Wikipedia:List of articles all Wikipedias should have

This is a list of basic subjects for which Wikipedia should have a corresponding high-quality article, and ideally a featured article. Ideally this page should list approximately 1,000 of the most vital Wikipedia articles.

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People (121 articles)

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Artists

1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Michelangelo
3. Diego Velázquez
4. Rembrandt
5. Shitao
6. Hokusai
7. Claude Monet
8. Vincent van Gogh
9. Pablo Picasso
10. Salvador Dalí

Authors

1. Homer
2. Sophocles
3. Virgil
4. Li Bai
5. Rumi
6. Dante Alighieri
7. William Shakespeare
8. Miguel de Cervantes
9. Molière
10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Edgar Allan Poe
12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. Leo Tolstoy
14. James Joyce
15. Franz Kafka
16. Pablo Neruda

Composers and musicians

1. Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Frédéric Chopin
5. Giuseppe Verdi
6. Richard Wagner
7. Louis Armstrong
8. Igor Stravinsky
9. Elvis Presley
10. The Beatles

Explorers

1. Roald Amundsen
2. Jacques Cartier
3. Christopher Columbus
4. James Cook
5. Ferdinand Magellan
6. Marco Polo
7. Ibn Battuta
8. Zheng He

Inventors and scientists

1. Nicolaus Copernicus
2. Charles Darwin
3. Thomas Edison
4. Albert Einstein
5. Galileo Galilei
6. Geber
7. Antoine Lavoisier
8. Carl Linnaeus
9. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
10. Isaac Newton
11. John Dalton
12. Nikola Tesla
13. Sigmund Freud
14. Niels Bohr
15. Marie Curie
16. Dmitri Mendeleev

Mathematicians

1. Archimedes
2. Euclid
3. Leonhard Euler
4. Carl Friedrich Gauss
5. Kurt Gödel
6. David Hilbert
7. Gottfried Leibniz
8. Blaise Pascal
9. Henri Poincaré
10. Pythagoras
11. Alan Turing
12. Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Philosophers and social scientists

1. Confucius
2. Socrates
3. Plato
4. Aristotle
5. Nagarjuna
6. Avicenna
7. Thomas Aquinas
8. Ibn Khaldun
9. René Descartes
10. John Locke
11. Immanuel Kant
12. Karl Marx
13. Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Max Weber

Religious figures

1. Abraham
2. ཤཱ་ཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ
3. Guru Nanak Dev
4. Jesus
5. Krishna
6. Laozi
7. Martin Luther
8. Moses
9. Muhammad
10. Paul the Apostle
11. Zoroaster

Politicians and leaders

1. Hammurabi
2. Cyrus the Great
3. Alexander the Great
4. Qin Shi Huang
5. Julius Caesar
6. Cleopatra VII
7. Augustus
8. Attila the Hun
9. Charlemagne
10. Genghis Khan
11. Joan of Arc
12. Suleiman the Magnificent
13. Elizabeth I of England
14. George Washington
15. Napoleon I of France
16. Simón Bolívar
17. Abraham Lincoln
18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
19. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
20. Vladimir Lenin
21. Winston Churchill
22. Joseph Stalin
23. Adolf Hitler
24. Mao Zedong

History (60 articles)

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1. History
2. Civilization
3. History of the world
4. History of Africa
5. History of the Americas
6. History of China
7. History of Europe
8. History of India
9. History of Japan
10. History of the Middle East

Prehistory to Middle Ages

1. Prehistory
2. Stone Age
   1. Mesopotamia
   2. Neolithic Revolution
   3. Sumer
3. Bronze Age
   1. Ancient Egypt
   2. Assyria
   3. Indus Valley Civilization
4. Iron Age
   1. Ancient Greece
   2. Ancient Rome
   3. Persian Empire
5. Middle Ages
   1. Black Death
   2. Byzantine Empire
   3. Crusades
   4. East-West Schism
   5. Holy Roman Empire
   6. Islamic Golden Age
   7. Mongol Empire
   8. Ottoman Empire
   9. Viking Age

Renaissance to present

1. Abolitionism
2. Age of Discovery
3. Age of Enlightenment
4. British Empire
5. Civil rights movement
6. Cold War
7. Congress of Vienna
8. Cultural Revolution
9. European colonization of the Americas
10. French Revolution
11. Great Depression
12. The Holocaust
13. Industrial Revolution
14. Iranian Revolution
15. Korean War
16. Napoleonic Wars
17. Protestant Reformation
18. Renaissance
19. Russian Empire
20. Scientific Revolution
21. Scramble for Africa
22. Soviet Union
23. Space exploration
24. History of the United States
25. Women's suffrage
26. World War I
27. World War II

Geography (100 articles)

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1. Geography ས་ཆ་རིག་པ
2. གྲོང་ས
3. Continent
4. རྒྱལ་ཁབ
5. Desert
6. Forest
7. Glacier
8. Mountain
9. Ocean
10. River

Bodies of water

1. Amazon River
2. Atlantic Ocean
3. Black Sea
4. Caspian Sea
5. Great Barrier Reef
6. Indian Ocean
7. Mediterranean Sea
8. Nile
9. Pacific Ocean
10. Panama Canal
11. Suez Canal

Cities

1. ཨེ་ཐེནསི
2. Beijing
3. བར་ལིན
4. Delhi
5. ཧོང་ཀོང
6. ཨིསི་ཏཱན་བཱུལ
7. ཇེ་རུ་ས་ལིམ
8. ལཱན་ཌཱན
9. ལའོསི་ཨེན་ཇི་ལེསི
10. Mecca
11. མོསི་ཀོ
12. ནིའུ་ཡོརོཀ
13. པེ་རིསི
14. རོམ
15. སའོ་པའོ་ལོ
16. སི་འོལ
17. ཊོ་ཀི་ཡོ

Continents and regions

1. ཨཕ་རི་ཀ
2. ཨཱན་ཊརཊི་་ཊི་ཀ
3. Arctic
4. ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ
5. ཡུ་རོབ
6. Latin America
7. Middle East
8. North America
9. Oceania
10. South America

Countries

1. ཨར་ཇེན་ཊི་ན
2. ཨས་ཊེཡེ་ལི་ཡ
3. བངྒ་ལ་དེཤ
4. བ་ར་ཛིལ
5. མི་ཡཱན་མར
6. ཀེ་ན་ཌ
7. People's Republic of China
8. ཀོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ
9. ཀོང་གོ་མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ
10. ཌེན་མཱཀ
11. ཨི་ཇིཔཊ
12. ཨི་ཐོ་པི་ཡ
13. ཕིན་ལེནཌ
14. ཕརཱནས
15. ཇཱར་མ་ན
16. གིརིས
17. རྒྱ་གར
18. ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡ
19. ཨི་རཱན
20. ཨི་རཀ
21. ཨའིརི་ལེནཌ
22. ཨིཛ་རཱེལ
23. ཨྀཊ་ལ
24. ཇ་པཱན
25. མེཀསི་ཀོ
26. ནེ་དར་ལེནཌས
27. ནའི་ཇི་རི་ཡ
28. ནོར་ཝེ
29. པ་ཀིསི་ཏཱན
30. ཕི་ལི་པིནསི
31. པོ་ལེནཌི
32. ར་ཤི་ཡཱན་ཕེ་ཌི་རེ་ཤཱན
33. སའུ་དི་ཨ་ར་བི་ཡ
34. སིང་ག་པུར
35. སའུཐ་ཨཕ་རི་ཀ
36. ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡ
37. སིཔཱེན
38. སུའི་ཌན
39. ཏའི་ཝཱན
40. ཐཱའི་ལེནཌ
41. ཊར་ཀི
42. ཡུཀ་རའིན
43. ཡུ་ནའི་ཊེཊ་ཀིང་ཌམ
44. ཡུ་ནའིཊེཊ་སི་ཊེས
45. བེཊ་ནཱམ

Mountains, valleys and deserts

1. Alps
2. Andes
3. Gobi Desert
4. Grand Canyon
5. Himalayas
   1. Mount Everest
6. Sahara

Arts and culture (60 articles)

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1. Art
2. History of art
3. Aesthetics
4. Library
5. Museum
6. Art museum

Artistic movements

1. Gothic art
2. Baroque
3. Romanticism
4. Modernism
5. Postmodernism
6. Popular culture

Literature

1. Literature
2. History of literature
3. Prose
   1. Book
   2. Fiction
      1. Novel
      2. Short story
4. Poetry
   1. Rhyme
   2. Forms
      1. Epic poetry
      2. Haiku
      3. Sonnet

Music

1. Music
2. History of music
3. Musical instrument
4. Singing
5. Genres
   1. Classical music
   2. Folk music
   3. Hip hop music
   4. Jazz
   5. Pop music
   6. Rock music

Performing arts

1. Performing arts
2. Dance
   1. Ballet
3. Film
   1. Documentary film
4. Opera
   1. Orchestra
5. Theatre
   1. Comedy
   2. Tragedy
   3. Drama
   4. Musical theatre

Visual arts

1. Visual arts
2. Architecture
   1. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
   2. Great Wall of China
3. Comics
4. Drawing
5. Painting
   1. Illustration
   2. Portrait
6. Photography
7. Sculpture
   1. Pottery
   2. Statue
8. Arts and crafts

Philosophy and religion (79 articles)

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Philosophy

1. Philosophy
2. Philosophical branches
   1. Ethics
   2. Epistemology
      1. Belief
      2. Knowledge
      3. Truth
   3. Logic
   4. Metaphysics
      1. Existence
      2. Ontology
      3. Free will
3. Philosophy by region and period
   1. Western philosophy
      1. Greek philosophy
      2. Medieval philosophy
      3. Contemporary philosophy
   2. Eastern philosophy
      1. Chinese philosophy
      2. Indian philosophy
      3. Islamic philosophy
4. Philosophical movements
   1. Confucianism
   2. Empiricism
   3. Existentialism
   4. Idealism
   5. Hedonism
   6. Humanism
   7. Marxism
   8. Materialism
   9. Nihilism
   10. Rationalism
   11. Philosophical realism
   12. Skepticism

Religion

1. Religion
2. Deity
   1. God
   2. Goddess
3. Mythology
4. Mysticism
5. Soul
6. Spirituality
7. Meditation
8. Prayer
9. Worship
10. Yoga
11. Theistic philosophies
    1. Theism
    2. Agnosticism
    3. Atheism
    4. Deism
    5. Gnosticism
    6. Pantheism

Specific religions

1. Bahá'í Faith
2. Buddhism
   1. Mahayana
   2. Theravada
   3. Vajrayana
3. Christianity
   1. Bible
   2. Christian Church
   3. Roman Catholic Church
   4. Eastern Orthodox Church
   5. Protestantism
   6. Pope
4. Hinduism
   1. Bhagavad Gita
   2. Upanishads
   3. Vedas
5. Islam
   1. Mosque
   2. Five pillars of Islam
   3. Divisions of Islam
   4. Qur'an
6. Jainism
7. Judaism
   1. Tanakh
8. Shinto
9. Sikhism
   1. Guru Granth Sahib
10. Taoism
11. Voodoo
12. Zoroastrianism

Everyday life (80 articles)

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1. Clothing
2. Cooking
3. Color
   1. Black
   2. White
4. Emotion
   1. Anger
   2. Fear
   3. Love
   4. Happiness
5. Family
   1. Adult
   2. Child
   3. Infant
   4. Marriage
6. Gender
   1. Man
   2. Woman
7. Mind
   1. Consciousness
   2. Thought
8. Sleep
   1. Dream

Food and drink

1. Food
2. Bread
3. Cheese
4. Fruit
5. Cereal
6. Maize
7. Meat
8. Oat
9. Potato
10. Rice
11. Soybean
12. Vegetable
13. Wheat
14. Beer
15. Coffee
16. Drinking water
17. Milk
18. Tea
19. Wine

Language

1. Language
2. Alphabet
   1. Letter
   2. Arabic alphabet
   3. Chinese character
   4. Cyrillic alphabet
   5. Greek alphabet
   6. Hangul
   7. Latin alphabet
3. Grammar
4. Word
5. Writing
6. Specific languages
   1. Arabic language
   2. Bengali language
   3. Chinese language
   4. English language
   5. French language
   6. German language
   7. Greek language
   8. Hindi
   9. Japanese language
   10. Latin
   11. Portuguese language
   12. Russian language
   13. Sanskrit
   14. Spanish language

Recreation and entertainment

1. Recreation
2. Game
   1. Board game
   2. Chess
   3. Draughts
   4. Go
   5. Video game
3. Gambling
4. Sport
   1. Association football (soccer)
   2. Athletics
5. Toy

Society and social sciences (80 articles)

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1. Society
2. Culture

Social issues

1. Abortion
2. Euthanasia
3. Suicide
4. Discrimination
   1. Racism
   2. Sexism
5. Education
6. Freedom
   1. Slavery
7. Globalization
8. Law
   1. Capital punishment
   2. Civil rights
   3. Constitution
   4. Crime
   5. Justice
   6. Police
9. Peace
   1. War
10. Pollution
11. Poverty
12. Feminism

Business and economics

1. Business
2. Economics
   1. Good
   2. Service
3. Company
4. Corporation
5. Finance
6. Industry
   1. Agriculture
   2. Manufacturing
   3. Mining
7. Market
8. Money
   1. Euro
   2. Japanese yen
   3. Pound sterling
   4. United States dollar
9. Tax
10. Trade

Media

1. Advertising
2. Broadcasting
3. Journalism
4. Magazine
5. Mass media
6. News
7. Newspaper
8. Publishing

Politics and government

1. Politics
2. Government
3. Capitalism
4. Socialism
5. Anarchism
6. Communism
7. Democracy
8. Dictatorship
9. Fascism
10. Monarchy
11. Theocracy
12. Conservatism
13. Liberalism
14. Diplomacy
15. Imperialism
16. Military
17. Nationalism
18. State
19. Specific political and governmental institutions
    1. European Union
    2. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
    3. NATO
    4. Nobel Prize
    5. United Nations
    6. World Trade Organization

Social sciences

1. Social sciences
   1. Anthropology
   2. Political science
   3. Psychology
   4. Sociology

Health and medicine (40 articles)

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Disease

1. Disease
2. Alzheimer's disease
3. Cancer
4. Cholera
5. Common cold
6. Diabetes mellitus
7. Dysentery
8. Influenza
9. Malaria
10. Parkinson's disease
11. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
    2. Syphilis
12. Smallpox
13. Tuberculosis

Health and fitness

1. Health
2. Hygiene
3. Obesity
4. Stress
5. Addiction
6. Drug
7. Nutrition

Medicine

1. Medicine
2. Birth control
3. Disability
   1. Autism
   2. Blindness
   3. Hearing impairment
   4. Mental illness
4. Physical trauma
   1. Bone fracture
   2. Brain damage
   3. Burn
   4. Frostbite
   5. Bleeding
   6. Inflammation
   7. Stroke
5. Pharmaceutical drug
   1. Antibiotic
   2. Vaccine
6. Physician

Science (180 articles)

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1. Science
2. History of science
3. Nature
4. Philosophy of science
5. Scientific method

Astronomy

1. Astronomy
2. Asteroid
3. Big Bang
4. Comet
5. Eclipse
6. Galaxy
   1. Milky Way
7. Natural satellite
8. Orbit
9. Outer space
10. Physical cosmology
11. Planet
12. Solar System
    1. Sun
    2. Mercury
    3. Venus
    4. Earth
       1. Moon
    5. Mars
    6. Asteroid belt
    7. Jupiter
    8. Saturn
    9. Uranus
    10. Neptune
13. Star
14. Supernova
15. Universe

Biology

1. Biology
2. Life
3. Abiogenesis
4. Anatomy
   1. Brain
   2. Gastrointestinal tract
   3. Heart
   4. Immune system
   5. Lung
   6. Skeleton
5. Reproduction
   1. Pregnancy
   2. Sex
   3. Male
   4. Female
6. Botany
7. Cell
8. Ecology
   1. Ecosystem
9. Evolution
   1. Natural selection
10. Genetics
    1. DNA
    2. Gene
    3. Heredity
11. Organism
    1. Animal
       1. Amphibian
       2. Bird
       3. Dinosaur
       4. Fish
       5. Insect
       6. Mammal
          1. Cattle
          2. Cat
          3. Dog
          4. Horse
          5. Human
       7. Reptile
    2. Archaea
    3. Bacteria
    4. Fungus
    5. Plant
       1. Flower
       2. Tree
    6. Protist
12. Species
13. Zoology

Chemistry

1. Chemistry
2. Biochemistry
3. Organic chemistry
4. Inorganic chemistry
5. Acid
6. Alloy
   1. Bronze
   2. Steel
7. Atom
8. Base
9. Catalysis
10. Chemical bond
11. Chemical compound
    1. Alcohol
    2. Carbon dioxide
    3. Oil
    4. Salt
    5. Water
12. Chemical element
    1. Aluminium
    2. Carbon
    3. Copper
    4. Gold
    5. Helium
    6. Hydrogen
    7. Iron
    8. Nitrogen
    9. Oxygen
    10. Silicon
    11. Silver
    12. Sulfur
    13. Uranium
13. Chemical reaction
14. Crystal
15. Electrolysis
16. Glass
17. Ion
18. Metal
19. Mineral
20. Molecule
21. Periodic table

Earth science

1. Earth science
2. History of Earth
3. Geology
   1. Avalanche
   2. Crust
   3. Earthquake
   4. Erosion
   5. Geologic fault
   6. Magma
   7. Mantle
   8. Plate tectonics
   9. Volcano
4. Earth's atmosphere
   1. Climate
   2. Cloud
   3. Flood
   4. Global warming
   5. Meteorology
   6. Rain
   7. Tornado
   8. Tropical cyclone
   9. Weather
5. Oceanography

Physics

1. Physics
2. Particle physics
   1. Standard Model
   2. Subatomic particle
      1. Electron
      2. Neutrino
      3. Neutron
      4. Photon
      5. Proton
3. Classical mechanics
   1. Kinematics
   2. Newton's laws of motion
4. Energy
   1. Kinetic energy
   2. Potential energy
5. Force
   1. Electromagnetism
   2. Gravitation
   3. Strong interaction
   4. Weak interaction
6. Heat
   1. Temperature
7. Light
   1. Electromagnetic radiation
   2. Speed of light
   3. Visible spectrum
8. Mass
   1. Weight
9. Matter
10. Motion
11. Quantum mechanics
12. Sound
13. Space
14. Thermodynamics
15. Theory of relativity
16. Time

Technology (120 articles)

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1. Technology
2. History of technology
3. Engineering
4. Artificial intelligence
5. Biotechnology
6. Genetic engineering
7. Nuclear technology
8. Tool

Energy

1. Electricity
2. Geothermal power
3. Hydropower
4. Nuclear power
5. Petroleum
6. Solar energy
7. Wind power

Electronics

1. Electronics
2. Battery
3. Capacitor
4. Diode
5. Incandescent light bulb
6. Integrated circuit
7. Semiconductor
8. Transistor

Mechanical and structural engineering

1. Mechanical engineering
2. Engine
   1. Electric motor
   2. Internal combustion engine
   3. Jet engine
   4. Steam engine
3. Inclined plane
4. Lever
5. Pulley
6. Robot
7. Wheel
8. Arch
9. Bridge
10. Canal
11. Dam
12. Dome
13. House
14. Pyramid
15. Tower

Transportation

1. Transport
2. Vehicle
3. Aircraft
4. Automobile
5. Bicycle
6. Elevator
7. Helicopter
8. Motorcycle
9. Train

Information technology

1. Information technology
2. Abacus
3. Calculator
4. Computer
5. Cryptography

Optical

1. Camera
2. Glasses
3. Laser
4. Lens
5. Microscope
6. Prism
7. Telescope

Media and communication

1. Telecommunication
2. E-mail
3. Internet
4. Microphone
5. Mobile phone
6. Printing press
7. Printing
8. Radio
9. Telephone
10. Television
11. Typewriter
12. Video
13. World Wide Web

Navigation and timekeeping

1. Calendar
2. Clock
3. Compass
4. Global Positioning System
5. Gyroscope
6. Pendulum
7. Radar
8. Sonar
9. Sundial

Weapons

1. Weapon
2. Artillery
3. Bow
4. Firearm
5. Handgun
6. Knife
7. Machine gun
8. Nuclear weapon
9. Rifle
10. Sword
11. Submarine
12. Tank

Material and chemical

1. Candle
2. Fire
3. Explosive material
   1. Dynamite
   2. Gasoline
   3. Gunpowder
4. Metallurgy
5. Plastic
6. Rubber

Food and health

1. Electrocardiogram
2. Magnetic resonance imaging
3. Pasteurization
4. Refrigerator
5. Stove
6. X-ray
7. Anesthesia

Space

1. Hubble Space Telescope
2. International Space Station
3. Moon landing
4. Rocket
5. Satellite
6. Space Shuttle
7. Space station

Mathematics (60 articles)

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1. Mathematics
2. Constant
   1. Pi
   2. e
3. Number
   1. Complex number
   2. Integer
   3. Natural number
   4. Number theory
   5. Prime number
   6. Rational number
   7. Real number
4. Arithmetic
   1. Addition
   2. Subtraction
   3. Multiplication
   4. Division
   5. Fraction
   6. Percentage
   7. Exponentiation
   8. Square root
5. Combinatorics
6. Digit
7. Equation
8. Function
9. Logarithm
10. Variable
11. Algebra
12. Linear algebra
    1. Matrix

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1. Mathematical analysis
   1. Calculus
   2. Differential equation
   3. Infinity
   4. Limit
   5. Probability
   6. Statistics
2. Chaos theory
3. Game theory
4. Geometry
   1. Angle
   2. Area
   3. Coordinates
   4. Dimension
   5. Line
   6. Plane
   7. Point
   8. Shape
      1. Circle
      2. Cube
      3. Sphere
      4. Square
      5. Triangle
      6. Cone
   9. Volume
5. Mathematical proof
6. Series
7. Set
8. Topology
9. Trigonometry

Measurement (20 articles)

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1. Measurement
2. Metric system
3. International System of Units
4. Time
   1. Second
   2. Day
   3. Year
5. Length
   1. Metre
6. Angle
   1. Degree
   2. Radian

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1. Volume
   1. Litre
2. Mass
   1. Weight
   2. Kilogram
   3. Ton
3. Temperature
   1. Celsius
4. Force
   1. Newton
5. Power
   1. Watt
6. Electromagnetism
   1. Ampere
   2. Volt
   3. Ohm

See also

• The original list in English with last modified