Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-15/Features and admins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Features and admins
Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Kinu (nom), Feydey (nom), Visviva (nom), Jersyko (nom), and BigDT (nom).
Featured content
Twenty-two articles were promoted to featured status last week, following the previous week's zero: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Oriel College, Scottish Parliament Building, Paulins Kill, Hurricane Juan, Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., Hippocrates, Germany, Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector, Sasha (DJ), B movie, South Australian legislative election, 2006, Pilot (House), Turkey, Battle of Edson's Ridge, DNA, Diplodocus, Proteasome, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware, Immune system, and Regulamentul Organic. DNA was repromoted to FA status after losing it nearly three years ago.
Two articles were de-featured last week: Names of God in Judaism, and Sydney Riot of 1879.
Five lists were promoted to featured status last week: Chicago Bears seasons, Harry Potter films cast members, New Brunswick general elections (post-Confederation), Basil cultivars, and Nintendo 64 games.
Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: Architecture and Vancouver.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Invasion, Fauna of Puerto Rico, Half-Life 2, Richard III, Alcibiades, Shoshone National Forest, and Kitsune.
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Treasury of Athens, Riffle shuffle, Dragonfly, Root canal, Phenotypes, Victoria Crater, and Pennant coralfish.
Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status last week:
 The first ever photograph of a person, taken by Louis Daguerre |
 Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive |
 Liquid lakes on Titan |
 Titanic's bow |
 Polar map of Jupiter |
 Meat eater ant |
Also this week: — 2006 in review — Arbitrator interviews — Cascading protection — WikiWorld — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration
