Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-15/Features and admins

Administrators
Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Aarktica (nom), AA (nom), The Placebo Effect (nom), RedirectCleanupBot (nom) (see related story), Jehochman (nom), Alasdair (nom), Blood Red Sandman (nom) and Dfrg.msc (nom).

Bots
Nine bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Maelgwnbot (task request), CounterVandalismBot (task request), Giggabot (task request), DusterBot (task request), Detroiterbot (task request), CapitalBot (task request), RedirectCleanupBot (task request) (see related story), NeraBot (task request), and GracenotesBot (task request).

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

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

No portals or sounds were featured last week.

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

Two pictures were de-featured last week:, and

No lists, portals, topics, or sounds were de-featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Night of the Long Knives, William Shakespeare, The Smashing Pumpkins, Intelligent design, Knights Templar, Battleship, and Donkey Kong (video game).

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Thespsis, Dust Bowl, Sami, Military Camouflage, Soyuz TMA-9, Compass Rose, and Portland, Oregon.

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