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By Tony1 and Wackywace
The Australian Eastern Rosella, among the new featured pictures this week

Administrators

Two editors were promoted to adminship:

  • Fetchcomms (nom) has been with us since last October and has already made 27,000 edits, half of them to unique pages. Fetchcomms has 14 DYK hooks and two good articles, and helps new Wikipedians, dealing with real-time assistance in #wikipedia-en-help and responding to on-site "helpme" requests.
  • MGA73 (nom) is an admin and CU on the Danish Wikipedia, an admin on Commons, and an OTRS volunteer. Much of MGA's work involves cleaning up the large backlog of images and other content on the Commons and the English Wikipedia.

Nine articles were promoted to featured status:

Evelyn Waugh, at the height of his career as a novelist
Choice of the week: The Signpost asked FA nominator and reviewer Wehwalt to select his number-one for the week. "I reviewed Evelyn Waugh's The Temple at Thatch and recommend it. I'm not an early 20th century literature buff, but not only is this well written and interesting but it will be very useful for someone wanting (or needing!) information on this rather specialized topic. And then he can take the references and go further. That's what Wikipedia is all about."

Three featured articles were delisted:

Nine lists were promoted to featured status:

Choice of the week: We asked delegate and reviewer The Rambling Man for his opinion. "Two choices actually, for different reasons. The List of New York Yankees no-hitters, nominated by regular contributor Staxringold, exemplifies what FLC nominations should be about: it's notable, meets pretty much all of the criteria, it's interesting (even to a non-baseball enthusiast such as me), and it took little adjustment to get the green light from reviewers. Secondly, and equally important, is Sandman888's List of FC Barcelona presidents. Here was a nominator who took on a great deal of advice, including two peer reviews, made changes swiftly and diligently, and we now have a great list."

Climbing ferns overtake cypress trees, in the Everglades, a new featured topic
Three topics were promoted to featured status:

One featured topic, Canadian election timelines, was delisted, for want of progress in promoting constituent articles.

Six images were promoted:

Tungsten rods with evaporated crystals, partially oxidized with colorful tarnish. Purity 99.98%, as well as a 99.999%-pure 1 cm3 tungsten cube.
Choice of the week: J Milburn, a regular reviewer and nominator at featured picture candidates, told The Signpost, "Evaporated tungsten crystals, fragments, and cube is another fantastic photo from Alchemist-hp, who has provided many high-quality images of elements, and has more to come. This was a particularly interesting one in terms of composition and texture, to my eyes, and passed without controversy. I also adored Clavaria zollingeri, also known as "Violet coral", as a weird and wonderful example from the world of fungi, but I don't make any secret about my love of mushrooms, so I don't think that would be the most impartial choice from me!"
User:FrancisTyers was on the spot after the 2005 London bombings, and photographed the chaos at Russell Square. The image is at the Terrorism Portal.
Portal:Terrorism was promoted, the first new featured portal since April.

Video on the Main Page

The July 2009 Ürümqi riots, featured on Monday's Main Page, was accompanied by a video—something rarely seen with TFAs—captured on a Wikipedian's cell-phone. Among the other TFA highlights were:

  • The 1930 FIFA World Cup, the inaugural FIFA World Cup championship, which appeared on Sunday to coincide with the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.
  • Gustav Mahler, the late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation, which appeared on Wednesday. The article describes him as "one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century".
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The new format is great, very interesting. Sasata (talk) 22:16, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can see the headline now: "Wikipedia promotes Terrorism!!! Oh, the humanity!" bahamut0013wordsdeeds 00:05, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then I must be the one who promoted it (no pun intended) OhanaUnitedTalk page 12:41, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

+Delighted by the new format (and not just by the mention of my name). Thanks to the writers for the effort they've put into it. MartinPoulter (talk) 17:44, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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