Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-09/Features and admins

Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: CapitalR (nom), Horologium (nom), Peteforsyth (nom), Daniel J. Leivick (nom), and Philosopher (nom).

Bots
Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: AndersBot (task request), Ginosbot (task request), Addbot (task request), LaaknorBot (task request), Addbot (task request), FiriBot (task request), and LinkFA-Bot (task request).

Featured pages
Twelve 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:.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Prince's Palace of Monaco, BAE Systems, Anabolic steroids, Discovery Expedition, Satyajit Ray, The Third of May 1808, and Huldrych Zwingli.

Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted last week: and.

No lists were delisted last week.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Northern Elephant Seals, Steam turbine, American Black Vulture, Trepanation, Alten Strom canal in Warnemünde, Caterpillar of Spurge Hawk-moth and Upper Antelope Canyon.

No sounds were featured last week.

No featured pictures were demoted last week.

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