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Features and admins

Features and admins

Administrators

Eleven users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Kwsn (nom), Ev (nom), Dppowell (nom), Accounting4Taste (nom), Athaenara (nom), Lradrama (nom), east718 (nom), Chris G (nom), The-G-Unit-Boss (nom), Davewild (nom), and GlassCobra (nom).

Bots

Three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Eubot (task request), PxBot (task request), and Chris G Bot 3 (task request).

Twenty-four articles were promoted to featured status last week: Lambeosaurus (nom), Turkey Vulture (nom), Xenon (nom), Chetwynd, British Columbia (nom), Stede Bonnet (nom), Kingdom of Mysore (nom), Chinua Achebe (nom), Branded to Kill (nom), Cillian Murphy (nom), Jack Sparrow (nom), James II of England (nom), Wiglaf of Mercia (nom), December to Dismember (2006) (nom), Borobudur (nom), Flight feather (nom), Blyth, Northumberland (nom), Hurricane Dog (1950) (nom), Edward Low (nom), Dungeons & Dragons (album) (nom), Motörhead (nom), Pinkerton (album) (nom), Lawrence Sullivan Ross (nom), Ganesha (nom), and Shelton Benjamin (nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Claymore chapters (nom), List of Minnesota Vikings first-round draft picks (nom), List of Ipswich Town F.C. players (nom), List of York City F.C. players (nom), York City F.C. seasons (nom), NHL Plus-Minus Award (nom), and List of WWE European Champions (nom).

One topic was promoted to featured status last week: Mary Wollstonecraft (nom).

No portals or sounds were featured last week.

Two articles were de-featured last week: Separation of powers under the United States Constitution (nom), and Canadian House of Commons (nom)

No pictures, lists, portals, topics, or sounds were de-featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Plug-in hybrid, Halloween II, Karnataka, Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, Four Times of the Day, 1880 Republican National Convention, and GameFAQs.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Murerplan, Human Skeleton, Landslide on Mars, Korean War, Bird Beaks, Beautiful Demoiselle, and Little Joe 1.

Fourteen pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.




Also this week:
  • French lawsuit
  • WikiWorld
  • News and notes
  • WikiProject report
  • Features and admins
  • Technology report
  • Arbitration report

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