Logic
9. Mind
10. Morality
11. Reality
12. Truth

Science

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

1. Science

Astronomy

1. Astronomy
2. Asteroid
3. Big Bang
4. Black hole
5. Comet
6. Galaxy
   1. Milky Way
7. Light year
8. Moon
9. Planet
   1. Earth
   2. Jupiter
   3. Mars
   4. Mercury
   5. Neptune
   6. Saturn
   7. Uranus
   8. Venus
10. Solar system
11. Star
    1. Sun
12. Universe

Biology

1. Biology
2. Biological materials
   1. DNA
   2. Enzyme
   3. Protein
3. Botany
4. Death
   1. Suicide
5. Ecology
   1. Endangered species
6. Domestication
7. Life
8. Scientific classification
   1. Species

Biological processes

1. Metabolism
   1. Digestion
   2. Photosynthesis
   3. Respiration (physiology)
2. Evolution
3. Biological reproduction
   1. Asexual reproduction
   2. Sexual reproduction
      1. Heterosexuality
      2. Homosexuality
      3. Pregnancy
      4. Sex
         1. Female
         2. Male
      5. Sexual intercourse

Anatomy

1. Anatomy
2. Cell
3. Circulatory system
   1. Blood
   2. Heart
4. Endocrine system
5. Gastrointestinal tract
   1. Large intestine
   2. Small intestine
   3. Liver
6. Integumentary system
   1. Breast
   2. Skin
7. Nervous system
   1. Brain
   2. Sensory system
      1. Auditory system
         1. Ear
      2. Gustatory system
      3. Olfactory system
      4. Somatosensory system
      5. Visual system
         1. Eye
8. Reproductive system
   1. Penis
   2. Vagina
9. Respiratory system
   1. Lung
10. Skeleton

Health and medicine

1. Medicine
2. Addiction
   1. Alcoholism
   2. Drug addiction
3. Alzheimer's disease
4. Cancer
5. Cholera
6. Common cold
7. Dentistry
8. Disability
   1. Blindness
   2. Hearing impairment
   3. Mental illness
9. Disease
10. Drugs
    1. Aspirin
    2. Cannabis
    3. Cocaine
    4. Ethanol
    5. Nicotine
       1. Tobacco
    6. Opium
11. Health
12. Heart attack
13. Heart disease
14. Malaria
15. Malnutrition
16. Obesity
17. Pandemic
18. Penicillin
19. Pneumonia
20. Poliomyelitis
21. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
22. Stroke
23. Tuberculosis
24. Virus
    1. Influenza
    2. Smallpox

Organisms

1. Organism
2. Animal
   1. Arthropod
      1. Insect
         1. Ant
         2. Bee
         3. Butterfly
      2. Arachnid
         1. Spider
   2. Chordate
      1. Amphibian
         1. Frog
      2. Bird
         1. Dove
      3. Fish
         1. Shark
      4. Mammal
         1. Ape
            1. Human
            2. Monkey
         2. Camel
         3. Cat
         4. Cattle
         5. Dog
         6. Dolphin
         7. Elephant
         8. Horse
         9. Sheep
         10. Lion
         11. Pig
         12. Whale
      5. Reptile
         1. Dinosaur
         2. Snake
         3. Alligator
         4. Lizard
3. Archaea
4. Bacteria
5. Fungus
   1. Mushroom
6. Plant
   1. Flower
   2. Tree
7. Protist

Chemistry

1. Chemistry
2. Biochemistry
3. Chemical compound
   1. Acid
   2. Base (chemistry)
   3. Salt
4. Chemical element
   1. List of elements
   2. Periodic table
   3. Aluminium
   4. Carbon
   5. Copper
   6. Gold
   7. Helium
   8. Hydrogen
   9. Iron
   10. Neon
   11. Nitrogen
   12. Oxygen
   13. Silver
   14. Tin
   15. Zinc
5. Metal
   1. Alloy
      1. Steel
6. Organic chemistry
   1. Alcohol
   2. Carbohydrate
   3. Hormone
   4. Lipid
7. Phase (matter)
   1. Gas
   2. Liquid
   3. Plasma
   4. Solid

Weather, climate and geology

1. Avalanche
2. Climate
   1. ENSO
   2. Global warming
3. Earthquake
4. Geology
   1. Mineral
      1. Diamond
   2. Plate tectonics
   3. Rock
5. Natural disaster
6. Volcano
7. Weather
   1. Cloud
   2. Flood
      1. Tsunami
   3. Rain
      1. Acid rain
      2. Snow
   4. Tornado
   5. Tropical cyclone

Physics

1. Physics
2. Acceleration
3. Atom
4. Energy
   1. Electromagnetic radiation
      1. Infrared
      2. Visual spectrum
         1. Color
      3. Ultraviolet
      4. Gamma ray
5. Force
   1. Electromagnetism
   2. Gravitation
   3. Nuclear force
6. Light
7. Mass
8. Molecule
9. Quantum mechanics
10. Sound
11. Speed
12. Theory of relativity
13. Time
14. Velocity
15. Weight

Timekeeping

1. Calendar
   1. Gregorian calendar
2. Day
3. Month
4. Time zone
   1. Daylight saving time
5. Week
6. Year

Technology

1. Technology
2. Biotechnology
3. Clothing
   1. Cotton
4. Coinage
5. Engineering
   1. Lever
   2. Pulley
   3. Screw
   4. Wedge
   5. Wheel
6. Irrigation
   1. Plough
7. Metallurgy
8. Nanotechnology

Communication

1. Communication
2. Information
3. Journalism
   1. Newspaper
   2. Mass media
4. Printing
5. Railroad
6. Telephone
   1. Mobile telephone

Electronics

1. Electronics
   1. Current (electricity)
   2. Frequency
2. Components
   1. Capacitor
   2. Inductor
   3. Transistor
   4. Diode
   5. Resistor
   6. Transformer

Computers and Internet

1. Computer
   1. Hard disk
   2. Processor
   3. RAM
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Information technology
   1. Algorithm
4. Internet
   1. E-mail
   2. World Wide Web
      1. Web browser
5. Operating system
6. Programming language
7. Software
8. User interface
   1. Keyboard
   2. Monitor
   3. Mouse (computing)

Raw materials and energy

1. Electricity
   1. Nuclear power
2. Fossil fuel
3. Fire
4. Internal combustion engine
5. Renewable energy
6. Glass
7. Paper
8. Plastic
9. Steam engine
10. Wood

Transportation

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

Weapons

1. Weapon
2. Axe
3. Explosive material
   1. Gunpowder
4. Firearm
5. Machine gun
6. Nuclear weapon
7. Sword
8. Tank

Foodstuffs

1. Food
2. Bread
3. Cereal
   1. Barley
   2. Maize
   3. Oat
   4. Rice
   5. Rye
   6. Sorghum
   7. Wheat
4. Cheese
5. Chocolate
6. Honey
7. Fruit
   1. Apple
   2. Banana
   3. Grape
   4. Legume
      1. Soybean
   5. Lemon
   6. Nut (fruit)
   7. Orange
8. Meat
9. Sugar
10. Vegetable
    1. Potato
    2. Carrot

Beverages

1. 1. Beer
   2. Wine
2. Cola
3. Coffee
4. Milk
5. Tea
6. Water
7. Juice
   1. Orange Juice
   2. Apple Juice
   3. Grape Juice

Mathematics

1. Mathematics
2. Algebra
3. Arithmetic
4. Axiom
5. Calculus
6. Geometry
   1. Circle
      1. Pi
   2. Square
   3. Triangle
7. Group theory
8. Mathematical proof
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

Measurement and units

1. Measurement
2. SI
3. Kilogram
4. Litre
5. Metre
6. Newton
7. Volt
8. Watt
9. Einstein

References

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