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Features and admins

Features and admins

Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" (nom), Kung Fu Hustle (nom), Search engine optimization (nom), Daylight saving time (nom), Shen Kuo (nom), Indonesia (nom), Tech Tower (nom), Miranda Otto (nom), Sarah Trimmer (nom), Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song) (nom), John Martin Scripps (nom), Madlax (nom), Anne of Denmark (nom), Bradley Joseph (nom).

Four articles were de-featured last week: Dayuan (nom), Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (nom), Xiangqi (nom), and Montréal-Mirabel International Airport (nom).

Four lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE) (nom), List of family relations in the National Hockey League (nom), Tampa Bay Buccaneers seasons (nom), and List of Bleach Agent of the Shinigami arc episodes (nom).

Two topics were promoted to featured status last week: Solar System (nom) and Final Fantasy VIII (nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status last week.

Two sounds were promoted to featured status last week: Battle for Wesnoth and Victimae Paschali.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Caspian expeditions of the Rus, Sydney Roosters, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Basiliscus, Harriet Arbuthnot, Taiwanese aborigines, and Excel Saga.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: P-38 Lightning, Papilio ulysses, Comet McNaught, Edgar Allan Poe, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Cairns Birdwing, and Oscar (fish).

Fourteen pictures were promoted to featured status last week:

Administrators

Six users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Pascal.Tesson (nom), DanMS (nom), Vassyana (nom), WilyD (nom), Reedy Boy (nom), and Mr.Z-man (nom).

Bots

Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: VeblenBot (task request), Android Mouse Bot 4 (task request), polbot (task request), BetacommandBot (task request), Tuonela (task request), and Alphachimpbot (task request).