Wikipedia:Featured articles

This page highlights some of the Wikipedia pages we think are particularly well-written and complete. However, since there are hundreds of thousands of articles on Wikipedia, we can't keep track of all of the great ones. In order to put an article on this page, it must first pass a review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for style, prose and completeness. While we think these are some of our best articles, we are always working to improve them, so be bold in updating pages.

At present, there are 355 Featured Articles, out of a total of 6,907,946 articles on the Wikipedia.

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See also: Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, a project to bring one new article up to featured standard each week.

Art and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games – Greek art – Leonardo da Vinci – Oxyrhynchus – Parthenon – Rembrandt

Biology and medicine

Acetaminophen – Action potential – Asperger's syndrome – Bioinformatics – Bloodletting – Brolga – Cladistics – DNA repair – Gene – Humpback Whale – Kakapo – Menstrual cycle – Mixed-breed dog – Mitochondrial Eve – Orca – Platypus – Pufferfish – Race – Rhazes – Severe acute respiratory syndrome – Sperm Whale – Synapse – Tuberculosis

Chemistry

Helium – LSD – Linus Pauling – Periodic table – Titanium

Culture and society

Baroque – Bathing machine – Freemasonry – Gender role – Great Mosque of Djenné – Kitsch – Korean name – Lollapalooza – Mail – Prostitution – Martha Stewart – Villain

Education

Academia – History of the English penny (series) – Peer review

Economics

Billboard (advertising) – Economics – Euro – London Congestion Charge – Labour economics

Food and drink

Beer – Coca-Cola – Kashrut – Single malt Scotch – Tea

Geography

Aztalan State Park – Bryce Canyon National Park – Carlsbad Caverns National Park – Chinatown – Enclave – Golden Gate Park – Isan – Mount St. Helens – Ferdinand Magellan – Yellowstone National Park

History

Adoption in Rome – Aryan invasion theory – Behistun Inscription – British East India Company – Dreyfus Affair – England expects that every man will do his duty – Eureka Stockade – Franks – History of Germany – History of Greenland – History of Scotland – History of the Netherlands – History of the Peerage – Indus Valley Civilization – Laika – MKULTRA – Sino-Soviet split – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 – Treaty of Devol – Warsaw uprising – White Rose

Language

Leet – Mandarin (linguistics) – Portuguese language – Russian language – Split infinitive – Taiwanese (linguistics) – Thou – Vowel – Vulgar Latin

Law

Common scold – Copyright – Crushing by elephant – James Bulger murder case – Leopold and Loeb – Lawrence v. Texas – Negligence

Literature

Alliterative verse – Isaac Asimov – Crime fiction – English poetry – Foundation Series – Rudyard Kipling – Irish poetry – Irish theatre – Nella Larsen – H. P. Lovecraft – Medieval literature – Middle-earth – Chuck Palahniuk – Poetry – Poetry of the United States – Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius – Voynich Manuscript – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Mathematics

Ackermann function – Algorithm – Fractal – Triangle – Trigonometric function – Vacuous truth

Media

All your base are belong to us – Batman – Calvin and Hobbes – Humphrey Bogart – Felix the Cat – Have I Got News For You – Ian McKellen – Jim Henson – Alfred Hitchcock – Nineteen Eighty-Four – Not the Nine O'Clock News – Star Trek – Superman – Quatermass and the Pit – Western movie

Music

Gramophone record – Louis Armstrong – The Beatles – Miles Davis – Donegal fiddle tradition – Bob Dylan – Heavy metal music – Heavy metal umlaut – Hey Jude – Charles Ives – Jazz – Madonna – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Roy Orbison – Gram Parsons – Punk rock – Saxophone – Sex Pistols – Simon and Garfunkel – Dmitri Shostakovich – Something – Igor Stravinsky – Yesterday

Nations and places

Belgium – Buckinghamshire – Byzantine Empire – City status in the United Kingdom – Congo Free State – Éire – Marshall, Texas – Montparnasse – Newark, New Jersey – People's Republic of China – Provinces of Thailand – Traditional counties of England

Philosophy

Frankfurt School – Free will – Paradox – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Physics, astrophysics and geophysics

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens – Black hole – Cold fusion – Comet – Richard Feynman – Fermi paradox – Galileo Galilei – Geology of the Bryce Canyon area – Geyser – Io (moon) – Plate tectonics – Quantum mechanics – Rainbow – Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak – Carl Sagan – Soap bubble – Speed of light – Transit of Venus – Weather lore

Politics and government

2004 Democratic National Convention – Mark Antony – Article One of the United States Constitution – Assassin – L. Paul Bremer – Julius Caesar – European Union – First Amendment to the United States Constitution – Governor-General of India – Charles Graner – Hutton Inquiry – Irish Houses of Parliament – Bruno Kreisky – Abraham Lincoln – Japan general election, 2003 – John Major – Sid McMath – Emperor Norton – Barack Obama – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – President of Ireland – Privy Council – Propaganda – ROC presidential election, 2004 – Royal Assent – Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 – Separation of powers under the United States Constitution – Margaret Thatcher – Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution – Tynwald Day – United States Constitution – U.S. Electoral College – Mordechai Vanunu – Gough Whitlam – Ralph Yarborough – Zionism

Psychology

Milgram experiment – Psychosis – Schizophrenia

Religion and beliefs

Anno Domini – Bible code – Buddhism – Christianity – End times – Father Damien – Greek mythology – Hinduism – Hebrew calendar – Holy Prepuce – Papal election – Revised Standard Version – Shakers – Vampire

Royalty, nobility and chivalry

Coronation of the British monarch – Edward VI of England – Elizabeth I of England – George III of the United Kingdom – Henry VIII of England – Hereditary peer – Mary I of England – Order of the Bath – Order of the Garter – Order of the Thistle – Peerage – Prince-elector – Rights and privileges of peers

Sport and games

Bishojo game – Blackjack –Bodyline – Bullfighting – Chariot racing – Chess – DOOM – Go (board game) – Anatoly Karpov – Garry Kasparov – LEGO – Monopoly (game) – Montreal Canadiens – Paul Morphy – Olympic Flame – Olympic Games – Poker – Prisoner's dilemma – Rock, Paper, Scissors – Summer Olympic Games – Jim Thorpe

Technology

Application Programming Interface – ASCII – C programming language – Color Graphics Adapter – Computer security – Crash test dummy – Damascus steel – Data Encryption Standard – Electronic amplifier – Emacs – Enigma machine – Floppy disk – Fountain pen – Glass – GNU/Linux naming controversy – Gramophone record – History of computing hardware – Horseshoe – Hubble Space Telescope – Java programming language – Jet engine – Mains power plug – Markup language – Nuclear weapon – PaX – Phonograph cylinder – Quantum computer – Radar – RISC – Search engine – Spacecraft propulsion – Spamming – Speech synthesis – Typewriter – Telephone exchange – World Wide Web – Zuiderzee Works

Transport

Auto rickshaw – Ford Mustang – London Underground – Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 – Road transport – Space elevator – VW Type 2 – Wigwag – Zeppelin

War

Attack on Pearl Harbor – Battle of Aljubarrota – Battle of Normandy – Battle of the Bulge – First Battle of the Stronghold – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson – Operation Downfall – Operation Market Garden – Origins of the American Civil War – Peloponnesian War – Siege – Submarine – Tank – Trench warfare – War elephant – World War I