Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-07/Features and admins
7 (nom) was promoted to administrator. Xeno was made a bureaucrat.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article:
- Baltimore City College, a public college-preparatory high school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Banksia prionotes, a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the Proteaceae family
- Cyclone Gonu, the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea
- The Beatles: Rock Band, a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems
- "The Open Boat", a short story by American author Stephen Crane
- Helmut Lent, a German night fighter ace in World War II who shot down 110 aircraft, 103 of them at night
- Edwin P. Morrow, the 40th Governor of Kentucky.
Promoted and former featured pages
Seven articles were promoted to
SMS Helgoland (nom), Loggerhead sea turtle (nom), Horses in World War I (nom) and Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) (nom
).
Six
Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year (nom), Hugo Award for Best Novella (nom
).
Two articles were delisted: S-mine (nom) and Henry James (nom).
Media features
Two featured
pictures were demoted. 1958 Corvette (nom) was delisted because it lacks sharpness and is no longer "used in a meaningful and encyclopedic manner"; Hansom cab (nom
) was delisted because of its small resolution.
Twelve pictures were promoted to featured status:
Jesse Jackson in 1983 | A knight's tour | A 2600 series car in the Chicago transit system
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Molybdenum | |||||
Main circuits of the basal ganglia | This and the next six photographs are a featured set. They depict the scales which compose the wings of the Inachis io butterfly.
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Closeup of the scales | High magnification of the scales | |||||
This and the next four images were taken with an electron microscope. This image is approximately 50× magnification. | Approximately 200× magnification | 1000× | 5000× |
Discuss this story
New design
I have re-designed the presentation and structure of this page. I hope it is to everyone's liking. I tried to remove some of the repeated skeleton language, and implement a cleaner and slimmer design. Feedback, good, bad or ugly is requested and appreciated. Suggestions on the content itself are also requested and appreciated, as continued from last week's note.
I would like to thank all the editors who provided feedback in response to my note last week, and in particular Tony1. ÷seresin 08:37, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]