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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


Diverse forms of life on a coral reef

Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. All life over time eventually reaches a state of death, and none is immortal. Many philosophical definitions of living systems have been proposed, such as self-organizing systems. Viruses in particular make definition difficult as they replicate only in host cells. Life exists all over the Earth in air, water, and soil, with many ecosystems forming the biosphere. Some of these are harsh environments occupied only by extremophiles. ( 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_Articles the tool's wiki page

Featured article

Featured articles in Vital articles.

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1. It is the lightest element and, at standard conditions, is a gas of diatomic molecules with the formula H2, sometimes called dihydrogen, but more commonly called hydrogen gas, molecular hydrogen or simply hydrogen. It is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and highly combustible. Constituting about 75% of all normal matter, hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the universe. Stars, including the Sun, mainly consist of hydrogen in a plasma state, while on Earth, hydrogen is found in water, organic compounds, as dihydrogen, and in other molecular forms. The most common isotope of hydrogen (protium, 1H) consists of one proton, one electron, and no neutrons. ( Full article...)

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