A new special page, Special:Randomredirect, allows a user to visit a random redirect page. Added by Rob Church on 25 April, the page works in a similar fashion as Special:Random.

Another new page, Special:Unusedtemplates, allows users to find templates which are not transcluded on any other page.

Bug #4327 was resolved by adding a timestamp to special pages which contain cached data. Pages like Special:Ancientpages will now display the time the data was last updated.

• 25 April — More specific protection notice and interface editing notices added
• 27 April — Invalid XHTML fixed in image galleries
• 28 April — Spam blacklist circumvention message with multiple URL slashes fixed
• 29 April — Users now warned if a file uploaded with the same name has been previously deleted
• 29 April — New {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word added (current value: 48,588,999)
• 29 April — Bug #93, a parsing error, fixed
• Page protection and unprotection is now included in the revision history
• Watchlists now have a namespace selector

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• 27 April — Mail services moved to bart
• 28 April — http://secure.wikimedia.org pointed to bart

Wikipedia reached 4 million articles in its various languages on Sunday. Of the 4 million articles, over 25% (~1.1 million) were in English.

Wikipedia is participating in Google's Summer of Code, which allows students to perform work for profit for many open source projects. Applications opened on Monday; participants are required to be 18 or older, and be a full or part-time student at an accredited institution. Google employees and their families, as well as citizens of Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar/Burma are ineligible.

During a mailing list conversation comparing the English and German Wikipedias, Elian, a participant in both communities, wrote a detailed comparison of the two, comparing each on issues such as Adminship (requests for adminship are much more frequented on the German Wikipedia), arbitration (the German Wikipedia has no Arbitration Committee, and instead decides bans by community vote), userboxes (relegated to the User namespace on the German Wikipedia), and social structure.

In preparation for a speech to be delivered at Wikimania 2006, Linuxbeak is soliciting survey responses from Wikipedians about what they think about Wikipedia.

• The English Wikipedia has reached 1.1 million articles.
• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• Wikipedia has passed 4,000,000 articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• Wikipedia has reached 40,000,000 web page hits for the first time on this day, according to Alexa
• The Walloon Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 8,000 pages total.
• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 users.
• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The French Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50 featured articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 users.
• The Macedonian Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The French Wikipedia has reached 275,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 65,000 articles and 200,000 total pages.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 400,000 total pages. Its article count is just above 175,000.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 users.

The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week. Additionally, two motions in prior cases.

A case against users involved in a bible-related dispute was closed on Thursday. As a result, SimonP was cautioned to respect consensus. SimonP and other users had warred over articles on single bible verses, and the exclusive use of the King James Version of the Bible.

A case against Agapetos angel was closed on Sunday. As a result, Agapetos angel and related users were blocked from editing articles relating to Jonathan Sarfati, and other editors were warned to follow Neutral Point of View.

A case was accepted this week involving editors on Biological psychiatry. It is currently the only case in the evidence phase.

Cases involving users SqueakBox and Zapatancas, Messhermit (user page), Monicasdude (user page), and Jacrosse (user page), Marcosantezana (user page), Terryeo (user page), Aucaman (user page), and Locke Cole (user page) are in the voting phase.

Motions to close are on the table in the cases involving editors on Depleted uranium, users DarrenRay and 2006BC, FourthAve (user page) and Lou franklin (user page) .

A motion to ban Herschelkrustofsky from Wikipedia for one year has four support votes with no opposition.

A motion to restrict StrangerInParadise to one user account has five support votes with no opposition.