Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-20/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Four users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: RockMFR (nom), Graham87 (nom), Schutz (nom) and Bduke (nom).
Bots
Sixteen bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week:
Featured content
Sixteen articles were promoted to
).One article was de-featured last week: Steve Dalkowski (nom).
Thirteen
One list was de-featured last week: List of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris region (nom).
No portals were promoted to featured status last week.
No topics were promoted to featured status last week.
Two sounds were promoted to featured status last week: and .
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Postage stamps of Ireland, Report of 1800, Rail transport in India, Indonesia, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Maryland and Washington, D.C., Architecture of Windows NT and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia.
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Clerid Beetle, Battle of Normandy, Along the River During Qingming Festival, Broadway Tower, Praying Mantis, Bézier curve, and Eta Carinae Nebula.
Four pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.
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