Seven users were granted admin status last week: Staxringold (nom), Richardcavell (nom), Philip Baird Shearer (nom), Ben W Bell (nom), Kukini (nom), Ganeshk (nom) and Gurch (nom).

Eight articles were featured last week: Stuyvesant High School (nom), Football (soccer) (nom), Iranian peoples (nom), Battle of Midway (nom), Watchmen (nom), Binary star (nom), Dog Day Afternoon (nom) and Torchic (nom). The promotion of Iranian peoples brought the list of Wikipedia:Featured articles up to 1,000 articles (see related story).

One article was de-featured last week: Breastfeeding.

Four lists reached featured list status last week: List of New Jersey hurricanes, List of Anuran families, List of Fullmetal Alchemist episodes and List of The Simpsons episodes.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Keratoconus, Krazy Kat, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, FIFA World Cup, USS Wisconsin (BB-64), Red vs Blue and Søren Kierkegaard.

These were the pictures of the day last week: Radiolarians, Mushroom, Nevado Alpamayo, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Euro, Grand Central Terminal and Hanko, Finland.

Ten pictures reached featured picture status last week:

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  Plant cell
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  Leaf Green Tree Frog
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  White-lipped snail

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  Lower Manhattan
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  San Francisco earthquake
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  Old Saint Paul's

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  Giant grouper
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  Flinders Street Station
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  Cueva de las Manos

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  Greylag Goose