Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-29/Features and admins

Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Carlosguitar (nom), Carcharoth (nom), Pats1 (nom), Kane5187 (nom), and KieferSkunk (nom).

Bots
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: ArkyBot (task request), Giggabot (task request), Erwin85Bot (task request), MadmanBot (task request), Estirabot (task request), and Mgmbot (task request).

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

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

One portal was promoted to featured status last week:

No sounds were featured last week.

Two 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: El Al, Cardinal-nephew, 2000 Sri Lanka cyclone, Bob Meusel, Siege of Malakand, Shen Kuo, and Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Blackbird, First Telegraph, William Tecumseh Sherman, Melbourne Docks, Quicksort, Mouse Spider, and Yellow Warbler.

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