Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-06/Features and admins

Administrators
Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Awiseman (nom), Raymond arritt (nom), Caknuck (nom), Calliopejen1 (nom), Tabercil (nom), Marasmusine (nom), Angelo.romano (nom) and DarkFalls (nom).

Bots
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: WikiBotas (task request), PipepBot (task request), Scsbot (task request), JL-Bot (task request), ImageRemovalBot (task request) and STBotI (task request).

Featured content
Thirty-three articles were promoted to featured status last week:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  and.

Two articles were de-featured last week: Trench warfare (nom) and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (nom).

Five lists were promoted to featured status last week:, , ,  and.

No lists were de-featured last week.

No portals, topics or sounds were promoted to featured status last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: École Polytechnique massacre, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Supernova, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, Mauna Loa and European Parliament.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Cleveland tower, Territorial evolution of Mexico, Fashion photograph by Toni Frissell, Antennae Galaxies, Marines operating the M198 howitzer, Eden Project and Atlantic Bobtail.

Two pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.