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Features and admins

The best of the week

New featured picture: Andromeda Galaxy. The light that formed this image took 2.5 million years to get to Earth, arriving just last September on the 18th. The creator, Adam Evans, said last week on his Flickr page, "Check it out, some kind soul has uploaded my photo to Wikipedia's entry for the Andromeda Galaxy. Very cool."


This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 12 – Friday 18 February


New administrators

The Signpost welcomes two editors as our newest admins.

At the time of publication there are three live RfAs: The Bushranger and Glane23, both due to finish on Tuesday 22 February, and Snottywong, due to finish on Monday 28 February.


From the new featured portal Law of England and Wales: justice must be seen to be done? An illustration from the 1470s of the execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger
From the new featured portal Somerset, a limestone gorge where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903
Several men sitting around a table
From the new featured article: Rutherford B. Hayes's cabinet in 1877
Two portals were promoted:


Six articles were promoted to featured status:


Seven lists were promoted:

Four featured lists have been delisted in February thus far:


Five featured sounds were promoted, in twelve parts:


From the new featured picture: "I'll huff and I'll puff": the wolf blows down the straw house in a 1904 adaptation of Three Little Pigs.
Five images in six parts were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
New featured picture: the Engadin, a long valley in southeast Switzerland, protected by high mountains on all sides and famous for its sunny climate. This is one of the few places in which the Romansh language is indigenous.

Information about new admins at the top is drawn from their user pages and RfA texts, and occasionally from what they tell us directly.


















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