Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-04/Features and admins

Administrators
Nine users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Lquilter (nom), Hdt83 (nom), LAX (nom), Pb30 (nom), CIreland (nom), Rjd0060 (nom), Ultraexactzz (nom), Happy-melon (nom), and Melesse (nom).

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

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

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

One topic was featured last week:.

Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: and.

No sounds were featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Archimedes, "Manos" The Hands of Fate, Aikido, "Through the Looking Glass", Knut, and Las Meninas.

Former featured pages
One article was delisted recently:

No list or portal was demoted.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Lillian Gish, Senegal Wattled Plover, Sieve of Eratosthenes, Frederick Douglass, The Princess, Mauthausen-Gusen, and Rosie the Riveter.

One featured picture was demoted: Meissner effect (nom)

Thirteen pictures and one video were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.