Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-14/Features and admins



This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 5 – Friday 11 March

Administrators
The week saw no new admins. At the time of publication there are two live RfAs: JaGa, due to finish Wednesday 16 March and My76Strat, due to finish Tuesday 15 March.

Featured articles
There were no new featured articles. Two featured articles were delisted:
 * Deconstructivism (nom: referencing, comprehensiveness)
 * Third Battle of Kharkov (nom: referencing, comprehensiveness and neutrality)

Featured pictures
Five images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
 * A greyhound racing (nom; related article), illustrating the full extension stage of the double suspension gallop gait. (Created by User:AngMoKio; picture at top.)
 * Great Knot (nom; related article), a bird whose breeding habitat is in the northeast Siberian tundra and is strongly migratory; this one was taken in Thailand. Reviewer Muhammad commented: "amazing if taken from a boat". Photographer User:JJ Harrison said that about four out of five shots of this bird were sharp: "the IS/Tripod probably helped, and the swell was not huge. The movement made it more difficult to keep the camera on target."
 * Marine Iguana (nom; related article), a brightly coloured individual of a subspecies found only on Española Island in the Galapagos. Photographer User:Benjamint444 said "my understanding is that the iguanas found on Espanola are brightly colored all year round because of the concentrated pigments in their diet."
 * Ronald Reagan (nom; related article), 40th President of the United States. (Unknown author and digitally restored by Peter Weis.)
 * Swallow tail in flight (nom; related article), an equatorial seabird in the gull family. It spends most of its life flying and hunting over the open ocean at night; this is the only fully nocturnal gull and seabird in the world. This adaptation is explained by their diet: squid and small fish which rise to the surface at night to feed on plankton. (Created by User:Benjamint444.)

Featured sounds



 * Schubert's Octet D803 (nom) (related article), composed in 1824 and of almost an hour's duration. Here, it is performed on period instruments by Monica Hugget (director and violin 1), Rob Diggins (violin 2), Vicki Gunn (viola), Sarah Freiberg (cello), Curtis Daily (double bass), William McColl (clarinet), RJ Kelley (horn), and Charles Kaufmann (bassoon).
 * Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 10, No. 3, First Movement (nom) (related article), composed in 1798 and performed in November 2008 by User:La Pianista

Featured picture retrospective
A map created by Fallschirmjäger won high praise from the reviewers last week, when we had little room to spare at F and A. We don't see many featured maps, so we've taken the unusual step of displaying it this week.

[[File:Painted Turtle Distribution alternate.svg|thumb|center|600px|

Native range of the painted turtle (C. picta).

{{legend|#e96969|border=1px solid #e96969|Eastern (C. p. picta)}} {{legend|#e9b669|border=1px solid #e9b669|Midland (C. p. marginata)}} {{legend|#9ce99c|border=1px solid #9ce99c|Southern (C. p. dorsalis)}} {{legend|#6982e9|border=1px solid #6982e9|Western (C. p. bellii)}}

Intergrade mixtures (large areas only) {{legend|#f48134|border=1px solid #f48134|Mix of eastern and midland}} {{legend|#a7b467|border=1px solid #a7b467|Mix of eastern and southern}} {{legend|#b48e74|border=1px solid #b48e74|Mix of midland and western}} ]]