Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics

The Core Topics subproject of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team is intended to identify and work toward improvement of the most important articles (realizing that "importance" is subjective). Currently our work is limited to about 150 articles, which are listed with comments below. A supplementary list, similar in size, has been created to cover some other important subjects.

How you can help
If you're interested in helping, here are some good places to start:


 * Individually
 * Work on any article listed in the tree and update its status if needed. Especially, use the article status summary as a guide. The "Start Class" topics are more than stubs but often need substantial work.


 * Collaborations
 * Core topics and stubs at WP:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive.

Background
This was begun in December 2004, by popular demand, more or less, to be a list of about 150 core subjects that would go in a "release" version of Wikipedia.

The list is small so as to be tightly focused. Articles on individual countries are core topics, but beyond the scope of this list because there are so many and their value is clear. Biographies are beyond the scope of this list because their value when considered individually is too subjective. Other contenders for core articles include articles on the English language, timelines, maps and any reference material.

General
To aid in topic checking and development, links to the corresponding outlines have been provided, where available.

Tree
To aid in topic checking and development, links to the corresponding outlines have been provided, where available.

Members
Some are long-inactive Wikipedians
 * Martin Walker
 * Tastemyhouse
 * Deliri
 * Maurreen
 * Mahanga
 * Randy Johnston
 * Silence
 * NCurse
 * Oldak Quill
 * CQ
 * Reswik
 * John of Paris
 * Unionhawk
 * Adavis444
 * Dirtlawyer1
 * Smuckola

Former Wikipedians

 * Ahmed Al-Hilali
 * E Pluribus Anthony
 * Jaranda

Similar lists

 * Core topics, inner levels
 * simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
 * List of articles all languages should have - duplicate at meta
 * Vital articles/Expanded - duplicate at Wikipedia
 * Vital articles (an edited copy with images noting GAs and FAs, and bold noting those with cleanup tags)
 * Portal:Contents - list of subject lists. Each of the following pages is a list of subjects, but their links lead to navigation pages rather than to articles. Great for identifying core topics.
 * Portal:Contents/Indexes - almost all the index page titles are major subjects. The indexes themselves attempt to be comprehensive and mix major and minor topics together alphabetically with no distinction between them.
 * Portal:Contents/Outlines - in addition to their titles representing major subjects, each outline is further broken down into major subjects within its subject. For example, geography is broken down into human geography, physical geography, landforms, regions, etc.  You can tell how major a topic is by where it is on the knowledge tree. If you are hunting for core topics, this system will help you find many.
 * Most referenced articles
 * WikiProject Biography/Core biographies
 * User:Danny/100 most important articles
 * Category:Top-importance articles

Subpages

 * /Category sets worksheet
 * /Core topics COTF (obsolete, historic interest only)
 * /Requests for pictures and images
 * /Supplement
 * /Table and changes to article list
 * /Tree, historical