Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-15/Features and admins
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Features and admins
Administrators
Five users were granted admin status last week: Metamagician3000 (nom), Nihonjoe (nom), Sreed1234 (nom), BrownHairedGirl (nom) and Whouk (nom).
Meanwhile, one of the current candidates, Bucketsofg, has written an amusing song, The RfA Candidate's Song, set to the tune of that ever-popular source for parodic inspiration, the Major General's Song.
Featured content
Eleven articles were featured last week: Halloween II (film) (nom), Final Fantasy X (nom), Hurricane Mitch (nom), Alpha Phi Alpha (nom), Ike Altgens (nom), Sunday Times Golden Globe Race (nom), 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (nom), Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006 (nom), Manila Light Rail Transit System (nom), Nauru (nom) and Transhumanism (nom).
One list reached featured list status last week: List of Presidents of the Philippines.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: HTTP cookie, Pink Floyd, Flag of Australia, Military history of France, Perfect Dark, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China and Sanssouci.
These were the pictures of the day last week: Leaf morphology, Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Rooster, White-breasted Nuthatch, Schloss Neuschwanstein, San Francisco International Airport and Uncle Sam.
Five pictures reached featured picture status last week:
Also this week: Baidu Baike — Tron appeal — M.A.N.I.A. — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.
