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Administrators

Ten editors were

Twenty-three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating since last issue: DirlBot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), Legobot (task request), ShepBot (task request), GrouchoBot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), Legobot (task request), Numbo3-bot (task request), OrophinBot (task request), DavidWSBot (task request), Muro Bot (task request), ProtectionTaggingBot (task request), Addbot (task request), DYKBot (task request), Simplebot (task request), XLerateBot (task request), SassoBot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), PDFbot (task request), AnomieBOT (task request), RibotBOT (task request) and NobelBot (task request).

Featured pages

Fifty-three articles were promoted to

Three lists were delisted since last issue: List of Hong Kong ODI cricketers (nom), List of India ODI cricketers (nom) and List of Australia ODI cricketers (nom).

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page since the last issue as picture of the day: North Face of Mount Everest, Head of a blow-fly, A sadhu, Trial by Jury, Lesser yellolegs, Hoodoo formations in the Pink Cliffs, Prime knots, Shanty town, Political cartoon of American President Andrew Jackson, Drupe, Golf bunker, Mayfly, Schematic of a tank, Emperor penguin, Tunnel rats, Geothermal areas of Yellowstone National Park, Australian Red Cross, Video of Polar Bear Cub Nursing, Pegnitz River, Female Marmalade Fly, Olympus Mons, Aerial Lithograph of Phoenix, Arizona, Squadron of C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft, Reindeer, Engraving of Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Saint-Chély-du-Tarn, Roasted Coffee Beans, Goat, Large Bee Fly, Champagne Pool, Ceaseran Section, Video of Lunar Transit, AV-8B Harrier II and Skyscrapers of Canary Wharf.

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Two featured

Thirty-five pictures were promoted to featured status since the last issue and are shown below.

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  Dublin Suburban Rail
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  Strickland Falls
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  Keble College
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  Aquilegia
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  Hypericum calycinum
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  Gazania rigens
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  Asilidae Fly
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  Asiatic hybrid lillium
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  Early Autumn painting
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  Rooster
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  Indecency
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  Scarabaeidae
• Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin
  Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin
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  Watsons Bay
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  The Deluge
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  Oscar Wilde
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  Panorama of Melbourne
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  Panorama of Flaming Cliffs
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  Psaltoda moerens
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  Eritrean Railway
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  Panorama of Grampians National Park
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  Andromeda Galaxy
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  NGC 1672
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  Panorama of Hobart
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  Santa Ana Cave
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  Mount Redoubt
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  Yellow-faced Honeyeater
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  Nuclear weapon
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  Night Watch
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  Louis Armstrong
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  Picea pungens
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  Dragonflies mating
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  NGC 2207 and IC 2163
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  Sea otter
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  Bergen