Wikipedia:Goings-on/December 28, 2008

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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, December 28, 2008
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New featured content
Articles that gained featured status
 * Plutonium (December 31)
 * Wail al-Shehri (December 31)
 * Gerard K. O'Neill (December 31)
 * Solomon P. Sharp (December 31)
 * Vithoba (December 31)
 * 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix (December 31)
 * Over the Edge (1999) (December 31)
 * Georges Vézina (December 31)
 * Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (December 31)
 * Arena Active Protection System (December 31)
 * Wonder Stories (December 31)
 * Meet Kevin Johnson (December 31)
 * Benjamin Harrison (January 3)
 * Lockdown (2008) (January 3)
 * The Simpsons Game (January 3)
 * Tetrarch (tank) (January 3)

Lists that gained featured status
 * BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award (December 30)
 * List of tallest buildings in Vancouver (December 30)
 * List of United States Presidents who died in office (December 30)
 * List of Baltimore Orioles managers (December 30)
 * List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 1996, 1997 and 1998 (December 30)

Pictures that gained featured status Portals that gained featured status
 * Common bluetail damselfly (Ischnura heterosticta)
 * Chrysomya albiceps feeding on meat
 * Watercolour of Bethlehem Steel works
 * Houseflies Musca domestica mating
 * Alstroemeria aurantiaca
 * Sprekelia formosissima, Sometimes called the "Aztec lily"
 * Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, original site
 * A Brush for the Lead
 * White House architectural plan
 * Dublin Rail Network map
 * Strickland Falls, Tasmania taken with ND filter
 * Keble College Chapel
 * Common brown robberflies mating
 * Gazania rigens var. rigens
 * Hypericum calycinum
 * Aquilegia columbine magpie cultivar
 * Asiatic hybrid lilium stereogram

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status
 * Spanish Tanks (29 December)
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