Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-12-26/Features and admins

Administrators
Three users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Dina (nom), Canadian-Bacon (nom), and Agathoclea (nom).

Featured content
Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Bodyline, Hero of Belarus, Kinetoscope, 1995 Pacific hurricane season, Rus' Khaganate, Kitsune, Brabham, Hurricane Erika (2003), Cell nucleus, Charles Darwin, The Boondock Saints, Sei Whale, Hoysala Empire, and Tiridates I of Armenia.

Hero of Belarus was previously a featured article, but was de-featured in June before regaining its featured status this week.

No articles were de-featured last week.

One portal reached featured status last week: Portal:Business and Economics.

Nine lists were featured last week: List of Metal Gear Solid characters, List of Newfoundland and Labrador general elections, List of Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II, Towns of Alberta, List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition, List of Dartmouth College alumni, List of retired Pacific hurricane names, List of Baja California Peninsula hurricanes, and List of English Football League managers by date of appointment.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Manila Metro Rail Transit System, Muhammad Iqbal, Kengir uprising, Selena, British African-Caribbean community, Torchic, Banksia brownii, and Clement of Dunblane.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Plant cell, Supermarine Spitfire, Cerro de la Silla, gallop, Orthetrum caledonicum, European Squid, Washington Monument, and Crab Nebula.

Two pictures were featured last week: