Administrators

Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: TravisTX ( nom), Deacon of Pndapetzim ( nom), shoeofdeath ( nom), Gadget850 ( nom), and Zedla ( nom).

One user was promoted to bureaucrat status via the Requests for Bureaucratship process this week: The Rambling Man ( nom)

Bots

Five bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Kbdankbot ( task request), Lockalbot ( task request), Kal-El-Bot ( task request), YekratsBot ( task request), and KrimpBot ( task request).

Featured pages

Nineteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Oliver Typewriter Company ( nom), Reactive attachment disorder ( nom), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ( nom), Paleolithic-style diet ( nom), Holden ( nom), Flea (musician) ( nom), If (magazine) ( nom), Fanny Imlay ( nom), Duncan Edwards ( nom), Neilston ( nom), Trafford ( nom), Huldrych Zwingli ( nom), Grover Cleveland ( nom), Lessons for Children ( nom), Typhoon Paka ( nom), Bernard Fanning ( nom), Soprano Home Movies ( nom), Odyssey Number Five ( nom), and Pattern Recognition (novel) ( nom).

Fifteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Peep Show episodes ( nom), East Carolina Pirates football seasons ( nom), List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross ( nom), List of Governors of Hawaii ( nom), List of autonomous areas by country ( nom), List of Interstate Highways in Texas ( nom), Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 4) ( nom), List of Tampa Bay Lightning players ( nom), List of Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin ( nom), Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 3) ( nom), List of 30 Rock awards and nominations ( nom), List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon ( nom), List of countries without armed forces ( nom), List of unrecognized countries ( nom), and List of space telescopes ( nom).

Two topics were promoted to featured status last week: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow ( nom) and York City F.C. ( nom).

Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: Portal:Spain ( nom) and Portal:Criminal justice ( nom).

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Crusaders (rugby), The Philadelphia Inquirer, ESRB re-rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Pre-dreadnought battleship, Hockey Hall of Fame, Hoysala Empire and Plano Senior High School.

Former featured pages

Two articles were delisted recently: Metal Gear Solid ( nom) and Battle of Jutland ( nom).

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Surfer, Prokaryote, Cappadocia, Glaucus atlanticus and Leucospermum. One featured picture was demoted: Caterpillar feeding. One featured picture was re-promoted: Love or Duty.

No sounds were featured last week.

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

• Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
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  Mont Blanc
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  Casa Mila
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  Navajo people
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  Refraction of rain
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  Ambrose Burnside
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  Yellowish Flycatcher
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  Kayak Playboat
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  George Armstrong Custer
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  Photo taken by Spirit Rover on Mars
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  Royal Spoonbill
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  Polistes dominulus
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  Parallax
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  Matthew C. Perry