Twenty-two articles were promoted to featured status last week: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (nom), Surface weather analysis (nom), William Goebel (nom), Alfred Russel Wallace (nom), Dominik Hašek (nom), The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages (nom), Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (nom), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (nom), Common Raven (nom), Paulo (Lost) (nom), Eris (dwarf planet) (nom), Making Waves (nom), B-52 aircraft crash at Fairchild Air Force Base (nom), Islam (nom), Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) (nom), Harriet Arbuthnot (nom), Building of the World Trade Center (nom), Kid A (nom), Jay Chou (nom), Verbascum thapsus (nom), Robert Garran (nom) and 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines (nom).

Four articles were de-featured last week: Parthenon (nom), Cristero War (nom), Dogpatch USA (nom) and Oxyrhynchus (nom).

Five lists were promoted to featured status last week: Frölunda HC seasons (nom), List of Colorado Avalanche players (nom), List of tallest buildings and structures in London (nom), 2007 NFL Draft (nom) and List of WWE United States Champions (nom).

One featured topic, The Simpsons (season 8) (nom) was promoted to featured status last week.

One featured portal, Portal:Fish (nom) was promoted to featured status last week.

No sounds were promoted to featured status last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Ellis Paul, Jerusalem, Tornado, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Diplodocus, Simeon I of Bulgaria, and Calvin Coolidge.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Poison gas in World War I, Montserrat (mountain), Cactus, Toledo, Spain, Lake Mapourika, Man and Limburger cheese.

Two pictures were promoted to featured status last week:

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  Lion
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  Whirlpool Galaxy

Seven users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Bjelleklang (nom), Bobak (nom), Yamamoto Ichiro (nom), SpuriousQ (nom), PeaceNT (nom), Ocatecir (nom), and Christopher Parham (nom).

Eleven bots were approved to begin operating this week: DinoSizedBot (task request), hxhbot (task request), Rabbot (task request), MartinBotIV (task request), UncatTemplateBot (task request), MetsBot (task request), ENewsBot (task request), Bot523 (task request), Aksibot (task request), ArkyBot (task request) and Byrialbot (task request).