Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-02/Features and admins

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Features and admins


Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Mfield (nom) and Msgj (nom).

Bots

Ten bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Thehelpfulbot (task request), MPUploadBot (task request),

SoxBot V (task request
), Thehelpfulbot (task request), Sambot (task request), BorgardeBot (task request), Addbot (task request), LucienBOT (task request),
SoxBot VI (task request
) and AnomieBOT (task request).

Featured pages

Ten articles were promoted to

).

Twenty

).

Three

nom
).

No

portals
were promoted to featured status this week.

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

King Vulture
.

Former featured pages

Two articles were delisted this week: Warsaw Uprising (nom) and Paracetamol (nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

One

nom
).

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Alexander's Church, Tawny frogmouth, Glow water lily, Stitched panorama of Los Angeles, Painted Tiger Moth, Florida box turtle and Ursa Major.

Ten

media files
were featured this week:

Rigoletto - Bella figlia dell'amore(nom)
Carmen - Toréador(nom)
Gerald Ford Vietnam clemency remarks(nom)
Tear Down This Wall(nom)
2002 State of the Union Address(nom)
Il trovatore: "Stride la vampa"(nom)
Battle Hymn of the Republic(nom)
Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 1(nom)
Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 2(nom)
Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 3(nom)

One featured

picture was demoted this week: Dust Storm in Texas (nom
).

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