Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/Features and admins
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|23 February 2009}}
=Administrators=
=Bots=
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week:
Addbot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot{{#if:16),
LivingBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot{{#if:7),
Addbot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot{{#if:18),
Thehelpfulbot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot{{#if:3),
Thehelpfulbot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot{{#if:4) and
=Featured pages=
Seventeen articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Ealdred (archbishop)}}, {{foa|These Are the Voyages...}}, {{foa|Nico Ditch}}, {{foa|William McGregor}}, {{foa|John Whittle}}, {{foa|Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3}}, {{foa|Murray Maxwell}}, {{foa|Henry Cornelius Burnett}}, {{foa|Peter Jones (missionary)}}, {{foa|2008 ACC Championship Game}}, {{foa|SS Kroonland}}, {{foa|Ozzie Smith}}, {{foa|USS Connecticut (BB-18)}}, {{foa|Star Wars: Rogue Squadron}}, {{foa|Radcliffe, Greater Manchester}}, {{foa|2008 Humanitarian Bowl}} and {{foa|Dreadnought}}.
Fourteen lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|List of awards and nominations received by Amy Winehouse}}, {{fol|List of FIFA World Cup finals}}, {{fol|Hughes Medal}}, {{fol|List of Baltimore Orioles Opening Day starting pitchers}}, {{fol|Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester}}, {{fol|List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine}}, {{fol|Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season}}, {{fol|List of Memphis Grizzlies head coaches}}, {{fol|List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK)}}, {{fol|BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award}}, {{fol|List of Philadelphia Phillies Opening Day starting pitchers}}, {{fol|Spike Lee filmography}}, {{fol|List of valkyrie names in Norse mythology}} and {{fol|Triple Gold Club}}.
Four topics were promoted to featured status this week: {{fot|Halo media}}, {{fot|Yamato class battleships}}, {{fot|Nine Inch Nails}} and {{fot|Iowa class battleships}}.
One portal was promoted to featured status this week: {{fop|Islam}}.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Order of the Thistle, Third Battle of Kharkov, Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, University of California, Riverside, USS Connecticut and Plutonium.
=Former featured pages=
=Featured media=
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Harriet Tubman, Vaccine controversy, Reduviidae, The Taming of the Shrew, Ramallah woman, Discovery of the Land.
Three media files were featured this week:
{{*sound|Caruso, Journet, Charles Gounod's Faust, 'O merveille! ... A moi les plaisirs'.ogg|Faust - "O merveille! ... A moi les plaisirs"|(nom)}}
{{*sound|Ronald Reagan First Inaugural.ogg|First Inaugural address of Ronald Reagan|(nom)}}
{{*sound|Enrico Caruso, Titta Ruffo, Giuseppe Verdi, Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro! (Otello).ogg|Otello - Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro!|(nom)}}
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Twenty pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
File:Lady Barron Falls Mt Field National Park.jpg|Lady Barron Falls
File:Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem restored.jpg|Battle of Jerusalem (1917)
File:Peter Levy BBC.jpg|Peter Levy
File:Steam Phase eruption of Castle geyser with double rainbow.jpg|Geyser
File:HiroshimaPeaceMemorialPanorama-2.jpg|Hiroshima Peace Memorial
File:Snake charmers2.jpg|Snake charmers
File:Canada WWI l'Emprunt de la Victoire2.jpg|Canada in WWII
File:Canada WWI Victory Bonds2.jpg|Canada in WWII
File:AmstelHotelAmsterdam.jpg|InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam
File:MSMajestyOfTheSeasEdit1.JPG|MS Majesty of the Seas
File:Stinkhorn Springbrook.jpg|Aseroë rubra
File:Crocoite from the Dundas extended mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.jpg|Crocoite
File:Gypsum var. selenite from Andamooka Ranges - Lake Torrens area, South Australia.jpg|Gypsum
File:Quays Waterford2.jpg|Waterford
File:Montreal from Mount Royal4.jpg|1902 Montreal
File:Pisaura mirabilis on Plantago lanceolata.jpg|Pisaura mirabilis
File:Snowflake moray in Kona.jpg|Snowflake moray
File:Jerusalem panorama early twentieth century2.jpg|Early 20th Century Jerusalem
File:Lycoperdon umbrinum.JPG|Lycoperdon umbrinum
File:Gaucho1868b.jpg|Gaucho
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