A market inLagos, Nigeria. NigerianAfrobeat musicianFela Kuti describes the city's conditions, including a multilingual trading market, in his widely praised 1975 albumConfusion. The album is the subject of a new featured article.
ThisSignpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from August 11, 2013 through August 17, 2013.
Featured articles
A scene from TheBayeux Tapestry (FrenchTapisserie de Bayeux, NormanLa telle du conquest) showing Normans at theBattle of HastingsAleeta curvicosta, a species ofcicada, is commonly known as the floury baker or floury miller. This photo was promoted to Featured picture in 2012.
Sixteen featured articles were promoted this week.
The Diary of a Nobody (nom) nominated byBrianboulton – a seminal work in comic English fiction, much imitated over the years in terms of format and characterisation. The nominator says: "It's comedy without malice; the book has never been out of print, and if you haven't read it before I hope this article might inspire you to do so (free, online of course)."
Aleeta curvicosta (nom) nominated byCasliber and99of9 – a loud species of cicada native to the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
Wordless novel (nom) nominated byCurly Turkey – a narrative genre that uses sequences of captionless pictures to tell a story.
X-Cops (The X-Files) (nom) nominated byGen. Quon – "TheX-Files meetsCOPS episode of the series", says the nominator, "particularly well-loved by the fanbase. I feel that this episode able to both balance the humor and scariness, both of which were facets that The X-Files was famous for."
Robert Howe (Continental Army officer) (nom) nominated byCdtew – a controversial commander, a failed tactician, a duelist, and possibly an attempted spy for the British. The nominator says: "All around, that makes for a fascinating character, whose story I believe I've captured fully."
Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar (nom) nominated byWehwalt – one of the stranger stories of commemorative half dollars, involving an eccentric sculptor, a drive to remember the Confederacy, and the KKK.
Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang (novel) (nom) nominated byCrisco 1492 –The Rose of Cikembang is "the most beautiful work of Chinese Malay literature I've read yet", in the nominator's opinion. "It's the only one I know of which has been translated to English"
Confusion (album) (nom) nominated byDan56 – a studio album by Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti and his band the Africa 70, released in 1975.
Jesus (nom) nominated byFutureTrillionaire – the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God.
The discography of American singer-songwriterBeyoncé is now featured
Irish cricketerEoin Morgan is one of only 22 cricketers who have represented two countries during their careers ininternational cricket.
Three featured lists were promoted this week.
Characters of God of War (nom) byJDC808. Video game franchiseGod of War has included a wide variety of characters since its introduction in 2005. Most of them are loosely based on Greek mythology, including Olympian Gods, Titans, and Greek heroes, among others. Other minor fictional characters also appear in the games, such as the family of the protagonist, Kratos, who is also fictional.
Beyoncé Knowles discography (nom) byJennKR. American recording artist Beyoncé Knowles has sold more than 118 million records worldwide as a solo artist, and is among the best-selling music artists of all time. Her musical career began at a young age and she rocketed to fame as a member of girl group Destiny's Child. She later developed a successful solo career, including four studio albums and fiveBillboard Hot 100 number-one hits.
Malayalam–language poet and folk-song writer Kalathil Makki Divakaran, commonly known asChandiroor Divakaran
Three featured pictures were promoted this week.
Albanian water frog (nom) created byBenny Trapp and nominated byTomer T. The Albanian water frog (Pelophylax shqipericus) is a threatened species. The frogs are found in freshwater habitats in Albania and Montenegro.
Map of the Battle of the Somme (nom) created byGrandiose,Giro720 and theUnited States Army and nominated byGrandiose. The Battle of the Somme (FrenchBataille de la Somme, GermanSchlacht an der Somme) was a First World War battle that occurred between 1 July and 18 November 1916 in the vicinity of the River Somme in France. Approximately 2.5 million combatants participated in the battle. The battle is noted for its large number of casualties, the role of air power, and the first use of the tank.
Round of applause for the people generating all these Featured Articles. Seventeen in one week is impressive (although, considering how the vetting process works, it's seventeen from between several weeks and several months ago). My back of the envelope math says that over the last month, Wikipedia has averaged 1.5 Featured Articles per day, which is damn impessive.SvenManguardWha?08:42, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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