Administrators

Four editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: R'n'B ( nom), PeterSymonds ( nom), Geni ( nom) and Kanonkas ( nom).

PeterSymonds and Geni were both former administrators who were desysopped by ArbCom.

Bots

Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: DirlBot ( task request), LivingBot ( task request), AntiAbuseBot ( task request), Rubinbot ( task request), Bot0612 ( task request), GhalyBot ( task request), LivingBot ( task request) and Arbitrarily0Bot ( task request).

AntiAbuseBot is a bot with an administrator flag that monitors RC feeds for known vandal patterns, and takes appropriate administrator measures.

Featured pages

Twelve articles were promoted to featured status this week: Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment ( nom), Typhoon Tip ( nom), State Route 74 (New York – Vermont) ( nom), 2008 Japanese Grand Prix ( nom), Super Columbine Massacre RPG! ( nom), Meshuggah ( nom), Operation Uranus ( nom), Isaac Shelby ( nom), The Raft of the Medusa ( nom), Columbia Slough ( nom), Barton Fink ( nom) and Hurricane Linda (1997) ( nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of 24 episodes ( nom), Tokio Hotel discography ( nom), Megadeth discography ( nom), Girls Aloud discography ( nom), List of Second Boer War Victoria Cross recipients ( nom), List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries ( nom) and List of New York Islanders head coaches ( nom).

Two topics were promoted to featured status this week: Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender ( nom) and Nobel Laureates ( nom).

Two portals were promoted to featured status this week: Portal:Atlas ( nom) and Portal:Brazil ( nom).

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Edgar Allan Poe, Washington, D.C., Ants, Lost: Missing Pieces, Susianna Kentikian, SS Ohioan and Adolfo Farsari.

Former featured pages

Two articles were delisted this week: French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools ( nom) and Indian Railways ( nom).

One list was delisted this week: Battles of the Mexican–American War ( nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Sophie Blanchard, Barack Obama, Video summarizing the end of the Adolf Eichmann trial, Lohengrin, Ziegler Polar Expedition, Snipe fly and Staten Island Ferry.

Two media files were featured this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Fourteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

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  Dolichopodidae
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  The Divine Comedy
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  Craticulina
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  Gaillardia
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  Spermophilus
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  Charles Darwin
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  Superb Fairy Wren
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  Dusky Moorhen
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  Dam Square, Amsterdam
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  Charon
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  Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
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  Werdau town hall
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  Flesh-fly
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  Chrysomya megacephala