Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Features and admins

Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Hersfold (nom), Hurricanehink (nom), DeadEyeArrow (nom), Doug (nom), and Aleta (nom).

Bots
Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: STBotI (task request), SoxBot IV (task request), John Bot (task request), ClueBot II (task request), Bikabot (task request), Erwin85Bot (task request), and FlagBot (task request).

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

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

No topic was promoted to featured status last week.

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

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico, Paleolithic-style diet, Surfer Rosa, Reese Witherspoon and Freedom Monument.

Former featured pages
Six articles were delisted recently: ,, , , and.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Hereford, Fissure vent, Magpie-goose, USS Franklin, Catrina, Tagus River and First Battle of Grozny.

One featured picture was demoted: Image:Prokaryote cell diagram.svg.

No sounds were featured last week.

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