Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-18/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Rlendog (nom).
Featured pages
Eight articles were promoted to featured status this week: Third Test, 1948 Ashes series (nom), Cyclura nubila (nom), William Garrow (nom), International Space Station (nom), Carabane (nom), Is This It (nom), Cock Lane ghost (nom) and Sacrifice (video game) (nom).
Nine lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of Inner Hebrides (nom), Madonna videography (nom), List of international cricket centuries by Marcus Trescothick (nom), List of Oklahoma Sooners in the NBA and WNBA Drafts (nom), Order of battle at the Battle of the Nile (nom), List of civil parishes in Somerset (nom), Charlotte Bobcats all-time roster (nom), Hartford Dark Blues all-time roster (nom) and List of Seattle Sounders FC players (nom).
No topics were promoted to featured status this week.
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Splendid Fairywren, Ganymede, The Dark Side of the Moon, Emery Molyneux, Solomon P. Sharp, Ketogenic diet and Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins.
Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted this week: Soviet invasion of Poland (nom), Military brat (U.S. subculture) (nom) and Anabolic steroid (nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
One topic was delisted this week: X-Men films (nom).
No portals were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Illustration of relative astronomical orders of magnitude, Light-mantled Albatross, 1890s photochrom of the quay at Waterford, Ireland, Peter Levy, Castle Geyser, Snipe fly and Onna yu, a late-eighteenth century Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print.
Two featured sounds were promoted this week:
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| The second piece from Fernando Sor's Twelve Minuets, Opus 11, early 19th century | (nom) |
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| The Ride of the Valkyries from Richard Wagner's Die Walküre | (nom) |
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Tors at Dartmoor -
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Snow-covered Great Britain during the European winter storms of 2009–10 -
Cerros de Incahuasi mountains behind the Salar de Talar salt flat -
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River Amstel -
The 1909 Pirates in a poster celebrating their National League pennant -
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Bright Copper butterfly -
Meat-eater ants working cooperatively to devour a cicada
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