Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-03/Features and admins

Administrators
Ten editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process since last issue: Dank55 (nom), Dravecky (nom), Efe (nom), It Is Me Here (nom), Sgeureka (nom), Wehwalt (nom), Icewedge  (nom), Lustiger seth (nom), AniMate (nom) and GrahamColm (nom).

Bots
Twenty-three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating since last issue: DirlBot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), Legobot (task request), ShepBot (task request), GrouchoBot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), Legobot (task request), Numbo3-bot (task request), OrophinBot (task request), DavidWSBot (task request), Muro Bot (task request), ProtectionTaggingBot (task request), Addbot (task request), DYKBot (task request), Simplebot (task request), XLerateBot (task request), SassoBot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), PDFbot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), RibotBOT (task request) and NobelBot (task request).

Featured pages
Fifty-three articles were promoted to featured status since last issue:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

Seventy lists were promoted to featured status since last issue:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

Eighteen topics were promoted to featured status since last issue:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

Three portals were promoted to featured status since last issue:, and.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page since last issue as Today's featured article: St Kilda, Scotland, Amateur radio in India, Frank Zappa, Interstate 70 in Utah, Emmeline Pankhurst, USS Nevada (BB-36), Elaine Paige, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, Olivier Messiaen, 2008 Men's Olympics road race, Mana series, Albert Speer, Riverina, Getting It: The psychology of est, LaRouche criminal trials, Latter Days, United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, Clem Hill, Richard Hawes, Equipartition theorem, Sunderland Echo, Preity Zinta, Rings of Uranus, Robert Sterling Yard, Thespis, Battle of Shiloh, Elizabeth Needham, Thylacine, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Richard Cordray and The Guardian of Education.

Former featured pages
Eight articles were delisted since last issue:, , , , , ,  and.

No topics were delisted since last issue.

Three lists were delisted since last issue:, and.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page since the last issue as picture of the day: North Face of Mount Everest, Head of a blow-fly, A sadhu, Trial by Jury, Lesser yellolegs, Hoodoo formations in the Pink Cliffs, Prime knots, Shanty town, Political cartoon of American President Andrew Jackson, Drupe, Golf bunker, Mayfly, Schematic of a tank, Emperor penguin, Tunnel rats, Geothermal areas of Yellowstone National Park, Australian Red Cross, Video of Polar Bear Cub Nursing, Pegnitz River, Female Marmalade Fly, Olympus Mons, Aerial Lithograph of Phoenix, Arizona, Squadron of C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft, Reindeer, Engraving of Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Saint-Chély-du-Tarn, Roasted Coffee Beans, Goat, Large Bee Fly, Champagne Pool, Ceaseran Section, Video of Lunar Transit, AV-8B Harrier II and Skyscrapers of Canary Wharf.

No sounds were featured since last issue.

Two featured pictures were demoted since the last issue: Ladybird and 433 eros.

Thirty-five pictures were promoted to featured status since the last issue and are shown below.