Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-22/Features and admins

Administrators and checkusers

Jpgordon (talk) was granted checkuser rights on 19 January, 2007. Jpgordon becomes the first Arbitration Committee member elected at the recent December 2006 elections to be given the user right since assuming their position on 1 January, 2007. UninvitedCompany (talk), also appointed at the December 2006 elections, received checkuser on 23 March, 2006; UninvitedCompany had previously served the Arbitration Committee for one month in early 2004.

Six users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Night Gyr (nom), Isotope23 (nom), TSO1D (nom), FT2 (nom), BradBeattie (nom), and Newyorkbrad (nom). Newyorkbrad's RfA became the third most supported RfA in Wikipedia history, with 225 people supporting.

Featured content

Ten articles were promoted to

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Halloween, Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Restoration literature, El Greco, Bacteria, Music of the Lesser Antilles, and Indian Standard Time.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Plum, Common Raccoon, Western Gull, Huntsman spider, Pi, House Sparrow, and Snow.

Six pictures were promoted to featured status last week:

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  Milk thistle

  flowerhead
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  Tesseract
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  Hoverfly

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  Morteratsch Glacier
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  Hemispheric,

  Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
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  Striated Pardalote

  with nesting material