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Rules

What are core articles?

Core articles are our top priority articles--articles that are most in demand and most important for us to include in an encyclopedia that has any hope of being comprehensive.

Our leading authors and editors believe this initiative is very important. We hope you'll set aside your relatively specialized interests for a while, and join the contest to create reliable introductions to the most basic topics known to humanity.

How does the core articles initiative work?

Essentially, we list our unwritten core articles here on this page, negotiating about which articles really are our highest priority. We then invite people to write articles on those topics, awarding points for any draft that is 250 words or longer. We tally points on CZ:Core Articles/Scores.

Page format

This is one big long page, divided into sections, one for each workgroup. Each section should be written in three columns. However, make sure the columns break after each workgroup. (So each workgroup header is in one column which spans all three.) Total number of articles on page will be about 4,000. So it will be a big page, but that's OK, it's not too big.

Each line of a workgroup's section begins with # so that the entries are numbered. Most important (highest point value) entries should be listed first. Format of a line evolves like this:

The original entry simply says "French painting" is worth 5 points:

# [[French painting]] (5)

Once Jane Doe has written a draft article over 250 words, she may take credit:

# [[French painting]] (5) - [[User:Jane Doe|]]

Someone confirms that Jane has written 250 words, writing "OK":

# [[French painting]] (5) - [[User:Jane Doe|]] - OK

Finished.

Note: anyone may edit any section of this page so that the section is in conformity with these formatting guidelines! Be Bold!

Topic choice

Each workgroup nominates 99 topics (33 per column). Exceptions are Biology, Health Sciences, History, Geography, Business, Media, Games, Hobbies, and Sports, which may nominate 198 topics (66 per column). For some already-existing article lists, for ideas, please see [1] and [2]. List articles in only one workgroup. All topics must be either completely unwritten, a micro-stub, or status=4. Note: top priority articles that are status=4 (unedited from Wikipedia) should be listed, but with an asterisk--which indicates that, to get the points, a person must either completely replace or rewrite the article.

Attaching points to topics

Each workgroup may award 10 points for the five most important articles in the group, 5 points for the ten next most important, and 2 points for the 14 next most important (down to #33, the bottom of the first column). The rest (in the middle and right columns) are worth a point apiece.

The first and/or most motivated editor attaches points to articles. If after a reasonable period it appears no editor is going to step up, then the most qualified and motivated author issues the points.

Claiming points

None of these articles may come from Wikipedia, if you want it to count. In fact, if you want, you can entirely replace a status = 4 Wikipedia-sourced article with a new CZ article. Please do.

For now, we do not track first draft authors on the talk page or the metadata page of an article, but only on CZ:Core Articles.

Authors may claim points on CZ:Core Articles/Scores only after their article length (and non-Wikipediahood) has been OK'd.

The "Miscellaneous" category

Articles that we'll definitely want, but which aren't obviously located in any existing workgroup, should be placed in Miscellaneous. There can be up to 300 articles listed here. Make sure there are no duplicates (overlap with workgroup lists). Each of these will be worth 1 point, unless any editor decides otherwise.


The Core Articles

Natural Sciences

Astronomy

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Biology

  1. Acid-base physiology
  2. Adaptability
  3. Adipose tissue biology
  4. Adenovirus
  5. Adrenal physiology
  6. Aging
  7. Amino acid metabolism and function
  8. Animism
  9. Ant
  10. Antigen (microstub)
  11. Apocrine gland physiology
  12. Arterial system
  13. Oswald T. Avery (DNA as the genetic material)
  14. Baboon
  15. Bear
  16. Bioterrorism
  17. Bone
  18. Comte de Buffon
  19. Butterfly

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I'll have to learn the wiki coding, but here find some potential "Core" articles starting with letter "A"--Anthony.Sebastian (Talk) 20:28, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

Well, bear in mind that on the proposal in question, there are only 200 articles in each of Biology and Health Sciences--and they have to be the 200 "core," most important, articles. I suspect there would be a lot more than 200 biology articles if you were to continue the list at that level of specialization. --Larry Sanger 20:34, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

Agree re "core" concept. Thinking to make a draft list of potential core topics biology, then cull to a 200 core by consensus of Workgroup. --Anthony.Sebastian (Talk) 19:22, 21 September 2007 (CDT)

Exactly what I hoped you'd do. --Larry Sanger 10:00, 25 September 2007 (CDT)

Anthony, don't forget we already have a list high priority articles that has been whittled down somewhat (CZ:Biology_Workgroup#High_priority_articles). Another source of our most wanted articles is on the Biology/Related Articles subpage. I suggest we put out list together on the workgroup page and gain a a consensus onm our 200 unwritten articles. I'm sure we could all come up very different lists. Chris Day (talk) 09:45, 25 September 2007 (CDT)

Chemistry

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Earth Sciences

  1. Atmosphere
  2. Cainozoic
  3. Dinosaur
  4. Earth (10)
  5. Earthquake
  6. El Niño-Southern Oscillation
  7. Fossil
  8. Glacier
  9. Geology (5)
  10. Holocene
  11. Mesozoic
  12. Mountain
  13. North Atlantic oscillation
  14. Ocean
  15. Paleontology
  16. Paleozoic
  17. Plate tectonics (5)
  18. Precambrian
  19. Quaternary
  20. Soil
  21. Thermohaline circulation (5)

Mathematics

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Physics

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Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Archaeology

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Economics

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Education

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Geography

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Law

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Linguistics

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Politics

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Psychology

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Sociology

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Humanities

Classics

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History

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Literature

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Philosophy

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Religion

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Arts

Architecture

  1. Architect
  2. History of architecture - Chronological
  3. Architectural history - the academic discipline
  4. Architectural theory
  5. Building science
  6. Construction
  7. Project management
  8. Landscape architecture
  9. Modernism (architecture)
  10. Classicism (architecture)
  11. Baroque architecture
  12. Palladianism
  13. Gothic architecture
  14. Gothic revival (architecture)
  15. Bauhaus history and influence of the school not the buildings
  16. De Stijl
  17. Constructivist architecture
  18. Rationalism (architecture)
  19. Futurism (architecture)
  20. Postmodernism (architecture)
  21. Critical regionalism
  22. Archigram
  23. Rem Koolhaas
  24. Charles Jencks
  25. Kenneth Frampton
  26. Colin Rowe
  27. Banister Fletcher
  28. Richard Rogers (architect)
  29. Norman Foster (architect)
  30. Brick
  31. Rib vault
  32. Timber
  33. Dry rot
  1. Colosseum
  2. Great Pyramid of Giza
  3. Hagia Sophia
  4. Parthenon
  5. Pantheon, Rome
  6. Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris
  7. Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
  8. Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome
  9. Buckingham Palace
  10. Crystal palace
  11. Forbidden City, Beijing
  12. Leaning Tower of Pisa
  13. Palace of Westminster
  14. Bauhaus, Dessau - the building rather than the 'school'
  15. Barcelona pavilion
  16. Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
  17. Chrysler Building, New York
  18. Farnsworth house
  19. Fallingwater, Pennsylvania
  20. Einstein Tower
  21. Centre Georges Pompidou
  22. Robbie House
  23. Grand Central Station, New York
  24. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  25. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
  26. Johnson Wax Building, Wisconsin
  27. Notre Dame du Haut
  28. Seagram building, New York
  29. Empire State Building
  30. Sears Tower
  31. Sydney Opera House
  32. Villa Savoye
  33. World Trade Center, New York
  1. Arch
  2. Dome
  3. Vault
  4. Le Corbusier
  5. Vitruvius
  6. Frank Lloyd Wright
  7. A.N. Pugin
  8. Walter Gropius
  9. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  10. Alvar Aalto
  11. Gottfried Semper
  12. John Vanbrugh
  13. Christopher Wren
  14. Inigo Jones
  15. Andrea Palladio
  16. Filippo Brunelleschi
  17. Frank Gehry
  18. Zaha Hadid
  19. Daniel Libeskind
  20. Ernő Goldfinger
  21. László Moholy-Nagy
  22. Louis Kahn
  23. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
  24. El Lissitzky
  25. Antonio Sant'Elia
  26. Antonio Gaudi
  27. Victor Horta
  28. Adolf Loos
  29. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
  30. Claude Nicolas Ledoux
  31. Philip Johnson
  32. Angkor Wat
  33. Sick building syndrome

See also: CZ:Architecture Workgroup

Music

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Theater

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Visual Arts

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Applied Arts and Sciences

Agriculture

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Business

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Computers

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Engineering

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Food Science

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Healing Arts

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Health Sciences

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Journalism

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Library and Information Science

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Media

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Military

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Recreation

Games

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Hobbies

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Sports

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Miscellaneous

Articles that we'll definitely want, but which aren't obviously located in any of the above workgroups.


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See also

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