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You heard the overly serious ones; if they're good enough topics for Wikipedia, they are good enough topics for us. Or something like that. Write about these essential stuffings, and make "it" make "sense". If you feel like it, that is.
[edit] Biography
[edit] Actors, dancers and models
[edit] Artists and architects
- Corbusier, Le
- Dalí, Salvador
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Goya, Francisco
- Kahlo, Frida
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Matisse, Henri
- Michelangelo
- Picasso, Pablo
- Pollock, Jackson
- Rembrandt
- Velázquez, Diego
- Warhol, Andy
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
[edit] Authors, playwrights and poets
- Abu Nuwas
- Arnaut, Daniel
- Bashō
- Camões, Luís de
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dante Alighieri
- Darío, Rubén
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Ferdowsi
- Fuzûlî
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Homer
- Horace
- Hugo, Victor
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Kafka, Franz
- Kālidāsa
- Khayyam, Omar
- Li Bai
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Molière
- Ovid
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Premchand, Munshi
- Proust, Marcel
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Rustaveli, Shota
- Sappho
- Shakespeare, William
- Sophocles
- Sturluson, Snorri
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Virgil
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wu Cheng'en
[edit] Composers and musicians
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beatles, The
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frédéric
- Dvořák Antonín
- Jackson, Michael
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Pink Floyd
- Presley, Elvis
- Sibelius, Jean
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
[edit] Explorers
- Amundsen, Roald
- Armstrong, Neil
- Cartier, Jacques
- Columbus, Christopher
- Cook, James
- Cortés Hernán
- Gama, Vasco da
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Polo, Marco
- Zheng He
[edit] Film directors and screenwriters
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Disney, Walt
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lucas, George
- Spielberg, Steven
[edit] Inventors, scientists and mathematicians
- Archimedes
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Brahe, Tycho
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Curie, Marie
- Darwin, Charles
- Edison, Thomas
- Einstein, Albert
- Euclid
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Ford, Henry
- Fourier, Joseph
- Galileo Galilei
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gutenberg, Johann
- Kepler, Johannes
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Linnaeus, Carolus
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mendeleev, Dmitri
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pasteur, Louis
- Planck, Max
- Rutherford, Ernest
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Stallman, Richard
- Tesla, Nikola
- Turing, Alan
- Watt, James
- Wright brothers
[edit] Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Chomsky, Noam
- Descartes, René
- Durkheim, Émile
- Foucault, Michel
- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Kant, Immanuel
- Locke, John
- Luther, Martin
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paul of Tarsus
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Smith, Adam
- Socrates
- Sun Tzu
- Voltaire
- Weber, Max
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
[edit] Politicans, leaders and aristocrats
- Akbar
- Alexander the Great
- Atatürk, Kemal
- Augustus
- Bismarck, Otto von
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bush, George W.
- Caesar, Julius
- Charlemagne
- Churchill, Winston
- Cixi, Empress Dowager
- Cleopatra
- De Gaulle, Charles
- Gandhi, Indira
- Constantine the Great
- Elizabeth I of England
- Genghis Khan
- Haile Selassie
- Hirohito
- Hitler, Adolf
- Lenin, V. I.
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mao Zedong
- Merkel, Angela
- Mussolini, Benito
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Peter I of Russia
- Qin Shi Huang
- Saladin
- Stalin, Joseph
- Thatcher, Margaret
- Truman, Harry S.
- Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Washington, George
[edit] Revolutionaries and activists
- Bin Laden, Osama
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Goldman, Emma
- Joan of Arc
- Keller, Helen
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Nightingale, Florence
- Parks, Rosa
- Teresa, Mother
[edit] History
This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:
[edit] Prehistory and ancient world
[edit] Middle Ages and Early Modern
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aztec
- Byzantine Empire
- Crusades
- Holy Roman Empire
- Hundred Years War
- Middle Ages
- Ming Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Protestant Reformation
- Renaissance
- Thirty Years War
- Vikings
[edit] Modern
- American Civil War
- Apartheid
- British Empire
- Cold War
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- Gulf War
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Korean War
- Nazi Germany
- Qing Dynasty
- Spanish Civil War
- Treaty of Versailles
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
[edit] Geography
This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.
- Geography
- Capital
- City
- Continent
- Country
- Desert
- Earth science
- Map
- North Pole
- Ocean
- Rainforest
- River
- Sea
- South Pole
[edit] Continents and major regions
At least three sentences on each.
[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:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
[edit] Cities
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Baghdad
- Bangkok
- Beijing
- Beirut
- Berlin
- Brussels
- Buenos Aires
- Cairo
- Cape Town
- Damascus
- Dublin
- Florence
- Hong Kong
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Jerusalem
- Karachi
- Kyoto
- London
- Mecca
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- New Delhi
- New York City
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tehran
- Tokyo
- Venice
- Vienna
- Washington, D.C.
[edit] Bodies of water
- Amazon River
- Aral Sea
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Congo River
- Danube
- Dead Sea
- Euphrates
- Ganges River
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Lakes
- Indian Ocean
- Indus River
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Tanganyika
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake Victoria
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mississippi River
- Niagara Falls
- Niger River
- Nile
- North Sea
- Pacific Ocean
- Panama Canal
- Rhine
- Suez Canal
- Southern Ocean
- Tigris
- Volga River
- Yangtze River
[edit] Mountains, valleys and deserts
[edit] Society
[edit] Family and relationships
[edit] Thought, behavior and emotion
[edit] Politics
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Communism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Republic
- Socialism
- State
- Political party
[edit] Business and economics
[edit] Law
[edit] International organizations
- African Union
- Arab League
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Commonwealth of Nations
- European Union
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- NATO
- Nobel Prize
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- United Nations
- World Bank Group
- World Trade Organization
[edit] War and military
[edit] Social issues
[edit] Culture
At least three sentences on:
[edit] Language and literature
- Language
- Alphabet
- Grammar
- Linguistics
- Literacy
- Literature
- Pronunciation
- Specific languages
- Word
- Writing
[edit] Architecture and civil engineering
- Architecture
- Arch
- Bridge
- Canal
- Dam
- Dome
- House
- Nail (engineering)
- Specific structures
- Pyramid
- Tower
[edit] Film, radio and television
[edit] Music
- Music
- Compact disc
- Song
- Specific music genres
- Specific musical instruments
[edit] Recreation
[edit] Religion
- Religion
- Astrology
- Deity
- Festival
- Mythology
- Religious philosophies
- Soul
- Specific religions
- Spirituality
[edit] Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Beauty
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Feminism
- Free will
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Mind
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
[edit] Science
At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.
[edit] Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Asteroid
- Big Bang
- Black hole
- Comet
- Galaxy
- Light year
- Moon
- Planet
- Solar system
- Star
- Universe
[edit] Biology
- Biology
- Biological materials
- Botany
- Death
- Ecology
- Domestication
- Life
- Scientific classification
[edit] Biological processes
[edit] Anatomy
- Anatomy
- Cell
- Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Integumentary system
- Nervous system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Skeleton
[edit] Health and medicine
- Medicine
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Common cold
- Dentistry
- Disability
- Disease
- Drugs
- Health
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Penicillin
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Stroke
- Tuberculosis
- Virus
[edit] Organisms
[edit] Chemistry
[edit] Weather, climate and geology
[edit] Physics
- Physics
- Acceleration
- Atom
- Energy
- Force
- Light
- Mass
- Molecule
- Quantum mechanics
- Sound
- Speed
- Theory of relativity
- Time
- Velocity
- Weight
[edit] Timekeeping
[edit] Technology
[edit] Communication
[edit] Electronics
- Electronics
- Components
[edit] Computers and Internet
- Computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information technology
- Internet
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Software
- User interface
[edit] Raw materials and energy
- Electricity
- Fossil fuel
- Fire
- Internal combustion engine
- Renewable energy
- Glass
- Paper
- Plastic
- Steam engine
- Wood
[edit] Transportation
[edit] Weapons
[edit] Foodstuffs
[edit] Beverages
[edit] Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Calculus
- Geometry
- Group theory
- Mathematical proof
- Number
- Infinity
- Set theory
- Statistics
- Trigonometry