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. This list provides links to correspondingWikidata objects, containing links to articles in various Wikipedias which can be used as a translatable resource.
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There is a related list of articles tailored to the English Wikipedia calledVital articles.
This list is limited to 1000 articles, but larger list of 10,000 articles is available below.
Count checked: 16:20, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
How to use this list
[edit]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 here are linked to corresponding items in the Wikidata project. If your Wikipedia is missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles from a different language that you are familiar with (for example, English). Language links to Wikipedias in which the topic is covered are provided at the bottom of each Wikidata item page.
In addition to simply listing the articles, this project hopes to eventually create easily translatable versions of these articles, possibly containing core information atsimple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have.
This list is also used to obtain theList of Wikipedias by sample of articles. Articles which are absent from one wikipedia are shown inList of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Absent Articles.
It's possible to list the top 1000 most translated (linked) pages in some languages, atWikidata Terminator; or even compare any two wikis, withNot in the other language.
Since this list is full, it is important that youdiscuss any changes (adds or deletes) on thediscussion for this list first. If you add an entry at this point, it will be necessary to justify deleting something else.
Six versions from the history of this page can be found atVersion 1.0 (14 August 2006),Version 1.1 (15 November 2008),Version 1.2 (3 February 2010),Version 1.3 (24 June 2012),Version 1.4 (1 June 2014), andVersion 1.5 (6 February 2022).
Philosophers and social scientists
[edit]- Aristotle
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chanakya
- Confucius
- Descartes, René
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Heidegger, Martin
- 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
Religious figures and theologians
[edit]- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Ashoka
- Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
- Augustus
- von Bismarck, Otto
- Bolívar, Simón
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Constantine the Great
- Cyrus the Great
- de Gaulle, Charles
- Elizabeth I
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Genghis Khan
- Guevara, Che
- Hitler, Adolf
- Joan of Arc
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Louis XIV
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Napoleon
- 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
Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
[edit]- Archimedes
- Avicenna
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahmagupta
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Euler, Leonhard
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Ford, Henry
- Galen
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Hilbert, David
- 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
Artists and architects
[edit]- Le Corbusier
- Dalí, Salvador
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Hokusai
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Sinan, Mimar
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
Composers and musicians
[edit]- Armstrong, Louis
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Handel, George Frideric
- Haydn, Joseph
- Jackson, Michael
- Kulthum, Umm
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Schubert, Franz
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
Film directors, screenwriters and actors
[edit]- Bergman, Ingmar
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Chaplin, Charlie
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Disney, Walt
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Ray, Satyajit
Authors, playwrights and poets
[edit]- Abu Nuwas
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Austen, Jane
- 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
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Molière
- Ovid
- Proust, Marcel
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
Explorers and travellers
[edit]- 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
Language and literature
[edit]- Science
- Nature
Biological processes
[edit]Health and medicine
[edit]Food and agriculture
[edit]- Agriculture
- Irrigation
- Plough
- Domestication
Arts and recreation
[edit]- History
Prehistoric and ancient history
[edit]Medieval and Renaissance periods
[edit]Early modern and modern periods
[edit]Mountains and deserts
[edit]- Alps
- Andes
- Himalayas
- Mount Everest
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Rocky Mountains
- Sahara