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The source of this page is a MediaWiki project. This may be discussed at the #wikilist channel on the Freenode IRC network.

There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. I propose that we invigorate them by ensuring that they each contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth.

I therefore suggest that we make a list of about 1,000 basic articles that we advise having on every existing Wikipedia. These articles should be very basic, and incorporate the most essential information. In some cases, it will be only a table, while in other cases, it will be a stub. This will, however, provide some impetus for the smaller projects to grow.

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.

Because this list has grown so large, it is currently in the process of being split into two levels of priority. Top-priority entries, which are 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 feature, and the page in general, is currently being discussed on the Talk page. If you support this effort, please contribute to the list and participate in the discussion.)

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[edit] How to use this list

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 Simple English articles for more comprehensive coverage of the topics in many other languages.

[edit] People

[edit] Actors, dancers and models

  1. Marlon Brando
  2. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Marlene Dietrich
  4. Marilyn Monroe
  5. John Wayne

[edit] Artists and architects

  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Le Corbusier
  3. Salvador Dalí
  4. Albrecht Dürer
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Francisco Goya
  7. William Hogarth
  8. Hokusai
  9. Frida Kahlo
  10. Édouard Manet
  11. Henri Matisse
  12. Michelangelo
  13. Claude Monet
  14. Georgia O'Keeffe
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Jackson Pollock
  17. Nicolas Poussin
  18. Raphael
  19. Rembrandt
  20. Auguste Rodin
  21. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  22. Diego Velázquez
  23. Johannes Vermeer
  24. Vitruvius
  25. Andy Warhol
  26. Christopher Wren
  27. Frank Lloyd Wright

[edit] Authors, playwrights and poets

  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. Hans Christian Andersen
  3. Aristophanes
  4. Isaac Asimov
  5. Jane Austen
  6. William Blake
  7. Bertolt Brecht
  8. Lord Byron
  9. Miguel de Cervantes
  10. Anton Chekhov
  11. Emily Dickinson
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  13. Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. Du Fu
  15. Alexandre Dumas
  16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  17. Brothers Grimm
  18. Dashiell Hammett
  19. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  20. Ernest Hemingway
  21. Hildegard of Bingen
  22. Homer
  23. Victor Hugo
  24. Langston Hughes
  25. Henrik Ibsen
  26. James Joyce
  27. Franz Kafka
  28. Li Bai
  29. Astrid Lindgren
  30. Thomas Mann
  31. Matsuo Bashō
  32. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  33. Arthur Miller
  34. Molière
  35. Murasaki Shikibu
  36. Pablo Neruda
  37. Edgar Allan Poe
  38. Marcel Proust
  39. Aleksandr Pushkin
  40. Rainer Maria Rilke
  41. Carl Sandburg
  42. Sappho
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre
  44. William Shakespeare
  45. George Bernard Shaw
  46. Mary Shelley
  47. Sophocles
  48. Robert Louis Stevenson
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien
  50. Leo Tolstoy
  51. Mark Twain
  52. Jules Verne
  53. Virgil
  54. H. G. Wells
  55. Walt Whitman
  56. Oscar Wilde
  57. William Butler Yeats
  58. Zeami Motokiyo

[edit] Composers and musicians

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. The Beatles
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Antonín Dvořák
  6. Aretha Franklin
  7. Edvard Grieg
  8. Gustav Mahler
  9. Claudio Monteverdi
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Elvis Presley
  12. Jean Sibelius
  13. Richard Wagner

[edit] Explorers

  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Willem Barents
  4. Vitus Bering
  5. Jacques Cartier
  6. Christopher Columbus
  7. James Cook
  8. Hernán Cortés
  9. Francis Drake
  10. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  11. Leif Ericson
  12. Vasco da Gama
  13. Yuri Gagarin
  14. Edmund Hillary
  15. Ferdinand Magellan
  16. Tenzing Norgay
  17. Marco Polo
  18. Abel Tasman
  19. Zheng He

[edit] Film directors and screenwriters

  1. Ingmar Bergman
  2. Walt Disney
  3. Sergei Eisenstein
  4. Alfred Hitchcock
  5. Akira Kurosawa
  6. Fritz Lang
  7. George Lucas
  8. Frances Marion
  9. Leni Riefenstahl
  10. Martin Scorsese
  11. Steven Spielberg

[edit] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

  1. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  2. Archimedes
  3. John Logie Baird
  4. Alexander Graham Bell
  5. Karl Benz
  6. Tim Berners-Lee
  7. Niels Bohr
  8. Tycho Brahe
  9. Rachel Carson
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus
  11. Marie Curie
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Euclid
  16. Leonhard Euler
  17. Enrico Fermi
  18. Richard Feynman
  19. Alexander Fleming
  20. Henry Ford
  21. Joseph Fourier
  22. Buckminster Fuller
  23. Casimir Funk
  24. Galileo Galilei
  25. Bill Gates
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  27. Kurt Gödel
  28. Johann Gutenberg
  29. David Hilbert
  30. Christiaan Huygens
  31. Hypatia of Alexandria
  32. Edward Jenner
  33. Steve Jobs
  34. Johannes Kepler
  35. John Maynard Keynes
  36. Donald Knuth
  37. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  38. Gottfried Leibniz
  39. Carolus Linnaeus
  40. Ignacy Łukasiewicz
  41. James Clerk Maxwell
  42. Isaac Newton
  43. Alfred Nobel
  44. Hans Christian Ørsted
  45. Louis Pasteur
  46. Dennis Ritchie
  47. Ole Rømer
  48. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
  49. Bernhard Riemann
  50. Ernest Rutherford
  51. Richard Stallman
  52. Nikola Tesla
  53. Linus Torvalds
  54. Alan Turing
  55. Leonardo da Vinci
  56. Wright brothers

[edit] Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)

  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Aristotle
  3. Augustine of Hippo
  4. Averroes
  5. Simone de Beauvoir
  6. René Descartes
  7. Émile Durkheim
  8. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  9. Michel Foucault
  10. Sigmund Freud
  11. Edward Gibbon
  12. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  13. Germaine Greer
  14. Herodotus
  15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  16. Hippocrates
  17. David Hume
  18. Immanuel Kant
  19. Martin Luther
  20. Rosa Luxemburg
  21. Søren Kierkegaard
  22. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  23. Niccolò Machiavelli
  24. Karl Marx
  25. Nagarjuna
  26. Friedrich Nietzsche
  27. Thomas Paine
  28. Plato
  29. Pythagoras
  30. Sima Qian
  31. Stein Rokkan
  32. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  33. Bertrand Russell
  34. Adam Smith
  35. Socrates
  36. Baruch Spinoza
  37. Sun Tzu
  38. Thales
  39. Voltaire
  40. Max Weber
  41. Ludwig Wittgenstein

[edit] Politicans, leaders and aristocrats

  1. Akbar
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Kofi Annan
  4. Kemal Atatürk
  5. Attila the Hun
  6. Augustus
  7. Hastings Banda
  8. Pope Benedict XVI
  9. Silvio Berlusconi
  10. Otto von Bismarck
  11. Tony Blair
  12. Simón Bolívar
  13. Napoleon I of France
  14. Lucrezia Borgia
  15. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Fidel Castro
  18. Catherine II of Russia
  19. Charlemagne
  20. Jacques Chirac
  21. Empress Dowager Cixi
  22. Winston Churchill
  23. Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  24. Diana, Princess of Wales
  25. Indira Gandhi
  26. Constantine I (emperor)
  27. Elizabeth I of England
  28. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  29. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  30. Charles de Gaulle
  31. Mikhail Gorbachev
  32. Hammurabi
  33. Hannibal
  34. Hirohito
  35. Adolf Hitler
  36. Thomas Jefferson
  37. Pope John Paul II
  38. Julius Caesar
  39. Genghis Khan
  40. Lee Kuan Yew
  41. Vladimir Lenin
  42. Abraham Lincoln
  43. Nelson Mandela
  44. Mao Zedong
  45. Maria Theresa of Austria
  46. Mary I of Scotland
  47. Golda Meir
  48. Christian Michelsen
  49. Mahathir bin Mohamad
  50. Benito Mussolini
  51. Nefertiti
  52. Kwame Nkrumah
  53. Eva Perón
  54. Peter I of Russia
  55. Józef Piłsudski
  56. Pol Pot
  57. Vladimir Putin
  58. Qin Shi Huang
  59. Eleanor Roosevelt
  60. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  61. Saladin
  62. Gerhard Schröder
  63. Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
  64. Semiramis
  65. Shaka Zulu
  66. Queen of Sheba
  67. Sitting Bull
  68. Joseph Stalin
  69. Margaret Thatcher
  70. Timur
  71. Leon Trotsky
  72. Harry S. Truman
  73. Victoria of the United Kingdom
  74. Lech Wałęsa
  75. George Washington
  76. Wilhelm II of Germany

[edit] Revolutionaries and activists

  1. Joan of Arc
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Emma Goldman
  4. Che Guevara
  5. Mother Jones
  6. Helen Keller
  7. Ho Chi Minh
  8. Osama bin Laden
  9. Florence Nightingale
  10. Rosa Parks
  11. Emilia Plater
  12. Gavrilo Princip
  13. Mother Teresa
  14. Sojourner Truth
  15. Harriet Tubman

[edit] History

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

  1. History
  2. History of the world

[edit] Prehistory and ancient world

  1. Ancient Egypt
  2. Ancient Greece
  3. Ancient Rome
  4. Archaeology
  5. Bronze Age
  6. Byzantine Empire
  7. Han Dynasty
  8. Human evolution
  9. Indus Valley Civilization
  10. Maya civilization
  11. Iron Age
  12. Macedonian Empire
  13. Mesoamerica
  14. Prehistory
  15. Seljuk Empire
  16. Stone Age
  17. Sumer

[edit] Middle Ages and Renaissance

  1. Age of Enlightenment
  2. American Revolutionary War
  3. Aztec
  4. Black Death
  5. Counter-Reformation
  6. Crusades
  7. East-West Schism
  8. Eighty Years' War
  9. English Civil War
  10. European colonization of the Americas
  11. French Revolution
  12. Holy Roman Empire
  13. Inca Empire
  14. Middle Ages
  15. Ming Dynasty
  16. Napoleonic Wars
  17. Ottoman Empire
  18. Partitions of Poland
  19. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  20. Protestant Reformation
  21. Renaissance
  22. Song Dynasty
  23. Spanish Inquisition
  24. Tang Dynasty
  25. Vikings
  26. Yuan Dynasty

[edit] Industrial age

  1. 1973 oil crisis
  2. American Civil War
  3. Apartheid
  4. British Empire
  5. Cold War
  6. Decolonization
  7. Establishment of the State of Israel
  8. Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  9. Franco-Prussian War
  10. German reunification
  11. German unification
  12. Great Depression
  13. Gulf War
  14. The Holocaust
  15. Industrial Revolution
  16. Iranian Revolution
  17. Italian unification
  18. Korean War
  19. Meiji Restoration
  20. Nazi Germany
  21. Polish-Soviet War
  22. Qing Dynasty
  23. Reunification of Germany
  24. Russian Civil War
  25. Russian Revolution of 1917
  26. Scramble for Africa
  27. Solidarity
  28. Soviet war in Afghanistan
  29. Space exploration
  30. Spanish Civil War
  31. Treaty of Versailles
  32. Vietnam War
  33. World War I
  34. World War II

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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. Australia
  3. Austria
  4. Bangladesh
  5. Brazil
  6. Canada
  7. Cuba
  8. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  9. Egypt
  10. Ethiopia
  11. France
  12. Germany
  13. Greece
  14. India
  15. Indonesia
  16. Iran
  17. Iraq
  18. Israel
  19. Italy
  20. Japan
  21. Kazakhstan
  22. Libya
  23. Mexico
  24. Monaco
  25. Mongolia
  26. Nepal
  27. Netherlands
  28. Niger
  29. Nigeria
  30. North Korea
  31. Peru
  32. People's Republic of China
  33. Poland
  34. Russia
  35. Rwanda
  36. Saudi Arabia
  37. Singapore
  38. South Africa
  39. South Korea
  40. Spain
  41. Sudan
  42. Sweden
  43. Switzerland
  44. Turkey
  45. Ukraine
  46. United Kingdom
  47. United States
  48. Vietnam

[edit] Cities

  1. Athens
  2. Bangkok
  3. Barcelona
  4. Beijing
  5. Belgrade
  6. Berlin
  7. Brussels
  8. Cairo
  9. Copenhagen
  10. Edinburgh
  11. Frankfurt
  12. Hanoi
  13. Hong Kong
  14. Istanbul
  15. Jakarta
  16. Jerusalem
  17. London
  18. Manila
  19. Madrid
  20. Mecca
  21. Mexico City
  22. Moscow
  23. Mumbai
  24. Munich
  25. Nairobi
  26. New Delhi
  27. New York City
  28. Paris
  29. Rio de Janeiro
  30. Rome
  31. Saint Petersburg
  32. Seoul
  33. Shanghai
  34. Singapore
  35. Stockholm
  36. Sydney
  37. Taipei
  38. Tokyo
  39. Toronto
  40. Vatican City
  41. Vienna
  42. Warsaw
  43. Washington, D.C.

[edit] Bodies of water

  1. Amazon River
  2. Aral Sea
  3. Arctic Ocean
  4. Atlantic Ocean
  5. Baltic Sea
  6. Black Sea
  7. Caspian Sea
  8. Dead Sea
  9. Great Barrier Reef
  10. Great Lakes
  11. Indian Ocean
  12. Lake Baikal
  13. Lake Tanganyika
  14. Lake Titicaca
  15. Lake Victoria
  16. Mediterranean Sea
  17. Mississippi River
  18. Niagara Falls
  19. Nile
  20. North Sea
  21. Pacific Ocean
  22. Panama Canal
  23. Suez Canal
  24. Southern Ocean

[edit] Mountains, valleys and deserts

  1. Alps
  2. Andes
  3. Grand Canyon
  4. Great Rift Valley
  5. Himalaya
  6. Mount Kilimanjaro
  7. Mount Everest
  8. Rocky Mountains
  9. Sahara

[edit] Architecture

  1. Architecture
  2. Arch
  3. Bridge
  4. Canal
  5. Dam
  6. Dome
  7. House
  8. Nail (engineering)
  9. Pyramid
  10. Tower

[edit] Buildings

  1. Aswan Dam
  2. Featured article Buckingham Palace
  3. Colosseum
  4. Eiffel Tower
  5. Empire State Building
  6. Great Wall of China
  7. Featured article Parthenon
  8. Sears Tower
  9. Stonehenge
  10. Good article Taj Mahal

[edit] Seven Wonders of the World

Seven Wonders of the World

  1. Colossus of Rhodes
  2. Great Pyramid of Giza
  3. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  4. Lighthouse of Alexandria
  5. Mausoleum of Maussollos
  6. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
  7. Temple of Artemis

[edit] Society

  1. Society
  2. Anthropology
  3. Civilization
  4. Community
  5. Demographics
  6. Education
  7. Psychology
  8. Sociology

[edit] Family and relationships

  1. Family
  2. Adult
  3. Boy
  4. Child
  5. Courtship
  6. Girl
  7. Infant
  8. Man
  9. Marriage
    1. Husband
    2. Wife
  10. Woman

[edit] Thought, behavior and emotion

  1. Consciousness
  2. Emotion
    1. Anger
    2. Fear
    3. Happiness
    4. Hate
    5. Love
    6. Sadness
  3. Mind
  4. Sleep
    1. Dream
  5. Thought

[edit] Politics

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

[edit] Business and economics

  1. Business
  2. Economics
    1. Macroeconomics
    2. Microeconomics
  3. Advertising
  4. Agriculture
  5. Capital
  6. Capitalism
  7. Communism
  8. Currency
    1. Euro
    2. Japanese yen
    3. Pound sterling
    4. Renminbi
    5. Rupee
    6. United States dollar
  9. Employment
  10. Finance
  11. Industry
    1. Manufacturing
    2. Mining
    3. Refining
  12. Market
  13. Money
  14. Socialism
  15. Supply and demand
  16. Tourism

[edit] Law

  1. Law
  2. Crime
  3. Constitution
  4. Specific documents
    1. Magna Carta
    2. Leviathan (book)
    3. Republic (Plato)
    4. The Communist Manifesto

[edit] International organizations

  1. African Union
  2. Arab League
  3. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  4. Commonwealth of Independent States
  5. Commonwealth of Nations
  6. Council of Europe
  7. European Union
  8. Geneva Conventions
    1. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  9. Interpol
  10. NATO
  11. Nobel Prize
  12. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  13. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  14. Organization of American States
  15. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  16. United Nations
    1. International Atomic Energy Agency
    2. International Court of Justice
    3. International Criminal Court
    4. International Monetary Fund
    5. UNESCO
    6. United Nations Children's Fund
    7. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    8. World Bank Group
    9. World Health Organization
    10. World Trade Organization

[edit] War and military

  1. Aerial warfare
  2. Military
    1. Army
      1. Artillery
      2. Cavalry
      3. Infantry
    2. Navy
  3. Peace
  4. War

[edit] Social issues

  1. Abortion
  2. Birth control
  3. Capital punishment
  4. Freedom
  5. Gender
  6. Human rights
  7. Racism
  8. Sexism
  9. Slavery
  10. World peace

[edit] Culture

At least three sentences on:

  1. Culture
  2. Art
    1. Comics
    2. Drawing
    3. Painting
    4. Sculpture
      1. Pottery
  3. Dance
  4. Fashion
  5. Theatre
    1. Broadway theatre
    2. Noh

[edit] Language and literature

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

[edit] Film, radio and television

  1. Film
    1. Animation
    2. Silent film
    3. Studio system
  2. Radio
  3. Television

[edit] Music

  1. Music
  2. Compact disc
  3. Song
  4. Specific music genres
    1. European Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
    2. Hip hop music
    3. Folk music
      1. Gamelan
    4. Jazz
    5. Pop music
    6. Reggae
    7. Rhythm and blues
      1. Soul music
    8. Rock music
      1. Heavy metal music
  5. Specific musical instruments
    1. Drum
    2. Flute
    3. Guitar
    4. Piano
    5. String instrument
    6. Trumpet
    7. Violin

[edit] Recreation

  1. Recreation
  2. Entertainment
  3. Game
    1. Backgammon
    2. Chess
    3. Draughts
    4. Go (board game)
    5. Mancala
    6. Playing card
  4. Gambling
  5. Leisure
  6. Martial arts
    1. Judo
  7. Olympic Games
  8. Party
  9. Sport
    1. American football
      1. National Football League
        1. Super Bowl
    2. Auto racing
      1. Formula One
      2. NASCAR
    3. Badminton
    4. Baseball
      1. Major League Baseball
        1. New York Yankees
        2. Boston Red Sox
    5. Basketball
      1. National Basketball League
    6. Cricket
    7. Fencing
    8. Football (soccer)
    9. Ice hockey
    10. Rugby football
    11. Tennis
    12. Volleyball
    13. Water polo
    14. Wrestling
    15. Athletics (track and field)
  10. FIFA World Cup
  11. Toy

[edit] Religion

  1. Religion
  2. Astrology
  3. Deity
    1. God
  4. Festival
  5. Holiday
  6. Mythology
    1. Greek mythology
  7. Religious philosophies
    1. Agnosticism
    2. Atheism
    3. Fundamentalism
  8. Soul
  9. Specific religions
    1. Bahá'í Faith
      1. Báb
      2. Bahá'u'lláh
    2. Buddhism
      1. Gautama Buddha
    3. Christianity
      1. Bible
      2. Church
      3. Jesus
      4. Pope
      5. Protestantism
      6. Roman Catholic Church
      7. Trinity
    4. Confucianism
      1. Confucius
    5. Hinduism
      1. Bhadavad Gita
      2. Brahma
      3. Brahman
      4. Shiva
      5. Upanishad
      6. Veda
      7. Vedanta
      8. Vishnu
      9. Yoga
    6. Islam
      1. Ali
      2. Allah
      3. Mosque
      4. Muhammad
      5. Qur'an
      6. Shi'a Islam
      7. Sufism
      8. Sunni Islam
      9. Umar
    7. Jainism
    8. Judaism
      1. Abraham
      2. Moses
      3. Torah
      4. Talmud
    9. Shinto
    10. Sikhism
      1. Guru Nanak Dev
      2. Guru Gobind Singh
      3. Guru Granth Sahib
      4. Harimandir Sahib
    11. Taoism
      1. Laozi
    12. Unitarianism
    13. Voodoo
    14. Zoroastrianism
      1. Zoroaster
  10. Spirituality

[edit] Philosophy

  1. Philosophy
    1. Eastern philosophy
    2. Western philosophy
  2. Aesthetics
  3. Beauty
  4. Ethics
  5. Existence
  6. Experience
  7. Feminism
  8. Free will
  9. Humanism
  10. Knowledge
  11. Logic
  12. Metaphysics
  13. Morality
  14. Reality
  15. Truth

[edit] Science

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

  1. Science
  2. Scientific method

[edit] 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. Pluto
    7. Saturn
    8. Uranus
    9. Venus
  10. Solar system
  11. Star
    1. Sun
  12. Telescope
    1. Hubble Space Telescope
    2. Great Observatories program
    3. Herschel Space Observatory
    4. Atacama Large Millimeter Array
  13. Universe

[edit] Biology

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

[edit] Biological processes

  1. Metabolism
    1. Digestion
      1. Excretion
    2. Photosynthesis
    3. Respiration (physiology)
  2. Evolution
    1. Human 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Health and medicine

  1. Medicine
  2. Addiction
    1. Alcoholism
      1. Cirrhosis
    2. Drug addiction
  3. Cancer
    1. Lung cancer
  4. Cholera
  5. Dentistry
  6. Diabetes mellitus
  7. Disability
    1. Blindness
    2. Hearing impairment
    3. Mental illness
  8. Disease
  9. Drugs
    1. Caffeine
    2. Cannabis
    3. Cocaine
    4. Ethanol
    5. Nicotine
      1. Tobacco
    6. Opium
  10. Dysentery
  11. Health
  12. Heart disease
  13. Hypertension
  14. Malaria
  15. Malnutrition
  16. Obesity
  17. Pneumonia
  18. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
    2. Syphilis
  19. Stroke
  20. Tuberculosis
  21. Virus
    1. Influenza
      1. H5N1
    2. Smallpox

[edit] Organisms

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

[edit] 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. Lithium
    11. Neon
    12. Nitrogen
    13. Oxygen
    14. Silver
    15. Tin
    16. Zinc
  5. Metal
    1. Alloy
      1. Brass
      2. Bronze
      3. Steel
  6. Organic chemistry
    1. Alcohol
    2. Carbohydrate
    3. Hormone
    4. Lipid
  7. Phase (matter)
    1. Gas
    2. Liquid
    3. Plasma
    4. Solid

[edit] Weather, climate and geology

  1. Avalanche
  2. Climate
    1. ENSO
    2. Global warming
  3. Earthquake
  4. Geology
    1. Mineral
      1. Bronze
      2. Diamond
      3. Limestone
    2. Plate tectonics
    3. Rock
      1. Basalt
      2. Flint
  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

[edit] Physics

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

[edit] Timekeeping

  1. Calendar
    1. Chinese calendar
    2. Gregorian calendar
  2. Day
  3. Month
    1. January
    2. February
    3. March
    4. April
    5. May
    6. June
    7. July
    8. August
    9. September
    10. October
    11. November
    12. December
  4. Time zone
    1. Daylight saving time
  5. Week
  6. Year
    1. Leap year

[edit] Technology

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

[edit] Communication

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

[edit] Electronics

  1. Electronics
    1. Capacitance
    2. Gain
    3. Charge
    4. Current (electricity)
    5. Electrical resistance
    6. Frequency
    7. Inductance
    8. Reactance
  2. Components
    1. Capacitor
    2. Inductor
    3. Transistor
    4. Diode
    5. Resistor
    6. Transformer

[edit] Computers and Internet

  1. Computer
    1. Boot loader
    2. Hard disk
    3. Motherboard
    4. Processor
    5. RAM
  2. Artificial Intelligence
  3. Computer science
    1. Algorithm
  4. Information technology
  5. Internet
    1. E-mail
    2. Internet protocol
    3. TCP
    4. World Wide Web
      1. Web browser
    5. HTTP
    6. HTML
  6. Operating system
    1. BSD
    2. Linux
    3. Mac OS
    4. Microsoft Windows
    5. Unix
  7. Programming language
    1. BASIC
    2. C++
    3. Java programming language
    4. PHP
  8. Software
  9. User interface
    1. Keyboard
    2. Monitor
    3. Mouse (computing)

[edit] Raw materials and energy

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

[edit] Transportation

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

[edit] Weapons

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

[edit] Foodstuffs

  1. Food
  2. Bread
  3. Cereal
    1. Barley
    2. Maize
    3. Oat
    4. Rice
    5. Sorghum
    6. 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 (fruit)
  8. Meat
  9. Sugar
  10. Vegetable
    1. Potato

[edit] Beverages

  1. Alcoholic beverage
    1. Beer
    2. Wine
  2. Cola
  3. Coffee
  4. Milk
  5. Tea
  6. Water

[edit] Mathematics

  1. Mathematics
  2. Algebra
  3. Arithmetic
  4. Axiom
  5. Calculus
    1. Differentiation
    2. Integration
  6. Geometry
    1. Circle
      1. Pi
    2. Square
    3. Triangle
  7. Group theory
  8. Mathematical logic
  9. Mathematical proof
    1. Mathematical induction
    2. Reductio ad absurdum
  10. Number
    1. Complex number
    2. Integer
    3. Natural number
    4. Prime number
    5. Rational number
  11. Infinity
  12. Set theory
  13. Statistics
  14. Trigonometry

[edit] Measurement and units

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