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Administrators

Six editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Rambo's Revenge (nom), Rosiestep (nom), Wadester16 (nom), JamieS93 (nom), Runningonbrains (nom) and Kotra (nom).

Bots

Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: SoxBot (task request), EarwigBot II (task request), Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot (task request), LivingBot (task request), EarwigBot I (task request), DrilBot (task request) and AEBot (task request).

Featured pages

Eight articles were promoted to featured status this week: 243 Ida (nom), SMS Seydlitz (nom), Olympic Games (nom), Baseball (nom), Fountain of Time (nom), Martin Bucer (nom), Clements Markham (nom) and Cherry Springs State Park (nom).

No lists were promoted to featured status this week.

No topics were promoted to featured status this week.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Victoria Cross for New Zealand, Triptych, May–June 1973, Street newspaper, Ramblin' Wreck, New Super Mario Bros., Isle of Portland and Styracosaurus.

Former featured pages

Five articles were delisted this week: Ben Gurion International Airport (nom), Enigma machine (nom), Prostate cancer (nom), Calvin and Hobbes (nom) and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

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: Racial Segregation, 1 Million Colours, Marsh Marigold, Map of Yellowstone National Park, 1871, Wasp colony, Piping Plover and Wu Tingfang.

No media files were featured this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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

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