Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-08/Features and admins

Administrators
Three users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process over the last two weeks: Malcolmxl5 (nom), Lankiveil (nom), and Smashville (nom).

In addition, two users were granted bureaucrat status: Dweller (nom) and Bibliomaniac15 (nom).

Bots
Sixteen bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating over the last two weeks: Addbot (task request), Addbot (task request), Legobot (task request), J Milburn Bot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AilurophobiaBot (task request), Erwin85Bot (task request), TinucherianBot (task request), Mr.Z-bot (task request), SusBot (task request), AloysiusLiliusBot (task request), SamuraiBot (task request), Janna (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), and Chris G Bot (task request).

Featured pages
Thirty-three articles were promoted to featured status over the last two weeks:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

Eleven lists were promoted to featured status over the last two weeks:, , , , , , , , , , and.

Four topics were promoted to featured status over the last two weeks:, , , and.

The following featured articles were displayed over the last two weeks on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Diary of a Camper, The Penelopiad, Donald Bradman, Kaziranga National Park, Walter de Coventre, Local Government Commission for England, Dartmouth College, Leo Ornstein, Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081), Pendle witch trials, Emmy Noether, Calgary Flames, Alanya, and Domestic sheep.

Former featured pages
Six articles were delisted over the last two weeks:, , , , , and.

No lists or topics were delisted over the last two weeks.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed over the last two weeks on the Main Page as picture of the day: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pigment, Monarch butterfly, Study (drawing), Devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, Rigger, Bearded Vulture, Tablet press, Palestinian costume, Mont Blanc, Refraction, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Nectar robbing, and Casa Milà.

A record breaking thirty-five sounds were featured over the last two weeks: The Star-Spangled Banner (nom), Au Clair de la Lune (1860) (nom), Papua New Guinean Mask Dance (nom),  Neville Chamberlain announces Britain is at war (nom), Statement by the President in his Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001 (nom), Balkandji - Diavolska shterka (nom), Chegou a hora da fogueira (nom), Alô... Alô? (nom), Oppaneun punggakjaengi (오빠는 풍각쟁이) (nom), Skye Boat Song (nom), Ten Biblical Songs (nom), Maple Leaf Rag (nom).

Set of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: 1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement (nom)

Set of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Spring - 1st movement, Spring - 2nd movement, Spring - 3nd movement, Summer - 1st movement, Summer - 2nd movement, Summer - 3rd movement, Autumn - 1st movement, Autumn - 2nd movement, Autumn - 3rd movement, Winter - 1st movement, Winter - 2nd movement, and Winter - 3rd movement (nom)

Set of Schubert's Impromptu in B flat (D. 935/3; Op. 142 No. 3): Theme, Variation I, Variation II, Variation III, Variation IV to Variation VI Complete version (nom)

Set of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101 Movement I, Movement II, and Movements III and IV (nom),

No featured pictures were demoted this week. Twenty-three pictures were promoted to featured status over the last two weeks and are shown below.