Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/Features and admins

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2 |{{{1|Features and admins}}}|By Sr13}}

=Administrators=

Seven users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Melburnian (nom), carlossuarez46 (nom), ST47 (nom), DerHexer (nom), Philippe (nom), Stephan Schulz (nom) and MoRsE (nom)

=Bots=

Two bots bot tasks were approved to begin operating or begin performing a new task this week:

EchoBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EchoBot{{#if:) and

Android Mouse Bot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot{{#if: req3).

=Featured content=

Nine articles were promoted to featured status last week: {{foa|Beagle}}, {{foa|Bernard Quatermass}}, {{foa|House with Chimaeras}}, {{foa|Siege of Malakand}}, {{foa|Zhou Tong (archer)}}, {{foa|Ronald Niel Stuart}}, {{foa|Chad}}, {{foa|Structural history of the Roman military}} and {{foa|Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)}}.

One article was de-featured last week: Spring Heeled Jack (nom)

Five lists were promoted to featured status last week: {{fol|List of polio survivors}}, {{fol|List of counties in Rhode Island}}, {{fol|Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture}}, {{fol|Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score}} and {{fol|Wilco discography}}.

No portals, topics or sounds were promoted to featured status last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Pierre Rossier, Cameroon, Fighting in ice hockey, Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, Domenico Selvo, and Cyclol.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Earth's atmosphere, An example of homeomorphism, Horse anatomy, Plastic utensils with photoelasticity, Sather Tower, King Kelly, and A diagram of osmotic pressure on blood cells.

Nine pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.

Image:Calopteryx virgo male.jpg|Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)

Image:Holoplatys semiplanata with scale02.jpg|Holoplatys

Image:Sitting Bull - edit2.jpg|Sitting Bull

Image:Lightning strike jan 2007.jpg|Lightning strike

Image:MarsTransitionV.jpg|What Mars might look like at various stages while being terraformed

Image:Iberian Peninsula antique map.jpg|Iberian Peninsula

Image:Stomoxys calcitrans on aloe vera.jpg| Stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)

Image:Michele Merkin 1.jpg|Michele Merkin