Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: S@bre (nom) and Amalthea (nom).
Bots
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Addbot (task request), LivingBot (task request), Addbot (task request), Thehelpfulbot (task request), Thehelpfulbot (task request) and anybot (task request).
Featured pages
Seventeen articles were promoted to featured status this week: Ealdred (archbishop) (nom), These Are the Voyages... (nom), Nico Ditch (nom), William McGregor (nom), John Whittle (nom), Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 (nom), Murray Maxwell (nom), Henry Cornelius Burnett (nom), Peter Jones (missionary) (nom), 2008 ACC Championship Game (nom), SS Kroonland (nom), Ozzie Smith (nom), USS Connecticut (BB-18) (nom), Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (nom), Radcliffe, Greater Manchester (nom), 2008 Humanitarian Bowl (nom) and Dreadnought (nom).
Fourteen lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of awards and nominations received by Amy Winehouse (nom), List of FIFA World Cup finals (nom), Hughes Medal (nom), List of Baltimore Orioles Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester (nom), List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine (nom), Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season (nom), List of Memphis Grizzlies head coaches (nom), List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK) (nom), BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award (nom), List of Philadelphia Phillies Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), Spike Lee filmography (nom), List of valkyrie names in Norse mythology (nom) and Triple Gold Club (nom).
Four topics were promoted to featured status this week: Halo media (nom), Yamato class battleships (nom), Nine Inch Nails (nom) and Iowa class battleships (nom).
One portal was promoted to featured status this week: Portal:Islam (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Order of the Thistle, Third Battle of Kharkov, Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, University of California, Riverside, USS Connecticut and Plutonium.
Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted this week: Automatic number plate recognition (nom), Zambezi (nom) and Nellie Kim (nom).
One list was delisted this week: Golden Globe Award for Best Director (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: Harriet Tubman, Vaccine controversy, Reduviidae, The Taming of the Shrew, Ramallah woman, Discovery of the Land.
Three media files were featured this week:
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| Faust - "O merveille! ... A moi les plaisirs" | (nom) |
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| First Inaugural address of Ronald Reagan | (nom) |
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| Otello - Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro! | (nom) |
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Twenty pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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