There are hundreds 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 Wiki should contain. This page should include the same articles as meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Version 1.4.
Some of the articles are in bold. That means that it is very important that they be written.
For a very long list of basic articles (10,000), see: Vital articles - expanded.
Section | Number |
---|---|
Biography | 204 |
Philosophy and psychology | 18 |
World view and religion | 25 |
Social sciences | 70 |
Language and literature | 47 |
Culture, arts and recreation | 76 |
Science | 299 |
* Astronomy | 22 |
* Biology | 120 |
** Health and medicine | 37 |
* Chemistry | 27 |
* Earth science | 21 |
* Physics | 39 |
* Measurement and units | 6 |
* Timekeeping | 6 |
* Foodstuffs | 31 |
* Mathematics | 25 |
Technology | 70 |
History | 45 |
Geography | 146 |
Total | 1000 |
Count checked: 16:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the countries listed at List of countries. However, for the smaller Wikipedias, some of the more high-priority countries to have articles on are:
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