Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-08-07/Features and admins
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Features and admins
Administrators
Four users were granted admin status last week: Wickethewok (nom), Phaedriel (nom), Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (nom) and Crazycomputers (nom). Phaedriel's nomination received a record 271 support votes, breaking CSCWEM's record of 246 support votes. Phaedriel and CSCWEM are the only two RfAs that are in WP:200.
Also of note was Ambuj.Saxena's failed RfA, which garnered over 100 support votes, but eventually failed due to the lack of consensus. Ambuj.Saxena is the third user to have an RfA supported by over 100 users, yet fail to be promoted to admin status, joining CSCWEM's first nomination, and Rob Church's fourth nomination.
Featured content
Fifteen articles were featured last week: Emu (nom), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (nom), Battle of Bicocca (nom), John Brooke-Little (nom), Battle of Rennell Island (nom), Llywelyn the Great (nom), Final Fantasy VIII (nom), The Philadelphia Inquirer (nom), AK-47 (nom), Final Fantasy VI (nom), Gregorian chant (nom), Countdown (game show) (nom), Rudolf Vrba (nom), Selena (nom) and Caroline Island (nom).
Three articles were de-featured last week: Wikipedia, Lord Chancellor and Cyclone Tracy.
The latest portals to reach featured status are Portal:Numismatics and Portal:United States.
Four lists reached featured list status last week: List of vegetable oils, List of Testudines families, 2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings and List of South America tropical cyclones.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Thrasybulus, Knights of Columbus, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Damon Hill, Music of the United States, Ubuntu and Azerbaijani people.
These were the pictures of the day last week: Mount Hood, Machu Picchu, Digital art, London Eye, Great Dividing Range, Graz and Cyclone Gafilo.
Nine pictures reached featured picture status last week:
One picture was de-featured last week: Tarawet.
Also this week: Publicity photos — Baseball bios — Wikiversity — Wikimania — More Wikimania — Wikiality — Atlantic Monthly — French Wikipedia — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Arbitration report
