Wikipedia:Goings-on/April 11, 2010

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, April 11, 2010

Collaborations by topic

Articles that gained featured status

• Big Butte Creek (Apr 14)
• Hurricane Hazel (Apr 14)
• First Test, 1948 Ashes series (Apr 14)
• Porbeagle (Apr 14)
• Japanese battleship Yamato (Apr 14)
• Olivia Manning (Apr 14)
• The Open Boat (Apr 14)
• Myles Standish (Apr 16)

Lists that gained featured status

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (Apr 13)
• MusiCares Person of the Year (Apr 14)
• 2010 Winter Olympics medal table (Apr 14)
• List of Sri Lankan Test cricket records
  (Apr 14)
• List of National Treasures of Japan (temples) (Apr 14)
• List of number-one albums of 2009 (Mexico) (Apr 16)
• Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel
  (Apr 16)
• List of accolades received by Precious (Apr 16)
• List of Major League Baseball wins champions
  (Apr 17)
• List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons (Apr 17)
• List of Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches (Apr 17)

Pictures that gained featured status

• Milky Way (Apr 11)
• Cassiterite (Apr 13)
• George V of Hanover and family (Apr 17)

Portals that gained featured status

• Biological warfare (Apr 16)

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status

• Yamato class battleships
  (Apr 14)

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