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Features and admins

Features and admins

Administrators

Twelve users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Gaius Cornelius (nom), Orangemike (nom), DMacks (nom), Spebi (nom), Nikki311 (nom), SkierRMH (nom), Eliz81 (nom), Kathryn NicDhàna (nom), Tbo 157 (nom), Royalbroil (nom), ChrisTheDude (nom), and Bkell (nom).

Bots

Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: MenoBot (task request), AfDBot (task request), ImageTaggingBot (task request), ImageBacklogBot (task request), R. Hillgentleman (task request), El bot de la dieta (task request), SXT-404Bot (task request), and SatyrBot (task request).

Twenty articles were promoted to featured status last week: The Green (Dartmouth College) (nom), Manchester (nom), Presque Isle State Park (nom), South Side (Chicago) (nom), Youngstown, Ohio (nom), 1999 Sydney hailstorm (nom), Harriet Tubman (nom), Ulysses (poem) (nom), But I'm a Cheerleader (nom), Superman film series (nom), One Hot Minute (nom), Vega (nom), Nancy Reagan (nom), Bobby Eaton (nom), Karmichael Hunt (nom), John Knox (nom), Arthur Morris (nom), Marcus Trescothick (nom), Crazy Taxi (series) (nom), and The Joy of Sect (nom).

Fourteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: The Corrs discography (nom), List of Swedish-speaking and bilingual municipalities of Finland (nom), List of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes (nom), Nine Inch Nails discography (nom), List of members of Stortinget 2005-2009 (nom), List of birds of Thailand (nom), List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients (nom), List of Kaze no Stigma episodes (nom), and Bradford City A.F.C. seasons (nom).

One Featured topic was promoted last week: National Hockey League awards (nom).

No portals or sounds were featured last week.

Four articles were de-featured last week: X Window System (nom), Marshall, Texas (nom), Indo-Greek Kingdom (nom), and Sociocultural evolution (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: Sophie Blanchard, 7 World Trade Center, Francium, Red Barn Murder, Surface weather analysis, Ordinances of 1311, and Cillian Murphy.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Northfleet, Buchenwald, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pupae, Tōyō Miyatake , Nesjavellir geothermal power plant, and George IV of the United Kigdom.

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




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