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

• 30 November - Privacy violations removed from some edit summaries on English Wikipedia
• 1 December - Portal namespace created on Portuguese Wikipedia
• 3 December - Bad RAM stick replaced on 'Srv55'.
• 5 December - Packet loss spotted.
• 5 December - Anonymous article creation disabled on English Wikipedia (see related story)
• 6 December - Folding@Home installed on newer servers.

The next Wikimedia Foundation fundraising drive, which was originally slated to begin 1 December, has been postponed to 16 December. Wikimedia Chief Financial Officer Daniel Mayer announced the change and asked for people to translate the documents involved into other languages. The fundraiser will still last for three weeks. Although no specific goal has been set, Mayer indicated he hoped it could raise USD $500,000.

The Russian Wikipedia has just completed their first Arbitration Committee elections, with the election of Kaganer, Maxim Razin, Mitrius, Obersachse, and Wulfson.

To coincide with Angela Beesley's trip to the X|Media|Lab conference in Australia, Wikimeetups were held in Sydney and Melbourne.

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

• The French Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 20,000 pages in all.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Persian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.

The Arbitration Committee closed one case this week, against Instantnood, SchmuckyTheCat, and Huaiwei.

A case brought against Instantnood was closed on Sunday. As a result, Instantnood and two other users, Huaiwei and SchmuckyTheCat were all placed on probation for one year in regard to China-related articles. The three had been accused of edit warring over the correct naming of China, particularly in relation to Hong Kong and Taiwan. The case is a continuation of a prior case, which was closed without action.

Cases were accepted this week against Ed Poor (user page), Carl Hewitt (user page), voters on webcomics AFDs, and Reddi (user page). All are in the evidence phase.

Other cases against EffK (user page), AndriyK (user page), editors on climate change-related articles, numerous editors on Neuro-linguistic programming, Johnski (user page), a series of editors on Winter Soldier, Xed (user page), and Copperchair (user page) are in the evidence phase.

Cases against editors Ted Wilkes, numerous editors on Ted Kennedy, Wyss, and Onefortyone, numerous editors on Political Research Associates, Pigsonthewing (user page), Rangerdude (user page), and Ultramarine are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is on the table in the case against Rex071404 (user page).