Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-10-13/Features and admins

Administrators
Seven users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Thingg (nom), Ameliorate! (nom), Lazulilasher (nom), Xymmax (nom), Ale jrb (nom), Jac16888 (nom), and JPG-GR (nom).

Bots
Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: MPUploadBot (task request), STBot (task request), ArticleAlertbot (task request), Nomenclaturebrowser (task request), TinucherianBot II (task request), OKBot (task request), MifterBot I (task request), and AnomieBOT (task request).

MPUploadBot is an administrative bot that continuously searches for images included on the Main Page, and if the images are on Wikimedia Commons and unprotected, the bot uploads a copy of the image locally, and protects it for the duration of its usage on the Main Page. After it is removed from the main page, the bot deletes the local copy.

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

Eighteen lists were promoted to featured status this week:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

With the eighteen lists promoted this week, the number of featured lists has exceeded 1,000; as of press time, there are 1,006 featured lists.

One topic was promoted to featured status this week:.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Midtown Madness, Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, Massospondylus, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Cleveland Street scandal, Grass Fight, and Trafford.

Former featured pages
Four articles were delisted over the last week:, , , and.

No lists or topics were delisted this week.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Crepuscular rays, Dungeness crab, Arches National Park, Geocentric model of the universe, Tristan und Isolde, Charles Griffin, and Culex mosquitoes.

Five sounds were featured this week:

One additional sound had been promoted last week, but was accidentally left out of the list:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Eleven pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.