Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-31/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
One editor was
Bots
Six new bot tasks were approved this week, leaving 20 open applications.
- DASHBot (task 12) Solve redirects on templates that use navbox
- Signpost Book Bot (task) Takes Wikipedia Signpost articles and puts them into book form
- AnomieBOT II (task) Create daily subpages of Template:TFA title
- WP:TFD/H
- TedderBot (task 5) automagically remove
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template (and others, currently{{current related}}
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Featured pages
Ten articles were promoted to featured status this week: Action of 1 August 1801 (nom), Cyclone Gonu (nom), Brill railway station (nom), HMAS Australia (1911) (nom), Lycoperdon echinatum (nom), Parthian Empire (nom), Henrik Sedin (nom), Banksia menziesii (nom), Keith Miller with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (nom) and Lemurs of Madagascar (book) (nom).
Four lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of numbered roads in Kawartha Lakes (nom), List of protected areas of Svalbard (nom), Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (nom) and Spice Girls discography (nom).
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The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as
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Two articles were delisted this week: Delhi (nom) and Aleksandr Vasilevsky (nom).
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: Hakea laurina; Spotted Dove; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Tachysphex sp.; Albino American Alligator; Polyporus squamosus and Act III, Scene 6, from Le Cid.
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One featured
Seven pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Chicago skyline at sunrise
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Chicago 'L' tracks in the Chicago Loop at theAdams/Wabashstation at night
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1937 anti-BolshevikNazi propagandaposter
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Period sketch of an encampment on the California Trail
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Tasmanian Pademelon
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Letter from your editor
The format and content of this page has remained largely unchanged since I took on writing it regularly sometime in late 2008. I think it might a time for some changes. To that end, I would like to know what you, the readers, think would be good changes for the regular Features and Admins page. Is there something you would expect to find here that you don't? Or do you wish something were written a different way, or with more detail? Or something else entirely, be it the design, presentation or content. Please feel free to make any suggestion you have, however small or large. You may leave comments here, at the Signpost talk page, or at my talk page; I will have all pages watchlisted. I am eager to make this page as useful as I can, and so I look forward to hearing suggestions and ideas from you. Thanks. ÷seresin 19:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You could have less focus on what pictures (or articles) have just appeared on the main page - that information is highly visible, has already just been promoted, and is easy to find for those interested.
You could mention Good Articles that have just been listed. This information is less easy to find, is useful to have a record of, is motivational for those involved, and serves as an incentive for people to check to see if the listing was appropriate. Good Articles are not promoted anywhere on Wikipedia - they are quiet listings, so a little bit of light to show up poor listings or to encourage those involved in appropriate listings would be worthwhile. SilkTork *YES! 22:37, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure this idea is very relevant to this particular segment of the Signpost, but I would personally like to see a summary of the past week's internal events, discussions, and happenings. Juliancolton (talk) 01:55, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ten promoted pictures?
Only seven are displayed. Is this correct? —