Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-08/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Taelus (nom) and Calmer Waters (nom).
Featured pages
Ten articles were promoted to featured status this week: Umbriel (moon) (nom), Chadderton (nom), Aaliyah (nom), Subway (Homicide: Life on the Street) (nom), Rumours (nom), Takalik Abaj (nom), Alexander Pentland (nom), L'ange de Nisida (nom), Panellus stipticus (nom) and The Green Child (nom).
Twelve lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of Copenhagen Metro stations (nom), List of Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball seasons (nom), List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines) (nom), List of UTA TRAX stations (nom), List of Governors of New Jersey (nom), List of IIHF World Under-20 Championship players for Canada (nom), United States Secretary of Transportation (nom), Black Eyed Peas discography (nom), Bodley's Librarian (nom), Providence Grays all-time roster (nom), List of National League pennant winners (nom) and List of Boston Red Sox first-round draft picks (nom).
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 as Today's featured article this week: "Bale Out", Marshalsea, Wii Sports, GRB 970508, Ghosts I–IV, Carucage and Roman–Persian Wars.
Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted this week: Turkish literature (nom) and Karen Dotrice (nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
No topics were delisted this week.
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: Brighton, Ottoman camel corps before the First Suez Offensive of World War I, New Holland Honeyeater, Passionfruit, Babe Ruth, Quarterback and Morchella conica.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
-
Supply airdrop in Haiti after the 2010 Haiti earthquake
-
A WWI Australian military encampment on Mount Olivet and Mount Scopus near Jerusalem, 1918
-
Lithograph depicting injured soldiers during the Crimean War
Discuss this story