Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/Features and admins

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Features and admins

By Soxred93, 24 March, 2008

Administrators

Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week:

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Bots

Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, and Template:Boa.

Featured pages

Twelve articles were promoted to featured status last week: Rokeby Venus (nom), Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America (nom), Damageplan (nom), 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack (nom), Song Thrush (nom), Super Smash Bros. Melee (nom), Tomb of Antipope John XXIII (nom), HMAS Melbourne (R21) (nom), Elderly Instruments (nom), Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (nom), Opeth (nom), and Æthelred of Mercia (nom).

Fifteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of retired Pacific typhoon names (JMA) (nom), Silverchair discography (nom), Timeline of Jane Austen (nom), Slayer discography (nom), BBC Young Musician of the Year (nom), Virginia Tech bowl games (nom), List of Halo media (nom), List of Scottish football champions (nom), List of tallest buildings in Albuquerque (nom), List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford (nom), List of Press Gang episodes (nom), The Prodigy discography (nom), European Golden Shoe (nom), Manchester City F.C. seasons (nom), and The Simpsons (season 7) (nom).

No topic was promoted to featured status last week.

One portal was promoted to featured status last week: Portal:English football (nom).

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico, Paleolithic-style diet, Surfer Rosa, Reese Witherspoon and Freedom Monument.

Former featured pages

Six articles were delisted recently: Saturn V (nom), Game theory (nom), Marginated Tortoise (nom), Korean name (nom), New England Patriots (nom) and Robert Lawson (architect) (nom).

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Hereford, Fissure vent, Magpie-goose, USS Franklin, Catrina, Tagus River and First Battle of Grozny.

No sounds were featured last week.

Three pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.

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  Culex Mosquitoes larvae
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  Cetonia aurata
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  Tristan and Isolde