Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-18/Features and admins

Administrators
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Rlendog (nom).

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

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

No topics were 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 as Today's featured article this week: Splendid Fairywren, Ganymede, The Dark Side of the Moon, Emery Molyneux, Solomon P. Sharp, Ketogenic diet and Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins.

Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted this week:, and.

No lists were delisted this week.

One topic was delisted this week: X-Men films (nom).

No portals were delisted this week.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Illustration of relative astronomical orders of magnitude, Light-mantled Albatross, 1890s photochrom of the quay at Waterford, Ireland, Peter Levy, Castle Geyser, Snipe fly and Onna yu, a late-eighteenth century Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print.

Two featured sounds were promoted this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.