Wikipedia:Goings-on/August 8, 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 8, 2010
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New featured content
Articles that gained featured status
 * Statue of Liberty (13 Aug)
 * Tower of London (13 Aug)
 * Pipistrellus raceyi (13 Aug)
 * Hurricane Guillermo (1997) (13 Aug)
 * Robert Catesby (13 Aug)
 * Stan Musial (13 Aug)
 * Brill Tramway (13 Aug)
 * Courageous class battlecruiser (13 Aug)
 * SMS König (13 Aug)

Lists that gained featured status
 * List of Florida Marlins first-round draft picks (8 Aug)
 * List of outlying islands of Scotland (8 Aug)
 * Listed buildings in Rivington (8 Aug)
 * 1988 Winter Olympics medal table (12 Aug)
 * List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champions (13 Aug)
 * List of battleships of Austria-Hungary (13 Aug)

Pictures that gained featured status
 * Common clam worm (8 Aug)
 * Mimas (8 Aug)
 * Diatomaceous earth (8 Aug)
 * Mantoux tuberculin skin test (8 Aug)
 * Louis-Marie Autissier (8 Aug)
 * Eastern Barred Bandicoot (9 Aug)
 * Sydney Ferry (12 Aug)
 * Squilla mantis (13 Aug)
 * Peter Ustinov (13 Aug)
 * Lambis truncata (14 Aug)

Portals that gained featured status

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status


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