Wikipedia:Main Page history/2022 December 7

 Welcome to Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,584,704 articles in English

From today's featured article  Yuzuru Hanyu at the 2014 Olympics During his three Olympic seasons, Yuzuru Hanyu (pictured), a Japanese figure skater, won two gold medals in the men's singles event, one each in 2014 and 2018. He also placed fourth in 2022. In 2014, at the age of 19, he became the first Asian men's singles skater to win an Olympic gold medal, and the youngest male skater to win the title since American Dick Button did in 1948. In 2018, Hanyu became the first male singles skater in 66 years to win gold medals in consecutive Winter Olympics since Button, who also won in 1952. Hanyu received the People's Honour Award from the Prime Minister of Japan as well as two Medals of Honor with Purple Ribbon. He also received the Kikuchi Kan Prize for his accomplishments, including his back-to-back Olympic titles. Two monuments in memory of his Olympic wins were erected at the International Center Station in Sendai, his hometown. He was also listed in ESPN's World Fame 100 and The Dominant 20, as well as Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia for his success in 2018. (Full article...)

Recently featured:


 * Bill Denny
 * Securitas depot robbery
 * Lee Smith (baseball)

Did you know ...  Raorchestes chalazodes In the news   Jiang Zemin
 * Archive
 * By email
 * More featured articles
 * About
 * ... that Raorchestes chalazodes (example pictured) lays its eggs inside bamboo, and is the only species in its genus to exhibit parental care?
 * ... that Josephine Gates Kelly of the Standing Rock Reservation once hitchhiked to Washington, D.C., to protest portions of the Indian Reorganization Act?
 * ... that George Vernon's loss against the Parsis cricket team was seen as "a blow to the prestige of the Empire"?
 * ... that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
 * ... that the Durham police mast was designed to be slender to minimise the impact on views of Durham Cathedral?
 * ... that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
 * ... that bookseller John Harrison Stonehouse commissioned the "cursed" edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that was lost when the Titanic sank in 1912?
 * ... that when Maha Thamun, the head of the Hanthawaddy delegation, presented his king's demands, King Thado of Ava reflexively ordered his execution?
 * Archive
 * Start a new article
 * Nominate an article

Ongoing: Recent deaths&#58; On this day December 7: Feast day of Saint Ambrose (Christianity); National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States (1941)  Artist's impression of the Galileo spacecraft Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi ( b. 903)Willa Cather  ( b. 1873)Nicholas Hoult  ( b. 1989)</li></ul> More anniversaries:
 * Jiang Zemin (pictured), former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at the age of 96.
 * A deadly fire in Ürümqi escalates ongoing protests across China in response to the government's zero-COVID policy.
 * Anwar Ibrahim of the Pakatan Harapan coalition becomes Prime Minister of Malaysia after the general election produces the nation's first hung parliament.
 * An earthquake centred near Cianjur in Indonesia's West Java kills at least 323 people and injures more than 7,000 others.
 * FIFA World Cup
 * Mahsa Amini protests
 * Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Christiane Hörbiger
 * Bob McGrath
 * Nick Bollettieri
 * Jim Kolbe
 * Patrick Tambay
 * Derek Granger
 * Nominate an article
 * 574 – Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor Justin II had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.
 * 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
 * 1975 – The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism, beginning an occupation.
 * 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft (illustration shown) arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
 * December 6
 * December 7
 * December 8
 * Archive
 * By email
 * List of days of the year

<h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
 * Community portal – The central hub for editors, with resources, links, tasks, and announcements.
 * Village pump – Forum for discussions about Wikipedia itself, including policies and technical issues.
 * Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement.
 * Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
 * Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
 * Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics.
 * Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.

<ul id="sister-projects-list"> <li> Commons Free media repository </li> <li> MediaWiki Wiki software development </li> <li> Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination </li> <li> Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals </li> <li> Wikidata Free knowledge base </li> <li> Wikinews Free-content news </li> <li> Wikiquote Collection of quotations </li> <li> Wikisource Free-content library </li> <li> Wikispecies Directory of species </li> <li> Wikiversity Free learning tools </li> <li> Wikivoyage Free travel guide </li> <li> Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus </li> </ul> <h2 id="mp-lang" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia languages <templatestyles src="Wikipedia languages/styles.css"/> This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below. <li> 1,000,000+ articles <ul class="wikipedia-languages-langs hlist hlist-separated inline"> <li><span class="autonym" title="Arabic (ar:)" lang="ar">العربية</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="German (de:)" lang="de">Deutsch</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Spanish (es:)" lang="es">Español</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="French (fr:)" lang="fr">Français</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Italian (it:)" lang="it">Italiano</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Dutch (nl:)" lang="nl">Nederlands</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Japanese (ja:)" lang="ja">日本語</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Polish (pl:)" lang="pl">Polski</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Portuguese (pt:)" lang="pt">Português</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Russian (ru:)" lang="ru">Русский</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Swedish (sv:)" lang="sv">Svenska</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Ukrainian (uk:)" lang="uk">Українська</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Vietnamese (vi:)" lang="vi">Tiếng Việt</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Chinese (zh:)" lang="zh">中文</li> </ul> </li> <li> 250,000+ articles <ul class="wikipedia-languages-langs hlist hlist-separated inline"> <li><span class="autonym" title="Indonesian (id:)" lang="id">Bahasa Indonesia</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Malay (ms:)" lang="ms">Bahasa Melayu</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Min Nan Chinese (nan:)" lang="nan">Bân-lâm-gú</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Bulgarian (bg:)" lang="bg">Български</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Catalan (ca:)" lang="ca">Català</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Czech (cs:)" lang="cs">Čeština</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Danish (da:)" lang="da">Dansk</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Esperanto (eo:)" lang="eo">Esperanto</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Basque (eu:)" lang="eu">Euskara</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Persian (fa:)" lang="fa">فارسی&lrm;</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Hebrew (he:)" lang="he">עברית</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Korean (ko:)" lang="ko">한국어</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Hungarian (hu:)" lang="hu">Magyar</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Norwegian (no:)" lang="no">Norsk Bokmål</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Romanian (ro:)" lang="ro">Română</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Serbian (sr:)" lang="sr">Srpski</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Serbo-Croatian (sh:)" lang="sh">Srpskohrvatski</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Finnish (fi:)" lang="fi">Suomi</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Turkish (tr:)" lang="tr">Türkçe</li> </ul> </li> <li> 50,000+ articles <ul class="wikipedia-languages-langs hlist hlist-separated inline"> <li><span class="autonym" title="Asturian (ast:)" lang="ast">Asturianu</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Bangla (bn:)" lang="bn">বাংলা</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Bosnian (bs:)" lang="bs">Bosanski</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Estonian (et:)" lang="et">Eesti</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Greek (el:)" lang="el">Ελληνικά</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Simple English (simple:)" lang="simple">Simple English</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Galician (gl:)" lang="gl">Galego</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Croatian (hr:)" lang="hr">Hrvatski</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Latvian (lv:)" lang="lv">Latviešu</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Lithuanian (lt:)" lang="lt">Lietuvių</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Malayalam (ml:)" lang="ml">മലയാളം</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Macedonian (mk:)" lang="mk">Македонски</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Norwegian Nynorsk (nn:)" lang="nn">Norsk nynorsk</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Albanian (sq:)" lang="sq">Shqip</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Slovak (sk:)" lang="sk">Slovenčina</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Slovenian (sl:)" lang="sl">Slovenščina</li> <li><span class="autonym" title="Thai (th:)" lang="th">ไทย</li> </ul> </li> </ul>