Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• 21 March — Traffic slowness fixed
• 23 March — English Wikipedia database dump restarted after odd error ends process
• 25 March — Maximum article size reduced to 1MB

Two more Wikipedians were granted CheckUser rights this week: Mackensen and UninvitedCompany. Both are former members of the Arbitration Committee; Mackensen was elected in the January elections and served until he resigned in February, while UninvitedCompany was a member of the initial Arbitration Committee who served until his resignation in February of 2004. This brings the total number of CheckUser status on the English Wikipedia to 14, including Essjay and Ambi, who were both granted access last week.

A noticeboard for reporting and enforcing decisions of the Arbitration Committee was proposed this week. Although similar to the existing page from ArbCom requesting administrators to implement Arbitration decisions, the new proposed noticeboard would be for users to report violations after the respective Arbitration case had already closed.

The English Wikinews' Arbitration Committee closed its first case this week. The case, which involved an administrator's deletion of userboxes, resulted in the Arbitration Committee ruling for the creation of a "userbox whitelist", which would include language and localization userboxes, as well as others approved by the community.

The Czech Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee closed its first complete case this week, against Rosta. Although it was actually the second case accepted by the Czech ArbCom, it was the first case to run through the entire Arbitration process.

Fifteen new Wikipedias have been created, in the following languages: Piedmontese, Dutch Low Saxon, West Flemish, Ligurian, Kalmyk, Tetum, Papiamentu, Romani, Samogitian, Ripuarian, Pennsylvania German, Franco-Provençal/Arpitan, Cantonese, Banyumasan, and Norman.

• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 375,000 articles.
• The Afrikaans Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikinews has reached 100 news stories.
• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• Wikibooks has entered the top 4,000 websites on the internet, according to Alexa.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Turkish Wikibooks has reached over 1,000 page edits.
• The Chinese Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 200,000 registered users.
• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikinews has reached 100 news articles.
• The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 500,000 media files.

The Arbitration Committee closed four cases this week.

A case against Jason Gastrich was closed on Tuesday. As a result, Jason Gastrich was banned for one year, indefinitely banned from Louisiana Baptist University and The Skeptic's Annotated Bible, and limited to one account (additional remedies were passed, but were superseded by the ban). Gastrich had used sockpuppetry, invited meatpuppetry, and engaged in personal attacks, self-promotion, and general disruption.

A case against Karmafist was closed on Tuesday. As a result, Karmafist was placed on civility parole, and restricted on the use of welcome messages. Karmafist welcomed many new users, linking to "wikipolitical" pages, which the Arbitration Committee ruled could be misleading to new users. Additionally, Karmafist was found to have assumed bad faith, ignored consensus, and acted uncivilly.

A case against Licorne was closed on Friday. As a result, Licorne was banned for one year, and placed on indefinite probation and personal attack parole. Licorne had made personal attacks, engaged in POV editing, and refused to participate in his arbitration case.

A case against editors on Shiloh Shepherd Dog was closed on Saturday. As a result, Tina M. Barber was banned for one year. Additional remedies included an article probation, a ban on meatpuppeting, and a warning for all editors on the article to remain civil. Tina M. Barber revealed personal information about another editor on the article, and Barber and other involved users had engaged in personal attacks and attempted to claim "ownership" of the article.

Cases were accepted this week involving Marcosantezana (user page), users DarrenRay and 2006BC, and FourthAve (user page). All are in the evidence phase.

Additional cases involving Locke Cole (user page), administrators involved in a userbox-related edit war, editors on Depleted uranium, ZAROVE (user page), and Agapetos angel (user page) are in the evidence phase.

Cases involving Lou franklin (user page), Tony Sidaway (user page), editors on Bible verse articles, and Lapsed Pacifist (user page) are in the voting phase.

Motions to close are currently on the table in cases involving users IronDuke and Gnetwerker, and the case against -Ril- (user page).