Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-27/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Three editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: TheDJ (nom), Vianello (nom) and Law (nom).
Bots
Eleven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Citation bot (task request), DeadLinkBOT (task request), Sambot (task request), Whip, dip, and slide (task request), DustyBot (task request), BenzolBot (task request), MerlLinkBot (task request), ListasBot (task request), MSBOT (task request), ListasBot (task request) and SoxBot (task request).
Featured pages
Six articles were promoted to featured status this week: Han Dynasty (nom), Eli Lilly (nom), Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula (nom), Changeling (film) (nom), Hue chemical attacks (nom) and Take Ichi convoy (nom).
Eleven lists were promoted to featured status this week: Iced Earth discography (nom), List of judicial appointments made by George Washington (nom), List of CMLL World Heavyweight Champions (nom), Veronica Mars (season 3) (nom), List of Olympic medalists in basketball (nom), List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset (nom), List of Silver Slugger Award winners at catcher (nom), List of Silver Slugger Award winners at outfield (nom), List of songs in Guitar Hero: Metallica (nom), Jamelia discography (nom) and List of ROH World Champions (nom).
One topic was promoted to featured status this week: Members of the Gregorian mission (nom).
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: William IV, SkyTrain, Learned Hand, Hurricane Ismael, Operation Passage to Freedom, A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Kit.
Former featured pages
Seven articles were delisted this week: Phishing (nom), Compact Cassette (nom), Noah's Ark (nom), Syed Ahmed Khan (nom), Mini Moke (nom), Pakistan (nom) and Battle of Warsaw (1920) (nom).
One list was delisted this week: List of NFL champions (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: Pot-bellied pigs, Cobbe portrait, Chachani, Australian synchotron, Sand wasp and Women making tortillas.
No media files were featured this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Fifteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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B'nai B'rith membership certificate
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Homoneura sp.
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