Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-06/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Paxse (nom).
Anonymous Dissident (nom) was promoted to bureaucrat status this week.
Bots
Nine bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: RussBot (task request), Sambot (task request), Legobot II (task request), SPCUClerkbot (task request), Basketrabbit (task request), DustyBot (task request), MGA73bot (task request) and Mr.Z-bot (task request).
Featured pages
Five articles were promoted to featured status this week: Falaise pocket (nom), Battle of Tippecanoe (nom), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (nom), Manchester Mummy (nom) and Tree Sparrow (nom).
Fourteen lists were promoted to featured status this week: Disturbed discography (nom), Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year (nom), List of Silver Slugger Award winners at first base (nom), List of QI episodes (nom), Davy Medal (nom), Clint Eastwood filmography (nom), List of former championships in World Wrestling Entertainment (nom), List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Medal of Honor) (nom), List of TNA X Division Champions (nom), List of career achievements by Kobe Bryant (nom), List of BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards (nom), List of Silver Slugger Award winners at second base (nom), 1998 Winter Olympics medal table (nom) and List of United States Military Academy alumni (astronauts) (nom).
No topics were promoted to featured status this week.
One portal was promoted to featured status this week: Portal:Buddhism (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Main sequence, Museum of Bad Art, Meningitis, Hare coursing, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Decipherment of rongorongo and State Route 128.
Former featured pages
No articles were delisted this week.
Two lists were delisted this week: List of premature obituaries (nom) and List of universities in the Canadian Prairies (nom).
No topics were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Convention of Kanagawa, Drawing in the scientific romance style, Zizina labradus, Salvador Dalí, Convair B-36 Peacemaker, Vaccination and Arial refueling.
No media files were featured this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Eight pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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