Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-12/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Elockid (nom) and Polargeo (nom).
Featured pages
Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: Marsh rice rat (nom), Herschel Greer Stadium (nom), Parks and Recreation (season 1) (nom), Cerro Azul (Chile volcano) (nom), Red-capped Robin (nom), Battle of Taejon (nom), Zapata Rail (nom), Elizabeth Canning (nom) and Ganoga Lake (nom).
Eight lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs from the 1980s (nom), List of Washington & Jefferson College alumni (nom), List of Dragonair destinations (nom), List of Philadelphia Flyers players (nom), List of Olympic women's ice hockey players for the United States (nom), List of National Basketball Association season rebounding leaders (nom), List of accolades received by Avatar (nom) and List of Moonlighting episodes (nom).
No topics were promoted to featured status this week.
One portal was promoted to featured status this week: Portal:Sharks (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: The Great American Bash (2005), SMS Moltke, Temple Sinai, Carrington Moss, Bill Ponsford, John Douglas and The Avery Coonley School.
Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted this week: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (nom), Anschluss (nom) and Bath School disaster (nom).
One list was delisted this week: Carrie Underwood discography (nom).
No topics were delisted this week.
One portal was delisted this week: Portal:Disasters (nom).
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: 1884 poster from American production of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Leaving the opera in the year 2000, a ca. 1882 lithograph by Albert Robidal, United States President Jimmy Carter greeting Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Plolistes sp, Frances Densmore and Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief during a recording session for the Bureau of American Ethnology, Engraving of Marguerite de Navarre and Scarlet Robin.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Five pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Panorama captured by the Paranal Observatory -
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Three-dimensional Non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) surface -
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Panorama of Glenridding
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