Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-08/Features and admins

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Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

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

Bots

This section will now be written in the Technology Report, and will contain an expanded description of the bots that have been approved. This week's article.

Featured pages

Fourteen articles were promoted to

).

Twelve

).

No

topics
were promoted to featured status this week.

No

portals
were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Rudolf Wolters, History of biology, Checkers speech, Rhinemaidens, Astrophysics Data System, West Bengal and Cholangiocarcinoma.

Former featured pages

Five

nom), Siege (nom) and BC Rail (nom
).

One

).

No

topics
were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Woody Guthrie, Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory, Speckled Wood, Armorial of the Holy Roman Empire, Normandy Landings, Crochet and City of London.

No

featured sounds
were promoted this week.

No featured

pictures
were demoted this week.

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