Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-21/Features and admins

Administrators
Six users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: John Carter (nom), Sarcasticidealist (nom), Keeper76 (nom),  Sephiroth BCR (nom), Islander (nom), and Victuallers (nom).

Bots
Four bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: JJBot (task request), Muro_Bot (task request), Alaibot (task request), and MercuryBot (task request).

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

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

Four portals were featured last week:, , , and.

No topics or sounds were featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Reign in Blood, Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act, John Day (printer), SR Merchant Navy Class, Tuck School of Business, Jack Sheppard, and Bruno Maddox.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Japanese garden, Eastern Screech Owl, Fuel dumping, Vitruvian Man, Vibrating beam, Iapetus, and World Trade Center complex aftermath.

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