Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-24/Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

Four editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Tide rolls (nom), AlexandrDmitri (nom), Bradjamesbrown (nom) and Arsenikk (nom).

Featured pages

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The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: David A. Johnston, Rings of Neptune, Mackinac Island, Brazilian cruiser Bahia, BP Pedestrian Bridge, Margaret Fuller and "The Beginning of the End".

Former featured pages

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No lists were delisted this week.

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No portals were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Austroicetes vulgaris; Scene from Act V, scene 2, of Troilus and Cressida; White-fronted Bee-eater; Leeds Castle; Turkic men performing khitān; Rose Main Reading Room in the New York Public Library and 1883 chromolithograph of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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President of the United States George W. Bush speaks on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

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No featured

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Ten pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

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  Central Massif of the Picos de Europa
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  The Garden of Earthly Delights
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  Heliconius melpomene
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  An eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) with its cheek pouches filled
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  Pine siskin (Carduelis pinus)
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  American toad (Bufo americanus)
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  Iron
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  Plestiodon fasciatus
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  Black-spotted Triton

  Cymatium lotorium

  shell