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No featured [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist|pictures]] were demoted this week.
No featured [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist|pictures]] were demoted this week.


Sixteen pictures were promoted to [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|featured]] status over the last two weeks and are shown below.
Eighteen pictures and videos were promoted to [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|featured]] status over the last two weeks and are shown below.


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Image:Richmond Riverside, London - Sept 2008.jpg|[[River Thames]] &mdash; [[Richmond, London]]
Image:Shooting Captured Insurgents - Spanish-American War.ogg|[[Propaganda of the Spanish American War]]
Image:The Assassination of President Lincoln - Currier and Ives 2.png|[[Abraham Lincoln assassination]]
Image:Josh Blue by Bryce Boyer.jpg|[[Josh Blue]]
Image:Firebox on a steam train.jpg|[[Firebox (locomotive)]]
Image:Niagara rail 2.jpg|[[Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge]]
Image:Cymbidium Clarisse Austin 'Best Pink' Flowers 2000px.JPG|''[[Cymbidium|Cymbidium sp.]]''
Image:Pigs July 2008-1.jpg|[[Domestic pig]]
Image:Pyle pirate relaxing b.png|[[Howard Pyle]] [[piracy]]
Image:Ijazah3.jpg|[[Ijazah]]
Image:Tortilleras Nebel.jpg|An 1836 [[lithography|lithograph]] by [[Carl Nebel]]
Image:Chachani summit edited.jpg|Summit of [[Chachani]]
Image:Aust.-Synchrotron-Interior-Panorama,-14.06.2007.jpg|[[Australian Synchrotron]]
Image:Spider and bee June 2008-1.jpg|''[[Misumena vatia]]''
Image:Red Jacket 2.jpg|[[Red Jacket]]
Image:Red Jacket 2.jpg|[[Red Jacket]]
Image:Richmond Riverside, London - Sept 2008.jpg|[[Richmond, London]]
Image:Spider and bee June 2008-1.jpg|''[[Misumena vatia]]''
Image:Searching for bodies, Galveston 1900.ogg|[[1900 Galveston hurricane]]
Image:Hurricane Isabel eye from ISS (edit 1).jpg|The eye of [[Hurricane Isabel]]
Image:Crested Tern Tasmania.jpg|[[Greater Crested Tern]]
Image:Charadrius-melodus-004 edit.jpg|[[Piping Plover]]
Image:Gerald Ford hearing2.jpg|[[Gerald Ford]]
Image:Weevil September 2008-1.jpg|[[Weevil]]
Image:Bench Grinder Brush 1.jpg|[[Bench grinder]] [[wire brush]]
Image:Somagahana Fuchiemon restored.jpg|[[Sumo]]
Image:Dolina-Pano-3.jpg|[[Atapuerca Mountains]]
Image:Long nosed weevil edit.jpg|[[Weevil]]
Image:Segregation 1938b.jpg|[[Jim Crow laws]]
Image:Wasp August 2007-12.jpg|[[European beewolf]]
Image:Butterfly April 2008-2a.jpg|[[Speckled Wood]]
Image:Wu Tingfang1.jpg|[[Wu Tingfang]]
Image:Yellowstone 1871b.jpg|[[Yellowstone National Park]] map
Image:1Mcolors.png|[[Color]]
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Revision as of 05:35, 4 October 2008

The Wikipedia Signpost
The Wikipedia Signpost


Features and admins

By Ral315, 29 September, 2008

Administrators

Four users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week:

,

,

, and

.

A total of six users were named administrators in September 2008, the lowest number of new administrators since April 2003, when adminship applications were held informally on the mailing list.

Bots

Four bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, and Template:Boa.

FA Template Protection Bot is the first administrative bot approved under the new adminbot policies.

Twenty-seven articles were promoted to featured status this week: Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) (nom), Odwalla (nom), 4chan (nom), Bert Trautmann (nom), Virus (nom), Frank Zappa (nom), Southern Cross Expedition (nom), Ian O'Brien (nom), Little Miss Sunshine (nom), Raptor Red (nom), Morotai Mutiny (nom), Decipherment of rongorongo (nom), Cleveland Street scandal (nom), AMX-30E (nom), Joseph Barbera (nom), Space Invaders (nom), Hurricane Dean (nom), Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal (nom), Martin Keamy (nom), German women's national football team (nom), History of the National Hockey League (1942–1967) (nom), James Russell Lowell (nom), Germanium (nom), Steve Bruce (nom), Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (nom), Farthest South (nom), and Stonewall riots (nom).

Twenty-eight lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of Slipknot awards (nom), List of Ciara awards (nom), List of Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), List of George Michael awards (nom), A Perfect Circle discography (nom), List of railway stations in Greater Manchester (nom), The Simpsons (season 3) (nom), Extreme points of India (nom), List of Zulu War Victoria Cross recipients (nom), List of Tampa Bay Rays Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), List of Boston Red Sox Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), List of The Open Championship champions (nom), List of awards and nominations received by Feist (nom), List of Colorado Rockies Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2002 (nom), List of Florida Marlins Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), List of Calgary Flames head coaches (nom), Chimaira discography (nom), List of awards and nominations received by The Neptunes (nom), List of Wranglers of the University of Cambridge (nom), List of awards and nominations received by Metallica (nom), List of awards and nominations received by Muse (nom), List of awards and nominations received by Aerosmith (nom), List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers (nom), List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: R (nom), List of UEFA Intertoto Cup winners (nom), New York Giants seasons (nom), and List of awards and nominations received by Paul Kelly (nom).

Four topics was promoted to featured status this week: Category 5 Pacific hurricanes (nom), Aston Villa F.C. (nom), Jesus College, Oxford (nom), and Physical geography of Somerset (nom).

Two portals were promoted to featured status this week: Portal:Russia (nom) and Portal:Japan (nom).

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Draining and development of the Everglades, Augustus, Mom and Dad, Zhang Heng, Verdeja, Stigand, and Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

Eight articles was delisted over the last week: Canon T90 (nom), Cricket (nom), Coconut crab (nom), Laal (nom), Irish Houses of Parliament (nom), The Lord of the Rings (nom), George Brown, Baron George-Brown (nom), and Cathedral of Magdeburg (nom).

One lists was delisted this week: Timeline of first orbital launches by country (nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: European paper wasp, Tugboat, Grand Central Terminal, River Thames, San Francisco, California in 1850 or 1851, Nautical chart, and Baggage claim.

Seven sounds were featured this week: Template:Fos, Template:Fos, Template:Fos, Template:Fos, Template:Fos, Template:Fos, and Template:Fos2.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Eighteen pictures and videos were promoted to featured status over the last two weeks and are shown below.




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  • Wikimedia UK
  • WikiWorld
  • News and notes
  • Features and admins
  • Technology report
  • Arbitration report

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