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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, February 6, 2011

Collaborations by topic

Articles that gained featured status

• 1950 Atlantic hurricane season (8 Feb)
• Adelaide leak (8 Feb)
• Adenanthos cuneatus (8 Feb)
• Allegro (musical) (8 Feb)
• Battle of Towton (8 Feb)
• Frederick Delius (8 Feb)
• Entoloma sinuatum (8 Feb)
• Monticolomys (8 Feb)
• Rhodocene (8 Feb)
• " Stark Raving Dad" (8 Feb)
• Startling Stories (8 Feb)
• Tales of Monkey Island (8 Feb)
• Thomcord (8 Feb)
• U.S. Route 30 in Iowa (8 Feb)
• History of the New York Jets (12 Feb)
• Rutherford B. Hayes (12 Feb)
• Minas Geraes-class battleship (12 Feb)
• John J. Crittenden (12 Feb)

Lists that gained featured status

• Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (D) (7 Feb)
• Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (8 Feb)
• Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year (8 Feb)
• Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist (8 Feb)
• List of international cricket centuries by Jacques Kallis (8 Feb)
• List of Manchester United F.C. players (fewer than 25 appearances) (8 Feb)
• List of demolished places of worship in Brighton and Hove (8 Feb)
• List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves recipients (1943) (8 Feb)

Pictures that gained featured status

• Making of a death mask (7 Feb)
• Écorché by Honoré Fragonard (8 Feb)
• Biham-Middleton-Levine traffic model ( globally jammed phase and free-flowing phase) (9 Feb)
• Pedro II of Brazil (9 Feb)
• Hagia Sophia Church, Sofia (9 Feb)
• The Ugly Duchess (11 Feb)

Portals that gained featured status

• Portal:Law of England and Wales (11 Feb)
• Portal:Somerset (11 Feb)

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status

• Oslo Metro (9 Feb)

• 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
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