Wikipedia:Main Page history/2024 March 17

 Welcome to Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,798,258 articles in English

From today's featured article  The black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) is in the grebe family of water birds. During the breeding season, the head, neck, and breast are dark, with some yellow behind the eyes; the flanks are tawny rufous to maroon-chestnut; and the abdomen is white. The non-breeding bird has greyish flanks and no yellow feathers. This species is present in parts of Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. It catches insects on the surface of the water, in flight, or occasionally on foliage, and dives to catch crustaceans, molluscs, tadpoles, and small frogs and fish. It makes a floating cup nest on an open lake, in which three or four eggs hatch after a 21-day incubation period. After about 10 days, the parents divide the brood between themselves, and after roughly 10 more days, the chicks become independent. The black-necked grebe travels as far as 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) during migration, in the course of which it pauses to moult. (Full article...)

Recently featured: 


 * Jamie Kalven
 * Grant's Canal
 * Philadelphia Athletics 18, Cleveland Indians 17 (1932)

 Did you know ...  Making a Stand, Leeds  In the news   Luís Montenegro
 * Archive
 * By email
 * More featured articles
 * About
 * ... that a seven-metre-tall (23 ft) "sculptural forest" (pictured) was created during Leeds 2023, inspired by the region's ancient woodland?
 * ... that the Scottish surgeon John Blair was the only dux of his high school to receive his gold medal in the presence of his wife and child?
 * ... that the 2023 drama film Time Still Turns the Pages won the Audience Choice Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards?
 * ... that the abandoned New World Department Store in Bangkok became home to thousands of fish?
 * ... that Singaporean chef and restaurateur Tan Kue Kim cooked while wearing a S$40,000 gold Rolex watch?
 * ... that some online social and "Barstool conservatives" spent their Christmas holidays arguing about whether a beer promotional calendar was "demonic"?
 * ... that as she commenced chemotherapy, Irish singer Majella O'Donnell raised more than €350,000 for the Irish Cancer Society with a sponsored head shave live on The Late Late Show &#63;
 * ... that US president Calvin Coolidge left Mystic, South Dakota, in a lumber wagon?
 * Archive
 * Start a new article
 * Nominate an article

Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day March 17: Saint Patrick's Day (Christianity); Anniversary of the Unification of Italy (1861)  Dorchester Heights Monument
 * In Portugal, the Democratic Alliance (leader Luís Montenegro pictured) wins the most seats in a snap legislative election.
 * At the Academy Awards, Oppenheimer wins seven awards, including Best Picture.
 * Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, author of Dragon Ball, dies at the age of 68.
 * Sweden becomes the thirty-second member state of NATO.
 * Israel–Hamas war
 * Myanmar civil war
 * Red Sea crisis
 * Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * timeline
 * Charlie Bird
 * Dave Ritchie
 * Karl Wallinger
 * Lewis Jones
 * Guy Touvron
 * David E. Harris
 * Nominate an article


 * 1864 – Second Schleswig War: In an attempt to end a Danish blockade, Eduard von Jachmann led a Prussian squadron in an attack against a Danish fleet led by Edvard van Dockum.
 * 1902 – The Dorchester Heights Monument (pictured), memorializing the siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War, was dedicated.
 * 1957 – A plane crash on the slopes of Mount Manunggal killed Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
 * 1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland collapsed during refurbishing construction, killing two workers, and leading to the abandonment of the tunnel.
 * 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo broke out, resulting in the deaths of 28, the wounding of more than 600 others, and the destruction of several Serb Orthodox churches and shrines.

<templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Jocelin of Glasgow ( d. 1199)</li><li>Menno van Coehoorn  ( d. 1704)</li><li>Pattie Boyd  ( b. 1944)</li><li>Shu Xiuwen  ( d. 1969)</li></ul>

More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/>
 * March 16
 * March 17
 * March 18
 * 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.

<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> <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 <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> <li> 250,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> <li> 50,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> </ul>
 * <span class="autonym" title="Arabic (ar:)" lang="ar">العربية
 * <span class="autonym" title="Egyptian Arabic (arz:)" lang="arz">مصرى
 * <span class="autonym" title="German (de:)" lang="de">Deutsch
 * <span class="autonym" title="Spanish (es:)" lang="es">Español
 * <span class="autonym" title="French (fr:)" lang="fr">Français
 * <span class="autonym" title="Italian (it:)" lang="it">Italiano
 * <span class="autonym" title="Dutch (nl:)" lang="nl">Nederlands
 * <span class="autonym" title="Japanese (ja:)" lang="ja">日本語
 * <span class="autonym" title="Polish (pl:)" lang="pl">Polski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Portuguese (pt:)" lang="pt">Português
 * <span class="autonym" title="Russian (ru:)" lang="ru">Русский
 * <span class="autonym" title="Swedish (sv:)" lang="sv">Svenska
 * <span class="autonym" title="Ukrainian (uk:)" lang="uk">Українська
 * <span class="autonym" title="Vietnamese (vi:)" lang="vi">Tiếng Việt
 * <span class="autonym" title="Chinese (zh:)" lang="zh">中文
 * <span class="autonym" title="Indonesian (id:)" lang="id">Bahasa Indonesia
 * <span class="autonym" title="Malay (ms:)" lang="ms">Bahasa Melayu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Minnan (nan:)" lang="nan">Bân-lâm-gú
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bulgarian (bg:)" lang="bg">Български
 * <span class="autonym" title="Catalan (ca:)" lang="ca">Català
 * <span class="autonym" title="Czech (cs:)" lang="cs">Čeština
 * <span class="autonym" title="Danish (da:)" lang="da">Dansk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Esperanto (eo:)" lang="eo">Esperanto
 * <span class="autonym" title="Basque (eu:)" lang="eu">Euskara
 * <span class="autonym" title="Persian (fa:)" lang="fa">فارسی&lrm;
 * <span class="autonym" title="Hebrew (he:)" lang="he">עברית
 * <span class="autonym" title="Armenian (hy:)" lang="hy">Հայերեն
 * <span class="autonym" title="Korean (ko:)" lang="ko">한국어
 * <span class="autonym" title="Hungarian (hu:)" lang="hu">Magyar
 * <span class="autonym" title="Norwegian (no:)" lang="no">Norsk bokmål
 * <span class="autonym" title="Romanian (ro:)" lang="ro">Română
 * <span class="autonym" title="Serbian (sr:)" lang="sr">Srpski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Serbo-Croatian (sh:)" lang="sh">Srpskohrvatski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Finnish (fi:)" lang="fi">Suomi
 * <span class="autonym" title="Turkish (tr:)" lang="tr">Türkçe
 * <span class="autonym" title="Asturian (ast:)" lang="ast">Asturianu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bangla (bn:)" lang="bn">বাংলা
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bosnian (bs:)" lang="bs">Bosanski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Central Kurdish (ckb:)" lang="ckb">کوردی
 * <span class="autonym" title="Estonian (et:)" lang="et">Eesti
 * <span class="autonym" title="Greek (el:)" lang="el">Ελληνικά
 * <span class="autonym" title="Simple English (simple:)" lang="en">Simple English
 * <span class="autonym" title="Western Frisian (fy:)" lang="fy">Frysk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Irish (ga:)" lang="ga">Gaeilge
 * <span class="autonym" title="Galician (gl:)" lang="gl">Galego
 * <span class="autonym" title="Croatian (hr:)" lang="hr">Hrvatski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Georgian (ka:)" lang="ka">ქართული
 * <span class="autonym" title="Kurdish (ku:)" lang="ku">Kurdî
 * <span class="autonym" title="Latvian (lv:)" lang="lv">Latviešu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Lithuanian (lt:)" lang="lt">Lietuvių
 * <span class="autonym" title="Malayalam (ml:)" lang="ml">മലയാളം
 * <span class="autonym" title="Macedonian (mk:)" lang="mk">Македонски
 * <span class="autonym" title="Burmese (my:)" lang="my">မြန်မာဘာသာ
 * <span class="autonym" title="Norwegian Nynorsk (nn:)" lang="nn">Norsk nynorsk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Punjabi (pa:)" lang="pa">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
 * <span class="autonym" title="Albanian (sq:)" lang="sq">Shqip
 * <span class="autonym" title="Slovak (sk:)" lang="sk">Slovenčina
 * <span class="autonym" title="Slovenian (sl:)" lang="sl">Slovenščina
 * <span class="autonym" title="Thai (th:)" lang="th">ไทย
 * <span class="autonym" title="Telugu (te:)" lang="te">తెలుగు
 * <span class="autonym" title="Urdu (ur:)" lang="ur">اردو
 * <span class="autonym" title="Uzbek (uz:)" lang="uz">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча