Wikipedia:Goings-on/December 6, 2009

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, December 6, 2009

Articles that gained featured status

• Rise of Neville Chamberlain (Dec 8)
• 1930 FIFA World Cup (Dec 12)
• Mellitus (Dec 12)
• Edwin P. Morrow (Dec 12)
• Premiership of John Brownlee (Dec 12)
• Battle of Morotai (Dec 12)

Lists that gained featured status

• 2007 Pan American Games medal table (Dec 8)
• List of tallest buildings in Oakland, California (Dec 8)
• List of World War I aces credited with more than 20 victories (Dec 12)
• List of unreleased Michael Jackson material (Dec 12)
• List of WCW World Television Champions (Dec 12)

Pictures that gained featured status

• Desiccation cracking in mud (9 Dec)
• Thames Panorama, London (10 Dec)
• Cereopsis novaehollandiae (10 Dec)
• Martian Dust Devil Trails (10 Dec)
• Painted cliffs (10 Dec)
• Dunrobin Castle (10 Dec)
• Russian Empire-Full coat of arms (10 Dec)
• Vineyards of Napa Valley (10 Dec)
• Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (10 Dec)
• Canon EOS 400D (10 Dec)
• Lunar Libration (December 10)
• Lincoln assassination conspirators execution (December 10)
• Juvenile Bennett's Wallaby (December 10)
• Common Wombat (December 10)

Portals that gained featured status

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status

• Wikipedia:News, for other news sources
• Wikipedia:Announcements, for news that affects everyone, project-wide
• Wikipedia:Signpost, for a more complete overview of Wikipedia news
• Wikipedia: Article traffic jumps, for an anecdotal gauge of reader traffic.
• Wikizine, for global Wikimedia news
• Meta goings-on, for inter-language and other meta projects