Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-28/Features and admins
Approved this week
Theleftorium (nom) was promoted to administrator.
The following seven featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article:
- "Jack the Ripper", the best known pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888
- Raccoon, a medium-sized mammal native to North America
- Ernest Hemingway, an American writer and journalist
- Captain Jack Sparrow, a fictional character portrayed by Johnny Depp introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Michael Jackson, an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist
- The privilege of peerage, the body of special privileges belonging to members of the British peerage
- Terra Nova Expedition, an expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole.
Promoted and former featured pages
Five articles were promoted to featured status: St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao (nom), Hurricane Carmen (nom), 1975 Australian constitutional crisis (nom), Cryptoprocta spelea (nom) and Tropical Storm Brenda (1960) (nom).
Six lists were promoted to featured status: List of tallest buildings in Dayton (nom), List of Minnesota Twins first-round draft picks (nom), List of FC Barcelona players (nom), Major League Baseball Triple Crown (nom), List of Texas Rangers first-round draft picks (nom) and Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (nom).
One article was delisted: Israel (nom).
Media features
Two featured sounds were promoted this week:
| Cat purring | (nom) |
| The national anthem of the nation of New Zealand, as performed by the United States Navy. | (nom) |
Twelve pictures were promoted to featured status:
Mark Rutte | Big White Fog | Baalbek | ||||
Morchella elata | Niobium | Elakala falls | ||||
Mycena leaiana | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Skyline of Chicago | ||||
Grapefruit | Cologne | Oxalis triangularis exhibiting nastic movement |
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