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Vital articles Portal

Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement. The most important articles are in Level 1.

This portal is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of one thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages, as well as Vital Article lists tailored to different Wikipedia languages accessible via the languages sidebar.


Level 1 Vital article


Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). (Full article...)


Get involved

For editor resources and to collaborate with other editors on improving Wikipedia's Vital Articles, visit WikiProject Vital Articles.

  • Finish building out Vital article Level 5 list
  • Make it easier for readers to access the list (better separate reader-focused and editor-focused pages)
  • Integrate random vital article tool somewhere (main page? sidebar?) for readers
  • Collaborate with other WikiProjects to focus attention on poor-quality high-level articles
  • Better integrate VA with the project-specific importance lists
  • Develop tools for helping identify VA candidates (one attempt: most-viewed unlisted articles)
  • clean-up listing for Vital_Articlesthe tool's wiki page

Featured article

Featured articles in Vital articles.

The eight planets of the Solar System with size to scale (up to down, left to right): Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune (outer planets), Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury (inner planets)

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets by the most restrictive definition of the term: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. Planets grow in this disk by the gradual accumulation of material driven by gravity, a process called accretion. (Full article...)

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