User:Fdizile/All Knowladge

"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..."

- Jorge Luis Borges



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 articles in English Wikipedia and in July 2011 there were 5,696,942 unique red links. As of April 2014, Wikidata includes 14,238,904 items. 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.



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 ), the Library of Congress in the United States (155 million items ), the Russian State Library in Russia (43 million items ), the National Diet Library in Japan (35 million items ), the National Library of China (31 million items ) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (31 million items ).

This project is focused in those entities which are notable and deserve an article in Wikipedia. For completeness of sister projects, see. For an estimate about lost knowledge, see and There is a deadline.

You are welcome to improve this page, be bold! There is available an userbox: User All human knowledge.

= Arts =

The arts are composed of many endeavors (or artforms) united by their employment of the human creative impulse.

Architecture


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.

For airports, roads and seaports, see.

Monuments
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


Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beautiful" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering.

This section excludes biographies.

For languages and writing systems see.

Crafts
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.

Dance
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.

Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.

Films, episodes, television and radio
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.

This section excludes biographies.

Gastronomy
Gastronomy is the art or science of food eating.

Literature


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.

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
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 have been published since the first appearance of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665.

Encyclopedias
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), Oxford Reference Online (1,400,000 articles).


 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
 * Size comparisons
 * s:Portal:Reference Works

See more encyclopedias in Google Books and Internet Archive.

Novel
A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story, usually.

Poetry
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.

Theatre
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.

Theatres are counted in.

Music
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").

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


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.

Photography


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.

Printmaking
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.

Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood.

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.

Videogames
A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

Textile arts
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.

Websites
A website is a set of related webpages containing content (media), including text, video, music, audio, images, etc.

= Geography =

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - 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.

For buildings and monuments, see Arts#Architecture.

Human geography
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.

Africa
Africa has 54 fully recognized sovereign states, 9 territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.

Asia
Asia has 49 recognized states, 5 partially recognized and unrecognized states and 6 dependent territories and other territories.

Europe
Europe has 50 recognised states, 6 partially recognised states, 6 dependent territories and 2 special areas of internal sovereignty.

North America
North America has 23 sovereign states, 11 dependent territories and 16 other areas.

South America
South America has 13 sovereign states, 2 dependent territories and 1 integral territories of states outside of South America.

Oceania
Oceania has 14 sovereign states, 2 states not members of the United Nations and 26 other territories.

Antarctica
There are several camps and research stations in Antarctica. Also, some territorial claims.

Physical geography
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.

Canals
Canals are man-made channels for water.

Caves
A cave or cavern is a natural underground space large enough for a human to enter.


 * Caves of the world includes 2,424 caves deeper than 300m (total height) or longer than 3km.

Deserts
A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants.

Forests
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees.

Glaciers
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.

Islands
An island is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

Lakes
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
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak.


 * Mountain ranges: ?
 * Volcanoes: 1,500 active worldwide
 * Mountains Mount includes info for more than 100,000 mountains.

Rivers
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
A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water.

= History =

History (from Greek ἱστορία - 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
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.


 * Coups d'état and coup attempts: ?

Disasters
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.

See also List of disasters by cost (potentially 200x countries).

Elections
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.


 * Elections by country: ?

For politics topics, see.

Military history
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 has over 127,000 articles as of this listing.

Wars and battles
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.

Warships
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
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.


 * Revolutions and rebellions: ?
 * Fictional revolutions: ?
 * Strikes: ?
 * Uprisings led by women: ?

Time periods
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:
 * Chronology of the universe: ?

Geological:
 * Archaeological periods: ?
 * Geologic time scale: ?
 * Lunar geologic timescale: ?

Historical:

= GLAM =

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
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
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


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
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
See also List of the largest libraries in the United States

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Astronomy
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.

Space exploration
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.

Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.

Zoos and aquaria are counted in Arts#Architecture.

Species
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.

Human body
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, the basic unit of life. These cells are organised biologically to eventually form the whole body.

Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties.

Health
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.

Hospitals are counted in Arts#Architecture.

Mathematics
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+

Meteorology
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.

Physics
Physics (from φύσις) is a natural science that involves the study of matter.

Earth and Planetary science
Earth and planetary sciences are the sciences that study the material and dynamics of Earth and other celestial bodies.

= Society =

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.


 * Uncontacted peoples: ?

Business
A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers.

Culture
Culture is the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.

Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible.

Languages
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.

See also wiktionary:Category:All languages for words in all languages.

Organizations
An organization is a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

People


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. 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
Politics is the art or science of influencing people on a civic, or individual level, when there are more than 2 people involved.

This section excludes biographies. For elections, see.

Religion and mythology
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.

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
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.

= Technology =

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.

Patents
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.

Transport
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.

Weapons
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.

= Further knowledge = Some further knowledge and estimates.

Destroyed knowledge


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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Chilean heritage damaged and destroyed during 2010 Chile earthquake.
 * Damage in the Egyptian Museum by looters during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

This list is incomplete, for a more detailed page, see 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



 * Figurative system of human knowledge (the tree of Diderot and d'Alembert)
 * Universal Decimal Classification

Lists of missing articles
Many 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
 * List of missing Africa topics
 * Skysmith's list of missing articles
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Thompson-Reuters most cited scientists

See progress for WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles.

More estimates

 * How many portals are needed? Currently there are 1,000+ portals.

New knowledge
These 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)
 * New books globally: 2.2 million (approx)
 * Please, add more

Preservation
Wikimedia 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:


 * Internet Archive
 * The Long Now Foundation
 * All Species Foundation
 * Rosetta Project

Sister projects


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.


 * Wikispecies: range between 2 to 100 million (see )


 * 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


 * Wiktionary:
 * All lemmas of all languages? The Spanish DRAE has 80,000 lemmas* over 500 languages would be 40 million providing Spanish case is typical.
 * All idioms? this dictionary has 5000+ Spanish idioms. Again 5000*500 = 2,500 000 idioms if Spanish case is typical.


 * Wikivoyage: ?

Some examples
If you don't think that there are still million missing topics, here you have some odd examples. Add yours!


 * Cotton production in Samarkand Province
 * Economic development in Caracas
 * Fire in religion
 * Rice production in Mandalay District
 * Scientific properties of Andromeda

Special:Newpages
= References =

= Bibliography =


 * Nielsen, Finn (2010). Wikipedia is not the sum of all human knowledge: do we need a wiki for open data?

= See also =


 * 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


 * Portal:Contents, Lists, Outlines, Portals, Categories, Glossaries, Indexes
 * List of lists of lists, Category:Lists of lists, List of topics
 * List of digital library projects
 * List of online databases
 * List of online encyclopedias
 * List of academic databases and search engines
 * List of online reference desks


 * List of Wikipedias and List of Wikimedia projects by size
 * Botopedia and Mass content adding


 * Essays
 * There is a deadline
 * v:User:KYPark/Encyclopaedism/Timeline
 * User:Alan Liefting/Essays/The sum of all human knowledge
 * User:Dr. Blofeld/Stub and development philosophy
 * User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test
 * User:Emijrp/Wikipedia Archive
 * User:Emijrp/Systemic bias
 * User:Emijrp/Deletionism


 * Not paper and Preserve
 * Wikipedia is failing and Wikipedia is succeeding
 * Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia
 * Expert retention
 * Size comparisons
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-11/Growth study
 * All high schools can be notable
 * Modelling Wikipedia's growth
 * Modelling Wikipedia extended growth
 * Category:Reference works in the public domain


 * Users creating articles massively (Special:Newpages):
 * (blocked in 2010 :
 * (my bot)
 * More prolific users... List of Wikipedians by article count, User:Bryan/List of users by pages created, and Encyclopédistes#Number of articles ; )
 * (blocked in 2010 :
 * (my bot)
 * More prolific users... List of Wikipedians by article count, User:Bryan/List of users by pages created, and Encyclopédistes#Number of articles ; )
 * (my bot)
 * More prolific users... List of Wikipedians by article count, User:Bryan/List of users by pages created, and Encyclopédistes#Number of articles ; )
 * More prolific users... List of Wikipedians by article count, User:Bryan/List of users by pages created, and Encyclopédistes#Number of articles ; )
 * More prolific users... List of Wikipedians by article count, User:Bryan/List of users by pages created, and Encyclopédistes#Number of articles ; )


 * WikiProjects
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles

= External links =


 * Is Wikipedia Done? – Answer: No.
 * http://www.wikidata.org
 * Speedy deletion Wiki


 * Counters
 * Wikimedia projects edits counter – Total edits in Wikimedia projects (near real time)
 * 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
 * Qu’un milliard d’articles s’épanouissent
 * Où s'arrêtera Wikipédia ?


 * News
 * Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense (The Atlantic)
 * Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" (Slashdot)


 * Video


 * Others
 * Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge?