Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-05-25/Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: FlyingToaster (nom).

Bots

Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Citation bot (task request),

), DYKHousekeepingBot (task request), LivingBot (task request), ListasBot (task request), D'ohBot (task request), Locobot (task request) and LivingBot (task request).

Featured pages

Seventeen articles were promoted to

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Eleven

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One

nom

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No

portals

were promoted to featured status this week.

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

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Former featured pages

Six

nom

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No lists were delisted this week.

No

were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Cedar Key, Florida, 1884, Gordon Dam, Windsor Castle Upper Ward Quadrangle, Oregon Convention Center, Mount Cleveland, Migrant family of the Great Depression and Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, 1862.

No

were promoted this week.

Two featured

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

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  The Punishment of Loki
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  Cortinarius archeri
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  A Negress by Thomas Eakins
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  The

  Dalziel Brothers' engraving of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman
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  Wellington Range
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  Lomatium parryi
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  Dry Tortugas Light
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  Nantes Cathedral
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  Rajputs
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  Great Sphinx of Giza
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  Rigidoporus laetus
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  Austroicetes frater
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  Pelopidas sp.