Wiki143:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08/Features and admins

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Administrators

Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: hmwith (nom), JHunterJ (nom), Mtmelendez (nom), Nat (nom), and Samulili (nom).

Bots

Nine bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: SmackBot (task request), Detroiterbot (task request), ChandlerMapBot (task request), COBot (task request), SnakeBot (task request), CohesionBot (task request), CapitalBot (task request), SundarBot (task request), and OrBot (task request).

Featured content

Eleven articles were promoted to featured status last week: Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa, and Template:Foa.

Seven lists were promoted to featured status last week: Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, and Template:Fol.

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

No topics or sounds were featured last week.

Four articles were de-featured last week: Template:Ffr, Template:Ffr, Template:Ffr, and Template:Ffr.

No pictures, lists, portals, topics, or sounds were de-featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line, 1981 Irish hunger strike, Kingdom Hearts, Orion, New York City, Pluto, and Guinea pig.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Alluvial Fan, Crater on Mars, Locust, Bougainville campaign, Maslenitsa, Great White Shark, and Einsatzgruppen.

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

• Breeching Whale (nom)
  Breeching Whale (nom)
• Survivors of Mauthausen concentration camp (nom)
  Survivors of Mauthausen concentration camp (nom)
• Senegal Wattled Plover (nom)
  Senegal Wattled Plover (nom)
• Sieve of Eratosthenes (nom)
  Sieve of Eratosthenes (nom)
• Front view of female Human skeleton (nom)
  Front view of female Human skeleton (nom)
• Back view of female Human skeleton (nom)
  Back view of female Human skeleton (nom)
• Real life Rosie the Riveter (nom)
  Real life Rosie the Riveter (nom)
• Camel (nom)
  Camel (nom)
• Frederick Douglass (nom)
  Frederick Douglass (nom)
• Iceberg (nom)
  Iceberg (nom)
• Leafhopper (nom)
  Leafhopper (nom)
• Crested tern (nom)
  Crested tern (nom)

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