Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-16/Features and admins
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|16 March 2009}}
=Administrators=
=Bots=
Five bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this
week:
SoxBot II (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot II{{#if:6),
BücherBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BücherBot{{#if:),
Sambot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot{{#if:3),
FPBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FPBot{{#if:) and
ListasBot (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ListasBot{{#if:).
=Featured pages=
Seventeen articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Malcolm X}}, {{foa|Osteochondritis dissecans}}, {{foa|Idlewild and Soak Zone}}, {{foa|Alexander Cameron Rutherford}}, {{foa|Rampart Dam}}, {{foa|Meningitis}}, {{foa|Hilary of Chichester}}, {{foa|Benjamin Morrell}}, {{foa|Operation Cobra}}, {{foa|Amanita muscaria}}, {{foa|Juan Davis Bradburn}}, {{foa|Premiere (The O.C.)}}, {{foa|SM U-66}}, {{foa|Byzantine navy}}, {{foa|Banker horse}}, {{foa|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}} and {{foa|Museum of Bad Art}}.
Thirteen lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|Ed Chynoweth Cup}}, {{fol|List of Popotan episodes}}, {{fol|List of individual National Basketball Association scoring leaders}}, {{fol|List of Governors of Connecticut}}, {{fol|M.I.A. discography}}, {{fol|List of Oh My Goddess! episodes}}, {{fol|List of Puerto Rican boxing world champions}}, {{fol|List of alumni of Jesus College, Oxford: Law and government}}, {{fol|List of awards and nominations received by Dexter}}, {{fol|List of Calgary Flames draft picks}}, {{fol|List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2006 (U.S.)}}, {{fol|Houston Rockets seasons}} and {{fol|List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2005 (U.S.)}}.
No topics were promoted to featured status this week.
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Western Chalukya architecture, Mozart family grand tour, Lazare Ponticelli, Megatokyo, Chelsea F.C, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, The Chaser APEC pranks and 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt.
=Former featured pages=
=Featured media=
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Crab spider, Along the River During the Qingming Festival, Tractor drawn aerial, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, American Tree Sparrow, Wrecked German ammunition train, First hot air balloon to carry humans and Greater Dublin Rail Network.
No media files were featured this week.
One featured picture was demoted this week: Joan of Arc statue, Notre Dame (nom).
Twenty-two pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
File:Polistes sp wasp.jpg|Polistes sp.
File:Water Babies(Restored, Alternate crop 2).jpg|Water Babies
File:Republican presidential ticket 1864b.jpg|National Union Party ticket for the United States presidential election, 1864
File:Democratic presidential ticket 1864b.jpg|Democratic Party ticket for the United States presidential election, 1864
File:Mango and cross section edit.jpg|Mango
File:Bareina, Mauritania.jpg|Bareina
File:Maritana - Nov 22 1845 Illustrated London News.png|Maritana
File:John Phillip Sousa - De Wolf Hopper - El Capitan1.png|El Capitan
File:White peach and cross section edit.jpg|Peach
File:Military aviary2.jpg|Aviary
File:Conways game of life breeder animation.gif|Conway's Game of Life
File:Libya 4985 Tadrart Acacus Luca Galuzzi 2007.jpg|Tadrart Acacus
File:Forces returning 2.jpg|Woodcut by Kobayashi Kiyochika
File:Gephyrocapsa oceanica color.jpg|Coccolithophore
File:White nectarine and cross section02 edit.jpg|White nectarine
File:USS Texas2.jpg|USS Texas
File:Babe Ruth2.jpg|Babe Ruth
File:Baseball_glass_workers2.jpg|Photography by Lewis Hine
File:Austrolestes annulosus.jpg|Austrolestes annulosus
File:Danaid Eggfly Hypolimnas misippus.jpg|Hypolimnas misippus
File:Port Vell, Barcelona, Spain - Jan 2007.jpg|Port Vell
File:Brighton Pier, England - Feb 2009.jpg|Brighton Pier
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