Administrators

Six users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Anonymous Dissident ( nom), Chunky Rice ( nom), Edison ( nom), Navou ( nom), Elkman ( nom) and Satori Son ( nom).

Bots

Ten bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Chris G Bot ( task request), PhotoCatBot ( task request), ClueBot II ( task request), AlptaBot ( task request), Ganeshbot ( task request), The wubbot ( task request), ZwoBot ( task request), BOTijo ( task request), and RussBot ( task request).

Featured content

Twenty-three articles were promoted to featured status last week: Bobby Robson ( nom), Héctor Lavoe ( nom), Aggie Bonfire ( nom), New Ordinances of 1311 ( nom), Today (Smashing Pumpkins song) ( nom), Yellowstone fires of 1988 ( nom), Hey Baby (No Doubt song) ( nom), Bald Eagle ( nom), Fun Home ( nom), Georgetown University ( nom), Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event ( nom), Jason Voorhees ( nom), Swedish emigration to the United States ( nom), Winfield Scott Hancock ( nom), 2005 Texas Longhorn football team ( nom), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( nom), Thoughts on the Education of Daughters ( nom), European Commission ( nom), Kingdom Hearts (series) ( nom), Typhoon Pongsona ( nom), Bob Meusel ( nom), Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( nom) and The Power of Nightmares ( nom).

Two articles were de-featured last week: Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) ( nom) and President of Ireland ( nom).

Five lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Dartmouth College faculty ( nom), Calder Memorial Trophy ( nom), List of Athabasca University people ( nom), Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy ( nom) and Army Groups of the National Revolutionary Army ( nom).

No lists were de-featured last week.

No portals were promoted to featured status last week.

One topic was promoted to featured status last week: Victoria Cross ( nom).

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Australia at the Winter Olympics, Olm, Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, The Bus Uncle, Renewable energy in Scotland, Hey Ya!, and Fun Home.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Externsteine, Colosseum, Lion and cub eating Cape Buffalo, Flower chafers mating, Crashing landing of Hellcat into USS Enterprise, Chief police officer in Hamburg, and Animated simulation of a phenakistoscope disc.

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

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  Interior of the Neue Wache in Berlin
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  Ivan Shishkin's Rye
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  Flammarion woodcut
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  Yellow-Bellied Marmot
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  Shaftesbury Avenue, in London
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  Lioness
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  Roesel's bush-cricket
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  Penedès vines
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  Hornet holding a bee torso
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  Total lunar eclipse from 28 August 2007