Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Five users were granted admin status this week: Ashibaka (nom), Lethe (nom), Steinsky (nom), MPF (nom) and Banes (nom). Ashibaka was desysopped less than a week later, along with four other admins, as a result of the dispute over a userbox template reported elsewhere.
Featured content
Featured articles now have a special template that puts a star in the top right corner of the article. Talrias borrowed the idea from the Spanish Wikipedia. The addition was fairly popular, although there were some objections that this adds metadata to articles. Normal practice calls for such information to be added to talk pages instead. A similar template has been added to featured lists.
The latest portal to reach featured status is Portal:Australia.
Ten articles were featured last week: USS Wisconsin (BB-64), Lindsay Lohan, Edward Teller, Olivier Messiaen, Katyń massacre, New England Patriots, History of Miami, Florida, Trade and usage of saffron, Shoshone National Forest and Henry James.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Charles I of England, Dixie (song), Radhanites, Adriaen van der Donck, Restoration spectacular, Comet Hyakutake and Music of Nigeria.
Articles that were de-featured last week: Leet and Aztalan State Park.
One list reached featured list status last week: List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions, and one, Sri Lankan national cricket captains, became the second to be de-featured.
Seven pictures reached featured picture status last week:
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Featured article template
Actually, the Norwegian Wikipedia came up with ten days before the Spanish Wikipedia adopted it, although it's entirely possible that Talrias more directly borrowed from the Spanish Wikipedia. I also developed independently of those two versions, for the Vietnamese Wikipedia, but my version isn't clickable. I'm actually not planning on adopting the version here until I find a way to position the star right above the gray horizontal line, because that's where we have all our page markers currently. (The Vietnamese Wikipedia has special icons in that spot to denote the namespace; see , for example.) – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 01:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thumbnails
Also, MediaWiki has problems producing thumbnails of animated GIFs. Perhaps we should take it out of the gallery for now. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 01:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]