Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-24/Features and admins

Administrators
Four editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: R'n'B (nom), PeterSymonds (nom), Geni (nom) and Kanonkas (nom).

PeterSymonds and Geni were both former administrators who were desysopped by ArbCom.

Bots
Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: DirlBot (task request), LivingBot (task request), AntiAbuseBot (task request), Rubinbot (task request), Bot0612 (task request), GhalyBot (task request), LivingBot (task request) and Arbitrarily0Bot (task request).

AntiAbuseBot is a bot with an administrator flag that monitors RC feeds for known vandal patterns, and takes appropriate administrator measures.

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

Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week:, , , , , and. Two topics were promoted to featured status this week: and.

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

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Edgar Allan Poe, Washington, D.C., Ants, Lost: Missing Pieces, Susianna Kentikian, SS Ohioan and Adolfo Farsari.

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

One list was delisted this week:.

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Sophie Blanchard, Barack Obama, Video summarizing the end of the Adolf Eichmann trial, Lohengrin, Ziegler Polar Expedition, Snipe fly and Staten Island Ferry.

Two media files were featured this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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