Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-01/Features and admins

Administrators
Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Fabrictramp (nom), Ronnotel (nom), SQL (nom), Bearian (nom), Danaman5 (nom), Metropolitan90 (nom), JForget (nom), Kicking222 (nom), and Recurring dreams (nom).

Bots
Two bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Ficbot (task request), and BOTijo (task request).

Featured content
Sixteen articles were promoted to featured status last week:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

Four articles were de-featured last week:, , , and.

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

No lists were de-featured last week.

No portals were promoted to featured status last week.

Two topics were featured last week:, and.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre, Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, Pilot (Smallville), Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, Trade and usage of saffron, Ernest Emerson, and House with Chimaeras.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Philippine-American War, Wilson's Snipe, Barbary Macaque, Hyperion (moon), Lassen Volcanic National Park, British Columbia Parliament Building, and Slavery in the United States.

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