Like all persons of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues...
The idea of compiling all human knowledge in a single work, although not in a single place, is highly seductive. In this project, we attempt to study how many articles are needed to cover the sum of all human knowledge. Currently, there are 6,910,896 articles in English Wikipedia[3] and in July 2011 there were 5,696,942 unique red links.[4] As of April 2014, Wikidata includes 14,238,904 items.[5] This page still in expansion estimates that the total notable articles figure is over 96,000,000, but new knowledge is created every year.
Many individuals, groups and organizations have attempted to compile all human knowledge before, some examples sorted by date include: Library of Alexandria (3rd century BC) in Egypt, Naturalis Historia (AD 77–79) by Pliny the Elder, Speculum Maius (13th century) by Vincent of Beauvais, Bibliotheca universalis (1545–49) by Conrad Gessner, the abstracting and indexing project (17th century) by Gottfried Leibniz, L'Encyclopédie (1751–1772) by Diderot and d'Alembert, Mundaneum (1910) by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) and more recently Interpedia (1993) by Rick Gates, Internet Archive (1996) by Brewster Kahle and Wikidata (2012). Also, hypothetical cases exist: Encyclopædia Galactica (1980) by Carl Sagan in Cosmos, Permanent World Encyclopaedia (1936–1938) by H. G. Wells and Memex (1945) by Vannevar Bush. Finally, there are imaginary examples too: "The Universal Library" (1901) by Kurd Lasswitz, "The Total Library" essay and The Library of Babel (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges, Encyclopædia Galactica (1942) in "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov and the Akashic records.
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Furthermore, there are thousands of archives, libraries and museums all over the world preserving human knowledge in several formats: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and more. Some of the largest ones are: the British Library in the United Kingdom (170 million items[6]), the Library of Congress in the United States (155 million items[7]), the Russian State Library in Russia (43 million items[8]), the National Diet Library in Japan (35 million items[9]), the National Library of China (31 million items[10]) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (31 million items[11]).
This project is focused in those entities which are notable and deserve an article in Wikipedia. For completeness of sister projects, see #Sister projects. For an estimate about lost knowledge, see #Destroyed knowledge and Wikipedia:There is a deadline.
You are welcome to improve this page, be bold! There is available an userbox: {{User All human knowledge}}.
Arts
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 33,202,000+ |
The arts are composed of many endeavors (or artforms) united by their employment of the human creative impulse.
Architecture
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 10,000,000+ |
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
Note: some of these items may overlap
For libraries, museums, archives and universities, see #GLAM.
For airports, roads and seaports, see #Transport.
Monuments
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 5,000,000+ Notes: With about 1,000,000+ monuments in Europe, it is safe to estimate world total to more than 5,000,000. |
A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of historic architecture.
For more monuments databases, see Commons:Monuments database/Statistics. For a map, see Wiki Loves Monuments.
Calligraphy
editNo estimation available yet |
Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beautiful" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calligraphy | ?/? | ||
| Typefaces | ?/? | ||
| Typographic features | ?/? |
This section excludes biographies.
For languages and writing systems see #Languages.
Crafts
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1000+ |
A craft is a branch of a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crafts | ?/1000 | [citation needed] | |
| Gardening | ? | ?/? | |
| Gemology and Jewelry | ? | ?/? | |
| Home improvement | ? | ?/? | |
| Origami | ? | ?/? | |
| Toys | ?/? |
Dance
editNo estimation available yet |
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dance | ?/? | ||
| Dance style categories | ?/? | ||
| Ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Drawing
editNo estimation available yet |
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drawings | ?/? | ||
| Drawing techniques | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? | ||
| Anime and Manga | ? | ?/? |
Films, episodes, television and radio
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Estimated figure of notable articles: 2,000,000+ Notes: According to IMDb statistics |
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Films | ?/289000 | 289,000+ feature[32] | |
| Documentaries | ?/103000 | 48,000+ and 55,000+ (short)[32] | |
| Television channels | ?/? | India: 700+[33]. Europe: 7,200 as of 2009 (UE 27 + Croatia and Turkey)[34] Defunct channels: ? | |
| Television programs | ?/? | (for example, List of Spanish television series contains 800+ series and miniseries) | |
| Television stations | ?/? | United States: 1,700+[35] and 2,100+ low power | |
| TV episodes | ?/1542000 | [32] | |
| Radio stations | ?/44000 | [36] United States: 14,000+[35] | |
| Awards | ?/? |
| Database | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMDb | 2,526,000+ titles | ?/2526000 | TV episodes, feature, TV movie, documentary, and more[32] |
This section excludes biographies.
Gastronomy
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Estimated figure of notable articles: 1,200+ |
Gastronomy is the art or science of food eating.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food styles | ?/? | ||
| Dishes | ?/? | ||
| Beverages | ?/? | ||
| Cheeses | ?/1200 | [37] | |
| Awards | ?/? |
Literature
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 20,000,000+ Notes: Excluding possible non-notable books and editions of the same books which don't deserve articles |
Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written works. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature by country | 200+ | ?/200 | |
| Literature by period | ? | ?/? | |
| Oral literature | ? | ?/? | |
| Literary movements | ?/? |
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | ?/129864880 | Google estimates total books (considering all editions separately) in 129,864,880[38] | |
| Codices | ?/? | ||
| Comics | ?/? | ||
| Incunabula | ?/? ?/29777 ?/350000 |
(350,000 editions, around 1.5 million surviving copies, located in over 5,000 libraries worldwide)[39][40] | |
| Magazines | ?/? ?/9000 |
[41] | |
| Manuscripts | ?/? | ||
| Newspapers | ?/? ?/72000 ?/2000 |
[33][41] | |
| Speeches | ?/? | ||
| Bibliographies | ?/? | ||
| Fictional characters Fictional places Fictional battles |
?/1777 ?/145 |
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| Awards | ?/? |
| Database | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| WorldCat | 264,000,000 | ?/264000000 | Bibliographic records about books, journals and more |
| Open Library | 20,000,000-30,000,000 | ?/20000000 | Books |
| Harvard Bibliographic Dataset | 12,000,000 | ?/12000000 | Bibliographic records for materials held by the Harvard Library, including books, journals, manuscripts, archival materials, electronic resources, scores, audio, video and other materials[42] |
| Internet Archive | 3,000,000 | ?/3000000 | E-books and texts[43] |
| Project Gutenberg | 42,000+ | ?/42000 | E-books and documents |
Holdings estimates by library:
- The British Library is known to hold over 150 million items.
- The Library of Congress claims that it holds approximately 119 million items, 12 million of which are electronically searchable.
This section excludes biographies and libraries.
Academic literature
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 500,000 Notes: Estimating that 1% of journal articles are notable |
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An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Estimates suggest that around 50 million journal articles[44] have been published since the first appearance of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic journals | ?/? ?/? ?/? |
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| Conference papers | ?/? | ||
| Journal articles | ?/50000000 | [44] (See Lists of important publications in science) | |
| Theses | ?/? |
| Database | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspec | 11,000,000 records | ?/11000000 | |
| Compendex | 9,000,000 records | ?/9000000 | |
| Elsevier BIOBASE | 4,100,000 records | ?/4100000 | |
| Academic Search | 3,000,000 records | ?/3000000 | |
| IEEE Xplore | 2,400,000 records | ?/2400000 | |
| SciELO | 230,000 records | ?/230000 |
Encyclopedias
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 100,000+ Notes: This subsection counts encyclopedias and dictionaries as works, not every article in every encyclopedia. |
An encyclopedia (also spelled encyclopaedia or encyclopædia) is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.
Most of them contain common articles for basic subjects. Also, other sections may be overlapped with this one. Some of the most complete enciclopedias are Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (800,000 articles), Encyclopædia Britannica (100,000 articles), L'Encyclopédie (72,000 articles[1]), Oxford Reference Online (1,400,000 articles).
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionaries | ?/38000 | [45] | |
| Encyclopedias | ?/13000 ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? |
[46] |
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Wikipedia:Size comparisons#Comparison of encyclopedias
- s:Portal:Reference Works
See more encyclopedias in Google Books and Internet Archive.
Novel
editNo estimation available yet |
A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story, usually.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novels | ?/? | ||
| Historical novels | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Poetry
editNo estimation available yet |
Poetry (from the Greek 'poiesis'/ποίησις [poieo/ποιέω], a making: a forming, creating, or the art of poetry, or a poem) is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poems | ?/? | ||
| Poetic forms | ?/? | ||
| Poetry groups and movements | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Theatre
editNo estimation available yet |
Theatre (in American English usually theater) is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plays | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Theatres are counted in #Architecture.
Music
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ |
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; "art of the Muses").
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruments | ?/500 | ||
| Albums | ?/1000000 | New albums in US: 75,000 (2010), 96,100 (2009), 106,000 (2008), 76,000 (2006)[47] | |
| Songs | ?/97000000 | [48] | |
| Musicals | ?/? | ||
| Concertos | ?/? | ||
| Operas | ?/3603 | 3,603 operas performed between 1597 and 1940[49][50] | |
| Symphonies | ?/? | ||
| Canons | ?/? | ||
| Styles | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
The freeDB database holds information for around 1,5 million compact discs (many are duplicates), All Music Guide database contains entries for 800,000 unique albums and Jamendo project contains over 50,000 free and open albums. Record-Rama collection holds 3 million albums and singles.
See also List of online music databases.
Painting
editNo estimation available yet |
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Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings | ?/? | ||
| Painting styles | ?/? | ||
| Painting materials and tools | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Photography
editNo estimation available yet |
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photographs | ?/? | Category:Photographs | |
| Photographic styles | ?/? | ||
| Photographic techniques | ?/? | Category:Photographic techniques | |
| Awards | ?/? |
Printmaking
editNo estimation available yet |
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Printmaking techniques | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Sculpture
editNo estimation available yet |
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sculptures | ?/? | ||
| Styles | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Software
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 100,000+ Notes: 50,000 videogames and 50,000 other software |
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Software Center | 30,000+ | ?/30000 | |
| Free software repositories | ?/15 | ||
| Computer languages | ?/2000 | [51] | |
| Google play | 500,000 applications | ? | [52] |
| App Store (iOS) | 550,000 applications | ? | [53] |
| Malwares, viruses, trojan | ?/1000000 | [54] | |
| File formats | ? | ||
| Awards | ? |
Videogames
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 50,000+ |
A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Videogames | ?/65000 | 65,000+ commercial games referenced on Mobygame (66,410 referenced games, 1,375 free games[55][56]) | |
| Freeware flash games | ?/50000 | 50,000+ free games referenced on Fupa[57] | |
| Awards | ?/? |
Textile arts
editNo estimation available yet |
Textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.
Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Textile arts | ? | ?/? | |
| Fashion styles | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ?/? |
Websites
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 100,000+ Notes: Only part of over 600,000,000+ sites is notable. |
A website is a set of related webpages containing content (media), including text, video, music, audio, images, etc.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Websites | ?/100000 ?/? ?/1000 |
Total about 420,000,000-600,000,000 websites[58][59], probably only 100,000 notable.
Wikis: 300,000+ Wikia,[60] 5000+ wiki-site,[61] 1400+ Wikkii,[62] 50+ Referata, 20,000+ non-wikifarm wikis[63] | |
| Newsgroups | ?/? | ||
| Web directories | ?/? | ||
| Awards | ? |
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexa ranking | ? | ? | 500 top sites and 1,000,000 most visited websites[64] |
Geography
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 7,462,000+ |
Geography (from Greek [γεωγραφία] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) - geographia, lit. "earth describe-write") is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. This section covers every physical geography location and every human geography settlement in the world.
| Databases | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Database | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
| GEOnet Names Server | ? | ?/? | [65] GNS/AA, GNS/SP |
| Geonames | ? | ?/? | [66] User:Emijrp/Geonames, Admin1Codes, Cities1000 |
For buildings and monuments, see Arts#Architecture.
Human geography
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 4,310,000+ |
Human geography is a branch of the social sciences that studies the world, its people, communities and cultures with an emphasis on relations of and across space and place.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sovereign states | 206/206 | ||
| Micronations | ?/? |
Africa
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 50,000+ |
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Africa has 54 fully recognized sovereign states, 9 territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.
Asia
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 2,000,000+ Notes: Based on China |
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Asia has 49 recognized states, 5 partially recognized and unrecognized states and 6 dependent territories and other territories.
Europe
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 2,000,000+ Notes: Based on Poland data: 100 000 settlements etc, population 38 000 000. Europe: 731 000 000 -> around 2 000 000 |
Europe has 50 recognised states, 6 partially recognised states, 6 dependent territories and 2 special areas of internal sovereignty.
North America
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 200,000+ |
North America has 23 sovereign states, 11 dependent territories and 16 other areas.
South America
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 50,000+ |
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South America has 13 sovereign states, 2 dependent territories and 1 integral territories of states outside of South America.
Oceania
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 10,000+ |
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Oceania has 14 sovereign states, 2 states not members of the United Nations and 26 other territories.
Antarctica
editNo estimation available yet |
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There are several camps and research stations in Antarctica. Also, some territorial claims.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antarctic field camps | ? | ?/? | |
| Research stations in Antarctica | ? | ?/? |
| Territory | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Antarctic Territory | ? | ?/? | |
| Ross Dependency | ? | ?/? | |
| Adélie Land | ? | ?/? | |
| Peter I Island | ? | ?/? | |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | ? | ?/? | |
| Queen Maud Land | ? | ?/? | |
| Chilean Antarctic Territory | ? | ?/? | |
| Argentine Antarctica | ? | ?/? | |
| Marie Byrd Land | ? | ?/? |
Physical geography
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 3,152,000+ |
Physical geography is that branch of natural science which deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, as opposed to the cultural or built environment, the domain of human geography.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continents | 7/7 | ||
| Supercontinents | 10/10 |
Canals
editNo estimation available yet |
Canals are man-made channels for water.
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | ?/? |
Caves
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 2,400+ |
A cave or cavern is a natural underground space large enough for a human to enter.
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | ?/2400 | ||
| Poland | ?/? | pl:Ojcowski Park Narodowy - over 400 caves (sometimes very small - it includes caves no longer than 2m) on area of 21,46 km² |
- Caves of the world includes 2,424 caves deeper than 300m (total height) or longer than 3km.[68]
Deserts
editNo estimation available yet |
A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants.
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | ?/? |
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | ?/? |
Forests
editNo estimation available yet |
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees.
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | ?/? |
Glaciers
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 100,000+ |
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | ? | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | ?/8000 | [69] | |
| United States | ?/100000 | [70][71] |
Islands
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 50,000+ |
An island is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
| Location | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceans | ?/45000 ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? |
There are approximately 45,000 tropical islands on Earth.[72] | |
| Rivers | ?/? | ||
| Lakes | ?/? |
Lakes
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ |
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land.
Mountains
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ |
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak.
| Country | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worlwide | ?/? 14/14 ?/? ?/? ?/? |
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| Spain | ?/? |
- Mountain ranges: ?
- Volcanoes: 1,500 active worldwide[80]
- Mountains Mount includes info for more than 100,000 mountains.[81]
Rivers
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ |
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A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. There are 17 countries without rivers.
Seas
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 200+ |
A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seas | 150/150 | ||
| Oceans | 5/5 | ||
| Ancient oceans | 14/14 |
History
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 333,000+ |
History (from Greek [ἱστορία] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events.
- Branches of history: ?
- History by country: ?
- History concepts: ?
Coups d'état
editNo estimation available yet |
A coup d'état, also known as a coup, a putsch, or an overthrow, is the sudden deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to depose the extant government and replace it with another body, civil or military.
Disasters
editNo estimation available yet |
A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment.
| Natural disasters | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquakes | ?/? | ||
| Epidemics | ?/? | ||
| Fires | ?/? | ||
| Floods | ?/? | ||
| Landslides | ?/? | ||
| Tornadoes | ?/? | ||
| Tsunamis | ?/? | ||
| Volcanoes | ?/? |
| Man-made disasters | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airship accidents | ?/? | ||
| Aviation accidents and incidents | ?/? | ||
| Famines | ?/? | ||
| Industrial disasters | ?/? | ||
| Maritime disasters | ?/? | ||
| Nuclear accidents | ?/? | ||
| Oil spills | ?/? | ||
| Road accidents | ?/? | ||
| Rail accidents | ?/? | ||
| Spaceflight accidents | ?/? | ||
| Structural failure | ?/? |
See also List of disasters by cost (potentially 200x countries).
Elections
editNo estimation available yet |
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government.
For politics topics, see #Politics.
Military history
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 127,000+ |
Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships.
- WP:MHA#Statistics has over 127,000 articles as of this listing.
Wars and battles
editNo estimation available yet |
War is an organized and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states and/or non-state actors. It is characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, human suffering, and economic destruction.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battles | ?/? | ||
| Wars | ?/? | ||
| Treaties | ?/? |
Warships
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 25,000+ |
A warship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for combat. As well as being armed, warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually faster and more maneuverable than merchant ships. Unlike a merchant ship, which carries cargo, a warship typically only carries weapons, ammunition and supplies for its crew. Warships usually belong to a navy, though they have also been operated by individuals or companies.
- Category:Naval ships contains 25,000+ articles
Revolutions and rebellions
editNo estimation available yet |
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.
Time periods
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 206,000 |
The categorization of time into discrete named blocks is called periodization. This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. Major categorization systems include cosmological (concerning the various time periods in the origin and evolution of the Universe), geological (concerning time periods in the origin and evolution of Earth) and historical (concerning time periods in the origin and human evolution).
Cosmological:
Geological:
Historical:
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | 2500/6000 ?/200000 |
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| Decades | |||
| Centuries | |||
| Millennia | |||
| Timelines | |||
| Time periods | |||
| Calendars |
GLAM
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Estimated figure of notable articles: 147,000+ |
The libraries, museums and archives are collections of historical records, or the physical places they are located.
Note: books and publications are in Arts#Literature section.
Archives
editNo estimation available yet |
An archive is an accumulation of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization.
Libraries
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 72,000+ |
A library is an organized collection of information resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both.
Museums
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 55,000+ |
A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.
Universities
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 20,000+ |
A university is an institution of higher education and research which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.
Largest GLAM institutions
edit| Institution | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Library | 150,000,000 items | ?/150000000 | Books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. 14 million are books, 3 million recordings. See also British Library Sound Archive |
| Smithsonian Institution | 137,000,000 objects, artworks and specimens | ?/137000000 | [147] |
| Library of Congress | 32,000,000 volumes | ?/32000000 | [148] |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2,000,000 works | ?/2000000 | |
| Tokyo National Museum | 110,000 objects | ?/110000 | |
| Louvre museum | 30,000 items | ?/30000 | [149] |
See also List of the largest libraries in the United States
Philosophy
editNo estimation available yet |
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
This section excludes Society#Biographies.
Science
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 44,755,000+ |
Science – systematic effort of acquiring knowledge—through observation and experimentation coupled with logic and reasoning to find out what can be proved or not proved—and the knowledge thus acquired. The word "science" comes from the Latin word "scientia" meaning knowledge.
Astronomy
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 25,000,000+ Notes: Estimate includes single articles for notable objects and lists for non-notable objects |
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Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the formation and development of the universe.
| Large-scale structure of the cosmos | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
| Galaxies | ?/125000000000 | [150] | |
| Galaxy clusters | ?/? | ||
| Globular clusters | ?/? | ||
| Open clusters | ?/? | ||
| Superclusters | ?/? | ||
| Voids | ?/? | ||
| Astronomical bodies | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
| Asteroids | 216000/310376 | As of December 2011 there are 310,376 numbered minor planets, and about as many yet unnumbered. Only some 16,000 minor planets have been given names. | |
| Comets | ?/? | ||
| Dwarf planets | ?/10000 | [151] | |
| Exoplanets | ?/? | ||
| Multiplanetary systems | 168/168 | ||
| Free-floating planets | ?/? | [152] | |
| Planets features | ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? |
Hundreds of thousands of craters in Mars, only 1000 with names | |
| Quasars | ?/? | ||
| Stars | ?/? | ||
| Astronomical Catalogues | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
| Guide Star Catalog II | ?/20000000 | 20,000,000 stars with apparent magnitudes of 6 to 15 (945,592,683 stars out to magnitude 21). Not all stars are notable (well, for the life forms in their planets sure), but we can create lists like the asteroids ones (10,000 stars per list are "only" 100,000 pages). | |
| Index Catalogue | ?/5386 | ||
| Messier Catalogue | 100/100 | ||
| New General Catalogue | 900/7840 | ||
Space exploration
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 10,000+ |
Space exploration is the discovery and exploration of outer space by means of space technology. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human spaceflights | ?/250 | ||
| Artificial satellites | ?/6800 | [153] | |
| Space agencies | ?/? | ||
| Space probes | ?/? | ||
| Space stations | ?/? | ||
| Other | 5/5 |
Biology
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 10,000,000+ Notes: Estimating 1,000,000 bacteria species |
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacteria genera | ?/? | ||
| Bacteria species | ?/100000 | [154] | |
| Proteins | ?/? | ||
| Viruses genera | ?/? | ||
| Viruses | ?/6000 | [155] | |
| Individual animals | ?/? |
Zoos and aquaria are counted in Arts#Architecture.
Species
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 8,700,000+ |
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, the difficulty of defining species is known as the species problem.
| Species count[156] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxon | Estimation | Progress | Comments |
| Species | ?/8700000 | Recent studies indicate there are 8,700,000 species, with an error of ±1,300,000 (6,500,000 land species, 2,200,000 marine species). Only 1,233,500 species (14%) have been described.[157] Other estimates range between 2 and 100 million species. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Global Names Index | |
| Animalia | ?/1552319 | ||
| Arthropoda | ?/1242040 | ||
| Insecta | ?/1020007 | ||
| Coleoptera | ?/387100 | ||
| Diptera | ?/159294 | ||
| Lepidoptera | ?/157424 | ||
| Chelicerata | ?/113894 | ||
| Arachnida | ?/112201 | ||
| Crustacea | ?/66914 | ||
| Acari | ?/54617 | ||
| Araneae | ?/43579 | ||
| Nematoda | ?/24783 | ||
| Orthoptera | ?/24276 | ||
| Trilobita | ?/19606 | ||
| Myriapoda | ?/11885 | ||
| Other | ?/? ?/? |
||
| Catalogue | Estimation | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Resources Institute | ?/1400000 | ||
| Tara Research Vessel | ?/1000000 | Tara Research Vessel Discovers One Million New Species Of Microscopic Sea Life (PICTURES) | |
| Catalogue of Life | ?/1404038 | Species for all kingdoms as of May 2012, with coverage of 74% of the estimated 1.9 million species known to science (zip) | |
| All Species Foundation | ?/? | On-going project to catalog all species on Earth by 2025, by Long Now Foundation |
Human body
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 300,000+ |
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells,[158] the basic unit of life. These cells are organised biologically to eventually form the whole body.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human organs | ?/1000 | 850 muscles, 206 bones | |
| Human genes | ?/85000 | [159] | |
| Human proteins | ?/200000 | [160] |
Chemistry
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 5,000+ |
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elements | ?/118 | ||
| Compounds | ?/60000000 | As listed in the CAS database [4] (with growth of 10 million in less than two years), probably not all notable or can be described as variants in overview articles | |
| Reactions | ?/? | ||
| Minerals | ?/4900 |
Health
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 50,000+ |
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind and body, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diseases | ?/12000 ?/? ?/? |
[161] | |
| Disorders | ?/? | ||
| Drugs | ?/21000 | [162] (1,357 unique drugs: 1,204 are 'small-molecule drugs' and 166 are 'biological' drugs) |
Hospitals are counted in Arts#Architecture.
Mathematics
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ Notes: 200,000 integer sequences times five for roughly as many significant individual numbers, formulas, fields and sub-fields, etc. |
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change.
- Areas: ?
- Numbers: ℵ0 integers and even more reals.
- Prime numbers: ℵ0 prime numbers.
- Integer sequences: 200,000+[163]
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra | ? | ?/? | |
| Category theory | ? | ?/? | |
| Cryptography | ? | ?/? | |
| Discrete mathematics | ? | ?/? | |
| Geometry | ? | ?/? | |
| Logic | ? | ?/? | |
| Number theory | ? | ?/? | |
| Set theory | ? | ?/? | |
| Statistics | ? | ?/? | |
| Topology | ? | ?/? |
Meteorology
editNo estimation available yet |
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries. After the development of the computer in the latter half of the 20th century, breakthroughs in weather forecasting were achieved.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meteorological phenomena | ? | ?/? | |
| Weather instruments | ? | ?/? | |
| Seasons | ?/? | ||
| Hurricanes | ?/? |
Physics
editNo estimation available yet |
Physics (from Ancient Greek: φύσις, romanized: physis, lit. 'nature') is a natural science that involves the study of matter.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colors | ?/? | ||
| Particles | ?/? | ||
| Nuclides | 100/3000 | [164] |
Earth and Planetary science
editNo estimation available yet |
Earth and planetary sciences are the sciences that study the material and dynamics of Earth and other celestial bodies.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithostratigraphic units | 100000 | 1000/100000 | |
| Fossils | 300000 | ?/300000 | [165] |
| Meteorites | 50000 | ?/50000 | [166] |
| Rocks types | 500 | ?/500 | |
| Geologic Time Scale | 500 | 200/500 | Current and old time units. |
Society
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 18,076,000+ |
A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
Business
editNo estimation available yet |
A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | ?/? |
Culture
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No estimation available yet |
Culture is the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culture | ?/? | ||
| Flags | ?/? | ||
| Symbols | ?/? | ||
| Currencies | ?/? |
Law
editNo estimation available yet |
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country legal systems | ?/200 | ||
| Case law | ?/? | ||
| Treaty | ?/? | ||
| Human rights | ?/? | ||
| Roman law | ?/? | ||
| Software license | ?/? | ||
| Free content license | ?/? |
Languages
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 10,000+ |
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses is called linguistics.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languages | ?/6900 ?/? ?/? ?/? |
[168] | |
| Animal communication | |||
| Writing systems | ?/? ?/? ?/? |
||
| Exolinguistics | |||
| Alien language | |||
| Phonetics articles |
| Catalogue | Estimation | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosetta Project | ?/? | Its goal is to permanent archive 1,500 languages (13,000 microscopic pages of text) in a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD. |
See also wiktionary:Category:All languages for words in all languages.
Organizations
editNo estimation available yet |
An organization is a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-governmental organization | ?/? ?/3300000 ?/277000 ?/1500000 |
[169][170][171][172] |
People
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Estimated figure of notable articles: 17,000,000+ Notes: As of October 2013[update] English Wikipedia contains 1,149,632 biographies |
6% completed (estimate)
In a city with a population of 100,000 inhabitants we have about 100 notable people: scientists, writers, artists, activists, politicians, sportspeople, actors, singers, lawyers and many more. If the world population is about 7,000,000,000, we would have 7,000,000,000/(100,000/100) = 7,000,000 notable biographies of living people (BLP).
But we must see in the past centuries too, number who have ever been born is around 100,000,000,000[173]. Random guesstimate: 10,000,000 notable biographies (excluding BLP).
This section contains lists of people by occupation. These lists virtually include people from all countries, but sub-lists by country are desirable (do not count people twice, though). Also, list of fictional people by occupation are possible.
- Accordionists
- Accountants
- Activists
- Actors
- Aestheticians
- Africanists
- Agriculturalists
- Agronomists
- Albanologists
- Alchemists
- Almoners
- Analytical chemists
- Anthropological linguists
- Anthropologists
- Anthropologists of religion
- Anthropologists of the Ainu
- Antiques experts
- Archaeoastronomers
- Archaeological writers
- Archaeologists
- Archaeology educators
- Archimimes
- Architects
- Archivists
- Arendators
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- Artisans
- Assyriologists
- Astrologers
- Astronauts
- Astronomers
- Astrophysicists
- Aviators
- Baby farmers
- Balatros
- Ballistics experts
- Barber surgeons
- Bear-leaders
- Biochemists
- Biographers
- Biologists
- Birdwatchers
- Bishops
- Bodhisattvas
- Bodyguards
- Booksellers
- Botanists
- Bow tie wearers
- Breastfeeding activists
- Broadcasters
- Bullfighters
- Bussinesspeople
- Calligraphers
- Caricaturists
- Cartoonists
- Cartographers
- Cavers
- Celticists
- Censors
- Channellers
- Cheerleaders
- Chemists
- Chemical engineers
- Chess players
- Civil engineers
- Civil rights leaders
- Clairvoyants
- Classical archaeologists
- Classical philologists
- Clowns
- Cognitive scientists
- Coleopterists
- Color scientists
- Comedians
- Competitive eaters
- Composers
- Comic creators
- Computer scientists
- Coptologists
- Criminals
- Cultural anthropologists
- Cyberneticists
- Dancers
- Dentists
- Designers
- Digital historians
- Digital librarians
- Diplomats
- Directors
- Directors and producers of documentaries
- Doctors
- Dog trainers
- Drag queens
- Dramatists
- Earth scientists
- Economists
- Editors
- Egyptologists
- Electrical engineers
- Electrochemists
- Environmental engineers
- Environmental lawyers
- Environmental scientists
- Engineers
- Entomologists
- Epigraphers
- Epistemologists
- Esotericists
- Ethicists
- Ethiopianists
- Ethnobiologists
- Ethnobotanists
- Ethnographers
- Ethnologists
- Etruscan scholars
- Executioners
- Explorers
- Fashion designers
- Film critics
- Finno-Ugrists
- Football players
- Footballers (soccer)
- Game designers
- Geneticists
- Gerontologists
- Geographers
- Geologists
- Geophysicists
- Geometers
- Godfathers
- Food scientists
- Forensic anthropologists
- Forensic scientists
- Germanists
- Golfers
- Graphic designers
- Heraldists
- Hermeticists
- Herpetologists
- Hispanists
- Historians
- Hittitologists
- Holy Land archaeologists
- Horse trainers
- Human rights activists
- Hydrographers
- Illustrators
- Impostors
- Industrial engineers
- Innovators
- Inorganic chemists
- Interior designers
- Inventors
- Janitors
- Japanologists
- Journalists
- Judges
- Jurists
- Kabbalists
- Kickboxers
- Landscape architects
- Latin Americanists
- Latinists
- Lawyers
- Lexicographers
- Librarians
- Linguists
- Logicians
- Magicians
- Maritime explorers
- Materials scientists and engineers
- Mathematical probabilists
- Mathematicians
- Mayanists
- Mechanical engineers
- Media proprietors
- Medical anthropologists
- Medical researchers
- Mesoamerican anthropologists
- Mesoamerican archaeologists
- Mesoamericanists
- Metaphysicians
- Meteorologists
- Microscopists
- Middle East studies scholars
- Military commanders
- Military writers
- Mineralogists
- Minoan archaeologists
- Missionaries
- Mnemonists
- Motivational speakers
- Musicians
- Mycenaean archaeologists
- Myrmecologists
- Mystics
- Natural scientists
- Naturalists
- Neurochemists
- Neuroscientists
- Novelists
- Nuclear chemists
- Numismatists
- Nurses
- Occultists
- Oenologists
- Oghamologists
- Organizers
- Orientalists
- Origamists
- Organic chemists
- Ornithologists
- Painters
- Palaeographers
- Paleoanthropologists
- Paleopathologists
- Pastoralists
- Pathologists
- Pharmacists
- Philatelists
- Philosophers
- Photochemists
- Photographers
- Photojournalists
- Psychics
- Physical anthropologists
- Physical chemists
- Physicians
- Physicists
- Physiognomists
- Pianists
- Planters
- Plastic surgeon
- Playwrights
- Plumbers
- Poets
- Political philosophers
- Political scientists
- Political theorists
- Politicians
- Polymer scientists and engineers
- Porn stars
- Pre-Columbian scholars
- Preachers
- Prehistorians
- Professional wrestlers
- Programmers
- Psephologists
- Psychological anthropologists
- Psychologists
- Railroad executives
- Rebels
- Religion scholars
- Religious leaders
- Remote viewers
- Researchers
- Researchers in stochastics
- Researchers of artificial life
- Rheologists
- Rhetoricians
- Rocket scientists
- Romance philologists
- Runologists
- Sailors
- Scandinavian studies scholars
- Scientists
- Screenwriters
- Scribes
- Sculptors
- Sea captains
- Secretaries
- Setians
- Sexologists
- Shoe designers
- Show business families
- Singers
- Singer-songwriters
- Slavists
- Soccer players
- Social and political philosophers
- Social anthropologists
- Social psychologists
- Social scientists
- Sociologists
- Somalists
- Songwriters
- Soundtrack composers
- Spectroscopists
- Spies
- Spiritual mediums
- Sportspeople
- Statisticians
- Strippers
- Sufis
- Swimmers
- Symbolic anthropologists
- Systems scientists
- Tangutologists
- Tattoo artists
- Telegraphists
- Telepaths
- Televangelists
- Television presenters
- Television reporters
- Tennis players
- Theatre directors
- Theologians (Christian)
- Theoretical chemists
- Translators
- Treasure hunters
- Urban planners
- Underwater archaeologists
- Ventriloquists
- Veterinarians
- Vexillologists
- Visual anthropologists
- Viticulturists
- Whistleblowers
- Writers
- Yoga teachers
- Zookeepers
- Zoologists
See also: User:Emijrp/Systemic bias/Contemporary bias
Politics
editNo estimation available yet |
Politics is the art or science of influencing people on a civic, or individual level, when there are more than 2 people involved.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political ideologies | List of political ideologies: ? | ?/? | |
| Political parties | List of political parties: ? | ?/? | |
| Demonstrations | List of demonstrations: ? | ?/? |
This section excludes biographies. For elections, see #Elections.
Religion and mythology
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ |
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religion | ?/4200 | ||
| Mythology | ?/100 | ||
| Creation myth | ?/100 |
pl:Encyklopedia Katolicka alone includes around 40,000 definitions (it includes things like fire - but Fire in religion is possible article). It is safe to multiply that by 25X (List of religions and spiritual traditions)
Sports and games
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 66,000+ |
Sports are all forms of competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Hundreds of sports exist, from those requiring only two participants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports | ?/8000 | [175] | |
| Sport teams | ?/? | ||
| Sport leagues | ?/? | ||
| Martial arts | ?/? | ||
| Games | ?/58900 | [176] |
Technology
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,043,000+ |
Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventions | ?/? | ||
| Discoveries | ?/? |
Hardware
editNo estimation available yet |
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microprocessors | ?/? | ||
| Microcontrollers | ?/? |
Patents
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 1,000,000+ |
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention.
| Catalogue | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Espacenet | |||
| Japan Patent Office | In 2005, it received 427,078 patent applications, 11,386 utility model applications, 39,254 design applications, and 125,807 trademark applications; it registered 122,944 patents, 10,573 utility model rights, 32,633 design rights, and 97,939 trademark rights in the same year. | ||
| United States Patent and Trademark Office | As of February 2008, the PTO has granted over 7,950,000 patents. |
Transport
editEstimated figure of notable articles: 43,000+ |
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport is important since it enables trade between peoples, which in turn establishes civilizations.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air transport | ?/43982 ?/? |
[177] | |
| Rail transport | ?/? ?/? |
||
| Road transport | ?/? | [178] | |
| Ship transport | ?/? ?/? |
(Historical ship types: ?; Sailing boat types: ?) |
Weapons
editNo estimation available yet |
A weapon, arm, or armament is a tool or instrument used in order to inflict damage or harm to living beings—physical or mental—artificial structures, or systems.
| Topic | Estimate | Progress | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weapons | ?/? | ||
| Armoured fighting vehicles | ?/? | ||
| Firearms | ?/? ?/? ?/? ?/? |
||
| Missiles | ?/? | ||
| Torpedo | ?/? |
Further knowledge
editSome further knowledge and estimates.
Destroyed knowledge
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Everyday, distinct forms of knowledge are lost forever and no copies are available. When a natural disaster hits a region or a war breaks out, a lot of libraries, archives, museums, monuments and other heritage, valuable buildings and objects are destroyed. Some people think that "There is no deadline", but as you can see in the following lines, there is a deadline, it is a battle against time. This is an incomplete list of lost or destroyed objects, books, encyclopedias, films, libraries, archives, museums, and other forms of knowledge.
- Huanglan, the first Chinese encyclopedia, lost.
- Only about 400 of 11095 volumes of the Yongle Encyclopedia have survived.
- The Library of Alexandria, only one of the libraries of antiquity destroyed.
- Churches, monasteries, convents and libraries burnt in the Spanish Civil War.
- During World War II hundreds of libraries and archives in several countries were bombed, shelled, burnt and looted.
- More than 6,000 Tibetan monasteries and convents destroyed during Cultural Revolution. Along with the buildings, thousands of unique statues, tapestries and manuscripts were destroyed.[179]
- The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina shelled and burnt to the ground along with thousands of irreplaceable texts. Some citizens and librarians tried to save some books while they were under sniper fire. Aida Buturovic, a librarian, was shot to death by a sniper while attempting to rescue books from the flames.[180]
- Iraq National Library and other buildings looted and burnt during 2003 Iraq invasion.
- Library damage resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in several countries.
- Haitian heritage damaged and destroyed in 2010 Haiti earthquake.[181]
- Chilean heritage damaged and destroyed during 2010 Chile earthquake.
- Damage in the Egyptian Museum by looters during 2011 Egyptian revolution.[182]
This list is incomplete, for a more detailed page, see Wikipedia:There is a deadline.
Furthermore, hundreds websites are closed every day in the Internet. Projects like Internet Archive or WebCitation and volunteers groups like Archive Team save copies of some of them, but much others are lost forever.
Knowledge organization
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- Figurative system of human knowledge (the tree of Diderot and d'Alembert)
- Universal Decimal Classification
Lists of missing articles
editMany users compile huge lists of missing encyclopedic and notable articles to be developed (search results for intitle:missing articles). If you have any list plenty of red links, please add yourself:
- User:Agne27/French wine project
- User:Calliopejen1/Morocco
- User:Dominic/Chile politics
- User:Dsp13/Redlinks
- User:Emijrp/Outlines
- User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list
- User:Ham/250 paintings
- User:Ipigott/French painters
- User:JackofOz/Redlinks
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (A – D)
- User:Magnus Manske/Women in science
- User:T. Anthony/Women in Red
- User:Yupik/Redlinks/Indigenous Women
- Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics
- Skysmith's list of missing articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Thompson-Reuters most cited scientists
See progress for WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles.
More estimates
edit- How many portals are needed? Currently there are 1,000+ portals.
New knowledge
editThese are some estimations of new knowledge generated every year:
- New albums in US: 75,000 (2010), 96,100 (2009), 106,000 (2008), 76,000 (2006)[47]
- New books globally: 2.2 million (approx)[183]
- Please, add more
Preservation
editWikimedia projects aims to compile all human knowledge, they are focused in the quantity and quality of the contents, but what about preservation? How are we going to preserve all the knowledge for the future generations? There are several organizations working on the preservation of information and weak heritage, some of them are the following:
Sister projects
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Sections aboved are focused in those entities which are notable for Wikipedia. Sister projects include:
- Wikibooks: ?
- Wikimedia Commons:
- Hundred images of every municipality in the world?
- See Geograph Britain and Ireland (http://www.geograph.org.uk) project which aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland
- Earth land surface area is 148,940,000 km2 (minimum 1 image per km2?)
- Images, sounds and videos for every animal species
- Imagine a category with sounds for every bird species
- Wikinews: local and national news?
- Wikiquote: quotes by all biographies? (1 page per biography)
- Wikisource: every book in public domain? (in Wikisource every page is a book page)
- Internet Archive hosts about 3 million public domain books.[184]
- Wikispecies: range between 2 to 100 million (see #Biology)
- Wikiversity: courses for every knowledge branch
- Wikidata: a collaboratively edited database to support Wikipedia. It will probably help to discover how many articles are still needed to create
- Wikivoyage: ?
Some examples
editIf you don't think that there are still million missing topics, here you have some odd examples. Add yours!
Special:Newpages
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There are over 72,000 publications currently registered with the Registrar of Newspapers of India. At present, over 700 TV channels have been permitted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to uplink or downlink from the country.
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Plus de 245 nouvelles chaînes de télévision ont été lancées en Europe en 2009 ; ce qui mène à la fin de l'année 2009 à un total de 7 200 chaînes de télévision européennes.
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As on March 2011: 14,728 full power radio stations: 4,778 AM, 6533 FM, and 3,417 educational FM. There are 859 Low Power FM stations. 1,774 full power TV stations: 1,022 UHF commercial, 360 VHF commercial, 285 UHF educational, and 107 VHF educational. 10,595 translators and booster stations. 2,172 low power TV stations.
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There are about 44,000 radio stations worldwide.
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After we exclude serials, we can finally count all the books in the world. There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday.
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The database records nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501, but not material printed entirely from woodblocks or engraved plates. 29,777 editions are listed as at January 8th 2008, including some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th century.
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There are 120 000 rivers over 10 km long. Their total length within the Russian Federation equals 2.3 million km
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There are 60 public libraries in Burundi, with the largest in and around the capital. Libraries in Bujumbura include the Public Library, which has 27,000 volumes; the library of the University of Burundi, with 192,000 volumes; and a specialized collection at the Department of Geology and Mines. The French Cultural Center in Bujumbura holds 33,000 volumes.
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As of 2002, there were 250 free public libraries throughout the country with 892 points of service. That year, the public libraries had a total of more than 31.4 million volumes.
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There are about 400 research and university libraries in Finland, most of which are small. In 1997 there were 436 central public libraries and 1,202 branch libraries.
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In Finland there were 439 public libraries having 1006 branches and 370 research libraries with 465 branches in 1996. The total number of library units was 1471. The total number of museums in Finland is 280, of which 139 are cultural history museums, 71 special museums, 55 art museums and 17 natural history museums.
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As of 1997, Germany had 6,313 public libraries with 149 million volumes in total. Germany has more than 4,500 state, municipal, association, private, residential, castle, palace, and church and cathedral treasures museums, which annually attract over 100 million visitors.
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In 1997, there were 672 public libraries with a total of 9.1 million volumes
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As of 1997, there were 3,518 regional public libraries located throughout the country. There were over 500 museums (about 70 in Budapest) and many zoological and botanical gardens.
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There were a total of 187 public libraries with combined holdings of 1.9 million volumes in 1997. Iceland has more than 50 museums.
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In 1997, the country counted 998 public libraries housing 14.9 million volumes.
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In 1997, there were 1,478 public libraries in the country.
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Of the 18 public libraries in Morocco, the largest is in Casablanca, with almost 360,000 volumes.
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In 1997 there were 579 main public libraries with a combined collection of 41.5 million books.
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The DPRK has more than 200 public libraries, the largest being the Grand People's Study House in P'yongyang, with 20 million volumes.
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Norway's 1,108 public libraries had 20.5 million volumes in 1997.
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There are more than 40 other public libraries and branches.
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There are nearly 200 public libraries in Peru, the largest of them in Callao, Arequipa, and Lima. More than 250 public and private museums.
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In 1997 there were 9,230 public libraries, jointly holding almost 135 million volumes. Of the more than 500 museums in Poland...
- ^ a b "Portugal - Libraries and museums".
In 1997 the country had 168 public libraries with 4.8 million volumes. There are some 300 museums in Portugal.
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In 1997, the country had over 2,950 public libraries holding a total collection of 50.5 million volumes. Romania has some 400 museums.
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In 1995, the country counted 50,032 public libraries, holding in total 983.4 million volumes. Russia has over 1,000 museums.
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In 1997, Sweden had 324 public libraries. Sweden has about 200 museums.
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The Tanzania Library Service was established in 1964. It maintains the National Central Library in Dar es Salaam (656,000 volumes), 16 public libraries, school library service, and a rural extension service.
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The collections of Tunisia's approximately 250 public libraries hold over 2.7 million volumes.
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In 1995, there were reported to be 21,857 public libraries operating in Ukraine with an overall stock of 336.7 million books.
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There were more than 150,000 registered public library users using 76 public libraries holding 1.1 million volumes in 1989. In 1990, 100,000 people visited Zimbabwe's 11 museums.
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There are approximately 17,673 museums in Europe, based on figures submitted between 2003 and 2008
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According to Museums, Australia, 2007-08 (cat. no. 8560.0) there were 1,019 museums operating from 1,276 locations in Australia at the end of June 2008. These locations included 768 social history museums, 425 historic properties and sites, and 83 other museums.
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Canada has more than 2,400 museums, which have more than 24,000 paid employees and 55,000 volunteers, and receive nearly 54 million visits annually.
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The 4,000 or so museums in Germany serve as worlds of discovery and use exciting concepts to explore art and history, technology and architecture, literature and the natural world.
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It is estimated that there are about 2,500 museums in the UK, depending on what you include. Over 1,800 museums have been accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
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An informal survey of 24 microbiologists at a conference in Spain last year tried to reach a consensus. Two people guessed that the Earth was home to between 10,000 and 100,000 species of bacteria; another five said between 100,000 and 1,000,000; while nine microbiologists put the put the upper limit at ten million species; eight guessed there were even more.
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The book lists more than 6,000 viruses classified in 1,950 species and in more than 391 different higher taxa. However, GenBank contains a staggering additional 3,142 "species" unaccounted for by the ICTV report.
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On Thursday, 25 October, hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated addition of the 10,000,000,000,000,000th byte to the Archive's massive collections.
- ^ Lawrence Baines (2012). "A Future of Fewer Words". Retrieved 4 April 2012.
K. David Harrison, author of "When Languages Die", estimates 6,900 or so languages are spoken on the planet and that more than half of these languages are likely to become extinct over the next century.
- ^ http://www.humanrights.gov/2012/01/12/fact-sheet-non-governmental-organizations-ngos-in-the-united-states/
- ^ "Hobbled NGOs wary of Medvedev". Chicago Tribune. May 7, 2008.
- ^ "India: More NGOs, than schools and health centres". OneWorld.net. July 7, 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "First official estimate: An NGO for every 400 people in India". The Indian Express. July 7, 2010.
- ^ How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? (Archived June 6, 2012, at WebCite)
- ^ "Adherents.com". 2013-05-23. Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
- ^ How many sports are there in the world? (Archived July 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Board Game Geek (Archived June 6, 2012, at WebCite)
- ^ Total Number of Airports by Country on ChartsBin (2010 data)
- ^ SIC 1622: BRIDGE, TUNNEL, AND ELEVATED HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION - Of the more than 600,000 bridges in the United States, 45 percent are under the financial jurisdiction of state governments, and 38 percent are controlled by county authorities.
- ^ Tibetan monks: A controlled life (Archived June 6, 2012, at WebCite)
- ^ Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Archived August 30, 2011, at WebCite)
- ^ Haiti Cultural Recovery Project (Archive index at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Breaking: Images of Egyptian Museum Damage -UPDATE 34- King Tut Objects Damaged? Archived September 22, 2011, at WebCite
- ^ "Books published per country per year". Wikipedia. Retrieved 12-30-2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Ebook and Texts Archive
Bibliography
edit- Nielsen, Finn (2010). Wikipedia is not the sum of all human knowledge: do we need a wiki for open data?
See also
edit- List of academic disciplines
- Knowledge, Encyclopedia, Dictionary and Database
- Information science, Library science and Archival science
- Knowledge organization, Library classification, Branches of science, List of academic disciplines, and Universal library
- Figurative system of human knowledge
- Universal Decimal Classification
- Encyclopedism and New encyclopedism
- Information capacity of the universe
- Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia
- Toute la mémoire du monde
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- Wikipedia:Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia
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- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-11/Growth study
- Wikipedia:All high schools can be notable
- Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
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- Category:Reference works in the public domain
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- More prolific users... Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count, User:Bryan/List of users by pages created, and Encyclopédistes#Number of articles ; )
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External links
edit- Is Wikipedia Done? – Answer: No.
- http://www.wikidata.org
- Speedy deletion Wiki
- Counters
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- Watch WorldCat Grow – Total number of holdings in libraries worldwide
- Live at the Internet Archive – This page shows scanned books from the Internet Archive
- Essays
- Lasswitz and Borges: Indexing the Library of Everything (Archived August 8, 2012, at WebCite)
- Qu’un milliard d’articles s’épanouissent (Archived October 26, 2012, at WebCite)
- Où s'arrêtera Wikipédia ? (Archived April 23, 2013, at WebCite)
- News
- Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense (The Atlantic)
- Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" (Slashdot)
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