Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 |
Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most important articles. There are approximately one thousand articles on this page, which form Level 3 of the Vital articles list and include all subjects on the Level 2 (and Level 1) list, 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These symbols are updated manually and may be out of date; you are encouraged to fix any errors you discover.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.
For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
Contents
- 1 Current total: 999
- 2 People (133 articles)
- 2.1 Artists (10 articles)
- 2.2 Writers (18 articles)
- 2.3 Composers and musicians (10 articles)
- 2.4 Filmmakers (4 articles)
- 2.5 Businesspeople (1 article)
- 2.6 Explorers (8 articles)
- 2.7 Inventors and scientists (20 articles)
- 2.8 Mathematicians (10 articles)
- 2.9 Philosophers and social scientists (16 articles)
- 2.10 Religious figures (10 articles)
- 2.11 Politicians and leaders (26 articles)
- 3 History (71 articles)
- 4 Geography (92 articles)
- 5 Arts and culture (56 articles)
- 6 Philosophy and religion (60 articles)
- 7 Everyday life (54 articles)
- 8 Society and social sciences (140 articles)
- 9 Health and medicine (39 articles)
- 10 Science (193 articles)
- 11 Technology (108 articles)
- 11.1 General (5 articles)
- 11.2 Energy (10 articles)
- 11.3 Electronics (6 articles)
- 11.4 Mechanical and structural engineering (18 articles)
- 11.5 Transportation (6 articles)
- 11.6 Computing and information technology (6 articles)
- 11.7 Optical (5 articles)
- 11.8 Media and communication (9 articles)
- 11.9 Navigation and timekeeping (9 articles)
- 11.10 Weapons (9 articles)
- 11.11 Material and chemical (12 articles)
- 11.12 Food and health (7 articles)
- 11.13 Space (6 articles)
- 12 Mathematics (53 articles)
- 13 See also
- 14 View counts
Current total: 999[edit]
Last updated by Cobblet (talk) 09:45, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- Removed Nuclear technology and added Radioactive decay per discussion
People (133 articles)[edit]
History (71 articles)[edit]
General (5 articles)[edit]
Prehistory to post-classical history (30 articles)[edit] |
Modern history (22 articles)[edit]
History by region (8 articles)[edit]
Histories of other subjects (6 articles)[edit] |
Geography (92 articles)[edit]
General (1 article)[edit]Human geography (51 articles)[edit]
|
Continents and regions (10 articles)[edit]Hydrological features (18 articles)[edit]Terrestrial features (12 articles)[edit] |
Arts and culture (56 articles)[edit]
General (4 articles)[edit]Artistic movements (6 articles)[edit]Architecture (9 articles)[edit]Literature (11 articles)[edit] |
Music (9 articles)[edit]
Performing arts (9 articles)[edit]Visual arts (8 articles)[edit] |
Philosophy and religion (60 articles)[edit]
Philosophy (22 articles)[edit]
Religion (15 articles)[edit] |
Specific religions (23 articles)[edit] |
Everyday life (54 articles)[edit]
General (18 articles)[edit]
Recreation and entertainment (13 articles)[edit] |
Food and drink (23 articles)[edit] |
Society and social sciences (140 articles)[edit]
General (8 articles)[edit]Social issues (29 articles)[edit]
Language (28 articles)[edit]
Media (7 articles)[edit] |
Business and economics (26 articles)[edit]Politics and government (29 articles)[edit]
Psychology (13 articles)[edit] |
Health and medicine (39 articles)[edit]
Illness (22 articles)[edit] |
Health and fitness (13 articles)[edit]Pharmaceuticals (4 articles)[edit] |
Science (193 articles)[edit]
General (4 articles)[edit]Astronomy (26 articles)[edit]
Biology (66 articles)[edit] |
Chemistry (33 articles)[edit]
Earth science (23 articles)[edit]Physics (41 articles)[edit] |
Technology (108 articles)[edit]
General (5 articles)[edit]Energy (10 articles)[edit]Electronics (6 articles)[edit]Mechanical and structural engineering (18 articles)[edit]
Transportation (6 articles)[edit]Computing and information technology (6 articles)[edit]Optical (5 articles)[edit] |
Media and communication (9 articles)[edit][edit]Weapons (9 articles)[edit]Material and chemical (12 articles)[edit]
Food and health (7 articles)[edit]Space (6 articles)[edit] |
Mathematics (53 articles)[edit]
See also[edit]
- 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)
View counts[edit]
- Vital articles sorted by number of views (July 2014)
|
|