Administrators

Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: MoRsE ( nom), Tra ( nom), EliminatorJR ( nom), Xnuala ( nom), the undertow ( nom) MJCdetroit ( nom), Awiseman ( nom), and Raymond arritt ( nom). Also, the Wikimedia Foundation granted admin status to its new counsel, Mike Godwin.

Bots

Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: BoxCrawler ( task request), KiloBot ( task request), Cherybot ( task request), OverlordQBot ( task request), Chem-awb ( task request), O bot ( task request), MessedRobot II ( task request) and MadmanBot ( task request).

Featured content

Eighteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision ( nom), Ailanthus altissima ( nom), Introduction to general relativity ( nom), Australian Defence Force ( nom), Aston Villa F.C. ( nom), Technology of the Song Dynasty ( nom), Plug-in hybrid ( nom), Sargon of Akkad ( nom), Mackinac Island ( nom), Grand Forks, North Dakota ( nom), Dookie ( nom), Cardinal-nephew ( nom), Karnataka ( nom), Battle of Arras (1917) ( nom), Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( nom), Constitution of Belarus ( nom), William Bruce (architect) ( nom), and Sheerness ( nom).

Five articles were de-featured last week: Color Graphics Adapter ( nom), Bhutan ( nom), Irish theatre ( nom), Johannesburg ( nom) and Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu ( nom)

Ten lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of state symbols of Maryland ( nom), List of Governors of Kentucky ( nom), Timeline of tuberous sclerosis ( nom), List of sister cities in Florida ( nom), Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates ( nom), All-Star Final Vote ( nom), List of Desperate Housewives episodes ( nom), List of Teen Titans episodes ( nom), List of counties in Arizona ( nom) and List of counties in Connecticut ( nom).

No lists were de-featured last week.

No portals were promoted to featured status last week.

No topics or sounds were promoted to featured status last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Ben Gurion International Airport, Third Servile War, Oceanic whitetip shark, Homer's Phobia, Hurricane Kenna, Zhou Tong (archer), and Kate Bush.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: World's largest compass rose, Las Vegas Strip, Mammatus cloud, Golda Meir, A man exemplifying anti-Iranian sentiment, Salt mounds, and Prairie dog.

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

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  Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp
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  World War II aircraft worker
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  Pimelea spicata
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  Neuron cell diagram
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  Divers Preparing for Work
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  Honeybee mite ( Varroa destructor)
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  Tōyō Miyatake
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  Pupae of the Western honey bee