Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-09/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Two users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Gazimoff (nom), and Peripitus (nom).
Bots
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week:
Diligent Terrier Bot (task request)
Featured pages
Sixteen articles were promoted to featured status this week:
- Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon (1994) (nom)
- 2007 Atlantic hurricane season (nom)
- Warwick Castle (nom)
- Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (nom)
- Domitian (nom)
- Balch Creek (nom)
- Learned Hand (nom)
- Alleyway (nom)
- Willie Wagtail (nom)
- Anekantavada (nom)
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (nom)
- General aviation in the United Kingdom (nom)
- Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (nom)
- HMS Ark Royal (91) (nom)
- Midtown Madness (nom)
- La Peau de chagrin (nom).
Twenty-two lists were promoted to featured status last week:
- List of Slipknot band members (nom)
- Nile discography (nom)
- Queens of the Stone Age discography (nom)
- List of Nickelback awards (nom)
- West Bromwich Albion F.C. seasons (nom)
- List of Brigham Young University alumni (nom)
- List of No Doubt awards (nom)
- J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (nom)
- List of Chicago Bulls head coaches (nom)
- Isobel Campbell discography (nom)
- List of Naruto characters (nom)
- The O.C. (season 1) (nom)
- Amateur radio frequency bands in India (nom)
- List of Phoenix Suns head coaches (nom)
- List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances (nom)
- List of Korean War Medal of Honor recipients (nom)
- List of Principals and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford (nom)
- List of Toronto Maple Leafs head coaches (nom)
- List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners (nom)
- List of Dream Theater band members (nom)
- NBA Executive of the Year Award (nom)
- 30 Rock (season 2) (nom)
Four topics were promoted to featured status this week:
Two portals were promoted to featured status this week: Portal:California (nom) and Portal:Mars (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed this week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Joseph Francis Shea, Nuthatch, The Wiggles, Roy Welensky, BioShock, Anna May Wong, and Holden.
Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted this week: Paragraph 175 (nom) and Jerusalem (nom).
One lists was delisted this week: List of X-Men episodes (nom).
No topics were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures (and film) were displayed this week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Malcolm X, Patchwork quilt, Yellow coneflowers, a film of tanks in World War I, JetBlue Airways Flight 292, and Bufflehead.
One sound was featured this week: Eisenhower farewell address (nom).
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Six pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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Iowa and Nebraska lands -
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Just wanted to say - I like the new arrangement of articles on this page (in a list, instead of in a continuous sentence). It makes it much easier to read and navigate between them. Good job! Terraxos (talk) 22:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]