June 2014 saw the centenary of the start of World War I. This was a mammoth commemoration of one of the most significant wars in history, attracting vast interest from schools, universities, veterans groups and the media. It offered us the chance to showcase what a brilliant resource Wikipedia is by producing a string of FA-quality articles covering all the most significant topics in World War I.

Operation Great War Centennial attempted to identify core topics on World War I and aimed to bring them to top quality before the Centenary. Initially, the effort focused on producing a list of core topics and encouraging existing Military history WikiProject editors to improve them. The plan was to reach out to other relevant WikiProjects and editors in general to encourage participation and get balanced viewpoints.

Feature pictures project

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An attempt to illustrate WWI related articles with newly-restored featured images.

New FPs: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Core Topics List

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Provisional list of top-level World War I topics:

Article Name, 1 hour pageviews, Total pageviews from stats server.

The stats were produced by searching the raw text of the 14/12/2008 2100 stats file.

High-level topics

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i.e. World War I itself and 'Main Article's branching from it

Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews Status
World War Start
World War I 1336 139,171,424 B
Causes
Causes of World War I 13 1,155,319 C
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria   GA
July Ultimatum B
Opposition to World War I 3 35,047 Start
Theatres
Western Front (World War I) 64 3,695,892 B
Eastern Front (World War I) 33 679,858 C
Balkans Campaign (World War I) 8 285,451 Start
Italian Campaign (World War I) 29 1,581,914 C
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I 1 142,418 Start
Naval warfare of World War I 3 156,200 C
African theatre of World War I 4 177,539 B
American Theater (1914-1918) B
Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I 5 67,707 C
By country Category:World War I by country
Participants in World War I
Triple Entente C
Allies of World War I B
Central Powers C
Military history of Australia during World War I   GA
Aliyah and Yishuv during World War I C
South Arabia during World War I C
Belgium in World War I C
Bulgaria during World War I C
Canada in World War I C
France in World War I
History of Germany during World War I C
Greece during World War I C
Hungary in World War I C
Italy in World War I Start
Japan during World War I C
Montserrat in World War I C
Military history of New Zealand during World War I Start
Poland during World War I C
Portugal in World War I Start
Romania during World War I C
Siam during World War I C
Southern Rhodesia in World War I   FA
Switzerland during the World Wars B
Ukraine in World War I B
History of the United Kingdom during World War I   GA
United States in World War I C
American entry into World War I C
Vietnam during World War I Start
Historiography of WWI
Timeline of World War I C
Technology during World War I 29 612,595 C
World War One (TV series) Start
World War I in art and literature Start
Fiction based on World War I List
Aftermath
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk B
Armistice with Germany (Compiègne) C
Treaty of Versailles 337 12,198,471 C
Treaty of Trianon C
Treaty of Sèvres C
Treaty of Lausanne C
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire Start
World War I reparations B
Aftermath of World War I 74 1,745,643 Start
World War I casualties 85 2,681,080 B

Core Western Front Topics

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An estimate of all the highest-importance topics for the Western Front. Generating a list like this for each of the high-level topics would probably result in a list of all core WWI topics.

War Plans & Doctrines

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews Status
Schlieffen Plan 70 1,364,278 B
Plan XVII 4 53,497 B
Operational Plan Three B
Trench warfare 1 49,495 C
Infantry tactics in World War I
Zimmermann Telegram B
Baltic Project Stub

Armies and Units

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
British Expeditionary Force (World War I) 8 125,069 B
Belgian Army in World War I
Kitchener's Army 3 14,956 C
French Army in World War I C
German Army in World War I C
French Army Mutinies (1917) 2 21,170 B
American Expeditionary Forces 19 338,782 Start
British Indian Army in World War I   GA
Canadian Expeditionary Force C
First Australian Imperial Force   GA
British Army during World War I   A

Battles and Operations

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Battle of Liège 3 40,788 B
Battle of the Frontiers 8 192,523 B
First Battle of the Marne 46 977,139 Start
Race to the Sea 9 113,499 B
First Battle of Ypres 17 160,069 B
Battle of Neuve Chapelle 7 78,974 B
Second Battle of Ypres 14 365,274 Start
Second Battle of Artois 2 70,517 B
Second Battle of Champagne 5 76,182 Start
Battle of Loos 4 70,689 B
Third Battle of Artois 1 32,872 C
Battle of Verdun 58 1,164,507 B
Battle of the Somme 129 6,677,495 B
Battle of Arras (1917) 4 459,575   FA
Second Battle of the Aisne 3 71,005 B
Battle of Messines (1914) 7 140,853 B
Battle of Messines (1917)   A
Battle of Passchendaele 57 2,015,091 B
Battle of Cambrai (1917) 11 271,483 C
Spring Offensive 21 483,678 C
Second Battle of the Marne 8 219,262 Start
Hundred Days Offensive 18 461,816 Start

People

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Albert I of Belgium C
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger 11 202,594 Start
Joseph Joffre 17 533,169 C
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres 11 697,203 B
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener 19 855,161 B
Alexander von Kluck 2 25,936 C
Karl von Bülow ??? ??? Start
Robert Nivelle 3 32,874 B
Ferdinand Foch 12 331,797 C
Philippe Pétain 2 153,080 C
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 37 1,105,885 B
Erich von Falkenhayn 2 40,733 C
Erich Ludendorff 17 368,077 C
George Bell, Jr.
John J. Pershing 40 1,725,341 C
David Lloyd George 48 2,663,413 C
John Monash B
Arthur Currie C
T.E. Lawrence C
Mata Hari B
Wilfred Owen C
World War I prisoners of war in Germany B
Women in the First World War B
Women's roles in the World Wars C
Wilhelm II, German Emperor C

Occupations, Atrocities and Propaganda

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
German occupation of Belgium during World War I   GA
German occupation of north-east France during World War I Start
German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I   FA
The Rape of Belgium 14 179,894 C
Committee on Alleged German Outrages B
The Crucified Soldier Start
Harry Band
Edith Cavell Start
List of hospital ships sunk in World War I List

Technologies

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Poison gas in World War I 56 2,070,509 C
Barrage (artillery) 5 181,791 C
Hindenburg Line 5 81,958 B
Machine gun 73 1,903,367 C
Barbed wire 31 594,090 C
Tanks in World War I 26 426,296 C
Horses in World War I   FA

Core Eastern Front Topics

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Combatants & Forces

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Article Total pageviews status
Austro-Hungarian Army Start
Austria-Hungary during World War I
Imperial Russian Army C
Russian Revolution (1917) C

Battles & Operations

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Article Total pageviews status
Russian invasion of East Prussia (1914) Start
Battle of Tannenberg C
Battle of Galicia Start
Battle of the Vistula River Start
Battle of Łódź (1914) Start
Battle of Bolimów Start
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes Start
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive Start
Great Retreat (Russian) Start
Sventiany Offensive Stub
Lake Naroch Offensive Start
Brusilov Offensive C
Kerensky Offensive Start
Operation Albion Start
Battle of the Gulf of Riga Start

People

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Article Total pageviews status
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929) C
Aleksei Brusilov C
Lavr Kornilov C
Nicholas II of Russia C
Vladimir Lenin   FA
Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf C
Maximilian von Prittwitz Start
August von Mackensen C
Arthur Zimmermann C

Core Topics in other Fronts

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Italy

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Battles & Operations
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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Battles of the Isonzo Start
First Battle of the Isonzo Start
Second Battle of the Isonzo Start
Third Battle of the Isonzo Start
Fourth Battle of the Isonzo Start
Fifth Battle of the Isonzo Start
Battle of Asiago Start
Sixth Battle of the Isonzo Start
Seventh Battle of the Isonzo Start
Eighth Battle of the Isonzo Start
Ninth Battle of the Isonzo Start
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo Start
Battle of Mount Ortigara Start
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo Start
Battle of Caporetto B
Battle of Vittorio Veneto Start
People
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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Luigi Cadorna C
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Start
Armando Diaz Start

Balkans

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Serbia
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Salonika
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Near East

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Middle East

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Sinai and Palestine Campaign
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Article Views Class
Sinai and Palestine Campaign C
Raid on the Suez Canal Start
Jifjafa raid B
Battle of Katia   GA
Battle of Romani   GA
Battle of Bir el Abd B
Battle of Magdhaba   GA
Raid on Nekhl B
Battle of Rafa B
First Battle of Gaza B
Second Battle of Gaza B
Stalemate in Southern Palestine B
Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway B
Battle of Buqqar Ridge B
Southern Palestine Offensive B
Battle of Beersheba (1917)   GA
Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe B
Third Battle of Gaza   GA
Battle of Hareira and Sheria B
Charge at Sheria B
Charge at Huj B
Battle of Mughar Ridge   GA
Battle of Ayun Kara B
Battle of Jerusalem (1917)   GA
Battle of Nebi Samwil C
Battle of Jaffa (1917) B
Battle of El Burj Stub
Battle of Tell 'Asur C
Capture of Jericho B
Occupation of the Jordan Valley B
First Transjordan attack on Amman B
Battle of Hijla Stub
First Battle of Amman B
Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt B
Battle of Abu Tellul Start
Third Transjordan attack   GA
Capture of Jisr ed Damieh B
Second Battle of Amman B
Action of Arsuf C
Battle of Megiddo (1918) C
Battle of Sharon   GA
Battle of Tulkarm   GA
Battle of Tabsor   GA
Battle of Arara C
Battle of Nazareth   GA
Capture of Afulah and Beisan   GA
Capture of Jenin   GA
Battle of Haifa (1918) C
Battle of Samakh   GA
Capture of Tiberias (1918)   GA
Battle of Nablus (1918)   GA
Capture of Damascus B
Charge at Irbid B
Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub B
Charge at Kaukab B
Charge at Kiswe B
Charge at Khan Ayash B
Pursuit to Haritan B
Battle of Aleppo (1918) B
Charge at Haritan C

Africa

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Asia & Pacific

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Core Naval Topics

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Article Total pageviews status
Grand Fleet 271668 Start
High Seas Fleet 68525   GA
Unrestricted submarine warfare 376607 C
Convoy 520450 C
Otranto Barrage Start
World War I naval ships of Turkey C
Dover Patrol Start
Marinekorps Flandern Stub

Engagements

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Article Total pageviews status
Battle of Jutland 2551718 Former  
Battle of the Atlantic (1914–1918) 1778125 4 of 5
Battle of Heligoland Bight 71660  
Battle of Dogger Bank 96258 4 of 5 for  
Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign 189894 4 of 5 for  
Battle of Coronel 168093 4 of 5 for  
Battle of the Falkland Islands 122484 3 of 5 for  
Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby ??  
Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft 1096 2 of 5 for  
Operation Albion ?  
Zeebrugge Raid 31808 4 of 5 for  
RMS Lusitania 4 of 5 for  
United States Navy operations during World War I  

People

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews Status
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe 4 of 5 for  
Reinhard Scheer  
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty 4 of 5 for  
Franz von Hipper  
Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher  
Winston Churchill  
Alfred von Tirpitz 3 of 5 for  
Eduard von Capelle  

Technologies

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews Status
Dreadnought  
Submarine 4 of 5 for  
Former   in 2004
Depth charge 4 of   for  
Naval aviation 4 of 5 for  

Core Aviation Topics

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Air Forces

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Article Total pageviews status
Luftstreitkräfte 3 of 5 for  
Royal Flying Corps 4 of 5 for  
Royal Naval Air Service 4 of 5 for  
Royal Air Force 4 of 5 for  
History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942) 4 of 5 for  
Imperial Russian Air Force 2 of 5 for  
United States Army Air Service  
Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops 3 of 5 for  
Ottoman Air Force 4 of 5 for  
South African Air Force 3 of 5 for  
Lafayette Flying Corps 2 of 5 for  
Lafayette Escadrille 3 of 5 for  
Australian Flying Corps  

Battles & Events

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Article Total pageviews status
Fokker Scourge 3 of 5 for  
Bloody April 3 of 5 for  

Aircraft & Technology

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Article Total pageviews status
Aviation in World War I ???  
Zeppelin Former  
Sopwith Camel 4 of 5 for  
Fokker E.I 4 of 5 for  
Interrupter gear 4 of 5 for  
List of military aircraft of Entente Powers in WWI 4 of 5 for  
List of military aircraft of Central Powers in WWI 3 of 5 for  

People

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Article Total pageviews Hourly pageviews status
Air commanders of World War I  
Manfred von Richtofen 4 of 5 for  
René Fonck 4 of 5 for  
Billy Bishop  
Ernst Udet 4 of 5 for  
Mick Mannock 4 of 5 for  
Billy Mitchell 4 of 5 for  
Roland Garros (aviator) 3 of 5 for  
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard  
List of World War I flying aces 2 of 5 for  

Core Technology Topics

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Vehicles

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Article Total pageviews status
G-numbers
Liberty truck
M1909 escort wagon

Artillery

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Article Total pageviews status
Canon de 75 modèle 1897 4 of 5 for  
Paris Gun  
Big Bertha 3 of 5 for  
3-inch M1918 gun

Machine Guns

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews Status
Vickers machine gun 4 of 5 for  
Lewis Gun 4 of 5 for  
Maschinengewehr 08 4 of 5 for  
Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun 4 of 5 for  
Browning M1917 4 of 5 for  

Small Arms

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Lee-Enfield  
Ross rifle 4 of 5 for  
Webley Revolver  
Mauser 98 4 of 5 for  
Luger P08 4 of 5 for  
Mauser C96 4 of 5 for  
MP18 4 of 5 for  
Lebel M1886 4 of 5 for  
Berthier rifle 3 of 5 for  
Modèle 1892 revolver  
M1903 Springfield Rifle 4 of 5 for  
M1917 Enfield rifle 4 of 5 for  
M1911 pistol 4 of 5 for  
Mosin-Nagant 4 of 5 for  
Nagant M1895 4 of 5 for  
Type 38 rifle 4 of 5 for  
Type 26 revolver 2 of 5 for  

Radios and communication

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Article Hourly pageviews Total pageviews status
Signal Corps Radio 3 of 5 for  
SCR-68 3 of 5 for  

Core Impact and Aftermath Topics

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Non-core but interesting topics

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