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Features and admins

Features and admins

Administrators

Eight users were granted admin status last week: Teke (nom), Guinnog (nom), Runcorn (nom), Xyrael (nom) (the 1000th administrator (see accompanying article)), Netsnipe (nom), Winhunter (nom), Carnildo (nom), and JPD (nom).

With his promotion to administrator, Carnildo joins the ranks of WP:100, the 45th RfA to do so.

Everyking was desysopped involuntarily after an emergency ruling by the Arbitration Committee (see related story).

Featured Content

Sixteen articles were featured last week: Diary of a Camper (nom), Larrys Creek (nom), Kochi (India) (nom), Everton F.C. (nom), Pericles (nom), Chicago Bears (nom), 2003 Pacific hurricane season (nom), Adi Shankara (nom), Point Park Civic Center (nom), Caffeine (nom), Rhys ap Gruffydd (nom), St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (nom), Frank Klepacki (nom), History of the Philippines (nom), Ketuanan Melayu (nom) and Fuck the Millennium (nom).

Ten articles were de-featured last week: The Beatles, Thunderball, The Giver, Economy of Africa, Metrication, Olympic Flame, Middle-earth, Max Weber, Commonwealth of Nations and Fred Phelps.

The following portal reached featured status last week: Portal:Indonesia.

One list reached featured list status last week: List of Prime Ministers of Canada.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Sequence alignment, History of Central Asia, Talbot Tagora, Chew Valley, Gremlins, Atomic line filter and Corinthian War.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as the pictures of the day: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Sandstone, Fielding positions of cricket, Dante and Virgil in Hell, Walschaerts valve gear, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Moai.

Three pictures reached featured picture status last week: