The next release version, Version 0.9, will be a general release taken from the English version of Wikipedia, compiled by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team. The selection will be put together using a Selection Bot, based on criteria of quality and importance. The previous version was Wikipedia:Version 0.8, which (as of September 2011) is available for download from its project page, based largely on a bot selection from articles tagged by WikiProjects.
To supplement the automated scheme, we also use a manual nomination system similar to the system used by Version 0.5, Version 0.7 and Version 0.8, and only the articles chosen manually are listed below. If you find or contribute to an article meeting the criteria, you can add it to the nominations page for an impartial reviewer to assess and, if successful, to add to this list. Articles are removed if they fail to meet the criteria.
The following list is manually generated, so there might be omissions. Please check the talk page of an article to see whether it has a WP1.0 template indicating a pass (or fail/held). Such omissions should be rectified with a bot run when the final list is compiled.
Includes singers, conductors. Also see the Opera section of Theatre & Film, under Language & Literature, which should duplicate opera entries here. Maria Callas—Plácido Domingo—Arturo Toscanini
Note: This selection came via a set nomination; other sports will be equally well represented in the final release. If you wish, you may make a similar set nomination for another sport.
For a complete list of countries, also see List of countries or the Countries tree. For flags see politics section (under Society and social sciences).