Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-07-14/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Cailil (nom), StephenBuxton (nom), Matthewedwards (nom), Happyme22 (nom), and Ben MacDui (nom).
Bots
Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: RockfangBot (task request), MifterBot (task request), AtyndallBot (task request), WPArkansas Bot (task request), Xenobot (task request), WikiDreamer Bot (task request), Yobot (task request), and Milk's Favorite Bot (task request).
Featured pages
Eighteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse (nom), Subarachnoid hemorrhage (nom), Early life and military career of John McCain (nom), Introduction to virus (nom), No Such Thing as Vampires (nom), Gyromitra esculenta (nom), Leopard 2E (nom), Tropical Storm Chantal (2001) (nom), The Shape of Things to Come (Lost) (nom), King Arthur (nom), Ed Stelmach (nom), USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) (nom), Meteorological history of Hurricane Dean (nom), Uriel Sebree (nom), Super Smash Bros. Brawl (nom), Ernest Joyce (nom), Battle of Concepción (nom), and William Wilberforce (nom).
Twenty four lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of IIHF World Under-20 Championship medalists (nom), List of tallest buildings in Baltimore (nom), List of Czech submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (nom), List of Green Bay Packers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (nom), List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico (nom), List of Sunderland A.F.C. managers (nom), List of Final Fantasy compilation albums (nom), Soundgarden discography (nom), List of Judy Garland awards and honors (nom), List of Kansas City Chiefs head coaches (nom), NBA Sportsmanship Award (nom), List of Los Angeles Lakers first and second round draft picks (nom), List of tallest buildings in Tampa (nom), List of Pittsburgh Steelers first-round draft picks (nom), National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award (nom), List of NASA Administrators (nom), List of Atlanta Falcons first-round draft picks (nom), List of The Killers awards (nom), List of St. Louis Rams first-round draft picks (nom), List of voice actors in the Grand Theft Auto series (nom), List of Blue Peter presenters (nom), List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim managers (nom), List of Seattle Mariners managers (nom), and Garbage discography (nom).
No topics were promoted to featured status last week.
No portals were promoted to featured status last week.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Edward VIII, Atom, R.E.M., To Kill a Mockingbird, Genetics, Palpatine, and The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Former featured pages
One article was delisted last week: Bengali language (nom).
One list was delisted last week: List of English Twenty20 International cricketers (nom).
No topics were delisted last week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Karlskirche, David Farragut, Hemicordulia tau, Computed tomography (CT), New Synagogue, Chandos portrait, and Banff National Park.
Two sounds were featured last week: Apollo 13 message to Houston (nom) and Etherea (nom).
No featured pictures were demoted last week.
Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.
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