Wikipedia:Vital articles
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Vital articles are lists of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the status of Wikipedia's most important articles. There are approximately one thousand articles listed on this page, which form Level 3 of the Vital articles list and include all 100 subjects on the Level 2 list (which in turn includes the ten Level 1 subjects), which are marked in bold. A Level 4 list of ten thousand articles is currently under construction.
Articles are labelled as:
- Featured articles
- Former featured articles
- A-class articles
- Good articles
- Delisted good articles
- B-class articles
- C-class articles
- Start-class articles
- A full list is at Template:Icon/doc
These symbols are updated manually and may be out of date; you are encouraged to fix any errors you discover.
This list is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of one thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages, as well as Vital Article lists tailored to different Wikipedia languages accessible via the languages sidebar.
For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
Contents
- 1 Current total: 998 articles
- 1.1 People (132 articles)
- 1.1.1 Politicians and leaders (26 articles)
- 1.1.2 Religious figures (9 articles)
- 1.1.3 Explorers (8 articles)
- 1.1.4 Businessmen (1 article)
- 1.1.5 Writers (19 articles)
- 1.1.6 Artists (9 articles)
- 1.1.7 Composers and musicians (10 articles)
- 1.1.8 Filmmakers (4 articles)
- 1.1.9 Inventors and scientists (20 articles)
- 1.1.10 Mathematicians (10 articles)
- 1.1.11 Philosophers and social scientists (16 articles)
- 1.2 History (77 articles)
- 1.3 Geography (93 articles)
- 1.4 Arts and culture (50 articles)
- 1.5 Philosophy and religion (58 articles)
- 1.6 Everyday life (54 articles)
- 1.7 Society and social sciences (142 articles)
- 1.8 Health and medicine (38 articles)
- 1.9 Science (192 articles)
- 1.10 Technology (109 articles)
- 1.10.1 General (3 articles)
- 1.10.2 Energy (15 articles)
- 1.10.3 Tools and machinery (9 articles)
- 1.10.4 Structural engineering (9 articles)
- 1.10.5 Transportation (6 articles)
- 1.10.6 Media and communication (10 articles)
- 1.10.7 Computing and information technology (6 articles)
- 1.10.8 Electronics (5 articles)
- 1.10.9 Food, agriculture and health (12 articles)
- 1.10.10 Materials (8 articles)
- 1.10.11 Navigation and timekeeping (8 articles)
- 1.10.12 Optical (5 articles)
- 1.10.13 Weapons (9 articles)
- 1.10.14 Space (4 articles)
- 1.11 Mathematics (53 articles)
- 1.1 People (132 articles)
- 2 See also
- 3 View counts
Current total: 998 articles
Last updated by —Rreagan007 (talk) 21:51, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
- Added History of music per discussion
- Removed Tragedy per discussion
People (132 articles)
Politicians and leaders (26 articles)
- Hammurabi
- Hatshepsut
- Ramesses II
- Cyrus the Great
- Pericles
- Alexander the Great
- Qin Shi Huang
- Julius Caesar
- Augustus
- Charlemagne
- Genghis Khan
- Joan of Arc
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Elizabeth I of England
- Catherine the Great
- George Washington
- Napoleon
- Simón Bolívar
- Abraham Lincoln
- Vladimir Lenin
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Winston Churchill
- Adolf Hitler
- Joseph Stalin
- Mao Zedong
- Nelson Mandela
Religious figures (9 articles)
Explorers (8 articles)
- Marco Polo
- Ibn Battuta
- Zheng He
- Christopher Columbus
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
- James Cook
- Roald Amundsen
Businessmen (1 article)
Writers (19 articles)
- Homer
- Sophocles
- Virgil
- Li Bai
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Rumi
- Dante Alighieri
- Miguel de Cervantes
- William Shakespeare
- Voltaire
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Leo Tolstoy
- James Joyce
- Virginia Woolf
- Kahlil Gibran
- Franz Kafka
- Ernest Hemingway
Artists (9 articles)
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Rembrandt
- Hokusai
- Claude Monet
- Vincent van Gogh
- Salvador Dalí
- Pablo Picasso
- Frida Kahlo
Composers and musicians (10 articles)
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Richard Wagner
- Frédéric Chopin
- Igor Stravinsky
- Louis Armstrong
- Elvis Presley
- The Beatles
Filmmakers (4 articles)
Inventors and scientists (20 articles)
- Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Shen Kuo
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
- Benjamin Franklin
- Carl Linnaeus
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Michael Faraday
- Charles Darwin
- Louis Pasteur
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Thomas Edison
- Nikola Tesla
- Marie Curie
- Albert Einstein
- Niels Bohr
- Werner Heisenberg
Mathematicians (10 articles)
- Pythagoras
- Archimedes
- Euclid
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Emmy Noether
- Kurt Gödel
- Alan Turing
Philosophers and social scientists (16 articles)
History (77 articles)
General (5 articles)
- History of the world (Level 1)
- History (Level 2)
- Civilization (Level 2)
- Archaeology
- History of Earth
History by region (9 articles)
- History of Africa
- History of Asia
- History of Europe
- History of North America
- History of Oceania
- History of South America
History by subject matter (8 articles)
- History of art (Level 2)
- History of science (Level 2)
- History of agriculture
- History of literature
- History of music
- History of medicine
- History of mathematics
- History of technology
Prehistory (2 articles)
Ancient history (19 articles)
Post-classical history (13 articles)
Modern history (21 articles)
- Modern history (Level 2)
- Renaissance
- Reformation
- Mughal Empire
- Age of Discovery
- European colonization of the Americas
- Scientific revolution
- Age of Enlightenment
- Industrial Revolution
- French Revolution
- Abolitionism
- Scramble for Africa
- British Empire
- Russian Empire
- Soviet Union
- World War I
- Great Depression
- World War II
- Cold War
- Space exploration
Geography (93 articles)
General (1 article)
Countries (33 articles)
- Country (Level 2)
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
Hydrologic features (17 articles)
Terrestrial features (13 articles)
Arts and culture (50 articles)
General (5 articles)
Artistic movements (4 articles)
Architecture (9 articles)
Performing arts (8 articles)
Visual arts (7 articles)
Philosophy and religion (58 articles)
Philosophy (19 articles)
Philosophical branches
Philosophy by region and period
Religion (15 articles)
Specific religions (24 articles)
Everyday life (54 articles)
General (6 articles)
Family and kinship (8 articles)
Gender and sexuality (5 articles)
Food and drink (22 articles)
Recreation and entertainment (13 articles)
Society and social sciences (142 articles)
General (9 articles)
Language (28 articles)
- Language (Level 1)
- Linguistics
- Indo-European languages
- Other languages
- Personal name
- Speech
- Writing (Level 2)
- Grammar
- Word
Media (6 articles)
Politics and government (28 articles)
- Politics (Level 2)
- Political science
- Government (Level 2)
- Ideology
- State
- International organizations
Business and economics (25 articles)
Social issues (31 articles)
- Law (Level 2)
- Peace
- Education (Level 2)
- Property
- Liberty
- Privacy
- Human rights
- Discrimination
- Feminism
- Environmentalism
- Human migration
- Globalization
- Famine
- Poverty
- Disability
- Suicide
- Indigenous peoples
Psychology (15 articles)
Health and medicine (38 articles)
Illness (21 articles) |
Health and fitness (13 articles)Pharmaceuticals (4 articles) |
Science (192 articles)
General (4 articles)
Astronomy (26 articles)
- Astronomy (Level 2)
- Universe (Level 2)
- Galaxy
- Solar System
- Physical cosmology
- Big Bang
- Supernova
- Black hole
- Star
- Planet
- Natural satellite
- Asteroid
- Comet
- Orbit
- Outer space
Chemistry (32 articles)
Biology (67 articles)
Earth science (22 articles)
Physics (41 articles)
Technology (109 articles)
General (3 articles)
Energy (15 articles)
Tools and machinery (9 articles)
Structural engineering (9 articles)
Transportation (6 articles)
Media and communication (10 articles)
Computing and information technology (6 articles)
Electronics (5 articles)
Food, agriculture and health (12 articles)
Materials (8 articles)
Optical (5 articles)
Weapons (9 articles)
Space (4 articles)
Mathematics (53 articles)
See also
- Wikipedia:List of 100 Art concepts Wikipedia should have
- Wikipedia:Core culture and society topics
- Wikipedia:Core math, science and technology topics
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies
- Wikipedia:1,000 core topics (currently inactive)
- Category:Top-importance articles
View counts
- Vital articles sorted by number of views (July 2014)
