Wiki143:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-17/Features and admins
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Administrators
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: CRGreathouse (nom) and Climie.ca (nom).
Bots
Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: LivingBot (task request), Yobot (task request), Locobot (task request), DSisyphBot (task request), CAT:TEMP deletion bot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AnomieBOT (task request) and Almabot (task request).
CAT:TEMP deletion bot is a bot with an administrator flag, which deletes userpages in the temporary userpages category.
Featured pages
Four articles were promoted to featured status this week: Template:Foa, Template:Foa, Template:Foa and Template:Foa.
Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol, Template:Fol and Template:Fol.
One topic was promoted to featured status this week: Template:Fot.
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 4chan, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Neptune and Jack the Ripper conspiracy theories.
Former featured pages
One article was delisted this week: Template:Ffr.
No topics or lists were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Jean-Paul Marat, Panorama of a Sun Dance, Long-billed Corella, Eastern lubber grasshoppers, Nymphenburg palace and Oxeye daisy.
Two media files were featured this week:
| 2008 State of the Union Address | (nom) |
| Vissi d'arte | (nom) |
Two featured pictures were demoted this week: Pin tumbler and Pin tumbler unlocked.
Twenty-one pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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Sydney skyline
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Charon by Gustave Doré
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Resignation letter of Richard Nixon
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Pin tumbler lock; this image, and the next three images, replaced the two delisted tumbler images noted above, and are part of a Template:Tlx
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