Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-08/Features and admins

Administrators

Three users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process over the last two weeks: Malcolmxl5 (nom), Lankiveil (nom), and Smashville (nom).

In addition, two users were

).

Bots

Sixteen bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating over the last two weeks: Addbot (task request), Addbot (task request), Legobot (task request), J Milburn Bot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AilurophobiaBot (task request), Erwin85Bot (task request), TinucherianBot (task request), Mr.Z-bot (task request), SusBot (task request), AloysiusLiliusBot (task request), SamuraiBot (task request),

), AnomieBOT (task request), and Chris G Bot (task request).

Featured pages

Thirty-three articles were promoted to

).

Eleven

).

Four

nom

).

The following featured articles were displayed over the last two weeks on the Main Page as

Domestic sheep

.

Former featured pages

Six

).

No

topics

were delisted over the last two weeks.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed over the last two weeks on the Main Page as picture of the day: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pigment, Monarch butterfly, Study (drawing), Devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, Rigger, Bearded Vulture, Tablet press, Palestinian costume, Mont Blanc, Refraction, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Nectar robbing, and Casa Milà.

A record breaking thirty-five

).

Set of

Moonlight Sonata

:
1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement (nom)

Set of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons:
Spring - 1st movement, Spring - 2nd movement, Spring - 3nd movement, Summer - 1st movement, Summer - 2nd movement, Summer - 3rd movement, Autumn - 1st movement, Autumn - 2nd movement, Autumn - 3rd movement, Winter - 1st movement, Winter - 2nd movement, and Winter - 3rd movement (nom)

Set of

:
Theme, Variation I, Variation II, Variation III, Variation IV to Variation VI
Complete version (nom)

Set of

Movement I, Movement II, and Movements III and IV (nom),

No featured

were demoted this week. Twenty-three pictures were promoted to featured status over the last two weeks and are shown below.

• 
  Pyrotechnics
• 
  Morning fog in East Frisia
• 
  Oswego lighthouse in 1900
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  Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 manuscript sketch
• 
  Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
• 
  Cone Nebula
• 
  Green frog (Rana clamitans)
• 
  United States Declaration of Independence painting by John Trumbell
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  Sheep club poster
• 
  Messerschmitt Bf 109
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  Fire breathing
• 
  Gadwall (Anas strepera)
• 
  Storming of the Bastille
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  Keizersgracht in Amsterdam
• 
  Guano
• 
  Joss Bay Beach
• 
  Painted Lady

  butterfly
• 
  Silvereye
• 
  Watson and the Shark
• 
  Cowardly Lion
• 
  Elizabeth I of England
• 
  Ludwig van Beethoven
• 
  Wawona Tree

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