Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-21/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
20 users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Seattle Skier (nom), AQu01rius (nom), After Midnight (nom), Ikiroid (nom), Dweller (nom), Khukri (nom), LessHeard vanU (nom), BrendelSignature (nom), C.Fred (nom), Anas Salloum (nom), Masamage (nom), MaxSem (nom), Carioca (nom), Audacity (nom), Alvestrand (nom), Lucasbfr (nom), Arctic.gnome (nom), Nihiltres (nom), Yonatan (nom) and Akradecki (nom). Cecropia also became the latest bureaucrat.
Bots
4 bots were approved to begin operating this week: HBC NameWatcherBot (task request), EdBot (task request), Android Mouse Bot 3 (task request) and AccReqBot (task request). Approval for EdBot (task request) was later revoked due to 20 bad edits.
Featured content
6 articles were promoted to featured status last week: Jurassic Park (film) (nom), Jihad (song) (nom), System Shock (nom), Iridion 3D (nom), Princess Alice of Battenberg (nom) and Taiwanese aborigines (nom).
6 articles were de-featured last week: Duran Duran (nom), Uma Thurman (nom), Lindsay Lohan (nom), The Brothers Karamazov (nom), 1993 Russian constitutional crisis (nom) and Columbine High School massacre (nom).
4 lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of WWE Intercontinental Champions (nom), List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition (nom), List of ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan (nom) and List of Tampa Bay Buccaneers first-round draft picks (nom).
No sounds, topics or portals were promoted to featured status last week.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Japan, Gilberto Silva, 35 mm film, Ohio Wesleyan University, Parliament Acts, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mayan languages.
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Melangyna viridiceps, Blessed milk thistle, Alcatraz Island, Cyrtophora, Aerogel, Five-inch 54-caliber MK45 gun and Grasshopper.
4 pictures were promoted to featured status last week:
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I think it would be nice if the structure of this weekly piece followed its title - that is, it listed new featured content first, and then new admins. Getting an article to featured status is a big deal, getting adminship "is not." Just my two cents though. 67.86.86.217 19:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]