Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-13/Features and admins

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Features and admins

By Singularity, 13 August 2007

Administrators

Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Brian New Zealand (nom), Eluchil404 (nom), MatthewUND (nom), Alex valavanis (nom) and Lyrl (nom)

Bots

Twelve bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: EddieBot (task request), GrooveBot (task request), CorenSearchBot (task request), Android Mouse Bot (task request), BoricuaBot (task request), SXT-404Bot (task request), Fluxbot (task request) and Maelgwnbot (task request), Chris G Bot (task request), ClueBot (task request), HermesBot (task request) and HermesBot (task request).

Featured content

No articles were promoted to featured status last week.

Four articles were de-featured last week: Radar (nom), William the Silent (nom), Timpani (nom) and Ted Radcliffe (nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of counties in Hawaii (nom), List of counties in Vermont (nom), List of works by Joseph Priestley (nom), List of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers (nom), Hart Memorial Trophy (nom), List of tallest buildings in Providence (nom) and List of wild mammal species in Florida (nom).

One list was de-featured last week: Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc (nom).

One portal was promoted to featured status last week: Portal:Energy (nom)

No topics or sounds were promoted to featured status last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: William Tecumseh Sherman, Encyclopædia Britannica, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Beagle, Backmasking, Toraja, and Maximus the Confessor.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Eastern Banjo Frog, GISP2 ice core, Senior American military officials of World War II, Mont Saint-Michel, Leafhopper, Apollo 11 bootprint, and Rosie the Riveter.

Eight pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.


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