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Approved this week

Administrators

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Ged UK (nom) and OverlordQ  (nom).

Bots

Three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: FrescoBot (task request), Legobot II (task request) and Yobot (task request).

Featured pages

Six articles were promoted to featured status this week: Port Chicago disaster (nom), Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (nom), Arthur Sifton (nom), Rhyolite, Nevada (nom), Rudolf Wolters (nom) and Surrender of Japan (nom).

Six

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Parallel computing, Gyromitra esculenta, Manchester, First-move advantage in chess, Bezhin Meadow and Proserpine.

Former featured pages

Two articles were delisted this week: Paleolithic diet (nom) and Chemical warfare (nom).

Two

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Sultan al-Atrash, Incandescent light bulb, Dragonfly moulting, Nagoya Castle, H.M.S. Pinafore and East Frisia.

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No featured

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

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  Dust Bowl
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  Brooklyn Bridge
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  Austroagrion watsoni
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  Austroicetes vulgaris
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  The Winter's Tale
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  Surface tension
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  Ayyavazhi
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  Spousal rape
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  Saint Nicholas' Church
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  Randy's Donuts
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  Camponotus sp.
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  Macbeth
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  Cobbe portrait
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  New Norfolk, Tasmania
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  Brighton, Victoria

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