Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-31/Features and admins

Administrators
No editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week.

Bots
Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Bot0612 (task request), LivingBot (task request), XLinkBot (task request), Yobot (task request), ProcseeBot (task request), Philosopher-Bot (task request) and SoxBot III (task request).

ProcseeBot is a bot with an administrator flag. The bot collects lists of public open proxies, checks that they are world-usable, and if they are, it blocks them.

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

Twenty-two lists were promoted to featured status this week:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

One topic was promoted to featured status this week:.

One portal was promoted to featured status this week:.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Banksia ericifolia, Hurricane Dog, Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état, Scout Moor Wind Farm, Music of Athens, Georgia, Samuel Johnson and Woodes Rogers.

Former featured pages
One article was delisted this week:.

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: Australian Wood Duck, 1806 Submarine design, Bingham Canyon Mine, Red-eyed tree frog, F-22 Raptors, 1775 Map of Boston and Dogcart.

Three media files were featured this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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