Wikipedia:Goings-on/August 15, 2010

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Wikipedia always has a lot going on. This page is for news and updates about existing or new projects or initiatives of Wikipedians (e.g. new Collaboration articles, WikiProject help requests or announcements of success, backlogs that really need help, etc.)


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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, August 15, 2010
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New featured content
Articles that gained featured status
 * Ricketts Glen State Park (15 Aug)
 * Silky Sifaka (15 Aug)
 * Stephens City, Virginia (15 Aug)
 * National Anthem of Russia (15 Aug)
 * Underground Electric Railways Company of London (15 Aug)
 * Bull Run River (Oregon) (16 Aug)
 * Whitechapel murders (18 Aug)
 * Royal National College for the Blind (18 Aug)
 * Mount Cayley volcanic field (18 Aug)
 * "Road to the Multiverse" (18 Aug)
 * 90377 Sedna (18 Aug)
 * Mark Tonelli (18 Aug)
 * Acra (fortress) (18 Aug)
 * Rosetta Stone (18 Aug)
 * Thomasomys ucucha (20 Aug)
 * Charles Domery (20 Aug)
 * Hotel Chevalier (20 Aug)

Lists that gained featured status
 * 1992 Winter Olympics medal table (16 Aug)
 * Hugo Award for Best Related Work (17 Aug)
 * List of Watford F.C. seasons (17 Aug)
 * Kelly Rowland discography (17 Aug)
 * List of Colorado Rockies first-round draft picks (20 Aug)
 * Friends of Friendless Churches (20 Aug)
 * Timeline of the 1990–91 South Pacific cyclone season (20 Aug)
 * List of accolades received by Up in the Air (20 Aug)
 * List of number-one singles from the 1980s (UK) (20 Aug)
 * List of FC Barcelona records and statistics (21 Aug)

Pictures that gained featured status
 * Eastern Bettong (15 Aug)
 * Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull cast (15 Aug)
 * Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling (15 Aug)
 * Atlantic spadefish (15 Aug)
 * Freiburg im Breisgau (17 Aug)
 * Crystalline Dolomite and Magnesite (17 Aug)
 * Ford Focus RS WRC (17 Aug)
 * Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (17 Aug)
 * Nembrotha lineolata (18 Aug)
 * Vertical replenishment (18 Aug)
 * Space Shuttle Atlantis launches (18 Aug)
 * Space Shuttle Atlantis launches (side view) (18 Aug)
 * Humpty Dumpty (19 Aug)
 * Specimen from a palaeontological site of Lebanon (19 Aug)
 * Messier 81 (19 Aug)
 * Atelopus certus (20 Aug)
 * Chthamalus stellatus (20 Aug)
 * Calvin Borel (21 Aug)
 * Solar flare (21 Aug)
 * Whirlpool Galaxy (21 Aug)
 * The Face on Mars (21 Aug)

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