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Features and admins

By RoyBoy and Ian Manka, August 7 2006

Administrators

Four users were granted admin status last week:

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and

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Fifteen articles were featured last week: Emu (nom), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (nom), Battle of Bicocca (nom), John Brooke-Little (nom), Battle of Rennell Island (nom), Llywelyn the Great (nom), Final Fantasy VIII (nom), The Philadelphia Inquirer (nom), AK-47 (nom), Final Fantasy VI (nom), Gregorian chant (nom), Countdown (game show) (nom), Rudolf Vrba (nom), Selena (nom) and Caroline Island (nom).

Three articles were de-featured last week: Wikipedia, Lord Chancellor, and Cyclone Tracy.

The latest portals to reach featured status are Portal:Numismatics and Portal:United States.

Four lists reached featured list status last week: List of vegetable oils, List of Testudines families, 2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings and List of South America tropical cyclones.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Thrasybulus, Knights of Columbus, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Damon Hill, Music of the United States, Ubuntu and Azerbaijani people.

These were the pictures of the day last week: Mount Hood, Machu Picchu, Digital art, London Eye, Great Dividing Range, Graz and Cyclone Gafilo.

Nine pictures reached featured picture status last week: