Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-26/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Four users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Jza84 (nom), Travellingcari (nom), Slp1 (nom), and Gwen Gale (nom).
Bots
Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: SoxBot (task request), LemmeyBOT (task request), CarsracBot (task request), MelonBot (task request), Town-bot (task request), SoxBot VIII (task request), Bot0612 (task request), and PseudoBot (task request).
Featured pages
Fifteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Krulak Mendenhall mission (nom), M-35 (Michigan highway) (nom), Hours of service (nom), Mulholland Drive (film) (nom), Sinestro Corps War (nom), Trevor Linden (nom), Jack Marsh (nom), Tropical Depression Ten (2007) (nom), Characters of Carnivàle (nom), Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire (nom), 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings (nom), The Wiggles (nom), Operation Passage to Freedom (nom), Thomas Cranmer (nom), and Louis Lambert (novel) (nom).
Sixteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Atlanta Falcons head coaches (nom), List of East Carolina Pirates in the NFL Draft (nom), The Libertines discography (nom), Memphis Grizzlies draft history (nom), List of San Diego Chargers head coaches (nom), List of Vancouver Canucks players (nom), List of German World War II jet aces (nom), Highlander: The Series (season 1) (nom), 1896 Summer Olympics medal count (nom), Maroon 5 discography (nom), Foo Fighters discography (nom), Smoking Popes discography (nom), List of encyclicals of Pope John XXIII (nom), List of New England Patriots head coaches (nom), List of Philadelphia Eagles head coaches (nom), and List of Edmonton Oilers players (nom).
One topic was promoted to featured status last week: Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games (nom).
Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: Portal:James Bond (nom) and Portal:Anglicanism (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Cannon, Weymouth, Elderly Instruments, Edward Low, Society of the Song Dynasty, Lion, and Stanley Cup.
Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted last week: Windows 2000 (nom), Rajshahi University (nom), and De Lorean DMC-12 (nom).
No lists were delisted last week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Mary of Teck, Goalkeeper (football), White-fronted Capuchin, Carpentry, Wayne Gretzky and Water Margin.
No sounds were featured last week.
One featured picture was demoted last week: F1 car.
Two pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.
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