On 15 November, twenty new servers were ordered. Ten of these servers will be used as cache servers, while the other ten will be used as multi-purpose application servers. In all, the server order totaled approximately US$50,080.00.

Currently, $114,436.00 has been spent on hardware during the fourth quarter; altogether, $285,676.00 has been spent on hardware in 2005.

Developer Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason has created a new page for citing articles, Special:Cite. Links to this page can be found in the toolbox when viewing pages in the article namespace. The page shows information about a given article necessary for citing articles, and generates citations in different citation styles, including APA, MLA, and Chicago.

A new site status page has been created by Ambush Commander, in response to the 'unwieldy' nature of editing the current status page, hosted on OpenFacts. Rather than using a conventional wiki environment, the page allows a user to select a series of options to display the current status and leave a comment.

Images and image uploads were disabled for a time on 22 November while a new image server, 'amane', was installed. The outage was necessary to allow the copying of images from 'khaldun', 'bacon', and 'albert'.

Other server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• 23 November — Routing problems involving certain Cogent IPs fixed.
• 26 November — 'Srv5' breaks, taken offline.
• 27 November — Wikipedia-l, Wikien-l, and Helpdesk-l lists blocked in the Robots.txt file, following complaints that 'newbie questions', often embarrassing, were showing up in search results.

Article validation is set to be enabled on Wikipedia "very soon", according to David Gerard. Currently, Brion is "cleaning it up" for usage.

• Wikipedia is #8 in the Nielsen/NetRatings list for Top 10 Online News & Information Destinations. [1] (Wikipedia is the first open citizen-powered site to crack the top ten, says Steve Rubel. [2])
• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 35,000 articles.
• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Udmurt Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

The Arbitration Committee closed three cases this week.

A case against Lightbringer was closed on Wednesday. As a result, Lightbringer has been placed on personal attack parole for six months. In addition, Lightbringer has been banned indefinitely from editing article and talk pages relating to freemasonry. Lightbringer had made personal attacks against other users, and according to the ruling, had a 'passionate POV' in freemasonry-related articles.

A case against Maoririder was closed on Saturday. As a result, it was ruled that Maoririder shall receive a mentor, possibly assigned from the mediation committee.

A case against Silverback was closed on Monday. As a result, Silverback has been placed on personal attack parole for six months. In addition, Silverback has been limited to one revert per article per week. Silverback was accused of making personal attacks, and edit warring on Iraq-related articles.

Cases were accepted this week against numerous editors on Neuro-linguistic programming, editors Ted Wilkes, Wyss, and Onefortyone, editors on climate change-related articles, AndriyK (user page), and EffK (user page). All are in the evidence phase.

Other cases against Johnski (user page), a series of editors on Winter Soldier, Xed (user page), Pigsonthewing (user page), Copperchair (user page), and numerous editors on Ted Kennedy, are in the evidence phase.

Cases against numerous editors on Political Research Associates, Rangerdude (user page), and Ultramarine are in the voting phase.

Motions to close are on the table in cases against Rex071404 (user page) and Instantnood (user page).