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Features and admins

By Jon Harald Søby and Flcelloguy, April 17, 2006

Administrators

Five users were granted admin status through Requests for Adminship last week: Jedi6 (nom), Dijxtra (nom), Kilo-Lima (nom), Master Jay (nom) and Kaisershatner (nom)

In addition, BradPatrick, legal counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation, was sysopped by Foundation employee Danny Wool.

100th featured list promoted

The 100th featured list was promoted this week. The overall number had been hovering around the milestone for a week, but because of delistings had not surpassed the milestone until both List of 2005 Atlantic hurricane season storms and List of Alberta premiers were promoted on April 15, bringing the total number of featured lists to 101. List of Formula One drivers was promoted earlier in the week. No lists were de-featured last week.

Other featured content

Six articles were promoted to featured status last week: Mariah Carey, Corinthian War, Ina Garten, Music of the United States, Sanssouci and Rabindranath Tagore. No articles were de-featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: OpenBSD, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Canadian federal election, 1993, Samuel Beckett, Eldfell, Equal Protection Clause and Joan of Arc.

The latest portal to reach featured status is Portal:India.

Eleven pictures reached featured picture status last week:


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