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Features and admins
The best of the week
New featured picture: User:AngMoKio's photograph of a racing greyhound in full flight. The image was shot with a Canon EOS 40D, shutter speed 1/1000 s, aperture 8, ISO number 400, and focal length 85 mm.
This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 5 – Friday 11 March


Administrators

New featured picture: a Swallow-tailed Gull (Creagrus furcatus), the only fully nocturnal gull and seabird in the world.
New featured picture: Marine Iguana, found only on one island in the Galapagos
The week saw no new admins. At the time of publication there are two live RfAs: JaGa, due to finish Wednesday 16 March and My76Strat, due to finish Tuesday 15 March.


Featured articles

There were no new featured articles. Two featured articles were delisted:


Featured pictures

Five images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":


Featured sounds

Schubert's autograph of the Octet in F (D.803)
  • Schubert's Octet D803 (nom) (related article), composed in 1824 and of almost an hour's duration. Here, it is performed on period instruments by Monica Hugget (director and violin 1), Rob Diggins (violin 2), Vicki Gunn (viola), Sarah Freiberg (cello), Curtis Daily (double bass), William McColl (clarinet), RJ Kelley (horn), and Charles Kaufmann (bassoon).
Adagio – Allegro
Adagio
Scherzo
Andante
Menuetto
Andante Molto – Allegro
Presto

Featured picture retrospective

A map created by Fallschirmjäger won high praise from the reviewers last week, when we had little room to spare at F and A. We don't see many featured maps, so we've taken the unusual step of displaying it this week.