Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/Features and admins

Administrators
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: S@bre (nom) and Amalthea (nom).

Bots
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Addbot (task request), LivingBot (task request), Addbot (task request), Thehelpfulbot (task request), Thehelpfulbot (task request) and anybot (task request).

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

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

Four topics were promoted to featured status this week:, , and.

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: Order of the Thistle, Third Battle of Kharkov, Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, University of California, Riverside, USS Connecticut and Plutonium.

Former featured pages
Three 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: Harriet Tubman, Vaccine controversy, Reduviidae, The Taming of the Shrew, Ramallah woman, Discovery of the Land.

Three media files were featured this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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