Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-14/Features and admins

Administrators
Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: J-stan (nom), Canley (nom), Kbthompson (nom),  Appraiser (nom), Archtransit (nom), Jayron32 (nom), Rudget (nom), and Jeepday (nom).

Bots
Three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: JMuniBot (task request), RFRBot (task request), and MonoBot (task request).

Featured pages
No articles were promoted to featured status last week.

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

Two portals were featured last week: and.

One topic was featured last week:.

No sounds were featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Chicxulub Crater, Swedish emigration to the United States, Oregon State Capitol, Boshin War, Trembling Before G-d, 2007 UEFA Champions League Final and British anti-invasion preparations of World War II.

Former featured pages
One topic was delisted last week:


 * - Nominated on December 17, 2007 by Arctic.Gnome Was promoted on February 16, 2007. Concerns included some articles being only B-Class, and a not comprehensive selection of articles. Topic was delisted January 12.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: EIAJ connector, White-crowned Sparrow, SS American Star, Cirsium arvense, Full Moon, Eristalis tenax, and neutrophil granulocyte

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