Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-06/Features and admins

Administrators

Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Awiseman (nom), Raymond arritt (nom), Caknuck (nom), Calliopejen1 (nom), Tabercil (nom), Marasmusine (nom), Angelo.romano (nom) and DarkFalls (nom).

Bots

Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: WikiBotas (task request), PipepBot (task request), Scsbot (task request), JL-Bot (task request), ImageRemovalBot (task request) and STBotI (task request).

Featured content

Thirty-three articles were promoted to

Two articles were de-featured last week: Trench warfare (nom) and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (nom).

Five

No lists were de-featured last week.

No portals, topics or sounds were promoted to featured status last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Cleveland tower, Territorial evolution of Mexico, Fashion photograph by Toni Frissell, Antennae Galaxies, Marines operating the M198 howitzer, Eden Project and Atlantic Bobtail.

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

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  Obituary of Robert William Thomson
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  Robert E. Lee