Wikipedia:Goings-on/August 16, 2009

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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 (i.e. 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 16, 2009
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New featured content
Articles that gained featured status
 * Ancient Egyptian literature (August 18)
 * Big Star (band) (August 18)
 * Convoy GP55 (August 18)
 * Keith Johnson (cricket administrator) (August 18)
 * John Lerew (August 18)
 * Lisa the Vegetarian (August 18)
 * James Newland (August 18)
 * Operation Charnwood (August 18)
 * Samlesbury witches (August 18)
 * Synthetic diamond (August 18)
 * To Autumn (August 18)
 * Fungus (August 22)
 * Hurricane Bob (1985) (August 22)
 * James Nesbitt (August 22)

Lists that gained featured status
 * List of new churches by John Douglas (August 18)
 * List of 250cc Motorcycle World Champions (August 18)
 * National Film Registry (August 18)
 * Order of battle at the Battle of San Domingo (August 18)

Pictures that gained featured status
 * Shaggy parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes) (16 August)
 * Silver (16 August)
 * Bromine liquid and gas (in an acryllic cube) (16 August)
 * Mussel anatomy (16 August)
 * The death of John Quincy Adams (17 August)
 * Pegesimallus sp. robberfly eating a captured beetle (17 August)
 * Smokey quartz (17 August)
 * Azurite (17 August)
 * Belfast, 1980s (17 August)
 * Pride and Prejudice (17 August)
 * Dún Laoghaire photochrom (18 August)
 * William Henry Smith political cartoon (18 August)
 * The Story of The Mikado (19 August)
 * Cracticus tibicen tibicen (19 August)
 * Amethyst (20 August)
 * Malachite crystals, Zaire (20 August)
 * Creedite minerals (20 August)
 * Derwent Water near Keswick, Cumbria (20 August)
 * Illustration to Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband (22 August)
 * Canna hybrida (22 August)
 * Illustration to Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost by Wallace Goldsmith (22 August)
 * Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, Lancashire, England (22 August)
 * The Coronation of Napoleon, by Jacques-Louis David (22 August)
 * Parliament House, Canberra, Australia (22 August)

Portals that gained featured status

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status
 * The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (21 August)


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