Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-02/Features and admins
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Features and admins
Administrators
Four users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: GRBerry (nom), Jc37 (nom), Asterion (nom), and Savidan (nom).
Featured content
Ten articles were promoted to featured status last week: Scouting, The Simpsons, Flag of Lithuania, Tropical Storm Edouard (2002), Áedán mac Gabráin, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, Serial Experiments Lain, El Greco, Latter Days, and Only Fools and Horses.
Four articles were de-featured last week: Floppy disk, Julia Stiles, United States House of Representatives, and Space opera in Scientology doctrine.
Both one list and one portal were promoted to featured status last week: List of mammals of Korea and Portal:Philosophy of science.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Mount Tambora, Sylvanus Morley, Salsa music, Redshift, Kroger Babb, Maraba Coffee, Influenza, and Arthur Ernest Percival.
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Fushimi Inari-taisha, Solar eclipse of August 11 1999, Takeoff of F/A-18 Hornet, Pine cones, B-1 Lancer, Anole lizard, Pollination, and Lincoln cent.
Ten pictures were promoted to featured status last week:
 Power house mechanic working on steam pump |
 North polar layered terrain on Mars |
 Hawk eating prey |
Also this week: Promotional photos — Esperanza deleted — WikiWorld — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration
