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The Core Topics subproject of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team is intended to identify and work toward improvement of the most important articles (realizing that "importance" is subjective). For the time being, our work is limited to about 150 articles, which are listed with comments in the table below. A supplementary list, similar in size, has been created to cover some other important subjects.
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How you can help
If you're interested in helping, here are some good places to start.
- Individually
- Work on any article listed in the tree and update its status if needed. Especially, use the article status summary as a guide. The summary lists the best and worst of the core topics. (The "Start Class" topics are more than stubs but often need substantial work).
- Collaborations
- Our collaboration of the fortnight.
- Core topics and stubs at Article Improvement Drive.
Background
This was begun December 4, 2004, by popular demand, more or less, to be a list of about 150 core subjects that would go in a "release" version of Wikipedia.
The list is small to be tightly focused. Articles on individual countries are core topics, but beyond the scope of this list because there are so many and their value is clear. Biographies are beyond the scope of this list, because there are multitudes and their value when considered individually is too subjective. Other contenders for core articles include articles on the English language, timelines, maps and any reference material.
Article status summary
| Article | Quality | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Geography | B | |
| History | B | Badly organized, no in-line citations, POV issues |
| Humanities | B | Lacks information. |
| Mathematics | A | |
| Natural science* | Start | Needs to be expanded and referenced mainly. |
| Science* | B | Lacking in inline citations. |
| Social sciences | Start | |
| Personal life | Start | Needs a lead section split off, completely unreferenced. |
| Technology | B | Getting there |
*Either Natural science or Science should be selected.
Continents
(including Oceania)
- Good Articles -- none
- Fair quality
- Short
Only about eight screens.
Only about five screens.
General
- A Class:
- Articles that are both GA and A Class:
- Arts and entertainment: Drawing | Film | Television |
- Life science: Brain | Cell (biology) |
- Physical science: Water |
- Social science: Archaeology | Sociology | Gender |
- Miscellaneous: Computer | Mathematics |
- A class, but not GA: Economics A class, former FA, 50 KB, needs trimming
- Articles that are both GA and A Class:
- Middle range -- B-Class:
- Articles that are both GA and B class:
- Culture and society: History of the world | Community | Crime | Culture |
- Life science and related: Agriculture | Biology | Virus |
- Physical science and technology: Physics | Planet | Sound |
- Others (Most of the Core Topics fall into this category, so they are not listed individually in this summary.) |Race (classification of human beings)
- Articles that are both GA and B class:
- Start Class (These generally need expansion or other substantial work. The numerals indicate the number of screens as a rough gauge of length, as of July 21, 2006.)
- Culture and society: Fiction 4 | Humour 9 | Visual arts 3
- Geography: Continent 8 | Country 4
- Life sciences: Anatomy 3 | Health 6 | Sex 5
- Physical sciences: Chemical element 6 | Climate 6 | Matter 4| Metal 4 | Motion (physics) 2
- Social sciences: Communication 6 | Society 5
- Technology: Electronics 8 | Fuel 4 | Tool 3
- Stubs:
- Miscellaneous: Personal life 3
Tree
- Culture and society, 15
- Business and economics 4: Advertising B | Business B | Economics B | Money B
- Everyday life 5: Clothing Start/B | Education B | Food B | Personal life Start | Popular culture Start/B
- Leisure 3: Game B | Sport B | Toy B
- Culture and society miscellaneous 3: Film B | House Start | Humour Start
- Earth, 16
- Geography 9: Africa B | Antarctica FA | Asia B | Continent B | Europe B | Geography B | North America B | Oceania B | South America B
- Earth science 7: Climate B | Earth FA | Geology B | Mineral B | Natural disaster B | Ocean B | Weather B
- Humanities, 24
- Communication 6: Alphabet B | Communication Start | Information B | Language B | Linguistics B | Mass media Start
- History 3: Civilization B/A | History B | History of the world B
- Literature 3: Fiction Start | Literature B | Poetry FA
- Performing arts 3: Dance B | Music B | Theatre Start
- Philosophy and religion 4: Mythology B | Logic B | Philosophy Start/B | Religion B
- Visual arts 5: Architecture B | Art Start | Drawing B | Sculpture B | Visual arts Start
- Life science and medicine, 19
- Biology miscellaneous 6: Anatomy Start | Biology B | Brain GA/A | Cell (biology) GA | Life B | Sex B
- Environment 3: Agriculture B | Ecology B | Nature GA/A
- Medicine 3: Death Start/B| Health Start/B | Medicine B
- Organisms 7: Animal B | Bacteria FA | Fungus B | Human B | Organism B | Plant B | Virus GA
Mathematics, 6: Algebra B | Geometry B | Mathematics GA/A | Number A | Statistics B | Calculus ?
- Physical science, 29
- Astronomy 8: Astronomy GA | Big Bang FA | Galaxy FA | Moon FA | Planet FA | Star FA | Sun FA | Universe B
- Chemistry 3: Chemical element B | Chemistry B | Water B
- Physics 9: Atom FA | Color B | Energy B | Force B | Heat B | Light B | Motion (physics) Start | Physics B/A | Sound B
- Measurement 3: Day B | Measurement Start | Time B
- Science miscellaneous 6: Fire B | Matter Start | Metal Start | Phase (matter) B | Science B
- Social science, 22
- Anthropology 4: Anthropology B | Archaeology B | Culture GA | Tradition Start
- Government and related 6: City B | Country Start | Government Start | Law FA | Politics GA | War B
- Psychology 5: Emotion Start/B | Love Start/B | Mind B | Psychology B | Sleep B
- Sociology 3: Community GA | Society Start | Sociology B
- Social science miscellaneous 4: Crime B | Family Start | Gender GA/A | Race (classification of human beings) B
- Technology, 18
- Electricity and electronics 4: Computer B/A | Electricity GA | Electronics B | Internet B
- Telecommunication 3: Radio B | Telecommunication GA/A | Television B
- Transportation 5: Aircraft B | Automobile B | Ship Start | Train B | Transport B
- Technology miscellaneous 6: Engineering B | Fuel B | Nuclear technology Start | Technology Start/B | Tool Start | Weapon Start/B
Members
- Martin Walker
- Ahmed Al-Hilali
- Tastemyhouse
- Deliri
- Maurreen
- Mahanga
- Randy Johnston
- E Pluribus Anthony
- Jaranda
- Silence
- NCurse
- Oldak Quill
- CQ
- Reswik
- John of Paris
Similar lists
- Wikipedia:Core topics, inner levels
- simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
- m:List of articles all languages should have - duplicate at meta
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded - duplicate at Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Vital articles (an edited copy with images noting GAs and FAs, and bold noting those with cleanup tags)
- Portal:Contents
- Wikipedia:Most referenced articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies
- User:Danny/100 most important articles
Subpages
- /Category sets worksheet
- /Core topics COTF
- /Requests for pictures and images
- /Supplement
- /Table and changes to article list
- /Tree, historical
