Administrators

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: CRGreathouse ( nom) and Climie.ca ( nom).

Bots

Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: LivingBot ( task request), Yobot ( task request), Locobot ( task request), DSisyphBot ( task request), CAT:TEMP deletion bot ( task request), AnomieBOT ( task request), AnomieBOT ( task request) and Almabot ( task request).

CAT:TEMP deletion bot is a bot with an administrator flag, which deletes userpages in the temporary userpages category.

Featured pages

Four articles were promoted to featured status this week: Scene7 ( nom), Orval Grove ( nom), George H. D. Gossip ( nom) and New Super Mario Bros. ( nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of Yozakura Quartet episodes ( nom), Listed buildings in Runcorn, Cheshire ( nom), Moons of Uranus ( nom), List of Canadian Idol finalists ( nom), List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing ( nom), List of San Francisco Giants Opening Day starting pitchers ( nom) and Dido discography ( nom).

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: HD 40307 ( nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 4chan, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Neptune and Jack the Ripper conspiracy theories.

Former featured pages

One article was delisted this week: Isan ( nom).

No topics or lists were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Jean-Paul Marat, Panorama of a Sun Dance, Long-billed Corella, Eastern lubber grasshoppers, Nymphenburg palace and Oxeye daisy.

Two media files were featured this week:

Two featured pictures were demoted this week: Pin tumbler and Pin tumbler unlocked.

Twenty-one pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

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  Old World Swallowtail
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  Parma Wallaby
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  Eastern Grey Kangaroo
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  Sydney skyline
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  Hot air balloon
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  Brooklyn
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  United States Constitution
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  Sayre Fire
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  Anti-Israeli protests
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  Mount Rushmore
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  White pelican
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  Charon by Gustave Doré
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  Resignation letter of Richard Nixon
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  George Washington Carver
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  Stag beetle
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  Cannon
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  Pin tumbler lock; this image, and the next three images, replaced the two delisted tumbler images noted above, and are part of a {{ FeaturedPictureSet}}
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  Hermetia illucens