Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-02-19/Features and admins

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=Administrators=

Eleven users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Cuchullain (nom), Hu12 (nom), Riana dzasta (nom), VegaDark (nom), Persian Poet Gal (nom), Heimstern (nom), ShadowHalo (nom), Zzuuzz (nom), Delldot (nom), Llama man (nom), and Heligoland (nom).

=Featured content=

Eleven articles were promoted to featured status last week: {{foa|Delhi}}, {{foa|Roman-Spartan War}}, {{foa|Jenna Jameson}}, {{foa|Military brat (U.S. subculture)}}, {{foa|Thomas Playford IV}}, {{foa|Law}}, {{foa|Bill Russell}}, {{foa|John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough}}, {{foa|Solar System}}, {{foa|Maserati MC12}}, and {{foa|2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone}}.

Six articles were de-featured last week: Flag of South Africa, Baseball, Marilyn Manson (band), Oakland Cemetery, British East India Company, and Igor Stravinsky.

Three lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Florida hurricanes (pre-1900), United States Navy enlisted rate insignia, and List of X-Men episodes.

One sound was promoted to featured status last week: {{Audio|BuxWV 104 - Was frag ich nach der Welt.ogg|title=A chantar m'er|Was frag ich nach der Welt}}.

One topic was promoted to featured status last week: Michigan State University.

Five portals were promoted to featured status this month: Portal:Physics, Portal:Military of Australia, Portal:Ukraine, Portal:Hinduism, and Portal:Utah. Portal:Hinduism became the 50th featured portal; Portal:Utah, the most recently promoted portal, was featured portal #51.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: DNA, California Gold Rush, Charles Atangana, Flag of Lithuania, Polar coordinate system, Sly & the Family Stone, and The Four Stages of Cruelty.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Curculionidae, Lantana, Göttingen, Acarina, Zabriskie Point, Erg Chebbi, and Achilles.

Five pictures were promoted to featured status last week:

Image:Lilac-Chaser.gif|Lilac chaser

Image:Smithsonian Building NR.jpg|Smithsonian Institution Building

Image:B-2 Spirit original.jpg|B-2 Spirit

Image:Jack plug.png|Jack plug

Image:Common Eggfly02 - melbourne zoo.jpg|Hypolimnas bolina

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Also this week: From the editor