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- Important note: 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.
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.
In addition to simply listing the articles, this project hopes to eventually create easily translatable versions of these articles, possibly containing core information at . Until then, links to the largest Wikipedia, the English language version, are provided as a translatable resource.
Top-priority entries, which are deemed 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 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.
This list is limited to 1000 articles but a much larger list is available at List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded.
Four 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) and Version 1.3 (24 June 2012).
Tempolete:Top1000 recent changes
Section | Version 1.1 | Current Number | Target Number | Vital articles |
---|---|---|---|---|
Biography | 216 | 204 | TBD | 120 |
Philosophy and psychology | 18 | 18 | TBD | 25 |
World view and religion | 21 | 25 | TBD | 46 |
Social sciences | 71 | 70 | TBD | 93 |
Language and literature | 43 | 47 | TBD | 36 |
Culture, arts and recreation | 73 | 76 | TBD | 84 |
Science | 245 | 246 | TBD | 250 |
* Astronomy | 22 | 22 | TBD | 26 |
* Biology | 118 | 119 | TBD | 104 |
** Health and medicine | 34 | 37 | TBD | 42 |
* Chemistry | 27 | 27 | TBD | 36 |
* Earth science | 21 | 21 | TBD | 19 |
* Physics | 36 | 39 | TBD | 41 |
* Measurement and units | 11 | 6 | TBD | 0 |
* Timekeeping | 8 | 6 | TBD | 0 |
* Foodstuffs | 31 | 31 | TBD | 21 |
* Mathematics | 22 | 25 | TBD | 61 |
Technology | 72 | 70 | TBD | 106 |
History | 40 | 45 | TBD | 62 |
Geography | 148 | 146 | TBD | 87 |
Total | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 972 |
Count checked: 16:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
How to use this list fetola
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 English articles for more comprehensive coverage of the topics in many other languages.
Biography fetola
Actors, dancers and models fetola
Artists and architects fetola
- Le Corbusier
- 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, Mimar
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Authors, playwrights and poets fetola
- Abu Nuwas
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- 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
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
Composers and musicians fetola
- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Berlioz, Hector
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, Georg Frideric
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Piaf, Édith
- Presley, Elvis
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Petr
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vysotsky, Vladimir
- Wagner, Richard
Explorers and travelers fetola
- 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 fetola
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Ray, Satyajit
- Spielberg, Steven
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians fetola
- 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 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 fetola
- Aristotle
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Chomsky, Noam
- Confucius
- 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 fetola
- 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 fetola
Philosophy and psychology fetola
Philosophy fetola
- Beauty
- Dialectic
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Philosophy
- Probability
- Reality
- Truth
Psychology fetola
Religion fetola
World view and religion fetola
Social sciences fetola
Family and relationships fetola
Politics fetola
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Colonialism
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Ideology
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State (polity)
- Political party
- Propaganda
- Terrorism
Business and economics fetola
Law fetola
International organizations fetola
- 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 fetola
Social issues fetola
Language and literature fetola
- Language
- Specific languages
- Linguistics
- Grammar
- Word
- Writing system
- Literacy
- Translation
- Literature
Science fetola
Astronomy fetola
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar System
- Spaceflight
- Star
- Universe
Biology fetola
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Biological classification
Biological processes fetola
Anatomy fetola
- Anatomy
- Breast
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Human gastrointestinal tract
- Muscle
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
- Skin
Health and medicine fetola
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Ethanol
- Nicotine
- Health
- Headache
- Immune system
- Heart attack
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Menstruation
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Antibacterial
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Virus
Organisms fetola
Chemistry fetola
- Chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Chemical compound
- Chemical element
- Organic chemistry
- Molecule
- Analytical chemistry
- Physical chemistry
Earth science fetola
Physics fetola
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Classical mechanics
- Force
- Magnet
- Mass
- Metal
- Nuclear fission
- State of matter
- Quantum mechanics
- Radioactive decay
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Semiconductor
- Sound
- Velocity
- Temperature
- Time
- Thermodynamics
- Vacuum
Measurement and units fetola
Timekeeping fetola
Foodstuffs fetola
Beverages fetola
Mathematics fetola
Technology fetola
Communication fetola
Electronics fetola
- Electronics
- Components
Computers and Internet fetola
- Computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
Energy and fuels fetola
Materials fetola
Transportation fetola
Weapons fetola
Arts and recreation fetola
Architecture and civil engineering fetola
Film, radio and television fetola
Music fetola
Recreation fetola
History and geography fetola
History fetola
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
Prehistory and ancient world fetola
- Prehistory
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Roman Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Gupta Empire
Middle Ages and Early Modern fetola
- 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 fetola
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- Cultural Revolution
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi Germany
- Meiji Restoration
- Russian Revolution
- Qing Dynasty
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
Geography fetola
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
Continents and major regions fetola
Countries fetola
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
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
Cities fetola
- 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
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
Especially important to Botswana and South Africa:
- en:Cape Town (RSA)
- en:Gaborone (Gaborone) (Botswana)
- en:Francistown (Francistown) (Botswana)
- en:Mmabatho (RSA, former capital of Bophuthatswana)
- en:Mahikeng (RSA, former capital of en:Bechuanaland, capital of North-West Bokone Bophirim)
- en:Molepolole (Molepolole) (Botswana)
- en:Serowe (Serowe) (Botswana)
- en:Selebi-Phikwe (Selebi-Phikwe) (Botswana, AKA Selibe Phikwe)
Most populated African cities:
en:Cairo (Egypt)Most Tswana will be more interested in other parts of Africa- en:Lagos
- en:Kinshasa
- en:Greater Johannesburg
Bodies of water fetola
- 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
For TN wiki:
- en:Molopo River (Noka ya Molopo) (Botswana, Namibia and South Africa)
- en:Orange River (RSA)
- en:Cuando River (B.)
- ALL OTHERS ON en:List of rivers of Botswana
- Include RSA (south africa) rivers
Dithaba le dikaka (Mountains and deserts) fetola
Others important to Africa (Botswana and South Africa don't have many large mountains):
- en:Mount Kenya
- en:Tswapong Hills (Botswana)
- en:Monalanong Hill (Botswana)
- en:Otse Hill (Botswana)
- en:Tsodilo (Botswana) Lefelo la Tsodilo