One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Tim Song (nom).
Ten articles were promoted to featured status this week: The Fox and the Hound (novel) (nom), Marwari horse (nom), Thomas of Bayeux (nom), The Avery Coonley School (nom), Ram Narayan (nom), Roberto Luongo (nom), Little Butte Creek (Rogue River) (nom), Russet Sparrow (nom), Oryzomys gorgasi (nom) and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (nom).
Twelve lists were promoted to featured status this week: Pussycat Dolls discography (nom), List of Los Angeles Dodgers first-round draft picks (nom), List of invasive species in the Everglades (nom), 2009 IIHF World Championship rosters (nom), NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (nom), List of Kansas City Royals first-round draft picks (nom), List of Olympic medalists in baseball (nom), List of National Treasures of Japan (residences) (nom), James E. Sullivan Award (nom), List of Olympic medalists in skeleton (nom), Dickin Medal (nom) and List of Major League Baseball earned run average champions (nom).
One topic was promoted to featured status this week: Battlecruisers of Germany (nom).
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Kirsten Dunst, "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" (see related story), Icos, Albert Kesselring, Le Père Goriot and Ruffed lemur.
Five articles were delisted this week: Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941) (nom), Music of Minnesota (nom), Søren Kierkegaard (nom), Canadian federal election, 1993 (nom) and Battle of Smolensk (1943) (nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
No topics were delisted this week.
No portals were delisted this week.
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts, 1876 engraving of Khokar Rajputs of Punjab, Rainclouds gathering over Bareina, ca. 1889 proposed architectural plan for a military aviary to house swallows as messenger birds, Breeder pattern from Conway's Game of Life, Alice B. Woodward's frontispiece to The Story of the Mikado and Sahara desert.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Eleven pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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