Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-25/Features and admins

Three users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Choess (nom), Ice Cold Beer (nom), and Moni3 (nom).

One bot or bot task was approved to begin operating this week: Nixbot (task request).

Fifteen articles were promoted to

Three articles were delisted this week: Eifel Aqueduct (nom), Helen Gandy (nom), and The Cantos (nom).

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The following featured pictures were displayed this week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Caligo eurilochus, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Red-eyed Tree Frog, Beater (weaving), Northern Elephant Seals, Greater Yellowlegs, and Polish cavalry.

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Twenty pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

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  Ursa Major
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  Seals of the U.S. states

  in 1876
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  Common Grass Blue (Zizina labradus)
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  Rhône Glacier
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  Swamp Milkweed

  (Asclepias incarnata)
• Duck and Cover

  video
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  Sand Wasp

  (Bembix oculata)
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  Blind Men and an Elephant
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  Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008
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  Ocean current
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  Los Angeles Fire Department ladder truck
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  German ammunition train wrecked by shell fire in World War I
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  Convair B-36 undercarriage
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  Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
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  German Instrument of Surrender
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  Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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  Nagoya Castle
• F/A-18 Hornet aerial refueling

  video
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  Apollo 13 command module
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  H.M.S. Pinafore