The Wikimedia fundraising drive ended late Thursday, with the final tally of $243,930 USD, more than 20% over the initial goal.

A minor edit war resulted after the goal was surpassed, when administrators argued over whether linking to the Red Cross or other charities from the fundraising sitenotice was prudent, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The argument ended when Jimbo Wales removed the links, and ordered other users not to add it back.

The fundraising drive started on 19 August, aiming to pay for the significant server costs, which have risen dramatically recently.

Wikipedia entered the Alexa Top 50 recently. Alexa is a company that tracks traffic for all users using their toolbar. As of press time, Wikipedia was sitting directly in 50th place, ahead of sites such as MapQuest, the Japanese MSN portal, and Overture.

The Wikiversity project, which currently resides on Wikibooks, is entertaining a vote to move to wikiversity.org, which currently hosts a near-dormant German Wikiversity project. The vote will last until 1 November.

• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 2,500 articles.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee closed one case this week, after two consecutive weeks without a closed case. Also, a case was accepted against Ed Poor.

A case against Gabrielsimon (now editing as Gavin the Chosen) was closed on 4 September. The result was that both of Gabrielsimon's accounts, and any more that he may create, were banned for a month; also, a provision gave administrators the ability to ban Gabrielsimon for up to a month if they, "based on his edits and behavior, identify him and feel an additional month's ban may aid him him in gaining maturity." This provision expires after any six months without being blocked. A one-revert-per-article and three-revert limit per day were also added.

Gabrielsimon was accused of immature behavior (one instance included the insert of an HTML comment onto an article, where the comment consisted only of the word "Fnord"), edit wars, POV editing, 3RR violations, and revert wars. Gabrielsimon also was criticized for his lack of proper spelling and grammar.

A long running dispute over what critics say are "abuses of power" has gone to arbitration. The case, which originally started in the wake of Ed Poor's deletion of VfD (now AfD), has been taken up after another user, Fvw, offered to certify the basis for the RFArb (originally four users had done so, but three dropped their complaint after a conversation with Ed, leaving only UninvitedCompany as the sole initiator.)

Cases against -Ril-, Stevertigo, Rainbowwarrior1977, and an IP dubbed DotSix are in the evidence phase.

A request against Ultramarine has garnered four votes, the bare minimum for a RFAr to be accepted.