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Features and admins

By Daniel.Bryant, 22 January 2006

Administrators and checkusers

Jpgordon (talk) was granted checkuser rights on January 19, 2006. Jpgordon becomes the first Arbitration Committee member elected at the recent December 2006 elections to be given the user right since assuming their position on January 1, 2006. UninvitedCompany (talk), also appointed at the December 2006 elections, recieved checkuser on March 23, 2006; UninvitedCompany had previously served the Arbitration Committee for one month in early 2004.

Six users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week:

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. Newyorkbrad's RfA became the third most supported RfA in Wikipedia history, with 225 people supporting.

Featured content

Ten articles were promoted to featured status last week: The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), Metal Gear Solid, Slayer, AC/DC, All Blacks, Charles Edward Magoon, The Cat and the Canary (1927 film), Mary Wollstonecraft, B-17 Flying Fortress, and Flag of Armenia.

Ten articles were also de-featured last week: Cladistics, Octopus card, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Libertarianism, Diego Velázquez, Tynwald Day, Shakers, Olympic Games, Ryanair, and Convair B-36.

Four lists were promoted to featured status last week: Inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame, Administrative divisions of Adygea, Canadian federal election results since 1867, and Ontario premiers.

X portals were promoted to featured status last week:

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: European Union

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: DescriptionatPOTD

Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status last week:

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