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Features and admins


Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Graeme Bartlett (nom).

Bots

Nine bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: MauritsBot (task request), Erik9bot (task request), WebCiteBOT (task request), NeuRobot (task request), SVnaGBot1 (task request), LivingBot (task request), Sambot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request) and Polbot (task request).

Five articles were promoted to featured status this week: Zinc (nom), Damien (South Park) (nom), Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford) (nom), Raymond Brownell (nom) and Sale, Greater Manchester (nom).

Three lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of San Francisco Giants managers (nom), List of ROH World Tag Team Champions (nom) and List of castles in Cheshire (nom).

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: M.I.A. albums (nom).

Two portals were promoted to featured status this week: Portal:Formula One (nom) and Portal:Fungi (nom).

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Acid2, Ælfheah of Canterbury, Idlewild and Soak Zone, John Frusciante, Structural history of the Roman military and Ed Stelmach.

Four articles were delisted this week: Mozilla Firefox (nom), Ziaur Rahman (nom), The Boondock Saints (nom) and Knights of Columbus (nom).

Two lists were delisted this week: List of premiers of Saskatchewan (nom) and List of awards and nominations received by Coolio (nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Ijazh, Red Jacket, Richmond, London, Empire State Building, Hispano Aviación HA-1112, Napoleon Bonaparte and Piano Sonata No. 28.

No media files were featured this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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