Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-06-12/Features and admins

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2|{{{1|Features and admins}}}|By RoyBoy}}

=Administrators=

Seven users were granted admin status last week: Staxringold (nom), Richardcavell (nom), Philip Baird Shearer (nom), Ben W Bell (nom), Kukini (nom), Ganeshk (nom) and Gurch (nom).

=Featured content=

Eight articles were featured last week: {{foa|Stuyvesant High School|June 2006}}, {{foa|Football (soccer)|June 2006}}, {{foa|Iranian peoples|June 2006}}, {{foa|Battle of Midway|June 2006}}, {{foa|Watchmen|June 2006}}, {{foa|Binary star|June 2006}}, {{foa|Dog Day Afternoon|June 2006}} and {{foa|Torchic|June 2006}}. The promotion of Iranian peoples brought the list of Wikipedia:Featured articles up to 1,000 articles (see related story).

One article was de-featured last week: Breastfeeding.

Four lists reached featured list status last week: List of New Jersey hurricanes, List of Anuran families, List of Fullmetal Alchemist episodes and List of The Simpsons episodes.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Keratoconus, Krazy Kat, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, FIFA World Cup, USS Wisconsin (BB-64), Red vs Blue and Søren Kierkegaard.

These were the pictures of the day last week: Radiolarians, Mushroom, Nevado Alpamayo, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Euro, Grand Central Terminal and Hanko, Finland.

Ten pictures reached featured picture status last week:

Image:Plant cell structure-en.svg|Plant cell

Image:Litoria phyllochroa.JPG|Leaf Green Tree Frog

Image:Snail-WA edit02.jpg|White-lipped snail

Image:Lower Manhattan from Staten Island Ferry Corrected Jan 2006.jpg|Lower Manhattan

Image:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg|San Francisco earthquake

Image:Old saint pauls 2.jpg|Old Saint Paul's

Image:Georgia Aquarium - Giant Grouper.jpg|Giant grouper