Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-13/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: TravisTX (nom), Deacon of Pndapetzim (nom), shoeofdeath (nom), Gadget850 (nom), and Zedla (nom).
One user was promoted to bureaucrat status via the Requests for Bureaucratship process this week: The Rambling Man (nom)
Bots
Five bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Kbdankbot (task request), Lockalbot (task request), Kal-El-Bot (task request), YekratsBot (task request), and KrimpBot (task request).
Featured pages
Nineteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Oliver Typewriter Company (nom), Reactive attachment disorder (nom), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (nom), Paleolithic-style diet (nom), Holden (nom), Flea (musician) (nom), If (magazine) (nom), Fanny Imlay (nom), Duncan Edwards (nom), Neilston (nom), Trafford (nom), Huldrych Zwingli (nom), Grover Cleveland (nom), Lessons for Children (nom), Typhoon Paka (nom), Bernard Fanning (nom), Soprano Home Movies (nom), Odyssey Number Five (nom), and Pattern Recognition (novel) (nom).
Fifteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Peep Show episodes (nom), East Carolina Pirates football seasons (nom), List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross (nom), List of Governors of Hawaii (nom), List of autonomous areas by country (nom), List of Interstate Highways in Texas (nom), Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 4) (nom), List of Tampa Bay Lightning players (nom), List of Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin (nom), Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 3) (nom), List of 30 Rock awards and nominations (nom), List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon (nom), List of countries without armed forces (nom), List of unrecognized countries (nom), and List of space telescopes (nom).
Two topics were promoted to featured status last week: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (nom) and York City F.C. (nom).
Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: Portal:Spain (nom) and Portal:Criminal justice (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Crusaders (rugby), The Philadelphia Inquirer, ESRB re-rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Pre-dreadnought battleship, Hockey Hall of Fame, Hoysala Empire and Plano Senior High School.
Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted recently: Metal Gear Solid (nom) and Battle of Jutland (nom).
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Surfer, Prokaryote, Cappadocia, Glaucus atlanticus and Leucospermum. One featured picture was demoted: Caterpillar feeding. One featured picture was re-promoted: Love or Duty.
No sounds were featured last week.
Fourteen pictures and one video were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.
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