User:Vir/sandbox/core topic levels qaud

This is an outline of one possible way to organize Wikipedia subject categories, such as Core Topics, from most general subjects to more specific. The public and practically useable categories (for knowledge organization and navigation) begin at level 1.2.

One use of this organization by level is to identify to level of articles (such as most general) that are in need of work, such as being in stub/start status. Another use is to see if any very general and important subjects need to be included as core topics.

Core Topics Level 1.01: The foundation

 * the nondual universe: undifferentiated Cosmos or Universe

Core Topics Level 1.02: Most general categories: objective & subjective worlds

 * objective world
 * subjective world

Core Topics Level 1.03: Most general categories: micro-macro quadrants

 * macro-objective world: Nature, large scale physical and organic world
 * micro-objective world: organism-behavioral world
 * micro-subjective world: Humans
 * macro-(inter-)subjective world: Socio-cultural world

Note: This particular outline is anthropocentric. Macro-micro is relative to some perspective, in this case the human being. Living beings or the planet or some other starting point could be chosen as a central focus for organizing study (as is case in some sciences and philosophies).

TO EDIT -- some text below here is copied and unedited from alternate versions:

About these top level categories: One of the most basic ways to understand how we understand is to differentiate between these types of knowing: objective, inter-subjective, and subjective. In the above, we can see nature as all of the objective world, society and humans (people) as all of the inter-subjective world, and mind as the subjective world (in part). In actuality, these aspects are all inter-woven. I was thinking these categories -- objective, inter-subjective, and subjective -- could be in our basic core topics list, but objective and subjective are disambiguation lists and inter-subjective doesn't exist yet so more thought needs to go into how to characterize these basic aspects of the world.

Core Topics Level 1.04: Most general categories: octant scheme
within quadrants of 1.03, material and subtle or objective and subjective sub-categories:


 * macro-objective world: Nature
 * Time-space continuum
 * Physical systems


 * micro-objective world: organism-behavioral world
 * Organisms and smaller scale aspects of physical world
 * Activity


 * micro-subjective world: Humans
 * People
 * Experience


 * macro-(inter-)subjective world: socio-cultural world
 * Society -- in this outline, more objective aspects of socio-cultural world
 * Culture

^Space is a disambiguation page, which, at some point, should be probably turned into a unique article about aspects of space and re-included in core topics.

Core Topics Level 1.05: Most general categories: hexadecimal-fold scheme
(what is that word for sixteen-fold in greek) within octants of 1.04, material and subtle or objective and subjective sub-categories:


 * macro-objective world: Nature
 * time-space continuum:
 * matter-energy: Matter and Energy
 * time-space: Time and Space (or Outer space)^


 * Physical systems
 * Astronomical systems & Geophysics systems
 * Biosphere, in narrow sense of biomass or biota


 * micro-objective world: organism-behavioral world
 * Organisms and smaller scale aspects of physical world
 * Biological systems
 * Microbiological systems


 * Activity:
 * Behavior
 * Life (more than one sense of meaning) and Death


 * micro-subjective world: Humans
 * People
 * Social action
 * Symbolic actions


 * Experience
 * Senses
 * Mental phenomena or Mind


 * macro-(inter-)subjective world: socio-cultural world
 * Society -- in this outline, more objective aspects of socio-cultural world
 * Objective-material grounded:
 * Social structures or systems (economy, politics, family, etc.)
 * Material culture (clothing, crafts, housing, tools, techology, etc.)


 * Culture
 * Subjective-symbolic:
 * Culture^^, expressive-emotive (art, language, religion, etc.)
 * Knowledge, abstract and formal culture (sciences, philosophy, linguistics, theology, etc.)

^Space is a disambiguation page, which, at some point, should be probably turned into a unique article about aspects of space and re-included in core topics.

Core Topics Level 1.1: General "domain" categories
("pre"-top level domian categories)

NOT EDITED

macro-objective world: Nature micro-objective world: Organisms and smaller scale aspects of physical world micro-(inter-)subjective world: People and Experience macro-(inter-)subjective world: Society and Culture

Nature:
 * Ecology
 * Planet
 * Physical sciences, macro scale
 * Astronomy and macro-Physics

Organisms:
 * Life sciences: [To list: a few main types]

People:
 * Human

Experience:
 * Thought
 * Consciousness

Society and Culture:

Not edited - below here: ^^In some views, society and culture are similar, even co-extensive. In this outline, I am focusing on the more structural aspect of society, hence (conveniently enough) the focus on social structure.

About this level: This level now has a more abstract level of organization. Originally, this was organized such that 1.0 and 1.1 combined included most of the English Wikipedia top subject portals (categories/lists/ect.). Most of these are now at level 1.2 below. Some parts of 1.1 & 1.2 are now similar to the top level of Encyclopedia Britannica's Propaedia organization of all knowledge topics, see Encyclopedia Subject Categories.

Note: Outer space is a start-level article.

Core Topics Level 1.2: Basic natural, social & mental categories
TO DO: Reconcile 1.1 and 1.2 overlap

Basic aspects of nature & society and some general knowledge categories

Note: there are more categories in this level because reality quickly diversifies after the top level. This list can be arbitrarily divided for processing. I am subdividing the list by main category (nature, society, knowledge). This might assist in organizing the editing of articles in batches (or across batches).

Nature:
 * Geography (note: human geography is also a social science.)
 * Climate (start) and Weather (start)
 * Environment (start) and Ecology
 * Sex (start)

Society and people:

Social systems:
 * Business (or add: Trade)
 * Family
 * Gender
 * Personal life (private life is structured)
 * Politics
 * Civilization

Material cultures:
 * Agriculture
 * Crafts
 * Medicine
 * Tools
 * Technology

Symbolic cultures:
 * Art
 * Humanities (most of them)
 * Language
 * History (note: history is also a social science.)
 * Religion
 * Philosophy
 * Science
 * Physical Science (start) and (exact sciences?)
 * Social Science

Culture, general aspects:
 * Add: Writing &/or Literacy
 * Tradition
 * Knowledge

Mind:
 * To add: (see mind section below)

Proposed additions to the Core Topics list, for level 1.2:

Nature:
 * Body - stub
 * Evolution - Featured article
 * Matter and Energy
 * Organism
 * Physical law

Society and people:
 * Biography -- mostly because this is a top level Wikipedia portal
 * Person &/or People

Mind: (To add -- much of this)
 * Emotion
 * Personality
 * Senses
 * Spirituality

About this level: This level bridges from general to specific topics. If there is another very general topic, it can be fit into or replace the above or here. Probably there will be some more fitting in...

Core Topics Level 1.3
1.31. Nature (see below for suggested additions):
 * Landform
 * Animal
 * Plant
 * Mineral
 * Natural disaster

1.32. Society and people:

Social structures:
 * Community & City
 * Country
 * Ethnic groups and/or ADD: Ethnicity and Racism or Race
 * Law
 * War

Economic sectors:
 * Finance
 * Industry - start
 * Manufacturing
 * add: Marketing

Cultures:
 * Architecture
 * Clothing
 * Education
 * Food (and Beverage)
 * Game
 * Health - start
 * House (should be housing--but wp directs to house)
 * Humanities - start
 * Internet
 * Personal life
 * Popular culture
 * Recreation


 * History of the world

Knowledge Disciplines and Areas:
 * Archaeology
 * Anthropology
 * Astronomy
 * Biology
 * Chemistry
 * Communication
 * Computer science (or computing or computers) - start
 * Economics
 * Engineering
 * Government
 * Linguistics
 * Medicine
 * Physics
 * Psychology
 * Religion
 * Sociology

Exact sciences:
 * Logic (goes here or sub-discp. of philosophy?)
 * Mathematics
 * Statistics

Knowledge, aspects:
 * Measurement
 * Reference

1.33. Mind: (To add -- much of this)
 * Pleasure and Pain
 * Happiness and Sadness
 * Love and Hate
 * Include?: [Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch] Sound already incl.

Proposed additions to the Core Topics list, for level 1.3:

Nature:
 * Creation and Destruction (there are multiple meanings to creation)
 * Galaxy
 * Solar system
 * Sun - Featured article
 * Planet
 * Sky or Earth's atmosphere (2nd article is more developed)
 * Land
 * Continent
 * Ocean
 * Microorganism
 * Cell (biology)
 * Molecule
 * Atom
 * Subatomic particle
 * Electromagnetism &/or Electricity
 * Gravity
 * other: other physical forces?

Society and people: Social systems:
 * Academia
 * Democracy - B-class, extensively developed
 * Empire
 * Market

Cultures:
 * Leisure - start
 * Mass media - start
 * Parenting
 * Transportation
 * Illness &/or Disease

Knowledge:
 * Cosmology - study of universe and humanity's place in it -- both physics and metaphysics engage in this -- it is a basic kind of study
 * Geology
 * Information
 * Research
 * Scholarly method
 * Scientific method
 * Theory
 * Truth and False or Falsehood

About this level: This is in between general and specific. Topics get more specific at this level. Reality quickly diversifies after generalities. This is one reason there are more proposed basic topic subjects at this level. This level and below could be arbitrarily sub-divided for managing work on articles.

Core Topics Level 1.4
NOTE: levels 1.4 and 1.5 need some more sorting out

These are important subjects but many are specific instances of more general categories above.

Nature: Continents/regions:
 * Africa
 * Antarctica
 * Asia
 * Australia
 * Europe
 * North America
 * Oceania
 * South America

Society and people:

Social systems:
 * Crime
 * Employment
 * Organization
 * Social movements
 * Western civilization

Cultures:
 * Hobbies - start
 * Sports
 * Festival
 * Gambling
 * Personal finance
 * Pet

Arts:
 * Dance
 * Film
 * Literature
 * Music
 * Theatre
 * Music
 * Visual arts

Languages:
 * English language
 * Add: Chinese, French, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Russian

Religions:
 * Buddhism
 * Christianity
 * Hinduism
 * Islam
 * Judaism
 * Mythology

Basic tools and technology:
 * Map
 * Optics
 * Radio
 * Computer
 * Electronics
 * Television
 * Telecommunication

Transportation:
 * Aircraft
 * Automobile
 * Boat
 * Rail transport
 * Ship
 * Train Technology

Mathematical disciplines and concepts:
 * Algebra
 * Arithmetic
 * Geometry
 * Number
 * Proof
 * Theorems
 * Trigonometry

Mind:
 * Humour - start
 * Sound

Proposed Basic Topic additions to 1.4 level:

Nature:
 * Disease - start

Planets and moons:
 * Mercury
 * Venus
 * Mars
 * Earth (planet)
 * Jupiter
 * Saturn
 * Uranus
 * Nepture
 * Pluto
 * Moon
 * Add: other structures: the new planet, comments, asteroids, other moons, Kuiper belt objects?

Society and people:

Social systems:
 * Work - disambig page & Manual labour - just a start
 * Power
 * Planning or Policy
 * Judiciary
 * Legislatures
 * Oppression, a stub, or Social inequality, a list;

Principles (perhpas down to 1.5) of social systems:
 * Social equality - just a start - Equality is a disambiguation page
 * Justice - a start, or Social justice, c-class
 * Freedom - a start
 * Cooperation

History of development of modernity:
 * classical civilizations: various ones
 * Renaissance
 * Age of enlightenment
 * Industrial revolution
 * Development &/or Aid
 * Globalization
 * ADD: Taoism, Indigenous religions, &/or Shamanism?

Knowledge:
 * Dialectics